RATEX Business Solutions, Inc.

As an integrated module of RATEX, the Tradebook Management System gives you the opportunity to manage your tradebook business with greater efficiency and reduced effort. Each function of the module has been carefully designed to give you solutions that are comprehensive and easy to use.

COMPREHENSIVE BOOKSTORE DATABASE

Within the Tradebook Module, you can organize your store and vendor files to meet your exact needs. For example, you can classify a tradebook in a multitude of categories and easily keep track of its location at your bookstore.

Vendor information will include not only the name and address but also the appropriate discount tables and other data such as order, return, and remittance data.

The database will easily store pertinent data for every book at each of your stores. You may enter the title, author, location or SKU to query the current and future status of any book.

EFFICIENT BUYER DECISIONS

The Tradebook Module offers a variety of automated procedures to assist you in the inventory management process. For example, you can:

Print buyer/return worksheets
Idenfity minimum and maximum stock levels
Preset a date to review the status of a book
Flag books for automatic order generation based on minimum stock levels
Know exact stock levels of any item with online inquiry
Instantly update inventory levels through receiving
Efficiently manage perpetual inventory through an interface to the RATEX software Point-of-Sale module
Easily process returns according to vendor guidelines
Access Bowker's Books-In-Print CD-ROM

Pending orders are easily stored in the system until you are ready to generate a purchase order. At any time, you can manually enter information such as special book orders, purchase orders, and manual inventory figures.

PRODUCTIVE BOOKSTORE REPORTING

The Tradebook Module puts you in touch with your bookstore through reports that will help you identify opportunities for problem solving as well as growth. You have the ability to generate comprehensive reports that are designed into the system or to design your own reports. The options are almost endless. The following are a few examples of the wide variety of reports that this module makes available to your bookstore.

Vendor with no payables
Tradebook file listing by author
Tradebook file listing by location
Store inventory listing by location
Locations listing by location code
Store inventory sheet by vendor
Pending orders by vendor alpha code
Pending distribution report
Purchase order receiving report
Pending return by vendor alpha code
Outstanding orders by open-to-buy type

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

As part of the installation of the RATEX software system, RATEX will be responsible for ordering the necessary hardware for your bookstore.

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