Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Overview
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Company Hierarchy
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Merchandise Hierarchy
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Promotions Management
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Sales & Purchase Orders
- Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Allocations & Despatches
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Overview
The Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail Module is a complete Financial, Commercial and Merchandise Management System. The solution is specifically designed to meet the needs of medium sized businesses, whether they serve the public or trade.
Straightforward to implement and easy to learn, Sage MMS Wholesale & Retail offers the ideal solution to many companies in the Wholesale & Retail Industry Sector. The ability to share information between the point-of-sale, front and back office systems has been identified as providing clear competitive advantage for companies that successfully introduce it. As part of the Sage commitment to provide real business advantage through integration, you can link Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail to the tills at the point of sale, using Sage PayPoint, and to Sage's market-leading Customer Relationship Management systems.
By integrating Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail, your company will maximise it’s IT investment by providing more comprehensive, timely and meaningful information to all key staff. This will give you operational and strategic advantages that will repay you time and time again.
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail encompasses key capability such as:
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Multi–branch control
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Comprehensive merchandise management
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Stock allocation and despatch
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Multiple pricing and promotions control
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EPoS management
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Comprehensive reporting and enquiries
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Company Hierarchy
As a business grows it becomes more expansive and its structure gains in complexity, especially as new branches are opened. Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail enables you to map your logistical structure within the software to support the way you operate. So a retailer or trader may wish to set up the system with the following hierarchy:
Company head office. This defines each store location, enabling stock levels to be replenished by easily allocating and distributing products. Each company hierarchy can view: You can also view transactional information such as invoice numbers, details, and amounts owed and paid.
Company warehouse(s).
Company stores.
Stores by region.
Stores by area.
Named stores.
They may then define up to nine levels of store hierarchy, allowing the maintenance of store details to facilitate replenishment. These attributes, for example could be:
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Merchandise Hierarchy
This works in a similar manner to the merchandise hierarchy and can be produced to match the way your products are structured across your company. So your products could, for example, be set up with the following hierarchy:
Company head office.
Company products.
Company departments.
Company sub-departments.
Company product groups.
Company sub-groups.
Company stock items.
At ‘Stock item’ levels, in-built ‘Product Matrix’ technology can be utilised, offering the flexibility to structure a product that has ‘variants’ associated to it, such as size-colour-style. These are called ‘Dimensions’. The products can be grouped flexibly across a matrix, depending on what suits you best such as:
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Dimensions: e.g. colour, size, brand
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Dimension Sets: e.g. Summer, Winter, Autumn, Spring
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Dimensions Break-up: e.g. colour ranges: red, blue, black
Stock information for all merchandise can be viewed, amended and analysed for:
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Item details.
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Suppliers.
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Alternatives.
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Locations.
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Prices.
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Bar Codes.
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Attachments and memos.
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Promotions Management
This enables you to increase stock turnover with special offers such as ‘3 for 2’ and ‘buy one get one free’. Customers expect consistency across a network of branches for the same company, so Sage Wholesale & Retail supports this with company wide promotions that can be set up centrally.
Nominated buyers can be assigned to any given promotion and different reward types can be offered, such as a discount within a defined time line.
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Sales & Purchase Orders
Sales orders can be processed in exactly the same manner. The 'drag and drop' facility is particularly popular in telesales environments when speed of processing is important because customers should not be expected to be kept waiting whilst requesting a list of items they want. The system also accounts for multiple currencies if trading with companies or customers abroad. As you would expect, all existing quantities of stock are on hand at any given time.
Setting up and processing purchase orders is made as easy as possible, providing all the information needed so you can quickly and accurately replenish stock whenever it’s needed. You can simply 'drag and drop' items into a purchase order from the merchandise hierarchy that you’ve defined. If you have set parameters such as a rule dictating that even quantities of a certain range should be replenished, then this can be accounted for too. Entering a total quantity of any item would split this quantity evenly across the product variant range.
Sage 200 Wholesale & Retail - Allocations & Despatches
Allocations and despatches can be controlled between warehouses and stores, as your hierarchy dictates. Once the stock has been allocated, the system will print picking lists for each store and despatch notes can then be produced. A very simple process which ensures total control over stock movements.
