Multi-store module Manage all your stores from one place
Contents Minfos product overview
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Minfos product snapshot
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Multi-store at a glance
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Multi-store features
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Product management
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Pricing control
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Promotions 8 Business intelligence reports
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Minfos Centralised Ordering
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Minfos Master Database
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Value-added services
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Help centre
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Integrations 15
Minfos product overview Gain visibility & maximise store performance Minfos is an all-in-one integrated solution trusted by over 850 Australian pharmacies. The software is built on solid accounting principles that help you manage your cash-flow and maintain accurate records for taxation purposes.
Making your business smarter Minfos is designed to help you manage your business smarter. It offers useful tools tha support each module, including:
Product management support
True gross profit Minfos utilises the actual cost price in dispense, sales, reports and accounting, so that you can view true gross profit across your group.
Access to over 500,000 products with:
Integrated software
• Wholesaler updates
As an all-in-one integrated solution you and your pharmacies have clear visibility across all modules including dispense operations, stock management, staff performance and sales.
• MNPN Supplier updates • Minfos Online Product Catalogue All of these tools assist with good stock control practices, enabling effective inventory management across your business and support of accurate reporting.
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Minfos product snapshot
Dispense
Retail
Reporting
• Scripts
• Till
• Product sales
• Patients
• Clubs
• KPI report
• Reporting
• Loyalty integration
• Staff sales
• Clinical intervention
• Promotions
• Export reports
• Drug and allergy alerts
• Product
• Customer • Pricing
• Calendar
• Ordering
• Packing
Multi-store
Accounting
Add-ons
Support
• Centralised control
• Cash manager
• Cloud backup • Master database
• Product development
• Reports
• Payables • Receivables
• Stocktaking app
• Customer care
• General ledger
• Minfos SMS Connect
• Online help • Installation
• 3rd party integrations
• Training
• Real-time product updates • Pricing — retail and dispense
• Reports
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Multi-store at a glance Simplify your Multi-store management by using powerful management tools and business intelligence reports. Centralised control
Reports
Manage products, categories, retail pricing, dispense pricing and promotions to realise cost efficiencies, save time and minimise data entry errors.
Head Office can effortlessly get a snapshot or detailed report of a store or the groups’ performance.
Control product management
Place orders on behalf of a store and manage stock holding across the group.
Head Office can centrally manage group products and customise the product attributes each pharmacy receives.
Create promotions
Centralised ordering
Stock transfer Easily transfer stock within the group.
The Head Office can create and manage a promotion and send to selected stores.
Centralised pricing Pricing can be managed by Head Office using single or tiered pricing structure.
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Multi-store features
Product maintenance
Management
Category maintenance
Store 1,2,3...
Reporting
Promotions
Single or tiered pricing Dispense pricing
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Product management Achieve greater inventory control for your group by leveraging our product management tools. Customise store updates
Minfos National Product Number (MNPN)
Centrally control the information each of your stores receive from Head Office including product name, barcodes and GST status. This gives you the flexibility to tailor each stores data subscription to meet their product information needs.
Minfos issues a MNPN (an unique product ID) for the life of each product to ensure your product data is consistent and accurate. Any products added by the Head Office will be also issued an MNPN for accurate reporting and product tracking across the group.
Control when stores receive product updates Choose whether stores receive product updates in real-time or batch release at a defined time of day. When releases are batched, you control what changes are included and when they are released to stores.
Category maintenance Manage up to seven categories on behalf of the group, removing the need for the pharmacy to locally manage products and associated categories. By using consistent categories, you have the ability to improve your group’s reporting.
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KVI lines and stocked status Centrally manage KVI lines and the stocked status of products. This assists Head Office with improving compliance and consistency across your group and centrally manage a core range.
Supplier details Manage product-ordering parameters for your stores, removing the need for them to locally manage this information.
Auto merges Configure merges made at Head Office to autoapply in store. This removes the need for the store to manually perform merges for products that the store has not purchased or sold.
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Pricing control Effortlessly manage pricing across your group to maximise profits. Flexible retail pricing
Price review
Depending on the set up of your group, Head Office can choose to manage a single or tiered product pricing structure.
We provide reports that help you analyse your pricing strategies by categories, orders, KVI, pricing policies, GP% and much more.
If you implement the tiered product pricing structure, you have the ability to preset the time of day of when the pricing will be applied to all your store databases.
