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Introducing Central Management Systems

Complete Control for growing businesses

Taking the risk out of cash and stock management

Introducing central management systems

Complete Control for growing businesses GS Systems works with SME and blue chip hospitality and retail clients, helping growing businesses become more efficient and more profitable by deploying our central management systems (CMS). With over 30 years’ EPOS experience, we support CMS with leading software and hardware combinations, best-practice impartial advice, implementation and comprehensive training, support services and maintenance.

A CMS solution provides the ultimate in business control, giving you considerable cash and time management savings and unprecedented second-by-second business control.

What’s more, everyone benefits from CMS, from frontline unit staff interacting with customers right up to the board planning future strategy.

where you benefit from

attention to detail that really pays dividends Key performance indicators (KPI) Our proactive key performance indicator module automatically tells you what you want to know and when. You decide on the criteria.

For example, highlighting staff or margin performance, comparison reporting, promotions and marketing activity or special offers.

The KPI module does the rest, alerting you when you need the information, delivering it to your chosen media.

Electronic business sheets (EBS) The electronic business sheet module eliminates the time-consuming paper chain for good.

Information is automatically taken from the EPOS system and interfaced with petty cash, banking, safe and wage analysis. Collated into easy-to-understand reports, EBS gives managers, area managers and head office staff a time-efficient and secure means of managing cash, controlling stock and running an efficient operation.

Staff planning module (SPM) Staff planning allows unit managers to enter staff and shift details together with rates of pay to automatically recommend shift patterns. Postings to business sheets and cost forecasting provide huge time reductions for the manager and precise staff management information. Head office receives timely, reliable and relevant information for staff management, wage distribution and payroll.

Effective & profitable mana The Board

Head Office CMS automated analysis of individual units’ staffing activity ensures fast and accurate PAYE and wage distribution together with human resources and accounts efficiencies. Up-to-the-minute global and site financial information includes the take, banking, safe hold and petty cash. Electronic business sheets eliminate errors, fraud and poor housekeeping, saving time, money and improving all-round business effectiveness.

CMS business performance information gives your board the evidence they need to drive the strategic decision-making.

You dictate the information generated by CMS to assess and analyse an enterprise’s performance and return on investment. The intelligence it provides helps identify strengths, weaknesses and new threats and opportunities.

Marketing CMS facilitates cost-effective, targeted marketing where customer spending patterns and trends are monitored in real-time and historically. Marketing and promotional activity is initiated and costed on factual, empirical rather than anecdotal evidence. Once live, promotions can be tracked and assessed through the key performance indicators, giving you the scope to amend and adjust activity to bring greater returns.

Area Managers Area managers can access up-to-the-minute CMS sales information and area comparison reports for both instant snapshots and detailed analysis of their business areas, whenever and wherever they want the information. League tables provide an easily understood and graphic format for informing and motivating unit managers while real-time stock control gives area managers the freedom to carry out ad-hoc spot checks, encouraging greater business efficiency and security.

gement for the entire team Management Executive CMS real-time and historical reporting enables your management executive, responsible for day-to-day operations, to implement effective, planned tactical activity, defined by either outlet, chain, product or brand. You decide on the relevant information for your business needs, ensuring the focus is always proactive rather than reactive.

Information Technology A SQL database structure provides a seamless integration framework with existing products, with automated communication routines eliminating staff errors and downtime.

CMS integrates with most customer relationship management programs, accounts packages, conference/event management systems, hotel front desk and restaurant table reservation solutions. An open solution, CMS interfaces with virtually any specialist software modules, ranging from snooker table and bowling lane management systems to recreational centre solutions and e-commerce. Software integration also includes queue-busting, electronic shelf labels and in-store marketing.

Unit Managers Unit managers are more time efficient and effective, exercising greater control of their operational environment with CMS. Weekly business sheets, staff-planning modules, real-time stock and staff information and enhanced EPOS security all contribute to a better run, more profitable unit.

Unit Operators Easy-to-use touchscreen terminals and EPOS software are at the heart of CMS. They give front-of-house operators the freedom and confidence to focus 100% on customer care and service, enhancing the entire guest experience and enabling them to sell more.

“GS has been fantastic in helping us develop our business. You need to have experts who actually feed in information to us, information that we can use and develop upon and take as our own.�

Tim Bacon, managing director, Living Ventures.

We hope you have found your introduction to GS Central Management Systems informative.

You can visit www.gs-systems.co.uk for more information about GS Systems and watch our hospitality video.

You can also request additional material to help give you all the facts necessary to make the right EPOS investment decisions.

‘How to choose your EPOS provider’ (White Paper) ‘How to choose the right EPOS solution for your business’ (White Paper) The GS Retail Suite brochure The GS Hospitality Suite brochure The GS Grapevine magazine Call 0800 018 0445 or email sales@gs-systems.co.uk to arrange an appointment, demonstration or a free needs analysis.

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