This page contains sample screens of a retail industry wide portal. The portal provides functionality for individual stores, chains of stores and the industry body.

The chain functions are consolidations of the individual store functions.

The industry body does not get to see certain information which the stores do not want them to have access to.

To view these pages use the scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen and depending upon the resolution of your screen the horizontal scroll bars may need to be used. It is not possible to edit any of these screens, to move on to the next either use the scroll bars or click the cursor in the page and use the up and down arrows to navigate.

The Portal Retail Management System example screens are FULL screen images.

Security is paramount in the handling of access in the AMCCIT portals. The portals are designed to handle multiple different owner enterprises and the technology ensures that the only information available to a particular owner is that of their own stores and never another owners. Industry, such as the Meat & Livestock Australia or an Airport Operator, may need negotiated access to differing information, the portal architecture allows this flexibility.

The Portal provides a rapid means of deploying retail strategies providing flexibility and efficiencies beyond those achievable using traditional "thick client" architectures. The Internet consolidation of information for consolidated purchase ordering, direct B2B purchase orders and advance shipping notices (ASN), interbranch transfers, enterprise wide stock holding access from individual branches and both supplier and debtor control over the entire enterprise is facilitated by the AMCCIT retail portal architecture.

Stock management efficiencies with "just-in time" stock deliveries, ordering strategies, multiple price level and competitive price matching capabilities and control of "direct store deliveries" are just some of the many features of the AMCCIT Retail Portal strategy. Prices can be changed at Head Office, or a branch or at home or even at an appropriate secured supplier and be filtered throughout the whole enterprise or to selected stores.

The functionality is shown below:

Each individual enterprise has its own home page on the AMCCIT portal. This home page can be updated by the enterprise and placed on the portal without the need to take the portal down from operational mode. Newsletters and other important information can be brought to the attention of store level managers or staff when they log on to the Portal each day. This means an enterprise has available to it an efficient powerful media distribution facility with the AMCCIT retail portal.

From anywhere, the store, Headquarters, home or on the road, an owner or executive of an enterprise can see by the minute the financial status of all or any individual store in their network. Balance reports are like a store or enterprise daily balance sheet for the department sales, cash control and balancing of the stores. Drill-down capability allows the owner or manager to get to the details of transactions making up the overall store balance, rapidly identifying problem areas or areas of concern.

Site Balance Report online

Note the elements with underlines are "drill-downs" taking the user deeper and deeper into the underlying information.

Cash control within a store can be by cash drawer - teller or shop assistants can share a common cash drawer. The integration with the FERMS Pos Portal solution provides a wide degree of flexibility in the process of cash control. It can be single cash drawer teller, multiple drawer multiple teller or head cashier cashup.

The "drill-downs" can take the enterprise from this high level balance report down to the individual transactions making up the balance.

Example "drill-down" on a department

Note: the drop down box selection for a specific store in the enterprise, if desired, otherwise the information is presented on an enterprise level. Figures can be presented on an enterprise wide or store selective basis. Allowing the owner to focus at either an enterprise or specific store level.

Note: the report selection can be by individual day of the week or by every same day of the week, information displayed is for the last 7 periods. A period could be a day, the week, the month or the year. The reporting over 7 periods facilitates historical comparisons in the reports. This feature is common over all the report possibilities whether it be at a department, item or operator level.

Reporting has "filters" for $sales, %sales, Kg, $cost, %cost, customer counts, units(qty) or profit

Reporting is flexible and common format. A drop down box provides the options available. The AMCCIT PORRMS solution integrates to a variety of POS solutions and the exact reporting capabilities is dependent upon the capability of the POS program. This feature of the Retail Portal integrating to existing POS packages in an enterprise makes the cost of ownership of the advanced features of PORRMS even more attractive.

Reporting options includes a range of "soft" user configurable selection criteria. These additional groupings are put to different uses for differing industries. This feature enables the enterprise concerned to dice and slice the information in many different ways ensuring there is a report suitable to just about every type of industry through this flexible categorisation.

Reporting can be divided according to a soft selectable additional categorisation - shown as "primal" in this example.

Reporting can be over ALL or the top 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, etc

Reporting can be limited to a subset of the items sold within an enterprise focusing on the top 5 or top 10 or some other number, including all, presenting as much as or little information to the enterprise as they decide is needed for any specific purpose.

Other Functionality

Sales Report types

Through the sophisticated reporting engine a store or enterprise level can perform "basket analysis" and go from reporting straight to inventory item maintenance for the particular store or for the whole enterprise and make whatever changes are viewed as necessary there and then. Any changes make to the inventory item at this point are automatically sent to the site to update it. These changes can be effective "NOW" of as a "DATED" change including a TIME to become effective. The ability to change information at this level can be restricted by the individual's login and password security type. The entire inventory file maintenance area, and others, can be locked away from various classes of employees through this security.

Inventory Report types

The Portal approach means the stock management can be conveniently managed either at the store, or at Headquarters or by the owner at home or a responsible executive on the road away from the store. No longer does the person need to be at the store to effect management control - access can be from any where there is a telephone, satellite or network connection.

User Report types

Frequent Shopper (Loyalty) Report types

Retailer today is all about maximising the amount of money from each client who buys. The AMCCIT Retail Portals (PORRMS) frequent shopper or loyalty programs integration between the FERMS and the PORRMS facilitate the management of a customer. Their buying habits, their baskets purchased and over what periods of time are tracked. Points allocated to the customer can be redeemed according to individual schemes which can be either common across all stores or specific to a store in an enterprise. Points from purchases can be split between customers and sporting or recreational clubs or even charities of the customers or enterprises choosing. The AMCCIT frequent shopper application helps the enterprise be a good neighbour in its local community, whilst maximising the per customer transaction value.

Frequent Shopper (Loyalty) Maintenance Options

Administration functions

The AMCCIT portal software tracks users at two levels, portal and POS. The portal tracking includes who logged, when and for how long. Similarly, the POS operators (tellers or shop assistants are tracked as to when they logged in and logged out. These features facilitate payroll package entries for time and wages calculations.

The AMCCIT Retail Portal strategy overcomes a common headache associated with thick applications within stores and that is maintaining them up to date. The AMCCIT portal has a specific protected page where updates and software changes can be downloaded from to any site in an enterprise. Access to this particular page is strongly secure. This approach provides a ready and easy means of keeping sites up to date, and for fixes in configuration to be distributed to stores. From a Headquarters point of view running on the portal means there is no software to update other than on the portal server itself.

Advertising multimedia information is released through this mechanism. These multimedia files are used on the POS applications to advertise specials or promotions.

User manuals, process manuals, operations manuals, enterprise newsletters or other important communications are placed on a specific web page in Acrobat format where they can be accessed readily and perused by the appropriate personnel.