C-Store Office™ Enterprise level
The larger your company grows, the more complex tracking performance becomes. And the more critical it is to the survival of the company. If you find IT costs growing out of scale with the rest of the enterprise; if you find accurate business intelligence difficult to come by; if even your best managers struggle with their mission of getting performance data in a timely fashion, then C-Store Office™ may be the right solution for your enterprise.
Payroll reduction
C-Store Office™ reduces the amount of time managers spend on paperwork up to 75%! For the average store, that can mean managers gain back as much as 15 hours a week–time they can spend on the floor serving customers instead of holed up in the back office. Think about what impact that can have on staffing levels!
Business integration
As the enterprise grows, relationships with suppliers can become immensely complex and difficult to administer. C-Store Office™ has powerful e-commerce and data integration tools that allow you to automate purchasing and payables without added IT expense. C-Store Office™ partners can handle problem tasks such as electronic funds transfer for regulated beverage purchases with ease. And C-Store Office™ can output data in a variety of formats to communicate with various accounting and financial packages efficiently.
Communication
Perhaps the most critical function in a large organization is good communication. With out it, the organization cannot thrive. In the hands of your corporate staff and line managers, C-Store Office™ becomes a potent communication tool. Corporate staff can use C-Store Office™’s Task function to broadcast tasks and update employees across the enterprise on corporate policy issues and guidelines. A built-in instant messaging utility let’s everyone in the company communicate via IM with colleagues in every location. (Employees can communicate with customer support through IM as well.) And every C-Store Office™ installation comes equipped with an e-mail system to allow you to establish direct e-mail connection with everyone in the enterprise.
Consolidating information company-wide
C-Store Office™ tracks information in your organization from the ground up. It gathers information from every register at every location on every shift, and makes that information available to everyone you designate. However, C-Store Office™ also consolidates your enterprise level information into useful reports available right on the home page that authorized corporate officers can view at any time. Roll-up financial performance data, daily, 8-day and monthly performance data are right at your fingertips. You can see how the entire organization is doing as a whole, or drill down to a single shift in a single location in just a few clicks.
Providing value for your franchisees
If you franchise your operations, look at C-store Office as primary value-add that will make your franchise operation stand out among competitors. C-Store office helps the single store operator be more profitable, and helps you increase franchises and royalties.
Here are some of the ways C-Store Office™ adds value to your franchise operations:
- Downsizing store inventory: With C-Store Office™, you will have the sophisticated inventory tracking tools to always know what is on your shelves–and in your USTs. You can avoid overstocking and buy more efficiently. C-Store Office™ lets you examine more aggressive or conservative fuel purchasing strategies to manage inventory efficiently and maximize incentive programs and rebates.
- Reduce shrinkage: Detailed shift reports show you exactly what happens on each register on every shift. You can see item level transactions as well as voids and no sales so you get a clear picture of what is happening in the store. It just like being there 24/7 yourself!
- Reduce the cost of labor: C-Store Office™ reduces the amount of time managers spend on paperwork up to 75%! For the average store, that can mean managers gain back as much as 15 hours a week–time they can spend on the floor serving customers instead of holed up in the back office. Think about what impact that can have on staffing levels!
- Increase your profit: More efficient buying strategies…the ability to gauge fuel purchases and optimize rebates…safeguards against shrinkage….more time for managers to serve customers instead of doing paperwork. All these cost savings add up to more profits for you, with C-Store Office™!
Improving your franchise marketing
C-Store Office™ provides such a clear set of advantages to single store operations that it can become a potent tool in your franchise marketing strategy.
