Alteris BMS

Created specifically for shoes, clothing and sporting good stores since it uses a Style/Size/Color Matrix to input and display stock quantities throughout the system. All the tools the small retailer needs to run a store are included: Purchase Orders, Receipts, Point of Sale, Layaways, Store Credits, Lost Sales, Physical Inventory, Customer Relationship Management, Prices Manager, Automatic Restocking, Sales Analysis and Style/Color/Size Matrix to input quantities. Recently the owner of a chain of ten shoe stores in Chicago approached us at a trade show and told us a story worth repeating. He said that his accountant had closed the books on the prior year and announced the great news: sales had reached a record high. Having record-breaking sales is not enough, as our retailer learned. Lots of sales without proper inventory control just mean that your profits are sitting in merchandise and not cash.

This is a simple tool that can calculate the price of wine at any point in the supply chain, knowing or surmising the price at any other point in the supply chain. The tool is probably only useful for Australian producers, as it deals with two taxes GST and WET, which may be unique to Australia. If, for example, you wanted your wine to sell at $25 a bottle at bottle shops, and you expect the retail markup to be 40% and wholesale markup to be 30%, then the calculator will tell you the farm gate price - the price you have to sell to the wholesaler. The calculator suggests you need to charge $9.6802 a bottle, $116.16 (Ex WET) for a case of 12, and if you are eligible for a WET rebate, like most wineries are, then that is an additional $26.11 for a case or a total recovered cost for the wine of $142.28. The calculator can deal with direct to retail (missing wholesale), commissions and ex farm gate costs. It can deal with all quantities as well, even a glass.