The document describes a retail system that includes sales, purchases, inventory control, ordering, and POS offline sales. It has 1600 clients across 500 stores. The system uses Oracle DB for the application servers and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) for business intelligence (BI) and electronic documents (e-docs). BI in SSRS provides sales, purchases, orders, inventory analysis, and reporting across multiple dimensions like categories, brands, products, vendors, customers, stores, regions and time. It can also handle complex groupings and various costing methods. The system accepts electronic documents like product catalogs, price catalogs, and invoices in XML, CSV or text file formats.

1. Retail System
including :
Sales,
Purchases,
Inventory control,
Ordering
POS off line sales,
Special transactions such as (prepaid topup load, payments etc)
Application
servers
Oracle DB
1600 clients,
500 stores

2. BI (Microsoft SQL server reporting services)
Sales, purchases, orders, inventory analysis,
Stock control,
Automatic replenishment,
Order proposals based on stock day covering,
E-invoices connector (using xml, Csv or txt files)
Plenty of reports. BI uses drill down, drill up and drill accross
Look and feel is like “swimming”in a sea of data.
Featuring
Multi dimensional
(categories, brand, brand line, product, vendor, customer, store, region, time)
Measuring : sales value, sales quantity, running totals, discounts, margin
Complex groupings,
and much more
various costing methods (i.e. fifo, last cost, month average cost, annual average cost)
SQL server 2012 DB
IIS Application
servers
Internet explorer, reporting services

3. E-DOCUMENTS (SQL server reporting services)
Based on the same technology,
System accepts electronic documents such as :
Product catalogues,
Price catalogue,
Invoices,
using xml, Csv, txt files,
Vendors using the system inserts legal documents in seconds
SQL server 2012 DB
IIS Application
servers
Internet explorer, reporting services

4. Retail System
BI & E-DOCUMENTS (Microsoft SQL server reporting services)
Intranet
Other data resources
(i.e. Excel files,
personal databases etc)
Products, price catalogues, sales, purchaces,
Inventory transactions etc.
Proccess runs every (m) minutes
or (t) new transactions (whichever comes first).
Every proccess step is logged in detail
and can be viewed at any time
through log reporting system (included in BI)
Replenishment orders,
e-invoices,
product catalogues etc