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Fashion Master
10 Steps to Retail Automation and Efficiency

Step 1 - Purchase Order Processing

Purchase Orders for Products are raised to Suppliers. This is normally the first notification to the Stock Control system of any activity regarding a Product. As a result of this, all facilities relating to new product creation are available within the Purchase Order module.

Features-

  • Multi-Currency
  • Revaluation of Currency P/O's at current exchange rates
  • Delivery to Warehouse or direct to Branch
  • New Product creation within Raise P/O operation
  • Set Minimum Stock Holding from original P/O quantities
  • Raise P/O for Products using Size Scale
  • Facility to cancel outstanding balances on P/O's
  • Barcode Label production from P/O quantities
  • Cashflow commitment report (month by month) from outstanding P/O's

Step 2 - Goods Receiving / Supplier Returns

shirt.jpg - 3775 Bytes The Goods Receiving process is speeded up significantly if Purchase Orders have been raised for the goods being received. It is simply a matter of indicating the Purchase Order number that the items are being received against and updating the Goods Received Note with the Actual Quantity of items received.

Features-

  • Manual GRN facility as well as against P/O
  • Reason code entry against any discrepancy
  • Barcode Label production from GRN quantities
  • GRN to Warehouse or direct to Branch

Step 3 - Warehouse Procedures

Once the Products have been booked into the Warehouse by the Goods Receiving process they are ready to be stored in the relevant areas of the Warehouse awaiting the picking process. Depending on the nature of the products and the quantities in which they are purchased, you may utilise the Outer Carton Labelling System to produce an Outer Barcode Label which indicates the quantity and the size to colour ratio of the contents. This system is particularly useful if the cartons are to be shipped out to branches or customers without first being broken down. wareh.jpg - 4742 Bytes

The Outer Carton Labelling System significantly increases the speed of Warehouse Stocktaking and Branch / Customer deliveries since only the outer label needs to be scanned and Fashion Master will automatically explode the carton content on to the Transfer Notes.

Features-

  • Outer Carton Barcode Labelling
  • Fast GRN / Branch Delivery Note Production
  • Hand Held Barcode Labelling Equipment
  • Hand Held Stocktaking Equipment

Step 4 - Bar-Coding

Barcode Labels or Tickets can be produced in almost any design on a wide variety of materials. For high volume ticket production, the printing machines incorporate cutting and stacking equipment.

Barcode Labels can be produced in advance of goods being received at the Warehouse and sent to the supplier or manufacturer for attachment prior to delivery or they can be produced in-house for attachment as and when the goods are received. Barcode Labels can be automatically produced from Purchase Orders, Goods Received Notes or manually entered compiled lists.

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Fashion Master has the capability to print barcode labels and tickets with Branch Specific information. For example you may operate different pricing structures for the same products in different branches and you may have branches in other countries which require labels with alternative language or currency details.

Features-

  • Multi-Format labels & tickets
  • Fast GRN / Branch Delivery Note Production
  • Hand Held Barcode Labelling Equipment
  • Hand Held Stocktaking Equipment

Step 5 - Sales Order Processing

If you are a Wholesaler or you are processing sales from Mail Order, Catalogue or Electronic Shopping sites such as Television and the Internet you will use the Fashion Master Sales Order Processing module to compile and process the order.

As the Sales Order is raised, Fashion Master notifies you of the Current Customer Balance along with their Credit Limit and the Minimum Desired Margin that you wish to achieve for products supplied to this customer. If the customer is on "Stop" you will be prevented from processing delivery notes for this order.

As you build up the items on the order, the Minimum Desired Margin % prevents the product sell price being set below the specified margin level. The products on the customer order may or may not currently be in stock. All Current Stock and On-Order balances are displayed for each product as it is added to the order.

Sales Orders can be part shipped with balance to follow notification. Once the stock is available to part or fully complete the order, the picking lists can be produced then the delivery notes and finally the invoices. Only delivered quantities are invoiced and there can be multiple delivery notes and invoices per Sales Order.

