Mobility

LOC Store Management Suite offers a a Mobile POS which a wireless point of sale that operates with a PDA and a wireless printer which issues receipts directly from the selling floor. By scanning the customer order and printing a receipt with a bar code, Orders are easily recalled at the point of payment.

The LOC Software mobile solution helps retailers improve operational efficiency by reducing waiting lines and enhancing shopping experience. Retailers can manage peak time and stop long lines before they form without the need to add checkout counters. This solution will enable  customers to conveniently make purchases in special areas with seasonal products without returning to the store.

The portable unit provides an access to a remote database via intranet connection between any location in a store. It provides retailers with a quick overview of any items in the store and efficient management. Our PDA and RF options are an extension of our POS. It allows retailers to maintain and manage any item and stock.

Floor Ordering

You can now stay connected to your product file from the aisle directly in your store. By using a portable device, it increases your mobility which in return allows you to change your prices on the floor where you can see the product and see the shelf space available. By increasing your mobility, you are permitted to scan products into the system as soon as they are received.

Specifications

Purchase orders by vendor

  • Add items
  • Modify item purchasing
  • List line items
  • Access to weekly sales
  • Access to total sales
  • Set date for ordering

Receiving orders by vendors

  • Show summary
  • Add item receiving
  • List line item
  • List not marked
  • List shortage
  • Set date for receiving

DSD or the deliveries by vendor

  • Add items
  • List line items
  • Add by department
  • Invoice totals with payment options
  • Adjust up: tax, shipping fee and label fee
  • Adjust down: bottle return, global allowance, global discount and global rebate
  • Set date for deliveries

Line buster or Invoicing: Direct sales

  • Add items
  • Add by department
  • List line items
  • Select customer
  • Backup transactions to be able to restore them at the POS

Sale order: Direct sales or Pick-up

  • Add items
  • Add by department
  • List line items
  • Select customer
  • Cancel and complete transaction

Shipping: Client sales for delivery

  • Add items
  • Add by department
  • List line items
  • Set date for delivery
  • Select customer
  • Cancel and complete transaction

Shelf Management

Knowing where products are within the store is important, especially when its time to do the inventory. It is for that reason the LOC Store Management Suite has created a feature for its users to identify the location of every product for each ally, shelf, section and position within the store. It is also possible to identify the expiration date for every product.

This information may be entered in the system by using a PDA device, which will prevent from entering the product  information manually for each product. Upon reception of merchandise, it is possible to print labels for each shelf by respecting the position in each ally, which is a great time saver.

Specifications

  • Scan items by UPC code, alternate code and/or vendor code
  • Verify any items: overview of price, location, position and tax
  • Direct item maintenance: manage item prices such as regular price, TPR, sale price, in store price, assign alternate code, manage price level
  • Manage shelf location: scan entire store and assign each item to a shelf location
  • Print labels
  • Price maintenance
  • Batch item maintenance: view batch settings, future prices

Inventory Management

By using the LOC Store Management Suite Inventory Management application, retailers will save time and money. The inventory count can be done from anywhere in a store. Simply scan any item with a PDA and/or RF device and the information will be processed from the back office. LOC Software offers cost effective tools to save employee and managerial  time, not to mention paper!

Specifications

  • Inquiries
  • On floor inventory count
  • Inventory adjustment
  • Filter by vendor
  • Filter by sub department

Mobile POS

LOC Store Management Suite offers a mobile POS, a wireless point of sale that operates with a PDA and a wireless printer which issues receipts directly from the selling floor. By scanning the customer order and printing a receipt with a bar code, orders are easily recalled at the point of payment. Increase your customers loyalty by saving them the frustration of waiting in line.

Specifications

  • Close or suspend the order
  • Print a bar code on the receipt for easy recalling
  • Recall transaction from any POS
  • Use RF and Printer to print label
  • Fully integrated with BackOffice
  • Could be use for picking item from a phone order
  • Customer recognition
  • Ability to switch from RF or PDA to PC screen without losing the current session
  • Tools to help build applications
  • Full feature utility to program and personalize screens for a store
  • Drag and drop database fields to build applications
  • Manage the links between screens
  • Same user access system as the full application
  • Enable application section by user level
  • Manage user by profile to customize default setting such as shelf location & printer settings
  • All applications are in plain HTML

Technical Specifications

  • Native HTTP server for Web Client device" LOC SMS manages its web server
  • May use any PDA device that uses Microsoft Windows CE 3 and above as well as Windows Mobile
  • Using TCP/IP to connect via intranet network
  • Telnet server for any terminal that uses RF device: LOC SMS manages its own tenet server
  • Possibility to support and devices at any time

Wavelink Emulator Telnet Clients/Industrial Browser

  • Control scanner: enable on some fields and disable on others
  • Jump to code fields for a more efficient method of scanning items
  • Better browsing through the PDA and RF device applications