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Enterprise Retail Management Solution Engineered by CIBER Powered by SAP
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Grocery Retailing Process Overview
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Working in close partnership with SAP and our retail clients, CIBER are proud to present
novaRetail, an integrated enterprise Retail Management Solution, engineered by CIBER and
powered by SAP. novaRetail is the enterprise management system you can rely on to run
your business.
All retail organisations face similar challenges:
Our company is growing rapidly. We need to make sure we have abusiness solution in place to support growth and expansion.
Our margins are so tightly managed that we really need to havegoods control on managing costs throughout the value chain.
In the retail industry some trends come and go very quickly. Weneed business intelligence to identify, analyse and resolve marketchanges quickly.
We need a business platform which allows us to be ahead of ourcompetitors.
Built on the success of our customers, our retail and information technology expertise allow
us to deliver a high quality solution more efficiently with a higher return on investment.
Some of the features of novaRetail include:
User friendly master data management
Superior category business planning and management
Powerful merchandise planning and management
Strategic retail price planning and management
Innovative promotion planning and management
Complex replenishment and allocation planning
Advanced purchase planning and management
Effective inventory and warehouse management
Informative business analytics and intelligence
This document describes the full suite of functionality contained in the novaRetail solution.
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Whether you have a chain of Hypermarkets,
Supermarkets, Convenience stores or any
combination thereof, novaRetail has built-in
specific solutions for the Grocery industry.
Category Management gives you the ability to
plan and manage categories of products at
different levels from major departments right
down to the individual article level. Given the diverse range of products in modern
supermarkets from the typical dry goods, through to fresh produce, general merchandise and
liquor the category management functionality will give your team the ability to monitor stocks
and margins and make informed decisions about prices and promotions.
Supply Chain Planning introduces automatic replenishment which brings the benefit of
managing daily replenishment more efficiently for the large number of articles typically found
in grocery stores. This will also reduce human error such as ordering the wrong product or not
ordering at all.
Sales will increase due to more efficient stocking processes through frequent deliveries,
higher selling space productivity due to fewer out of stocks and a reduction in in-store storage
space required for safety stock buffers.
Special processes are built in to support the demanding task of replenishment planning for
perishables. novaRetail can also deal with inventory on a quantity and value basis for dry
goods whilst managing fresh produce on a value only basis.
Purchasing functionality will allow you to manage the all important
relationships with your vendors whether they deliver to the
distribution centre, direct store delivery or by a vendor fill process.
From monitoring on-time delivery to reconciliation and settlement
of vendor rebates the purchasing functions will give you complete
control over the procurement of stock into distribution centres and
stores.
Supply Chain management will give you the ability to track
inventory as it moves through the supply chain from vendor to
distribution centre to store to customer. Detailed information of
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each inventory movement will give inventory planners the information they need to ensure
customer service levels are maintained at the highest level. Special enhancements in the
novaRetail solution give you the ability to carry out inventory transactions with the latest
technology such as wireless hand held terminals.
Finally, Multi-Channel retailing takes care of the critical area of store operations. Seamless
integration of store systems into the merchandising system will ensure that all stakeholders
are viewing the same information about stock and sales.
Underpinning the entire solution is the Enterprise Management and Support functions. The
all important Financial Management of your organisation is provided by tight integration with
all merchandising and supply chain activities. As soon as a transaction is carried out in the
operative system the financial records are updated
In short novaRetail for grocery is a fully integrated, enterprise-class Retail Management
Solution specifically designed for the entire operations of Retail organisations from store
operations, supply chain planning and execution, purchasing and merchandising to enterprise
management.
The diagram below illustrates the breadth of functionality provided by novaRetail across the
retail value chain from vendor to customer.
