MobileARC® Price Management

Accurate item level pricing is required to gain customer confidence in today’s retail marketplace. Competitive pressures not only create pricing demands that result in frequent price changes and unique selling strategies (buy two get one free), but also place significant pressure on controlling labor costs. As a result of these demands, retailers must ensure that item/ shelf prices match with the register while reducing the labor associated with performing these tasks. In response to this need, decisionpoint systems offers a suite of price management applications designed for the mobile store worker that directly interfaces with your point of sale system.

Shelf Price Audit

Overview
Shelf Price Audit enables store personnel to access the price look up and price change functions inherent in the point of sale application from a mobile computer. Thus, the auditor can manage all item price verification and change management functions from the selling floor or aisle.
Features
Shelf Price Audit is one of a suite of applications that facilitate automation of several in-store price management functions with the use of a mobile computer. The Shelf Price Audit application provides the following key features:
• Ability for auditor to verify item pricing with the POS system.
• Ability for auditor to change item level pricing on the POS system.
• Ability for the auditor to generate price labels on the selling floor.
• Ability to add new items to the POS system.

Item and Shelf labeling

Overview
Item and Shelf labeling enables store personnel to create new or replacement item labels and shelf tags on demand. This application interfaces directly with the store POS system in order to utilize the current pricing and description information. New labels can be generated on demand via a portable printer and affixed in real time. Additionally, this application can interface with third party sign printing applications to create custom signage on your laser of color desktop printer.

Features
Item and Shelf labeling is one of a suite of applications that facilitate automation of several in-store price management functions with the use of a mobile computer. The item and shelf labeling application provides the following key features:
• Support portable item and shelf label printers for in aisle, on demand printing
• Supports third party sign printing applications to create custom signage
• Interfaces to POS system for current price and description data

Re-ticketing

Overview
Re-ticketing enables store personnel to create replacement item tickets for products in response to changes in the items price. This price change is often a result of price reductions or discontinuance of a particular item. Rather than interfacing in real time with the POS system, Re-ticketing is usually preformed from a master item file of changes that is loaded into the mobile computers onboard memory. Once the file is loaded, store personnel scan each product’s barcode, the application then performs a look up against that item number and if a price change is available, the application either displays the new price to the user or if equipped with a mobile printer a new ticket is generated. In addition to producing the ticket, the item is added to the transaction log file which can be used for audit purposes.

Features
Re-ticking is one of a suite of applications that facilitate automation of several in-store price management functions with the use of a mobile computer. Re-ticking provides the following key features:
• Support for large downloadable item change files
• Enables multiple personnel to work simultaneously
• Provides user price change notification and ticket printing
• Captures event logging for audit purposes
• Supports third party sign printing applications to create custom signage
• Interfaces to POS system for current price and description data

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