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Shoper 9 POS

Secondary Database Usage

March 2010


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Objectives

Need

Advantage

Link Secondary Database to a company

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Attach an existing Secondary Databaseo Create Secondary Database in Shoper 9 POS

o Import Master files from HO

Into Secondary Database at POS

Into Primary Database at POS

Scenarios of usage

Best Practices


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Need for Secondary Database

The Master files sent by HO contain the details of all items and are huge

Drawbacks of importing these directly into the Shoper 9 POS database

o Will increase the size of the database

o Retrieval of master records will be slow

o Will impact the performance of Shoper 9 in general

By maintaining a secondary database, you can

o Store information of all masters at all locations

o Selectively import masters required by chain store into primary database


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Advantages

Retain only the transacted items in the primary database

During Stock Take, the required masters can be imported immediately from

the secondary database

Easy import of required masters from secondary to primary database


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Link a Secondary Database to a Company

Attach an existing secondary database

o A secondary database can be attached to multiple primary databases(multiple companies)

o To link or attach an existing secondary database to an existing company,go to Setup > Create Secondary database > Attach Secondarydatabase

If a secondary database does not exist, create it

o The creation of a secondary database is done after a new company iscreated


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Importing Masters from HO

Select the masters to be exported to secondary database in a particularshowroom

Extract and export the masters created in Shoper 9 HO to Shoper 9 POS

Into Secondary Database at POS

Import the masters exported from Shoper HO (example, Shfms02XXX)through Housekeeping > Data Import > Import into Secondary Db. (s)

Into Primary Database at POS

After creating the secondary database,

Import the masters from Shoper 9 HO into the secondary database

To selectively import the required master records from the secondary

database to the primary database, go to Housekeeping > Data Import >

Import Items from Secondary to Primary Db

Filter and Search the required item details through the browse window

Primary DataBase Updation and import the same into the primary database


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Scenarios Usage of Secondary Database

Return/ exchange of items can be done anywhere in the chain even if the

store does not find the particular master in its primary database, the same

can be imported from the secondary database.

To accept the goods through Transfer In at the receiving store, if the masters

of the transferred goods are not available in the primary database, import a

particular master from secondary database to primary.

During Stock Audit, the missing item masters can be imported from the

secondary database to the primary database



Best Practices

Select appropriate product-brand grouping in showroom catalogue at HO for

item masters in both, primary and secondary database

Attach the secondary database after re-installation of Shoper



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