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Merchandise and Assortment Planning (MAP)
supports planning and reporting for all business
activities involving assortment and merchandise,
as a smoothly integrated process. This enables
you to plan on a value and quantity basis, on any
level you choose, within a planning hierarchy. For
example, planning can be done at purchasing
organization, store group, or merchandise
category level. You define for example, your strategic targets at a higher hierarchy level, and
then transfer them step-by-step to the more detailed assortment, price band or even article.While doing so, you can compare various plan versions that were created manually and then
develop a final version based on these plan versions.
The plan is used to establish important key figures such as sales, gross margin and stock for
a time period in the future, for example, for a season. By comparing planning data, actual
data, and historical data, you can plan future business developments in the best possible way.
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novaRetails powerful pricing techniques are
used to realize pricing elements, such as
purchase price, mark ups and promotion
discounts. All relevant pricing elements are
predefined and easy to maintain according to
the retail specific business needs. The feature
price points, gives the option for automatically
rounding to psychological prices (e.g. 1.99)
based on a pre-defined logic.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Calculation of sales prices based on mark-up or margin
Price calculation stored in system as a pricing document
The ability to include warehouse transfer prices in a two-step calculation
Pricing calculation simulation across a range of articles in a merchandise category
Inclusion of competitor pricing information in sales price calculation
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Integrated markdown planning
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Promotions are one of most important features used in the retail
industry to push your sales, win customers and clear your
inventory of slow moving items. The novaRetail solution will open
new possibilities for your company to carry out many kinds of
promotions, such as buy-one-get-one-free, from promotion
planning to promotion processing. In addition, the built-in
reporting system (RIS Retail Info System) will establish
evaluation on the success of a promotion, with regards to margins
and quantities as well as articles and costs.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Promotion pricing created at multiple organisation levels, for example all stores or store
specific
Different validity periods for different groups of stores
Automatic follow-on processing such as promotion announcement to stores and creation
of allocation tables
The ability to maintain promotion specific discounts across entire ranges or merchandise
categories and link these to coupons
Multiple deal types including Buy One Get One Free, Free Goods, Multi-deals based on
quantity or value.
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novaRetails assortment (range) management tools give you the ability to manage individual
ranges for groups of stores or even at a store level.
Once the parameters are defined at article and store level, for example article grades and
relevant merchandise categories for each store the system will automatically assign the range
to the stores.
As article ranges are constantly changing in the
grocery industry as new products are introduced and
obsolete products deleted novaRetails
discontinuation functions will take care of the
remaining stock in your stores. Automated
discontinuation checks will provide an overview of
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where deleted stock is sitting in the supply chain and allow you to take the appropriate action
to remove it from your stores such as markdowns and promotions.
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Distribution Centre and Store Replenishment
The primary objective of replenishment is to ensure
that goods are available for sale when customers
require them, and to reduce the working capital at the
same time. The solution provides sophisticated
planning tools which allow fully automated inventory replenishment for stores and distribution
centres. Different planning methods are available which provide for example, stock
replenishment based on historical values for fast moving items or reorder point planning for
slow moving items. Easy to handle mass maintenance tools will support quick parameter
changes for a high volume of articles.
Within a short time the powerful replenishment functionality will reduce the manual workload
as well as the working capital for your retail enterprise.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Multiple forecasting algorithms for different article profiles
Multiple replenishment algorithms for different article profiles
Integrated replenishment monitor provides analysis of replenishment output such as order
quantities, open orders, forecast and other replenishment parameters
Merchandise Distribution
Merchandise distribution controls the flow of
goods from the vendor to the store; the
merchandise items are procured externally and
passed through the distribution centre to thestores. Allocation tables ("push" process) or a
collective purchase orders ("pull" process) can be
used to control distribution planning. Goods can
be placed in storage in the distribution centre, or
moved through the distribution centre using the
cross-docking or flow-through methods.
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PUSH process
Retail companies often have to centrally distribute merchandise among a large number of
stores, like for example, for initial purchase or promotional items. novaRetail will allow your
company to use allocation tables which
actively support the distribution of this type
of merchandise and then trigger the
necessary goods movements. The
distribution among the stores is based on
allocation rules which can easily be created,
based on historical key figures or on a
specified quota.
