the enterprise edition takes your sales data and lets you use it on custom reports, category reports, visual sales reports and the presentation manager. there are special fields for profitability, turnover, gross and net margins and you create your own formulas and use them on reports as well.

automatically set up sales periods for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting. sales data can be easily imported from excel and kept for past sales analysis. sales information can be rolled up depending on the original period used. if you have daily sales data, then you can report on it daily, weekly. monthly, etc. but if your sales data is monthly, then you can't report on it daily or weekly, only monthly, quarterly, or annually.

specifying sales report dates

sales information can be incorporated into the custom report writer, into visual sales reports and into category reports. you can choose the sales dates for the report based on:

* effective start and end dates specified in the plan properties.
* start and ending periods
* a range of dates
* based on current date, which can give you:
    - the current day, week, month, quarter or year.
    - the previous day, week, month, quarter or year.
    - previous sales for the last 5 days, weeks, months, quarter or year.

category report

here we have a category report summing up each category on a monthly basis, units sold and gross profit dollars for the first 6 months.

the report can be scrolled to see the other months in the report.

visual sales report

this next report is a visual sales report showing the actual profit % by coloring the product faces according to the results. this report groups the profit percents into 5 groups, with each a different color. the report covers the sales for the first 3 months of the year. the sales color key shows the actual percentages of each grouping.

this makes it easy to identify more profitable products on the planogram.

sales reports

this next use of sales information is for reports. in the report below, we show the net sales, gross margin and profit margin for each category on the plan.

the report is sorted by the last column, the profit margin, with the largest profit coming first.