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ComponentSAP Transactionware General Merchandise

 

SAP Transactionware General Merchandise is the leading transaction-management and point-of-sale solution for general merchandise retailers including specialty, mass merchandise, discount and department stores. The Transactionware General Merchandise product suite consists of the following components:

  • POS Express

    An advanced point-of-sale transaction processing application, POS Xpress provides low- to high-volume capabilities. POS Xpress is a front-end processing application that scales to your growing business and evolves to encompass changing technology.

  • Store Manager

    Store Manager is the in-store administrative or ‘back office’ information management component of the Transactionware solution suite. It provides in-store and back-office functions such as reporting, payroll entry, file maintenance, cash management, and inventory control.

  • Store Configurator

    The Configurator is a key component in the Transactionware application suite. A powerful parameter definition tool, the Configurator allows your regional and head office personnel to tailor your POS Xpress terminals to your retail business needs through a simple user interface. With this interface, you can control all of your POS terminal functions and processes by manipulating their settings in a series of detailed data tables. These data tables contain parameter definitions for such core functions as your tender and transaction types, tax settings, promotions, keyboard layouts, terminal menus, cashier prompts, customer records, and much more. From the Configurator, the parameters you define are transferred or converted over to your POS Xpress terminals during regular system polling—and only those parameter files which have been changed are converted, reducing unnecessary drain on system resources. This conversion and update process can be performed as often as required to ensure that all terminals in all stores contain the same information. Many of the parameters in the Configurator need to be set only once, or very infrequently, to reflect core aspects of your business model (for example, the tender types your company uses, or your terminal display settings). Other parameters, such as price lookup (PLU) definitions and promotion settings can be modified more frequently for maximum system flexibility.

Features

  • Enhanced security strategy to ensure compliance with Customer Information Security Program (CISP) requirements. These enhancements address issues such as the following:

    • Encryption of sensitive date during storage and transmission over a public network as well as encryption of database, TLog, saf, dcl, CVTLog, and sensitive configuration parameters

    • Advanced password management

    • Masking of sensitive data which might be displayed on customer receipts, logs and other entities such as the EJV (Electronic Journal Viewer) and Transnet logs.

    • Audit trails for all sensitive data; specifically this includes an audit mechanism added to the login process to capture the currently logged in user information and save it to the TLog.

    • Encryption support for any database migration tasks involving database tables containing sensitive information.

  • Increased support for centralized transaction services including Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and EFT support; stored value cards; loyalty point award and redemption processing; and customer profiling.

  • Enhanced pricing and discount capabilities providing support for increased levels of pricing complexity and discounting, with automatic triggering of negotiated corporate discounts at the point of sale.

  • Improved real-time access to customer information allowing cashiers to instantly retrieve information from third-party customer databases at the point of sale.

  • Increased Mobile POS transaction and inventory capabilities including full-item inquiry and support for advanced shipping notices. Expansion of Mobile POS peripheral support to include support of a wireless printer.

  • Support for Global Trade Item Numbers up to 18 digits ensuring full compliance with Sunrise 2005 legislation.