LS Trade

LS Trade

Appointment

The LS Trade system is a corporate trading management system that automates the management functions of a trading enterprise. LS Trade Fusion is a centralized solution for automation of retail and wholesale trade, including for large retail chains and distribution warehouses, implemented taking into account international business standards. It is used to implement projects with complex business logic, large amounts of information/number of users and is widely in demand among retailers.

Main subsystems

• Consolidation and replication of the Head-office and Back-office databases;
• Analysis and control of trading enterprises;
• Inventory and Purchasing Management;
• Distribution center;
• Management of settlements with CRM technology suppliers;
• Foreign economic activity;
• Strategic planning;
• Head's AWS.

The system is easy to customize and expand, which allows you to easily and safely change business logic in FusionScript for customization to customer requirements. It allows you to keep records and control on-line, i.e. any management solution instantly applies to all users of the system; Do not support local databases and, as a result, avoid database replicas and support for a large number of servers, i.e., ensure minimum system maintenance costs.

Consolidate and Replicate Head-office and Back-office Databases

Solves the problem of consolidating and replicating data from Back-office stores and warehouses and Head-office central office.

Analysis and Control subsystem

Provides the ability to analyze information on trading activities in a variety of sections, promptly generates analytical reports in MS Excel format. This allows you to work with analytical data in a convenient and visual form with the ability to interpret them in the form of graphs and diagrams, as well as use other capabilities of MS Excel. This subsystem is a convenient tool for making management decisions and exercises control by the manager over the activities of all categories of managers of the trading enterprise, in particular buyers.

According to the complexity of the formation, the reports are divided into:

• operational certificates (certificates on the movement of goods, on the availability of goods, on sale, etc.);
• reports (on the turnover of goods, the dynamics of changes in inventory and sales rates, all kinds of statistics regarding groups of goods, suppliers and buyers, expiration dates, etc.);
• OLAP cubes.

Procurement Management Subsystem

Provides an efficient procurement system for goods and performs the following functions:

• Maintain an assortment list of goods relative to suppliers, transportation groups, and storage locations
• Split of responsibility for purchasing goods between managers
• generation of requests for the supply of goods with their transfer to the databases of stores and warehouses;
• tracking of the stages of procurement formation (planned, for approval, open, closed);
• control over the execution of orders by suppliers.

Distribution Center subsystem

The distribution center frees store staff from management functions and completely solves the issues of replenishment, pre-sale preparation, pricing, work with suppliers, accounting, marketing, etc. Only the minimum necessary functions of Front-office and Back-office are performed in the store. Use is possible provided that goods are received by retail trading enterprises only from the center. Direct delivery of goods from suppliers to stores is excluded. All transfer, return, etc. activities are carried out through the distribution warehouse. Strict restrictions are imposed on the entry of regulatory reference information by system users when working in stores.

Other options for interaction between the distribution center and stores are allowed. They shall be agreed with the Customer.

Subsystem "Accounts payable management"

The main task of this subsystem is to generate a payment proposal as late as possible in accordance with accounting data and contracts with suppliers. Allows you to significantly increase the volume of working capital of a trading enterprise. This is in contrast to the accounting subsystem of accounts payable accounting.

Customer Relations Subsystem (CRM System)

Functions to be performed:

• collection of information on customers regarding their purchases;
• development and implementation of various discount programmes;
• analysis of discount programs.

Subsystem "Foreign Economic Activity"

Functions to be performed:

• Enter and distribute transportation costs (before and after the border) for each batch
• import of initial information from the DBMS foreign partner program, certification information, by boxes, additional information on goods (pictures, collections, etc.);
• Interfaces for filling in reference information about the product/batches have been developed.
• support for entering/viewing certificates in the context of supply documents/certification groups, support for deadlines and types of certificates, as well as the ability to set (with further distribution) certification costs for arbitrary subsets of certificates;
• The group processing of lots of goods in the box section has been developed;
• Support for centralized pricing mechanisms:
  • automatic calculation of the "full" cost price with the possibility of using forecast indicators for an item that has not yet been fully processed;
  • Set/view mark-ups from cost, from the first recommended retail price
  • possibility of group price changes;
  • view total average markups by enterprise, department, sub-department, etc.

• Forming a calculation based on the planned retail turnover and additional costs (rent, labor, etc.) per month.

Strategic Planning Subsystem

Allows you to receive all kinds of analytical reports for long periods of time in order to make strategic decisions on doing business.

"Supervisor's AWS" subsystem

• constant availability of up-to-date information on the activities of the trading enterprise;
• the ability to monitor the operation of the services of a trading enterprise;
• working with the system on a notebook or flash drive remotely.

LS Trade Fusion

Fully functional Possibility of Use of Cloud Technologies (Cloud) Web interfaces Cross-platform concerning the Used Operating Systems (Windows, Linux) and DBMS (Postgre SQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server) are supported. A scalable solution that allows you to grow clusters of application servers and databases in the event of a significant increase in the number of users and the volume of databases. Maximize security (you can limit access at both the data view and business logic level). It has an ergonomic user interface that allows, within one form, to simultaneously see the constantly updated information necessary for decision-making and here enter primary data directly into the system.

Provides the ability to integrate with external systems: the Customer's accounting/accounting system; front solution (can be selected together with the Customer taking into account cash and weighing equipment already in operation); business intelligence systems QlikView and. Qlik Sense The low cost of product ownership is due to free development technologies (Freeware) and a three-link system architecture.

QlikView has the ability to interplay, combine, extract historical data from the previous accounting system 1C 7.7, 1C 8.2 or a trading system (for example, Supermag) with new data from LS Trade Fusion in a single consolidated analytical application. At the same time, the use of QlikView minimizes the likelihood of data loss. And the joint use of one of the best trading systems LS Trade Fusion and the business intelligence platform QlikView is guaranteed to bring retail business management to a new level of quality.

2016: LS Trade Fusion gets end-to-end integration with QlikView

LS Trade Fusion has gained end-to-end integration with the advanced business intelligence platform QlikView, now our retail customers have all the advantages of two systems and their synergies will give a new level of business process management in trade.