You can have the merchandise delivered
directly from the vendor to the store, from
the vendor to a distribution centre and then to the store, or from a distribution centre to a store.
After you have completed the planning stage, novaRetail will automatically create the relevant
documents for procuring or delivering the goods.
PULL process
Collective purchase orders are used to plan merchandise distribution in the pull process. In
novaRetail the collective purchase order combines the requirements of all stores. These
requirements exist in form of stock transfer orders (either produced automatically out of store
replenishment or manually). All these requirements will be combined automatically into one
single order for a vendor - the collective purchase order. The complete PULL process can be
automated from store replenishment to external procurement which will drastically reduces
the data processing work.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Automatic creation of follow-on documents such as deliveries from warehouse to store
Automatic adjustment of allocation quantities at time of goods receipt.
Cross-docking and flow-through processes for efficient distribution centre handling
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The procurement of fresh items is
characterized by short shelf life, variability in
supplying source, price, available quality and
quantity. Purchase decisions need to be
made to meet aggregated store demands
based on actual sales or store orders. The
buyer can perform price discovery and initiate
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vendor negotiations at any time. The buyer needs the ability to view all possible vendors for
any single article with available costs in order to establish that day's selling price with
automated purchase order generation. Both push and pull processes are supported with flow
of goods directly to stores (DSD) or via the distribution centre (flow through). Vendor
evaluations on price, quality, accuracy and timeliness of deliveries are also maintained for
future vendor selections. Mobile usability for buyers operating in a fresh item market (e.g., fish
market). Single point, portal approach (sourcing cockpit) to an integrated view of all
procurement and delivery of fresh items to the store by extending to other applications and
services required to execute the procurement process.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Demand aggregation
Price discovery
Auctions and RFQs
Negotiations
Automated purchase order generation
Flexible merchandise flow
Fresh Item Workbench
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Vendor Evaluation and Monitoring
novaRetail allows your company to analyse and assess the performance of your external
suppliers via vendor evaluation. A vendor is automatically scored, based on a number of
different criteria. The overall score can be used to determine whether a business partner
should be retained or eliminated from your vendor base.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Maintaining vendor evaluation criteria such as on time delivery, quality and price accuracy
Monitoring ongoing vendor performance via standard reports
Analysing overall vendor performance at the end of a period, for example annually
Capture other qualitative evaluation criteria for scoring, for example innovation or product
packaging
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Vendor Rebates
novaRetail supports one-time or periodic settlement of vendor rebates, based on conditions
governing cumulative purchase quantities or values, at the end of a period.
This functionality handles the business situation, whereby the vendor agrees to give your
company rebates for goods purchased. These rebates are only applicable if a certain quantity
or value of goods is purchased within an agreed period of time. The rebates are not given
with each invoice but at predefined points in time. The system is able to automatically update
the relevant business volume and keep track of rebates applicable.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Managing vendor rebate agreements in the form of master data
Automatic business volume updating as purchase orders are raised
Automatic calculation of rebate entitlements and posting to General Ledger accounts
Reconciliation of retailer and vendor business volumes
Rebate settlement over multiple periods, for example monthly, quarterly, annually
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Purchase Order Management will allow your company to manage the procurement process to
cover requirements for services and goods from internal or external sources of supply. Both
automatic purchase order creation via Replenishment and manual creation are supported. In
the case of replenishment, purchased orders can be automatically created based on
forecasted requirements or when stocks drop below a certain level.
In case an approval procedure for purchasing documents needs to be in place, novaRetail will
support this kind of electronic signature also known as release procedure. Only after the
approval from an authorized person takes place can purchasing documents be outputted
(print, email). Integrated Drag & Drop functionality during order creation will speed up the
transaction handling itself.
