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What is Futura?

Futura is an integrated retail management system for LifeStyle Retail.
Futura serves all areas of a company through which an item passes. This starts with order planning, moves on to goods received, checking of supplier invoices, allocating the goods to the branches, PC POS or TouchPOS, customer order, replenishment, inter branch transfer, integrated financial accounting, statistical analyses, and finishes with automated data exchange with the branches.

For what kind of organisational structure is Futura suitable?

The system's modular and scalable design allows various types of organisational structures of a company to be mapped: branch system, department stores, franchising, retail concession management (shop in shop, store or concession shop). Key operational functions of the Futura system can flexibly be delegated by the head office to the branches.

What additional functions does Futura offer?

Buyers have a professional budget planning and limit monitoring tool at their command, both online and offline on a notebook. Company-wide product management is based on the current sales and stock level data: immediate replenishment, direct inter-branch transfers or branch-specific special offers in combination with individual bonus systems and a comprehensive CRM lead to a reduction in the volume of price reductions and an increased rate of stock turnover. Futura supports special functions such as size/colour variants, gift card, gift vouchers, returns, document-related cancellations, automatic workflow control, fingerprint, etc. The flexible design of the user interface makes the comprehensive functionality easy to use.

What reporting features does Futura offer?

The Data Warehouse provides company-wide performance data, produces trend analyses and helps you to analyse deviations (target/actual data) at the click of the mouse. The management report (MIS) supplies top-down analyses so that all product movements can be traced down to the item level. Product trend analyses, branch trends, market basket analyses, determination of "best and worst sellers", STPS (short term profit statement), comparative analyses, extrapolations and a large number of customized analyses are possible.

What does Futura's technical environment look like?

Futura runs as a Java application and uses Hibernate to manage up to 12 different databases. The core of the development environment is an active dictionary that can also be used for customer developments.

How can Futura be integrated into an existing IT architecture?

Various interfaces, e.g. to accounting systems, web shops, etc., and connections to peripheral units such as scanners and credit card terminals are available on the application side. Integration with typical ERP systems ensures absolute data transparency from the sales transaction at the POS, via automatic replenishment up to assortment and production planning.  

Futura is rounded off by the integration of all EDI message types and ASP support.

Please contact your partner if you need any additional information.