Merchandising

Major features include:

• A 2-level grouping of customers (customer group, and master customer group), along with a 2-level grouping of items (item group, and master item group) provide a flexible and unlimited basis for custom pricing and set-up of various charges and allowances for a diversified customer base.
• Pricing components such as markups and promotional allowances can be set up at any level, from between a particular item and a particular customer master group and a particular item group. None of the ProCLASS pricing mechanisms are based on limited size tables or arrays; for example, an unlimited number of markup categories and actual markups can be set up to match your customer base diversity.
• Pricing mechanisms include: three different base prices, selectable by customer: regular landed cost, "market" cost, and landed cost net of allowances and discounts; markups; warehouse handling fees; Transportation and Logistics charges (includes freight charges); contract pricing; promotional allowances; advertised pricing with an unlimited number of ad programs per item and per customer or group.
• Ability to assign the same advertising program to multiple customers and/or customer groups.
• Ability to set ad pricing as a net selling price (with ProCLASS calculating the resulting P.A. amount for each applicable customer and item), or as a percent or amount off each applicable customer's regular price. ProCLASS tracks sales and lost sales for each item in an ad program for the duration of the ad program.
• Up to two special prices can be set up for an item, each with a special price start and end date, and a quantity limit. If both of the quantity limits are specified, a customer's order for the item may get priced at three different levels.
• Up to four inbound taxes and up to ten outbound taxes can be specified for each item, along with customer-level flags indicating which taxes a customer pays. Taxes may be specified as either percentages or amounts.
• Ability to look up and to override pricing for any item and any customer during order entry or order modification. Manual price overrides can be disabled for specific customers.
• Ability to specify limited quantity or minimum quantity retail pricing on ad programs. The retail price limits can be specified in eaches or by weight.
• ProCLASS provides all the features necessary for offering a "points" program: points can be assigned to each item (can be overridden during an ad program) and customers can be flagged to earn points when purchasing items with assigned points. The required reports by vendor (for collecting vendor-sponsored points) and by customer are provided.
• Selected customers can be flagged to earn ECR's (Earned Cost Reductions) based on a user defined table of purchase volumes and ECR rates. Certain commodity groups can be excluded from the ECR program and a special ECR override rate can be specified for any commodity group.

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