DESIGNED FOR:

• C-Store Operations (service stations that include a convenience store)

Direct Purchasing Data
The CAO Transmission program from Service Station Computer Systems generates and sends item orders to a wholesale vendor. The information is processed electronically in the Computerized Daily Book.

The data can be delivered via modem directly from your system. (It is the user's responsibility to set up a mailbox with the wholesaler.) The CAO Transmission program converts the Reorder Report into a purchase invoice in the CDB. Currently, Core-Mark and McLane are the only wholesale companies making computer-assisted orders available to CDB users.

Purchase Order
Once the reorder levels are set up, you will be able to generate orders for vendors for future deliveries. As your order is created the purchase order is created and waits for delivery.

Requires:

• IBM PC meeting the CDB System Requirements
• Computerized Daily Book with the Daily Book, A/P, Inventory, and EDI Conversion modules
• Poller interface for use with G-SITE, Wayne Plus, Station-Minder 2000, Nucleus, Ruby, Passport, or CVN.
• Direct Store Delivery & Physical Inventory HDP software

Paidouts
The EDI Conversion program will fetch the delivery file(s) to record what the vendor actually shipped. This electronic invoice matches the hard-copy invoice. Once the delivery has arrived, the bookkeeper converts the file into a paidout and selects the method of payment to close invoice. The system generated the item name, quantity, cost, and suggested list. Any change which should be recorded, such as a change to your cost, can be updated when recording payment.

Inventory Reporting
The CDB Inventory software will allow your management team to effectively monitor your inventory investment. Reports included in the Inventory module are Physical, Value, Movement, Reorder, and Sales/Purchases reports.

Manage More Efficiently
The CAO Transmission and EDI Conversion programs will save you from physically scanning deliveries into your system. The remaining inventory is brought into the system via a hand-held inventory scanner using Direct Store Delivery software.

One of the leading convenience-store periodicals states that maintaining inventory by item and "CAO (Computer-Assisted Ordering) increases order accuracy, allows retailers to buy what they sell, instead of selling what they buy."

By ordering items that you know sell in your store and not reordering slow-moving items, you keep more of what is "moving." The same article also mentions that 20% of stocking problems are due to ordering problems. The author of the article saw that being able to stock the fast-moving items and not the slow-moving items caused a store's inventory investment to decrease 15% by using CAO.