Purchase Order Processing
Supports the daily operations involved in the
procurement of merchandise and settling up with
vendors. The functions in this area enable you to
order articles for which requirements were
determined in the planning run. It comprises
quantity calculation, supply source determination,
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conversion of purchase requisitions to purchase orders and order monitoring. The purchasing
functionality can be used both centrally in the head office and locally in stores.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Maintaining and monitoring vendor confirmations
Monitoring fulfilment status of purchase orders
Open-to-buy integration
Flexible delivery date scheduling
Order Optimising
In order to find the most economic order quantity,
costs resulting from stock keeping and from
purchasing have to be taken into consideration.
The aim of optimal lot-sizing procedures is to
group requirements in such a way that costs are
minimized. If you order often, the result is low
storage costs, but the order costs will be high due
to the high number of orders. If you place orders
seldomly, order costs remain very low, but
storage costs will be very high since warehouse stock must be large enough to cover
requirements for a much longer period. The system then adds successive quantities to this lot
size until, by means of the particular cost criterion, optimum costs have been established. The
system can optimize the quantities of orders to make the most out of agreements with
vendors who grant better conditions when complete logistics units (such as entire pallets) are
ordered. The quantity optimizing function rounds off quantities according to flexible rules that
are predefined. It is possible to round either up or down. The system can also take different
units of measure of a product into account.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Investment Buying
Automatic Load Building
Manual Load Building
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RFQ, Quotation & Vendor Comparison
To initiate the procurement process, possible suppliers of merchandise need to be found and
selected before regular purchase can take place.
novaRetail provides specific functionality to handle request for quotation (RFQ) as an
invitation to vendors, to submit a quotation (bid) for the supply of articles or services. The
system supports the vendor selection process with the price comparison functionality, on the
quotations received.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Request for quotation processing
Release of RFQs
Vendor Quotation Processing
Transmission of RFQs and Quotations
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Inventory Valuation
In novaRetail, inventory is valuated at cost
(moving average price), which is also known as
the "cost inventory method" or the "cost
method". All price changes involving article
cost will be accurately recorded in the system,
which leads to a valuation of inventory at average cost for every individual article.
In case your business requires new valuation of a single article or of all articles, inventory
revaluation can take place based on cost (purchase price) which will change your
merchandise unit cost and update the book values automatically.
Furthermore the solution supports valuation at retail, also known as retail inventory method,
which is widely used in the industry.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Cost method of inventory valuation
Retail method of inventory valuation
Value based inventory management for groups of products
Stock valuation and overview reports
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Shrinkage Management
You can use this business process to make stock adjustments at warehouse or stores.
Postings, based on the reason for the shrinkage (breakage, spoilage, theft, depreciation,
withdrawal for own use, and so on), are debited to the corresponding G/L account. Statistical
analyses can be performed for every posting.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Automatic recording of each inventory movement
Multiple movement type to track specific shrinkage reasons
Stock Taking (Physical Inventory)
Every company is legally required to carry out a physical inventory of warehouse stocks at
least once a year to balance the physical stocks with the book figures. n ovaRetail supports
your enterprise to carry out a physical inventory for warehouses and stores and furthermore
allows you to upload the results from the physical count in the form of a flat file (xls, txt). This
upload results in immediate stock and financial postings in the system.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
The ability to conduct cyclical or full stocktakes as required
Automatic creation of physical inventory (stocktake) documents
Analysis of inventory differences based on tolerances
Goods Receipt & Invoice Verification
Every Goods Receipt will be posted with reference to a Purchase Order document. During
goods receipt processing, all key data will be checked automatically against the purchasing
document, verifying quantity and articles.
During data processing, most data will be
defaulted which significantly reduces the data
entry. The fully integrated system will
automatically create the relevant financialpostings for external as well as internal
accounting. To facilitate a quantity check prior
to the actual goods receipt posting, a count list
can be printed which allows online update after
the physical check, and will serve as a basis for
the actual inventory posting.