Features-

  • Minimum Customer Margin control
  • Sales Order Delivery Charges
  • Multi-Currency Sales Orders
  • Representative Sales Recording and Reporting
  • Customer Credit Limits
  • Customer Current Balance indicator
  • Customer On Stop facility
  • Free write text lines & order comments
  • Multiple Customer Delivery Addresses
  • Customer Address Mail-Merge Facility

Step 6 - Stock Allocations & Picking

Fashion Master has several powerful tools for allocation of stock depending on whether you are fulfilling Sales Orders or carrying out Branch Stock Replenishment.

With regard to Sales Orders, whenever you receive a new delivery of stock, Fashion Master can advise on all Sales Orders where that product is required. Fashion Master can then automatically allocate the stock to these orders or you can manually allocate it if you wish to be selective about certain orders.

If you are processing orders received from an electronic shopping site i.e. TV or Internet, Fashion Master can automatically produce Picking Lists against received EDI files.

With regard to Branch Stock Replenishment, Picking Lists can be produced based on re-stocking back to desired Minimum Stock Holding Levels or re-stocking based on Previous Period Sales. In instances where all the warehouse stock has been allocated yet there are still outstanding requirements at Branches, Fashion Master can automatically raise Purchase Orders for the balance of the stock required.

Features-

  • Branch Stock Allocation Priorities
  • Manual Pick List override facility
  • Automatic Purchase Order Creation - from Pick List
  • Automatic Transfer Note Creation - from Pick List
  • Picking Lists raised against Minimum Stock Levels, Previous Period Sales or EDI files.

Step 7 - Branch Transfers

The Stock Transfer module is used to transfer stock from Warehouse to Branch, Branch to Branch (Inter-Branch Transfers) and Branch back to Warehouse.

The transfer process starts by creation of a "Transfer Out" note. Once the Transfer Out has been raised, the stock is changed to a status of "In Transit" until the corresponding "Transfer In" note is processed.

Features-

  • Inter-Branch Transfer capability
  • Reason Code logging
  • Automatic creation from Allocations module

Step 8 - Stock & Sales Analysis

The Stock & Sales Analysis module collects all information relating to Store Sales and / or Wholesale Sales Orders and reports this information in the form of period reports. Reports are available on Sales Value and Stock Item Performance as well as Quantity, Margin %, Profit, Stock Turn, Customer Performance, Sales Rep Performance and many other options.

Reporting Periods-
  • ½ Hourly
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • Quarterly
  • Seasonally
  • Yearly
  • Any date range
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Summary Reporting Levels-

  • Company
  • Branch
  • Customers
  • Suppliers
  • Sales Representatives


Item Reporting Levels-

  • Brand
  • Type
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Size
  • Item (Barcode / Supplier Product Code)

Step 9 - Accounting System Updates

Fashion Master integrates in to many of today's leading accounting systems, primarily Pegasus, Sage, Tetra & Sun Accounts. Most other packages and bespoke systems can also be easily accommodated.

The typical level of automatic integration from Fashion Master to the accounting system is as follows;

For both Retail & Wholesale Systems;

  • Supplier Account Codes
  • Customer Account Codes
  • Nominal Analysis Codes

For Retail Systems only;

  • Period Branch Sales Journal Postings - to Nominal Ledger
  • Period Branch Stock Movement - to Nominal Ledger

For Wholesale Systems only;

  • Period Sales Invoice Postings - to Sales Ledger

Step 10 - Suggested Re-Ordering

Once the sales information has been processed, the final step in the chain is for Fashion Master to produce the Suggested Re-Order reports. These reports are produced based on Branch Minimum Stock levels and Warehouse Minimum Stock levels. If the suggested re-order quantities are acceptable then the report can automatically be converted to a Purchase Order and the cycle commences again.

For FashionMaster enquiries please email us and we will contact you. dgcs@livetrack.net

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