Franchises
Retail STAR offers franchise operations a unique solution for their point-of-sale and company wide communication needs. The Franchise Consolidator feature found in Retail STAR allows a Franchisor to push product catalogs down to their Franchisee point-of-sale systems. This is an added benefit Franchisors can offer to their Franchisees as it saves them the time and hassle of data entry. Franchisees will no longer have to rekey product information into their systems whenever new products are added or ordered.
Franchisors will also benefit as they will have consistent data throughout their operations no matter what type of systems are being used by the Franchisees. The Franchisor can increase efficiency by automatically collecting sales and inventory information from their Franchisees on a regular basis through the built-in FTP polling. This data is then consolidated into the Retail STAR data warehouse where it is available for internal reporting or manipulation with 3rd party tools.
The Retail STAR Franchise Consolidator can also be utilized by Franchisors even when their Franchisees are using point-of-sale systems other than Retail STAR. By utilizing a standard data exchange format, Franchisors can finally manage data throughout their operations.
• Data Warehouse - Franchisor headquarters can act as data repository for all franchisee locations
• Franchise Data Link - Franchise locations can specify what information to share with Franchisor
• Push/Pull - Product Catalogs can be “pushed” down to the Franchisee. Sales & Inventory information can be “pulled” from the Franchisee back to the Franchisor.
• Report STAR - Information in the data warehouse can be utilized within the built-in report writer. Report STAR offers virtually an unlimited amount of report options.
• Analyze - Use the built-in data analysis calculations to analyze product performance, Franchise performance, and overall corporate performance. The data cubes may also be utilized with 3rd party programs such as Microsoft’s Excel.