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During the processing of an invoice document, the system verifies the quantities and values
against the related purchase order and goods receipt postings. In case the invoiced quantities
or values exceed the pre-defined tolerance limits, the system will block the invoice for
payment. Processing can only take place after an authorized person releases the blocked
document.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Complete purchase order history including all goods receipts and invoices stored against
original document
Returns to Vendor
The goods return process refers to all merchandises which are to be returned from a store or
distribution centre to an external vendor. Returns can be performed for damaged goods; for
goods remaining at the end of a promotion or season; and for discontinued merchandise. Full
integration exists; from purchase order processing to inventory management right up to
accounts payable.
Stock Transfer
In the supply chain, merchandise needs to be transported between sites. The process of
transferring articles from one site to another is known as stock transfer. It can be either from
distribution centre to store and vice versa or from store to store. n ovaRetail fully supports
transfers involving two different legal entities (company codes) of your enterprise with
complete invoicing /billing and financial accounting. Similar to the external procurement
process, the stock transfer orders can be automatically created as a result of the
replenishment run.
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The Warehouse Management
functionality provides flexible,
automated support in processing all
goods movements and in managing
stocks in your warehouse complex.
The system supports scheduled and
efficient processing of logistics
processes within your warehouse.
Warehouse Management allows you to
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map your entire warehouse complex in detail to storage bin level. Not only do you gain an
overview of the entire quantity of a material in the warehouse; you can also always determine
exactly where a certain material currently is in your warehouse complex.
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novaRetail comes packaged with a number of additional functions which make your life as a
grocery retailer a whole lot easier.
Rack Jobber
Rack jobbers are wholesalers or manufacturers to whom you grant sales space (usually shelf
space) in your store. These rack jobbers offer goods that are not included in your existing
assortment. The goods are the property of the rack jobber, but they are sold via your retail
sites POS system and no other logistic activities are carried out from your side.
The vendors own employee can be in the store to sell their goods, to manage their stock and
arrange the delivery for customers if necessary. Your store collects the money from the
consumer on behalf of the vendor. Certain commission charged to the rack jobber vendor will
be deducted from the total sales revenue during the settlement.
novaRetail provides special functionality to maintain the relevant master data, including bar
code, till text and sales prices for the rack jobber articles, in order to process standard POS
sales activities. On a periodic basis, the rack jobber will be paid based on sales volume minus
the commission agreed.
Vendor consignment
novaRetail allows you to manage consignment stock from your vendors efficiently. The
consignment articles belong to the vendor until they are sold or transferred into your
companys own valuated stock. The logistics handling for consignment articles is identical to
standard trading goods where your company keeps track of inventory, replenish stock and
carries out sales. Different handling exist for inventory valuation, where consignment goods
are not considered as part of your inventory balance, and payment processing only takes
place periodically based on sales volume.
The solution supports your consignment settlement process from sales reporting and quantity
allocation up to invoice processing. An easy to handle workbench will guide you through the
process steps and carries out most of the activities automatically.
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Handheld Terminals (HHT) and RFID
The usage of handheld terminals and RFID will optimize the date
processing time as well as increase the data quality throughout the
whole supply chain. In the warehouse, goods movement canliterally be processed online and stock count executed more
efficient than ever. The usage in the store will allow price inquires,
provide the latest sales history with stock on hand information as
well as trigger immediate replenishment for out of stock items.
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Retail Store (web based Back Office)
The majority of transaction, which are relevant for store operations from procurement to
inventory management and sales (sales order processing) can be executed with the retail
store, which is a web based novaRetail front end for store users. Simplified screens will allow
a fast deployment for the store users with minimum training effort.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Store Price Management
Store Promotion Management
Physical Inventory (Stocktake)
Goods Receipt, Stock Transfer and Returns
Store Replenishment
Master data such as articles and store
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POS Interface (Sales & Return)
Merchandises in stores are normally sold using electronic cash registers (POS systems).
novaRetail contains a pre-defined interface to communicate with the POS system (Point of
Sales) resulting in more of an integrated system rather than an interfaced system.
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Inbound (POS to novaRetail) and outbound processing (novaRetail to POS) is supported and
the usage of change pointers in novaRetail will smooth the outbound communication with a
minimum volume on data. Data like merchandise categories, article data (sales price, barcode,
till text, unit of measure, etc.) taxes and exchange rates as well as promotions can be send
out from novaRetail to the POS system.
Sales figures (including returns) on an aggregated basis and financial transactions from the
stores will be uploaded to novaRetail.
The POS monitor in novaRetail provides functionality to monitor all POS inbound and
outbound activities. The system classifies every outbound and inbound message and records
it in a log.
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Organization Structure
The Organisation Structure in novaRetail consists of several organisational elements, which
together represents the entire legal and organisational structure of a company. It forms the
basis for all business functions and reporting. The organisational units range from accounting,
controlling, purchasing and sales to stores and distribution centres. Within this framework, all
business processes can be executed and integrated.
Article master, Merchandise Category and Listing
The article master contains information on all the items that a retail enterprise procures,
stores and sells. It is the company's central source for retrieving article-specific data such as
the bar code, units of measure, procurement and replenishment data.
To ease and streamline the article master maintenance, the solution contains sophisticated
listing functionality for automatic assignment of
articles to assortments. The assortment defines
which articles are available in a site during a
specified time period.
The merchandise categories and hierarchy
allows the enterprise to classify and structure all
merchandises to support the daily business. In
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novaRetail, each article will be assigned to exactly one merchandise category, while one
merchandise category can group many articles with same attributes.
Additional features of the novaRetail solution include:
Simplified article maintenance screens for different user departments
Structured article creation such as sales sets
Mass maintenance tools for efficient article master processing
Extensive search helps for locating articles efficiently
Business Partners
Business partners are individuals or corporations with whom a company has a business
relationship. Customers and vendors are business partners involving the transfer of goods
and services. Details of business partners are managed in master records, which contain all
the necessary information for processing business transactions. Then when processing
business transactions, the system proposes the relevant information, saving your company
time and effort while reducing errors during data entry.
Product Catalog
The novaRetail Product Catalog function allows you to store, retrieve, and manage data (such
as articles, prices and groupings) to be used in advertising materials such as catalogs,
promotional flyers, CD-ROM disks, on-line services and multimedia kiosks at the point-of-sale.
It is an important advertising medium which provides customers with product information.
novaRetail supports management of such advertising or promotional material from a single
system, with integration of images, audio, or video in your product catalog, to be used in
several different media.
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General Ledger
The primary task of General Ledger (GL)
Accounting is to record all accounting
transactions and provide a comprehensive
picture for external accounting. The General
Ledger provides a complete record of all
business transactions and is the centralized,
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up-to-date reference for the rendering of accounts. Actual individual transactions posted
online and in realtime can be checked at any given point in by displaying the original
documents.
novaRetail records all business transactions in the system, which is fully integrated with all
operational modules. Therefore, your company is assured of accounting data which is always
accurate and up-to-date.
A pre-defined chart of accounts will give your company or companies a transparent frame for
all financial activities as well as the required basis for statutory reporting.
Accounts Payable
The Accounts Payable application component records and manages accounting data for all
vendors. It is also an integral part of the purchasing function where deliveries and invoices aremanaged according to vendors. novaRetail automatically triggers financial postings in
response to operative transactions. For instance, during purchase invoice verification
processing, a suppliers invoice is recorded & posted after an automatic verification against
defined tolerance limits; small differences arising due
to variances are simultaneously & automatically
posted to adjustment accounts. Any applicable tax
postings are also auto determined and posted to tax
accounts.
Payments can be processed partially or in full, and
payment methods like check, cash or telegraphic
transfers (TT) etc are possible. Check management
functionality enables an automatic generation and
printing of checks during automatic payment run or
through a manual process.
In addition the solution delivers various posting tools
such as sample documents or recurring entries, to streamline and accelerate the data
processing.
