BEER-WINE-LIQUOR RETAILERS: KEEP PROFITS FLOWING WITH HELP FROM MICROSOFT DYNAMICS RETAIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (RMS)

For specialty beverage retailers like you, success depends on your ability to keep your shelves stocked with fast-moving, profitable items and on keeping tight control over your supplier relationships. Your customers need to know you have products they want—and that they won't be waiting in long checkout lines.

Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) gives you the point of sale (POS) and inventory management tools you need, so that you can negotiate the best prices and stock your shelves with profitable items. Speed up checkout lines—even on Friday and Saturday nights—so that customers can focus on shopping instead of waiting to pay.

Specialty beverage retailers can benefit from Microsoft Dynamics RMS in the following ways:

 

	Simplify inventory tracking. Your beer-wine-liquor store has hundreds of items. You need to know what's selling and what's not, and Microsoft Dynamics RMS is customized to help you.
	Work with matrix and lot matrix methods.
	Process credit and debit cards and complex transactions quickly and seamlessly.

7 KEY BENEFITS FOR BEER-WINE-LIQUOR RETAILERS

1. GAIN CONTROL OF PRODUCTS, SHELF SPACE, AND SUPPLIERS
If you know which items are moving and which are not, you can make profitable ordering decisions and build effective, efficient supplier relationships. You can also:

 

	Establish realistic reorder points that help keep you from overstocking your shelves with products that aren't moving.
	Easily track and manage hard goods, soft goods and convenience items.
	Create customized shelf tags.
	Easily produce gift bundles and holiday packages.
	Automate your calculation for inventory replenishment based on accurate, reorder point/restock level or quantity sold.
	Support multiple suppliers for each item.
	Easily create purchase orders that reflect matrices you set up in your system.
	Export purchase orders to Office Excel and Office Word for easy customization and viewing in a matrix grid format.
	Track inventory with specifics such as weighed, measured or by bin.
	Simplify inventory tracking with serialized items and multiple serial numbers.
	Locate items quickly by searching on the supplier reorder number.
	Put items on backorder for future deliveries from the POS.
	Upload item costs to headquarters when cost information changes at the store level.

2. GIVE CUSTOMERS A GREAT SHOPPING EXPERIENCE
Your sales staff can learn how to process the most complex transactions seamlessly, and have access to complete customer information that lets them sell more effectively. Microsoft Dynamics RMS also works with the Microsoft Office System, making it easy to create and deliver communications that connect you with your best customers. You can:

 

	Quickly access a complete history of purchases, payments and account information at the POS. Capture, show, or hide customer contact and demographics on the POS screen.
	Build rapport—and up-sells—using customers' buying histories. Accommodate partial payments and account payments. And suggest relevant up-sells, sale items, and volume discounts. Reprint electronic receipts to resolve disputes, speed rebates, and verify purchase dates and amounts.
	Accept multiple tenders, credit and debit cards, coupons, gift vouchers, and foreign currencies. Grant automatic discounts and differential pricing to special customers.
	Target your mailings directly to customers' special interests.
	Sell even when your network is down. Serve others while keeping a stalled transaction "on hold."
	Handle work orders, backorders, layaways, and quotes.
	Customize receipts and price labels with logos and promotional messages.

3. IMPROVE EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY
Jump-start productivity with a solution that's easy to learn and use, yet lets you maintain tight control over information and inventory to protect data and reduce theft.
 

	Employees can learn basic POS functions in minutes.
	Lock out—or empower-any employee's access to sensitive data.
	Reduce shrinkage by automating inventory management.
	View and print daily sales reports and journals at the POS terminal.
	Know which employee sells best. Predict what days and hours to staff up—or cut back.

4. USE CUSTOMIZABLE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Get help managing every aspect of your store. Along with automating the POS and inventory, Microsoft Dynamics RMS lets you set up pricing levels and promotions the way you want.
 

5. GET QUICK, COMPREHENSIVE REPORTS
Take the lead in your relationships with your distributors. With accurate, timely data about sales, profitability, inventory and customers, you can know exactly what's selling best, who's buying, and when. Decide on a dime what to buy or mark down; and track return on investment (ROI) for marketing initiatives.
 

6. GET THE BENEFITS OF CENTRALIZED INFORMATION
Want to send financials to your accounting program? Or sell through an e-commerce storefront? Microsoft Dynamics RMS can help deliver.

Built on the latest Microsoft technologies, this integrated solution keeps information moving smoothly across your entire business and connects easily with other applications, platforms, and peripherals, such as Microsoft Office. The solution:
 

7. GROWS WITH YOUR BUSINESS
Ready to open a new store? You can help protect your investment and keep the same software and systems as your business grows into multiple stores and retail channels with Microsoft Dynamics RMS. Here are a few things to keep in mind: