Cashmere ©: your retail solution

The retail solution for distributors of all sizes

• Whether you are an independent retailer or a multinational company, Cashmere© can take care of your needs. Its ultra-modular architecture enables it to be used for single stores as well as international networks of shops.

An innovative product architecture

• The logical separation of the application’s 3 tiers (display, processing and data) enables a highly modular architecture.  In case of a single shop, all the components may be located on a single unit, but when large distribution networks need to be managed, these may be spread out over many servers. This architecture also allows you to easily manage the growth of a network without a change in the structure. With such flexibility in the architecture, the product can adapt to all the types of structures that make up a network, from branches to franchisees and affiliated brokers.
• The number of customer workstations can thus be kept to a strict minimum and the deployment phases rendered obsolete. Centralized administration of customer workstations allows you to distribute functional changes to the network in a completely transparent manner to the user (change in version, for example).
• Also, to ensure easier integration with available information systems, Cashmere© offers multiple database support (IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle).
• Real-time updating of centralized data allows you to transcend all communication constraints, downstream (price updates, promotions, special operations) as well as upstream (sending sales information mainly). This system makes it easier to manage network and gets rid of all the problems that have plagued previous generation systems.
• Real-time operation of course requires failure tolerance. Cashmere© includes  mechanisms enabling information required for the sale to be hidden. Thus protected, with any loss in connection (central servers or links) a message indicating the problem will be displayed. You can continue all sales, management and cash register operations without exiting the transaction in progress and with no loss in functionality. The data is automatically resynchronized once the link is re-established. Another advantage of real-time is that it enables real-time network control applications. Cashmere© can thus make inventory and sales data available in real time, particularly on applications accessible to peripheral devices such as PDA via Cashmere© Wireless World that allow network managers to always remain in contact with information that is vital to them.

General functional characteristics

• Multiple language application
• Multiple legislation application
• Products defined on 4 levels (reference, variant, color and size)
• Centralized management of product references
• Centralized management of price references
• Centralized management of supplier references
• Additional specific references can be defined (franchisees, dealers, etc.)

 

 

Sales management

• Fully touch-sensitive sales module
• Function key and menu settings can be modified
• Integrated authorization management
• All printouts such as receipts and credit card slips, etc. can be configured
• Real time access to inventory of the store, of other stores and the central inventory, depending on authorizations
• Access to information on items and customers during the sale
• Possibility of leaving the sale on standby
• Multiple vendor, multiple currency and multiple payment sales
• Management of payment deadlines
• Markdown and discounts
• Customer loyalty management
• Gift vouchers and discount coupons Reservation of items with or without a down payment

Cash register management

• Multiple currency petty cash
• Configuration of cash register closing and opening cycles
• Bank remittance management
• Management of deposits and withdrawals
• Electronic funds transfer management
• Blinding cash testing depending on authorizations
• Daily event management (weather, fairs, special operations, etc.)
• Daily correction of payments or slips depending on authorizations

• Check of amounts outstanding, down payments and credit

Customer and loyalty management

• Customer account, history and outstanding amounts for multiple shops managed in real time
• Sales can be assigned at a later time
• Queries and statistics available during the sale
• Management of configurable customer attributes (automatic or manual)
• Continuous discounts with ceilings
• Management of fully configurable alerts
• Management of loyalty points with configurable rules of attribution
• Management of the points or cards validity
• Points can be viewed during sale
• Points can be converted into gift vouchers, discount coupons or discounts
  Gift use management

Procurement management

• Management of store orders Ordering
• Monitoring of outstanding deliveries by status
• Transit management
• Reception upon delivery notice
• Reception upon orders
• Management of transfer between stores
  Management of returns

Operating reports and Statistics

• Real time and customizable operating reports
• Versions available for PDA devices
• Automated task scheduler
• Open database standard: IBM DB2, SQL Server or Oracle
• Multiple data exports: PDF, XLS, DOC, HTML, XML, etc.
• Links to external applications
• Cognos Powerplay Hypercubes integrated
  Open to other Business Intelligence products

 

 

Cashmere © Wireless World for PDA

• Feature used for real time access to the operating reports and statistics integrated into Cashmere
• Compatible with terminals supporting Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian and Java
• Security integrated and defined in central in Cashmere
  Peripheral device connected automatically detected with appropriate formatting