Accounts Receivable
The Accounts Receivable application component records and manages accounting data of all
customers and store sales, which is also an integral part of sales management. It also
provides the data required for effective credit management which will be essential for your
wholesale business.
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novaRetail also provides you account management functionality such as Dunning which
enables you to send out reminder letters automatically to customers with outstanding
balances based on days in arrear.
Incoming payments can be processed and open invoices cleared automatically. Various
posting tools similar to Accounts Receivable are available as well.
Asset accounting
Asset accounting in novaRetail is used for managing and supervising fixed assets. It serves
as a subsidiary ledger to the General Ledger.
Asset accounting integrates with General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,
Controlling and Material Management in the following ways:
Posting of asset acquisitions and retirements that are integrated with accounts payable,
accounts receivable and material management.
Posting of depreciation from asset accounting to the appropriate general ledger accounts
and cost centres.
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Controlling
Controlling, which is also known as management or internal accounting, provides a
companys management with information for decision-making. It facilitates coordination,
monitoring and optimization of all processes in an organization. In novaRetail, organizational
units such as Cost Centres, Internal Orders & Profit Centres are available.
In order to plan future business activities the system provides cost centre planning
functionality and budgeting which allows your
company periodic control and monitoring of
internal activities efficiently. Plan data can be
easily uploaded from excel into novaRetail.
Assigning actual costs to cost centres will
allow the management to analyze variances
between actual costs from the planned or
targeted costs. novaRetail provide various
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analysis reports for cost centre accounting.
The profit centre component will enable your company to generate profit and loss statements
per store. It allows you to obtain inventory, fixed asset, payable and receivable values at store
level. Furthermore, profit centre planning functionality will also help you to control and monitor
the performance of each store by allowing you to plan for revenue and selected balance sheet
items for each store.
User-friendly transactions with full integration of finance with logistics establish analysis of
internal cost and provide a solid basis for management decisions.
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Cash Flow
novaRetail contains functionality for cash management, with the goal to provide management
with an overview of the liquidity status of the company. The system offers two kinds of
evaluations, one is the Cash Position which provides a short-term view for monitoring the
liquidity on bank accounts and the other is the Liquidity Forecast which enables evaluation
of customers, vendors or sub-ledgers for the mid/long term view. The cash management
functionality is a fully integrated feature which is based on figures received from accounts
receivables, accounts payables and the general ledger.
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novaRetail contains pre-defined job roles with restricted authorization to limit the system
access for your users based on the job requirements.
For audit and security purposes, most user activities like
document changes are automatically recorded in the
novaRetail system which will offer additional security to the
authorization concept.
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The novaRetail system is a fully integrated system where postings in logistics automatically
trigger financial postings, such as revenue, inventory, cost of sales and adjustments as well
as tax handling. The automatic account determination is tailored for a pre-defined chart of
account and will offer your company transparent financial postings and will further more
assure correct external reporting.
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The Schedule Manager allows or simplifies by means of considerable automation, the
definition, scheduling, execution and control of periodically recurring work, for example, the
period-end closing. Every operation to be executed in the period-end closing (for example,
depreciation calculation for the month) is l isted as a processing step in the Schedule Manager.
Using Schedule Manager provides the following benefits:
The reduction of the lead times of the period-end closing since only the actually incorrect
objects are processed with repeated lead times for the error handling.
Performance advantages due to less database accesses.
Structured approach to all month-end activities which ensues no steps are missed and
are processed in correct sequence.
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Reporting is the display of information and processactivities on aggregated or detailed level.
novaRetail provides several reporting tools such as
a built-in data warehouse for logistics, which allows
you fast access of statistical data as well as
standard reports for dynamic transaction data with
further navigation (interactive) into document
details.
For fast document tracking novaRetail links all related business documents which allows you
to easily branch from one document to another. For example, from a purchase order to the
relevant payment document or from the goods receipt posting to the related payment
document.
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