The retail business is all about numbers: number of clients, value of sales, profit margins, value of stock on hand, cash reconciliations, sales trends, high selling items, low selling items. The list goes on. Retail is also about controls: controlling stock values, controlling cash, controlling staff, while also ensuring speed and simplicity of operation.
Running a retail operation without the support of effective IT systems is like running a race with both feet bound together. You could compete but why would you want to?
Shireburn Software has the largest base of retail solutions in the Malta market and an increasing presence in Libya, where retailing is expanding fast. Shireburn Retail solution, offers retailers both large and small a combination of effective, functional and fast operations at the Point of Sale with tight controls and excellent data analysis and reporting. The Poin of Sale software is designed to support retail operations from the small single POS shop to businesses with multi-POS and multi-shop deployments.
Shireburn Retail solution is also highly configurable enabling retail operations in businesses that have significantly varying needs. Retail fashion needs size and colour control, rapid bar coded selling, smooth returns management and often interfaces to brand principles overseas with daily sales reporting. Pharmacies and food outlets need expiry dates and batch control. Many businesses need centrally managed promotional schemes such as “buy one get one free”. Catering needs rapid button based user interface combined and possibly table control. All need discount management, effective security, auditing and cash reconciliation.
Another very important issue is the need to easily manage the synchronisation of data between the back-end inventory system and the Points-of-Sale enabling new stock and pricing to be easily pushed to the POSs while obtaining the sales data on the back-end for processing. Without effective solution, this can be very time consuming and prone to both error and fraud.
Shireburn Retail offers a comprehensive solution to address all these requirements and more and currently has its systems running on over 420 point-of-sale both in Malta and internationally. This experience and track record enables retailers small and large to be confident that Shireburn is able to provide a solution to their specific needs with the most effective cost of ownership and the highest return on investment.
Shireburn is also increasingly involved in providing solutions for the retail market in Libya, both to local companies there as well as to Maltese companies opening retail outlets in Libya who need to manage and control the operations from Malta. Implementations in Libya include Marks & Spencer, Next, Oviesse, Punto Roma, La Senza, Timberland, Pumpkin Patch and Tripoli Airport Duty Free.
An interesting recent success was the deployment of the Shireburn Business Suite consisting of both retail software as well as back-end inventory and financial systems for the four Marks & Spencer shops in Malta and the one in Tripoli. This project included extensive interfacing to Marks & Spencer’s main systems in the UK.
More details about Shireburn’s solutions for retailers are available at www.shireburn.com/retail