In our times of globalisation, companies whose main objective is an ambition to grow and not live in a survival apathy, should look into new forms of doing business in flexible and cooperative ways. For this, they have to arm themselves with processes, mentality and tools, which facilitate their integration into the economy surrounding them. And it is in this last item that technology can give its contribution, namely the Microsoft Navision technology.

Microsoft Navision, being an ERP, acts as facilitating factor in different areas of the company, from the financial area, to all the logistics, production and commercial process (which includes CRM).

And so, it is possible to access all the information of the company’s processes in a centralised way. But where Microsoft Navision differentiates from other management tools is in its flexibility, not constraining the company in its specific processes, by the simple fact that they are not part of the best practices that are usually established and which are often its differentiating factor from that of the competition.
 
From the viewpoint of cooperation, Microsoft Navision makes available the necessary tools for an automated exchange of information among different parties involved, be they client suppliers, partners or co-workers, through EDIs, portals or other relevant ways. In this way, it is possible to reduce the strain of integration, either at the source or downstream, and make available the necessary information to the right party at all moments. An example of this is the access of catalogue, stocks or state of online order, automatic dispatch of production orders or orders to suppliers, or just a simple look into the data records by a co-worker.

On the other hand, given Microsoft Navision’s flexibility, it was possible to create a set of verticalizations, called add-ons, which are responsible for integrating into Microsoft Navision the specific functionalities of each business area, thus endowing the company with a unique tool transversal to the whole organisation and transporting the ERP concept to the next level by integrating the core processes of virtually any company without it having to invest alone in business processes that are very costly to develop and, specially, to maintain and evolve.

LS Retail is an example of the verticalizations previously referred, probably the one with the biggest success within the Microsoft universe, as there are more than 16.000 POS already installed around the world. This is a solution fully integrated with Microsoft Navision ERP, which combines the PlusPos application of the store FrontOffice with the Retail BackOffice, an application of management of a chain of stores from the Head office.

This application enables the user to maximize the value of each unit, information for the growth, control and maximization of retail business profit, through the use of different tools, like sales promotions with date limits, multiple prices for each store, quantity discounts, integration, generation and printing of bar codes of products and  labels of sections and shelves or posters, sales analysis by different factors, possibility of using different currencies, store management maps by different variables such as quantities sold, profit in value, profit percentages, lines of products cancelled, opening of tills, average of products sold and management and control of information to be sent or received between the office and the stores or other points of sale or, for example, a tight control of stocks based upon real time updated data.

LS Retail enables the identification of potential thefts and frauds through advanced statistics, as well as the treatment of client orders through POS. It can also execute other operations at the user level and his preferences at the points of sale, execution of till closings in different variables, use of several different means of payment and associated relevant information of each form of payment, to clients and to products, use of different VAT values, product inventory by each store, and the ruptures in each store.

There are different specific applications for areas of activity, chief among which are:
• Food & Beverage, restaurants and catering
• Furniture and decoration chains
• Fast-food chains
• Supermarkets
• Specific solutions for optical stores
• Clothing and accessories chains

LS Retail has a great flexibility and capacity of adapting to the business in issue, enables a complete configuration of its working ways and is a store management solution fully integrated in Navision and as such has the capacity to manage large chains of stores. It is specially advised for the management of franchisers and franchised.

With the use of LS Retail those responsible at a company, as well as all users, will certainly have more time to execute other tasks, due to the automation and speed of sometimes very complex operations.

For further information, please contact info@LSRetail.com