Tally Shopper HO

Shoper HO (Head Office) - The perfect way to manage your retail chain
Shoper HO helps manage the central aspects of a retail chain. As a key component of the retail solution suite from Tally Shoper solutions, Shoper HO is designed for any retailing organisation that controls more than one retail outlet..
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Shoper HO works in conjunction with two or more Shoper POS deployments at the various retail outlets of a chain, to exchange data, consolidate them and also differentiate them. This comprehensive solution renders a better across-the-chain visibility and ensures accurate stock and information transfer across the chain.

 

Shoper HO enables the replication and consolidation of stock and transaction details of retail stores and distribution centres, at the Head Office level. This helps in improved productivity and enhanced transparency across the retail chain. It also ensures faster and better decision making to achieve better fulfillment, predictability in operations and eventually leads to better profitability.

The Shoper suite of retail solutions includes Shoper POS and Shoper HO.
 

Features of Shoper HO



Centralised Catalogue – addresses the typical need to maintain uniformity of information on the merchandise and pricing. This feature allows you to maintain various master data that act as a repository of data at the HO and populate the same across the showroom chains. This eliminates the need for re-entry of data and also avoids possible errors. Facilities are available in Shoper HO to upload legacy data into these catalogues, besides providing downloads of the catalogue data (for import at the retail outlets in Shoper POS).

Product Catalogues - enable you to define ‘ Product’ and ‘Brand’ with business rules. These catalogues can include variants such as standard pricing mark-up policy, applicable sizes in the product range, primary/secondary vendors (if fixed), Sales Tax categorisation, and whether the items under the product-brand are procured through outright purchase or on consignment basis. Each item retailed can have a ‘Style’ or ‘Article’ number and under each Style or Article Number, variants of Finish, Shades and Sizes may be applicable. Organisations that do not find the need to maintain a higher level Style/Article catalogue can directly create an Item Master in this catalogue to store all the above mentioned information at SKU level.

Pricing/Barcode Masters – enables you to make product pricing masters and manage barcodes. The pricing master allows you to record pricing information of several products, so that they do not need to be defined again at SKU level. Barcode masters help you maintain tag designs and tag printing that you require for your retail business.

Business Rules - helps you centrally maintain various business rules such as pricing, modes of payment, taxes etc., that can further be used by the retail outlets.

Supply Chain Details – allows you to define various aspects of the entire retail chain. Information and details about various showrooms, geographies, distributors, warehouses and franchisees can be maintained here. These details are useful in various transactions and for generation of various reports.

Showroom Data Replication – allows you to centrally maintain replicas of the data pertaining to retail and distribution outlets. Besides bringing in transactions that take place at the remote locations, Shoper AST (Advanced Stock Tracker) also enables sending out changes to masters and catalogues, to these locations. For each remote location Shoper AST interacts with, a separate folder is maintained in Shoper AST in compacted form. Similar files created by Shoper POS or Shoper DC are uploaded from these folders. Transacting the outbound files to the remote location and in-bound files from them can be carried out by any or all of the following protocols:
* Email: Each showroom or distribution centre can be assigned a separate email id. In addition, Shoper AST can be assigned another central email id through which the data from remote locations are received or sent to. At the transferring end, email messages are created with the data files as attachments and sent out. Such messages can be downloaded at the receiving end. The data files are then detached and uploaded.
* FTP: A ‘File-Transfer-Protocol’ site can be created on a web server. The folders for inbound and outbound data files can be maintained on this site. Shoper POS, Shoper DC and Shoper AST can use the FTP protocol to store outbound data files in these folders as well as to receive inbound files from them.
* VPN: When a Virtual Private Network is present, with each retail outlet and distribution centre linked, the inbound and outbound data files can be directly stored in and retrieved from the central folders maintained by Shoper AST.

Showroom Data Consolidation – allows the data from showrooms (retail and distribution outlets) to be brought in and consolidated centrally. The data consolidated in Shoper HO enables you to generate various reports on sales, stocks and sales performance tracking. This is achieved by obtaining the data of the outlets such as daily item-wise summary of transactions and daily item-wise stock balances. With these data, various reports can be generated, displaying showroom-wise, date-wise, SKU-wise, information on sales and stock. Transaction data replication and reporting are enabled using the ‘Showroom Data Replication’ module. The customers’ data from different showrooms can be consolidated and distributed to all the showrooms so that the accurate customer details are available across outlets. This could be useful when consistent customer identification is crucial to the company.

Sales and Budget tracking – allows you to record month-wise Sales Budgets (typically Sales Targets) for each showroom, for each brand-product combination. At the showroom and month level, sales target values are captured which are allowed to be broken-up at brand-product level, at which point targeted sales quantities are also captured. The Sales Budget figures thus recorded can be compared against actual sales figures brought in from showrooms through showroom data consolidation. Budget Vs. Actual sales performance reports can then be generated. These reports can be generated either at showroom, brand-product and month level or summarised or detailed to any combination of these three.

System Control – Shoper HO renders required amounts of system control features such as access control and tools for database maintenance.
* Access Security - provides various user and access level control definitions. It also provides tools to automate and schedule data transfers
* Database Maintenance - provides various database maintenance facilities to ensure proper replication, upkeep, backup and cleanup