Perfect (ASD) Point of Sales (POS)

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1 Perfect (ASD) Point of Sales (POS) ASD POS is a comprehensive Point of Sale (POS) solution for fast-paced, high-volume, multi-site retail operations. Whether you need to manage a single retail location, or face the challenge of tying together dozens of stores with multiple POS registers at each location, ASD POS offers you full integration with your ASD Advantage Series solution. With ASD POS, you can keep your finger on the pulse of your retail activities. Integration with all retail technologies (including barcode scanners, barcode labeling and more) further increase your check-out speed and accuracy while providing real-time integration and reporting across the enterprise. ASD POS understands that business owners need to control their inventory and employees. ASD POS Software helps serious business owners control their growth and success. We believe businesses in control, save time, reduce losses, increase profit and productivity. Whether you have one or several locations, ASD POS software gives you "the power to take control". Real Business Benefits Perfect epos offers a breadth and depth of features that are not commonly found in other POS solutions. From improved efficiency to complete integration with Perfect ERP, epos boosts your business productivity. It benefits medium and large companies wanting to proactively address current market challenges. It will bring the following benefits: 1. Connected Retail Stores epos supports multiple tills connected over a local area network (LAN) Wide Area Network (WAN) or Internet and links remote retail locations to your head office over the Internet (dial-up or dedicated connection). A single epos Server installation connects multiple epos tills at remote locations. Since epos deploys over the Web, one store can view available stock at another store or put a sale on account for a customer. 2. Real-Time Visibility epos provides real-time validations and updates to and from the centralized inventory and customer database. Real-time integration saves you valuable time by eliminating month-end reconciliation procedures. In addition, all sales and customer-related reporting can be generated from the central database. 3. Security epos provides user access security at a detailed POS function level. The epos server encrypts the user password being transferred to epos, ensuring secured transmissions over the Internet. 4. Complex Pricing epos integrates with Perfect ERP Inventory Control and Accounts Receivable modules or any ERP to ensure accurate pricing. 5. Easy Operation epos is easy to use. Single keystroke options and short cut keys are available for many common operations such as sale completion, payment, item information. 6. Integrated Receivables epos enables selling to accounts receivables customers (on-account). You can check customers credit limits, pricing levels, active and inactive status, and prohibit sales to on-hold customers. New customers can be 1

2 defined in epos and their data can be auto-populated in the Accounts Receivable module. 7. Multi-language epos supports a multilingual It also supports screen layout modification for efficient interaction with the application. 8. Easy adaptability for the future: Because the ASD Web-Based PoS is based on the latest technology like JSP and J2EE it can be easily modified and upgraded to support emerging and future technologies. 9. New source of revenues: Web-based applications are installed centrally on a single server. In an enterprise environment, this means saving a lot of money because there is no need to visit each user PC to install the software. 10. Reuse of existing infrastructure: it reduces the cost of the client s workstation hardware. Since the only need for the client is the internet browser, which does not required a very fast and modern machine. 11. Easy to Install: Web-based applications are installed centrally on a single server. In an enterprise environment, this means saving a lot of money because there is no need to visit each user PC to install the software. 12. Lower Licensing Cost: A web-based product changes the licensing cost from a perseat model to a concurrent user model. This results in decreased deployment costs ranging from 25 to 75 percent. Again, this is a cost saving in an enterprise environment. 13. Easier On-going Maintenance: New releases of the software are installed at a central server, eliminating the need to update each workstation. This significantly reduces the on-going maintenance costs. 14. Reduced Training Costs: End users are already familiar with their browser and its functionality. This provides a familiar starting point for the end user making it easier for them to adapt to a web-based system. 2

3 Main Features: 1. Real-time Inventory Control. 2. Handles One Stop Shop (OSS) environment and POS environment. 3. Staff Code & Password and Extensive Permission Control. 4. Handles Multiple Tenders and Currency at POS 5. Bar Code Scanning & Labeling Capabilities. 6. Handles stock bundling and gifts. 7. Sales of Services. 8. Handles customers points. 9. Handles campaigns. 10. Handles stock bonus and sales man commissions. 11. Extensive Sales Performance by Date(s) Brand, customer, Category, Branch, Sales man. 12. Cashier or Terminal Balancing 13. Logs Time of Day of each Sale. 14. Embedded security. 15. Handles Multiple Alternate Suppliers for each Item. 16. Integrated with inventory, sales, and General ledger Systems 17. Integrated Multi-Branch Stock Transfer 18. Multiple Branches with Multiple Product status and Physical Locations for each. 19. Serial Number Tracking 20. Stock Transfers - For Multi-Store. 21. Cash receipt and checks. 22. Sales reports can be generated for any day or period at any time. 23. Handles Items installments. 24. For Telco companies it handles the insurance (despite) from subscriber. 3

4 Special features: 1. Serial number and Bar codes: Al-andalus uses bar codes and serial numbers for: Handsets (IME number and MSN). Hardware serial numbers. Tracking hardware warranties and maintenance. Vouchers (scratch cards) with different values. SIMS serial numbers. 2. Assembling: Bundling. The system can assemble (bundle) new products (package), whereby different items are combined together to produce a new bundled products with new serial number (or bar code numbers). 3. Installments: It is possible to sell an item using installment method, whereby an installed amount is usually added to the customer's billing invoice. There are two types of installment, with initial payment and without initial payment. In addition, the user can define the installment duration. The installment module enables the user to set up different kinds of installment methods and durations. For point of sales' users, all they have to do is just selecting the type of handset and installment type. 4. Integration with other packages: Al-andalus package can integrate with other package such as Oracle Financial package or any other system. The ASD POS has two main modules: 1. POS Management (Sales manager) Module (POSM): The POS Manager (POSM) module is the core of the POS package. The purpose of this module is to capture data transfers from the POS centers and manages the POS centers in order to provide general statements for the firm. It is the source of the sales statements generated by ASD POS system. 2. POS Module: This module has been design in an efficient and simple way, so as it facilities the use of the system. Taking into accounts the limitation of sales users in one side and the traffic of customers in second side. In addition, specific restriction has been imposed in this module, such as the user can manipulate only a list of predefined accounts and a limited number of transactions. These will not impair the sales users requirements and duets. 4

5 Technical Features ASD POS had three-tier architecture. Its is built on JAVA as a development tools for the presentation layer (User Interface, Front End), any Relational DBMS (example Oracle 8 or later, MS SQL Server 7 or Later) for the database layer (Back End), and Crystal Report (version 7 or later) as a report engine. ASD POS runs on any operating system such as UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, NT) and OS2, Platform independent. Security, Access to the system is controlled through a tight security system, whereby each authorized user has a unique user ID and password that permits her/him to use specific access rights on the different options of the system. Multi-user, multi-tasks. Integration: The system can be easily integrated with all ASD products and suits, such as finance, inventory e.t.c. The Web-based version technical Features: Perfect is a completely multi-lingual web-based system that requires only a web browser (Internet Explorer) on the client side which may run any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac etc). No More downloads or plug-ins. For the Server side, it requires a web server that supports Java preferably tomcat or JBoss with tomcat integration. Data can be stored in any database management system DBMS (mysql, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix etc ). Security is controlled via a tight security system with users grouped into roles whose privileges can be adjusted by system administrator. Main References: 1. Palestine Cellular Telecommunications Co. (JAWWAL) ( 2. Palestine Telecommunication Co. (PALTEL) (www. paltel.net). 3. Wataniya Palestine Mobile Telecommunication Company (WPT) 4. Newroz Telecom. Co. (Iraq) 5. Grand Stores (Dubai) 6. Moseco Co. (Palestine) 5

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