Biblion - Retail Trade System
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The Biblion System provides modern IT support for book trading shops. The system offers extremely
flexible quick search facilities in the stock- and customer- base as well.
Other Biblion facilities include:
- management of booking cards, on a pre-order basis
- automatically generated supply proposals, based on the existing stock level
- management of complex discount systems
- registration and handling of customer orders
- automatic stock-booking
- automatic storage of article/customer data, based on confirmed orders
- management of consigned stocks, and stocks received in consignment
- bar code support of inventories
- daily trade and stock information
- trade analysis possibilities
SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY
Registry Maintenance
The whole system is based on a unified registry. Management of the basic data is quick and easy, specially
when it comes to searching the article and client base. The customer-specific data is partly manually, partly
automatically introduced in the article/customer table belonging to the article base. One customer can be
correlated with different types of information. Discounts may be given to regular customers, students or teachers.
In the case of bookstore-chains, the system separately registers the central office and sales points, and
manages internal trade es well. Agents can be registered as special customers.
Storage Base
One bookshop may have more stores, in this case the system makes it possible to query the supply.
Consigned stocks are handled as a special storage module.
Stock Management
Stocks received in consignment and own stocks are treated separately. Periodically, the system settles the
accounts and generates reports towards suppliers. It also offers inventory support: opens the inventory,
prints the inventory list, registers the result and closes the inventory. The system handles different kinds
of stocks (eg. normal vs. rejects) and tracks supply movement. It can generate closing proposals to stocks
that are no longer selling. In the case of chain stores users can survey the supply of different stores and
move them from one shop to another.
Purchase
The system registers minimum and maximum stocks on a shop level and generates daily purchase proposals.
It also tracks the state of purchasing orders. If the quantity of received supply is confirmed the system
automatically proposes closing the order.
Sale
Registering simple, every -day sale is quick and easy. Bar code readers are used to register
a sale, and payment is handled by connection with the cash - register program. Besides normal sales, the
system also registers customer orders and offers the possibility to book stocks in advance if necessary.
Biblion manages customer interests, orders in advance and afterwards. It can also register vouchers, as
special means of payment.
Billing
The system offers the possibility to rename/change an article while billing. For customers, who receive
discounts, the system automatically discharges the discounted percentage. It also manages correcting or
cancelled invoices. It supports special means of payment (by credit/ debit cards, vouchers, etc.).
Lists, reports
The Biblion System contains a vast range of lists and reports, defined after different parameters (ex.
sales reports on a period, customer, editor or sales point).
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