Apparel capabilities are woven throughout CounterPoint SQL Enterprise. CounterPoint offers the ease of use, integrated features, and merchandising information essential for profitable soft goods retailing.

In soft goods, a single inventory item (a "style") can be stocked in multiple colors and sizes (or lengths, widths, patterns, etc.).

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Apparel grids can be one-, two-, or three-dimensional, with an unlimited number of colors and sizes (or lengths, widths, heights, etc.). An item can have thousands of unique color/size combinations, each of which is called a cell.

Items can be viewed, processed, and printed in grid format throughout CounterPoint, including adjustments, receivings, purchasing, transfers, physical counts, and ticket entry.

When a new item is set up, its grid (color/size) layout is also established. New grids may be set up by copying a grid from an existing item to reduce errors and speed up the entry process.

You can track information for each cell, including quantity-on-hand, quantity-committed, quantity-backordered, quantity-on-PO's, min/max quantities, and more. You can also specify which cells are stocked (or not-stocked) for each location.

With the Advanced Pricing Option, you can charge more or less for specific cells (colors or sizes). For example, you could charge $3 more for Extra Tall or 15% less for Plaid.

Each cell of a gridded item can have a unique barcode with multiple barcodes per cell, if needed. This feature allows goods to be scanned throughout CounterPoint, reducing entry time and errors. Cell-specific barcodes may be manually entered, automatically assigned, or imported from the vendor (using CounterPoint's Database Import utility).

In Purchasing, gridded items can be quickly placed on order and easily tracked. Reorders may be entered manually or calculated automatically to meet model-stock levels. PO forms can print color/size information in a list or grid format. Receiving is quick--only the exceptions are entered.

CounterPoint includes valuable reports for comparing, summarizing, and analyzing merchandise so you can make decisions on whether to reorder specific merchandise.

• Sales Analysis by Group--A flexible and powerful reporting tool that analyzes your hot and cold sellers based on your performance indicators (quantity sold, quantity returned, average selling price, profit dollars/percents, and more).

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• Inventory Analysis--See how well your inventory is performing (analyze gross profits or see which items will sell out in the next two weeks).
• Inventory Status--Shows you the "when's" and "where's" of your inventory (including quantity on hand for one or more locations).
• Stock Status--A true exception report that prints just the items stocked above the maximum, below the minimum, out of stock, etc.
• Management History - Item Category--A high level comparison of your gross profits during different time periods that clearly separates your profitable categories from the unprofitable ones.
• Merchandise Analysis--Classify and rank merchandise using criteria you choose. Analyze merchandise at the item level, or get the bigger picture by grouping inventory by vendor, category, subcategory, etc.
• Sales Analysis by Group--A flexible and powerful reporting tool that analyzes your "hot and cold sellers" based on your performance indicators (quantity sold, quantity returned, average selling price, profit dollars/percents, and more).