ISD was committed by Shenzhen Shundian Trading Co. to develop a set of business management system to support its chain store mode and scalability needs.

Shenzhen Shundian Trading Co. is the first retailer that gained ISO9002 certification through international certification organization in China. It has three chain stores in Shenzhen and is the largest home appliance retailer locally. The company selected ISD's "Sixunsoft 2001 Jin-Xiao-Cun" distributed version to replace its original POS system. It is required to realize data interchange and data sharing between headquarter and chain stores, headquarter and business departments, chain store and chain store, delivery center and chain stores. ISD also developed new functions based on "Sixunsoft 2001 Jin-Xiao-Cun" for Shundian's business.

Front Desk POS Offline Operation
Front desk POS offline operation is one of the major features of "Sixunsoft 2001 Jin-Xiao-Cun". System network or servers may have temporary breakdown. But sales of the stores must continue.

Front desk POS will switch to single computer sales and save the sales data locally until the breakdown ends, then it will transmit the data to the database on POS server.

Remote Access and Management
Another major feature of "Sixunsoft 2001 Jin-Xiao-Cun" is remote access and management. Customers can select to install functions that support remote access during system installation. After installation at most 100 link points can be set. This brings convenience especially to mobile users and remote access users. Shundian thus has saved a lot in hardware and human resource costs because system administrator only has to manage computer systems of chain stores as remote users at the headquarter.

Price Management of Commodities
Real-time transmission of price changes or new commodities is realized between headquarter and chain stores. Headquarter can set different prices for different stores. Stores can also make promotion plans and set special prices.

Data Transmission
Stores can set their data transmission according to their own needs. Any times of transmission is possible. Stores can send or receive actively by one click. Data transmission could be operated manually or at fixed time, which can lower the pressure to the network.

Since Shundian has a large transaction amount, 40 POS machines at front desk and 25 work stations at back end, ISD provided a optimized total solution: using IBM Netfinity as server, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 as database, and Sybase Powerbuilder 6.5 as developing tool for client/server. These high performance hardware and software together enabled the application of such a large chain store.

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