Sales Analysis
These modules will help you effectively manage the flow of goods to satifsy customer demands at multiple operating locations. This suite lets you take control of your business - and profit from all your hard work.
The Online Advantage Sales Analysis module gives you the ability to perform varied and ad-hoc analysis of your customers and/or products margin/mark-up.
The rich reporting tools and breadth of information captured by Online Advantage make it possible to maintain and assess the profitability of your business. Analyse your financial position when you want. Online Advantage’s Sales Analysis reports can be run at any time on current month or previous months details and are the key to gaining control over your gross margin.
Features
- User Formatted Reports – choose your own column and row definitions of the reports from any of the listed elements above
- Export to a 3rd party application formats like Excel, Word, Acrobat, HTML, ASCII Text etc.
- Drill Down – the ability to go deeper and deeper into the sales layers and elements to answer ad-hoc questions that result from analysis of the figures displayed
- Slice and Dice – this feature brings to life the sales reports by creating different views of the same figures for flexible “on the fly” analysis
- Complete Sales reporting structure covering over 20 summary points (see Schematic) as listed below:
- Customer, Customer Rep, Market Segment, Division, Category, Type and Buying Group
- Product, Product Division, Category, Group, Model, Size, Colour, Material, Class, Type and Section
- Transaction Sale Rep and Market Segment
- Twelve (12) Sales reporting values (e.g. Quantity, Value, Cost, Margin etc.)
- Sales history reporting over 25 rolling months
- Over 100 Standard reports within Online Advantage like:
- Budget analysis
- Top Customer Reports
- Top Product Reports
- Sales Orders Analysis
- Delivery Statistics
- Forecasted Revenues and Margins/Mark-ups
- Returns reports including Returns Analysis by Reason, Customer & Product
- Online Advantage provides a comprehensive number of elements that can be used in any combination for sales reporting and analysis
Functions
- User formatted Report Writer – specifically written for Sales Reporting
- Online real time sales lookup is available to view sales figures as they occur at the counter. This facility constantly refreshes the figures on-screen so the day and month progress can be viewed up to the last completed transaction. Real time sales, including gross sales, cost of sales, margin or mark-up, cash and tax collected for day to date and month to date are displayed in any one of the following ways:
- Total sales
- Product category sales
- Product group sales
- Product branch sales
- Product division sales
- Product branch by division sales
- Product division by branch sales
- Product branch customer by division sales
- Product division customer by branch sales
- Customer category sales
- Customer branch sales
- Customer division sales
- Customer branch by division sales
- Customer division by branch sales
- Customer branch product by division sales
- Customer division by product branch sales
- Customer buying group sales
- Market segment sales
- Salesperson/rep sales
- Gross Margin/Mark-up control – your expenses are budgeted and set. It’s the work you do to control this that makes the company profit!
- Ranking Customers and Products provides you with the information you need to know who to look after and who should get that discount
- The ability to create custom reports tailored to your business requirements
Benefits
Schematic
