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ARDC TEP TRAINING INFO-SOURCING TRAINING EXERCISE

ARDC TEP TRAINING INFO-SOURCING TRAINING EXERCISE. Team 7 Topic: Selling Singapore as a POS hub Members: Evelyn Ong Lay Ching 031092P Ho Jun Quan 032815N Toh Jia Yu 033047P. INTRODUCTION. What is a POS system? helps businesses to manage inventory, sales, and customers

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ARDC TEP TRAINING INFO-SOURCING TRAINING EXERCISE

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  1. ARDC TEP TRAINING INFO-SOURCING TRAINING EXERCISE Team 7 Topic: Selling Singapore as a POS hub Members: Evelyn Ong Lay Ching 031092P Ho Jun Quan 032815N Toh Jia Yu 033047P

  2. INTRODUCTION What is a POS system? • helps businesses to manage inventory, sales, and customers • more timely and efficient • thus, and have replaced most standard cash registers • features: • reading bar codes • touch screens • automated retail management • integration of back end operations

  3. INTRODUCTION • provides clear & easy to understand report of all transactions • thus, business can maintain control over inventory, sales, customer records and supplier information • businesses will benefit from the POS machines.

  4. Summary • POS System Basics (consist of computer, keyboard, scanner etc) • Benefits to the Individual Business Man (customer information, inventory management, market segment) • Benefits to the Singapore Economy (brighter prospect in manufacturing sector) • Reaching out to the small retailers (Local Enterprise Technical Assistance Scheme and affordable POS terminals)

  5. REFERENCES Lexis-Nexis • IBM eyes small retailers for its POS terminals • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=dc868c3d31dd4060b255ec30e13ea642&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-zSkVA&_md5=fec1a2df254012f3d5ec5a6ea692bb2e • In recent years, more small and medium enterprise (SMEs) retailers are upgrading their business. Regarding to this, the multinational, IBM has sold more than two million terminals worldwide. Thus, it has become the world’s top seller of POS terminals. However, their major customers are still mega retailers like Wal-Mart and 7-eleven. They order hundreds or thousands of POS terminals.

  6. REFERENCES • BANKS OPEN UP ATM CARDS TO THREE NATIONS • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=04153d1bff49cc7d92b2cff6693afab6&_docnum=3&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkVb&_md5=1a0b8bf854962dd72b5b036742eaad8a • From 10th January 2005 onwards, bank cards issued by domestic banks with the logo of “China Unionpay” will be accepted by ATMs machine and POS machines in Singapore. It is also acceptable in another two nations- Republic of Korea and Thailand. More domestic banks are expected to join the network soon.

  7. REFERENCES • Selling Singapore as POS hub • http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=f337a50157d5dd378276738c91647c65&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkVb&_md5=fcd561f719dee6fe38d2ce6d3942bf97 • This article concerns on a segment of manufacturing industry in Singapore- retail point-of-sales (POS) machines. About half of the global market for POS machines belongs to Singapore. The POS industry includes the following: production of hardware such as payment solution platforms, software such as self-service kiosks' interface, POS scanners and workstations, and the provision of services such as data warehousing and customer relationship management.

  8. REFERENCES Articles from other search engines • Poundland chooses EPoS system to enhance stock management and planning • http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=1294&z=29 • This article is about Poundland (a Europe retailer) has just implemented a Epson’s Intelligent Register E-POS system. Although the source did not mention about Singapore, there are quite a lot of information and benefits of a E-POS system.

  9. REFERENCES • CIO Asia – Food For Thought • http://www.idg.com.sg/pcio.nsf/unidlookup/AA5028267056C24848256CFD0042F0DF?OpenDocument • This article is about how NTUC, a supermarket uses the open-source software; the point-of-sales (POS) system, the store inventory management system and in the staff clock-in reader system, to convert its current system, MS-DOS into Linux-based POS system.

  10. REFERENCES • Web sites • POS system • http://www.steponesolutions.com/ • This website shows the advantages of using POS system. • Get your shop in shape • http://it.asia1.com.sg/specials/spotlights20030827_001.html • This website is about a local small retailer uses POS system to manage their business.

  11. REFERENCES • HRS Marketing Pte Ltd (HRS) • http://www.hrsmarketing.com/ • HRS is a local POS system solution provider. They provide total solutions for Point-of-Sale in the hospitality market, restaurants, pubs, fast food outlets, cafes, discotheques, and country clubs. • S-Tech Wireless POS System • http://www.studiotech.com.sg/products/wirelessPOS.htm • This is also a local web site. It includes description of the features (Sales, Customer Database and Stock Management) and picture to show the sales screen on a PDA and on a Tablet of wireless POS system.

  12. REFERENCES Case Study • Cold Storage launches its first self-check system in Singapore • http://www.retailasiaonline.com/news/archive/sep03/18093k/news6.html • This is an example of using a self-check POS system in Cold Storage, where it helps to shorten the queue of the counter. It is very successful since their introduction of the self-service system in Tanglin, Cold Storage.

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