2. Challenges in Traditional Retail
• Quick & Error Free Check Out to customer
• Inventory Control & Management
• Efficient Category Management
• Efficient Shelf Space Management
• Timely information to target effective marketing
campaigns
• Customer Retention
3. – a Smart Solution
• Conceived, Designed & Developed by CompuLynx in Kenya
• Over 1,000 POS Terminals using the system
• Over 50 Million customers served by the system at more
than 400 sites in East Africa
• Over 200 man years of Retail Automation Experience has
gone into CORE
• Integrated Customer Loyalty Program
• Integrates with Tally, Busy, Oracle EBS & Oracle Retail
5. – Salient Features
Multi-
Multi-Site Multi-Store system
Multi-
Multiple Price Levels
Multi Currency
VAT Calculations & Reporting
Warehouse Inventory Control System
Store Inventory Control System
Multi Level Wholesale & Retail Pricing
Intuitive Promotions & Campaigns
Retail Vertical Specific Functionality
8. – Inventory Functionality
• Fast / Slow Moving Reports
• Reordering
• Inventory on Goods on Consignment
• Expiry Dates
• Serial Number Tracking
• Auto Order Triggering
• Integrated Stock Count function
• Multiple Stores’ Consolidation at HQ
9. – Store Front Office System (PoS)
(PoS)
• Sales against Cash, Cheques, Cr.Cards, Gift Cards, Credit
Cheques, Cr.Cards,
(Invoices), e-purse, Deposits Loyalty Points
e-
• Refunds in form of Credit Notes or Cash
• Online Credit Card Authorization
• Bar Code – International and indigenous
• Smart Card based Loyalty System
• PC based terminals with local data storage
• End of day batch inventory update
• On-Line PoS Promotions
On-
• On-line Biometric (Fingerprint) based authorization of
On-
transactions / functions requiring supervisory access
10. – Promotions at the PoS
• Discounts – Flat % or Amount
• Discounts on Repeat Purchases
• Volume Discounts
• Discount Coupons
• Double / Triple Smart Points
• Products against points redemption
• Raffle Tickets issuance from POS
• Buy 1 Get 2 Free
• Cross Promotions – Air time, restaurant vouchers
11. – Other services at the PoS
• Sale of Electronic Air Time
• Sale of Gift Cards
• Collection of Customer Deposits
• Utility Bills presentment & payments
• Cash Withdrawal / Cash Back on pre-paid or
pre-
debit cards
• Pick up of Excessive Cash
• Petty Cash Pay-outs
Pay-
12. Key Differentiators
• Robust system tried and tested for over 5
years at over 100 sites
• Scalable - Suitable for small retailers (less than
10 stores) as a “complete suite” and
Integrates with Oracle Retail and/or Oracle
Financials and Oracle E-business suite for
E-
larger chains 10+ stores
• Very intuitive Promotion module – very
innovative promotions
13. Key Differentiators
• Online Credit Card Authorization by
connecting to a Visa / Mastercard acquiring
system
• Finger Print login and authentication instead
of passwords
• Very well structured integrated Customer
Loyalty System
• POS works with OPOS compliant POS
peripherals
14. Key Differentiators
• Can operate in “local mode” in case of
network failure – ensure business continuity
with built in redundancy
• Customizable to provide “non-core” , “non-
“non- “non-
retail” services at the POS e.g. utility bill
payments, Cash Back etc.
