PRICING & SHELF MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR RETAILERS FROM

UNIFIED GROCERS

ULINK saves time, increases accuracy, and adds flexibility to one of the retailer's most important jobs: ensuring a favorable profit.

BENEFITS OF ULINK

• Reduces POS coordinator time in managing price changes and new items
• Provides a system where the point of sale price and tags use the same data, reducing pricing errors
• Creates professional looking tags and signs
• Reduces keying errors by using centralized data from the Unified mainframe
• Increases pricing integrity by using the Verify function
• Increases cost accuracy in point of sale system via Invoice Manager functionality
• Eliminates cost and waste of paper catalogs
• Improved pricing integrity increases bottom line

ULINK SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Pentium III or higher processor
• Windows XP, 2000, NT or 98 operating system
• 128 MB RAM minimum - 256 MB preferred
• At least 500 MB of free disk space
• 2 MB VGA Video
• PS/2 or serial mouse
• Lexmark Optra-T laser printer recommended
• External dial-up modem and/or high-speed Internet connection

APPLICATIONS/FEATURES

File Control

• Download prices, costs, new items, and deleted item information
• View and print reports
• Export data to Excel, text, or database format
• Print tags and signs

Price Editor

• Edit prices and gross margins
• View competitive pricing data (additional fee)
• Try out "what if" scenarios with prices and gross margin
• View impacts of deals
• Perform custom pricing
• View 13 weeks of warehouse movement

PC Connector

• Transfer data to the POS system

Price Verifier

• Compares prices in the POS system with wholesaler host prices and creates exception reports

Data Transfer Wizard

• Create files in your POS system and transfer them to ULINK
• Create pricing files for regional DSD vendors

Catalog Explorer

• Electronic Unified item catalog
• Add item information to batches for printing tags and signs
• Evaluate item movement
• Create Palm file of all items in the catalog or just one type of business
• Study incoming gross margin contribution by item, sub-category, category, or department based on store specific data
• Access electronic catalog
• Create custom reports as desired to evaluate item mix and blended margins

Invoice Manager

• Receive electronic invoices
• Track purchases in a history database
• Automatically update the POS PLU item master file with invoice item and cost data

Uprint Designer

• Design custom tags and signs
• Add graphics to custom designs
• Directly print custom information or batched data
• Choose from a large selection of existing formats

POS Interfaces

• MEI
• RBO
• RBX
• ScanMaster 1.1, 1.2
• ScanMaster 2.0
• ISS45V7
• Casio S4
• Generic ASCII, SIL, XML

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