Success of a Retailing business requires quick billing turn around time and effective inventory management.
Prudent inventory management involves management decisions on what all items need to be purchased at fixed time intervals to maximize the utilization of credit available from the supplier. Large volume of SKU's means same products with multiple MRP's is present on the shelves. Hence error free billing is a critical component.
Process flow of Retail Business Management in Horizon ERP
Brief Overview of Retail Business Management in Horizon ERP
- Customer Category / Group Creation: Categorizing and grouping of customers on the basis of offtake, Credit worthiness etc. For generating informative reports (Applicable only if reward points systems are being implemented)
- Enter the Group/Category name and Save.
- Masters → Customer Category
- Masters → Customer Group
- Customer Creation: Create Consumer card holder customers(Applicable only if reward points systems are being implemented)
- Enter customer name and details
- "Privilege ID" must for card holder customers
- Supplier Creation: Those who supply goods or services are called supplier/ Sundry creditors.
- Item Category / Group Creation
- Fixed Pricelist Creation:Create only if the items price changed daily. Eg: Fruits, Vegetables
- Create a pricelist name and tick on "Is Fixed Pricelist"
- Sodexo Coupon Creation:
- Masters → Ledgers → Enter the ledger name as "Sodexo Coupon Value" and the ledger head as "Indirect Expense"
- Tick on "Show in Transaction Vouchers" and "Show in Sales Vouchers" → Save.
- Create another ledger as "Sodexo Surcharge" and ledger head as "Indirect Income"
- Tick on "Show in Transaction Vouchers" and "Show in Sales Vch"
- Tick on "Surcharge Ledger" and select parent ledger as "Sodexo Coupon Value" from the list.
- Input the Surcharge% to be calculated → Save
- It will be displayed in sales voucher
- Rewards Master: For set reward points to card holder customers.
- Select Customer category
- Enter points per Rs.100
- Enter points validity and value per points
- Tick on "Enable Reward Points" in Extras → Company configuration
- Item Creation: Add Product details
- Must be enter item name, Commodity code, Tax configuration, HSN code and unit
- If Product having EANCode, Enter the 13 digit EANCode and Tick on "Use EAN for Scanning" (at the bottom left of the item creation window)
- In case of daily price change items, tick on "Fixed Price list" -
- Purchase order voucher creation: Create a voucher that issued by buyer to a seller
- Select supplier and click on "Generate Purchase order", displayed an order list
- Enter the order qty for the items wants to purchase. If the stocks already exist, enter the order qty as 0 → Click ok → Save the voucher
- Goods Receipt Note (GRN):
- Select date, Supplier name, and input invoice no.
- Enter the item details and save
- Purchase Voucher Creation: Generate Purchase based on the GRN that given by the seller.
- Select Supplier and Click on "Pending GRN"at the top right of the purchase voucher for GRN processing.
- Select GRN and Click Ok. Items displayed for the selected GRN.
- Payment Voucher Creation: Generate payment voucher against the purchase
- Select the supplier and enter the amount
- Choose payment method. If selected bank, enter the transaction details for the reference.
- Barcode Integration:
- Select Label size
- Enter expiry date and packing date if needed (For Items that are repacked by the retailer eg Sugar)
- Select items in two ways,
- Invoice wise – Select supplier and invoice no. ,
- Item wise – select items one by one.
- Enter the quantity and save. The barcode will be saved in the database.
- POS Billing:
- Select billing series and date
- Enter the item name or scan Barcode /EANCode
- Bill total will be displayed
- Enter the "Amount Received", and the "Balance Payable" will displayed at the bottom left of the window.
- If the customer is paying using Sodexo coupons, enter the amount in the Sodexo coupon field at the right side of the POS window.
- Enter privilege card code, then the customer name and total customer points will be displayed.
- If the customer wants to redeem points, enter the no. of points in "Points to Redeem" field → Print/Save.
- Stock Reports
- Closing stock report
- Stock flow
- Item wise profitability
- Non Billed items
- GST Reports:
- GSTR 1 - Report can export as csv format for GSTR1 filing.
- GSTR 2
- GSTR 3B
- Data Validation – If any mismatches in report, it will displayed here.
- Tax % wise reports of all transactions