Import pricing
Tiered pricing For a selected category type, Head Office can set up to 3 tiers of pricing for products assigned to that category. Stores can then be assigned to different pricing category tiers to suit their needs. Tiered pricing will lock down the retail price field in the product stock card at the slave store, providing the Head Office with greater control over the retail price.
Review GP% effect Use our efficient tools to review the effect on your GP% before implementing price updates to your products.
If pricing is managed externally to Minfos, you can easily import the pricing into your Head Office database to efficiently distribute pricing across the group.
Label maintenance When a retail price is changed, a shelf label request will automatically be queued at the store. Custom labels can also be created using the Minfos Label Editor for product, shelf or promotional labels to assist with achieving stronger brand consistency across your stores.
Drug pricing Easily manage fixed drug pricing from Head Office reducing the need for each store to maintain independently.
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Promotions Effortlessly manage your group’s promotions and use our reports to analyse their success. Group promotions
Promotional types
Centrally manage promotions on behalf of the group. From Head Office, you can create groupwide or store-based campaigns.
We offer 8 different types of promotions so that you can create and manage a promotion suitable to your needs.
Group maintenance allows you to easily set up which stores will receive the selected promotion file. Stores can be part of multiple groups to support multiple campaigns as per your group strategies.
Reports Run reports to capture GP% and overall promotion performance.
Auto-management Promotions will automatically appear in the stores database and start and stop based on the parameters of the promotion. Any changes made to the promotion by Head Office will update at the store.
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Business intelligence reports All the numbers you need to analyse your business performance and make informed decisions. Comprehensive reports
Drill down
Access to both Minfos Online Reporting‥ and Multistore reporting provides you with visibility of stock movement, pricing, product, sales performance, staff, discrepancies, promotions and more.
Minfos Online Reporting allows you to drill down from the store level to the product to pinpoint discrepancies.
Auto-schedule reports
Analyse stock movement, turnover, gross profit, dead stock, purchasing and stock valuation.
Our online reporting suite allows to access store reports from anywhere, anytime. You can also conveniently schedule reports to be emailed directly to key stakeholders.
Dashboard reporting
Product performance
Staff performance Analyse staff performance by viewing their total sales over a specific timeframe, sales by hour or their overall sales contribution.
Minfos Online Reporting allows you to quickly see a snapshot of your store or group’s key performance indicators. Easily identify trends or areas to address.
Benchmarking Benchmark a store’s performance against a group average or selected stores.
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Sales performance
Customise reports
View your store’s profit, loss and sales trends through reports on:
Using Minfos Online Reporting, new reports can be created or existing reports modified to display the information that you need to manage your group effectively and efficiently. Minfos Business Intelligent Consultants* can work with you to build the reports your group needs to achieve its strategic goals.
• Hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly sales • Category sales • Sales comparison • Promotion sales • Generic drug sales
Export
• Top-selling and under-performing product sales
Easily export your reports to Excel and PDF.
This is a paid service and not included in your Minfos subscription fee. *Consultation charges apply. ‡
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Minfos Centralised Ordering Centrally order for all your stores directly from your Multi-store Head Office. Auto-generate orders Centrally auto-generate orders on behalf of some or all of your pharmacies. When generating an order Minfos Centralised Ordering considers the ordering parameters set at the store and will adjust the order quantities accordingly.
Order templates Create and modify ordering templates to easily manage ongoing orders.
Schedule orders Save time by using order templates to schedule your orders to auto-generate at a particular time or day.
Date range or seasonal ordering Create an order based on the purchases made during a date range or seasonal orders based on sales from the same time the previous year.
Group stock holdings Optimise stock holdings across your group using our surplus stock functionality.
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Minfos Centralised Ordering will notify you when a store in the group has excess stock. You can then decide whether to order the stock from the store or purchase through the supplier.
Inter-store stock transfer Easily transfer stock between your pharmacies. Stores can share and view each other’s current stock-on-hand (SOH), unit cost and retail price.
Automatic status update View the status of orders and be automatically notified in Minfos Centralised Ordering when your stores receive and complete orders.
Electronic ordering Place orders electronically with our integrated functionality with PharmX.
Email orders to suppliers Export orders to PDF and send orders directly via email to suppliers.
Minfos Master Database Minfos provide up-to-date product information sourced straight from the wholesaler or supplier. Comprehensive product information
Wholesaler files
Minfos centrally maintains 500,000 products and we review 4,000+ products daily to ensure the latest information is available and to maintain data integrity.
We provide product updates sourced directly from Symbion, Sigma and API.
Product updates We provide updates on:
Symbion daily file This daily file contains information on changes to products, barcodes, product inclusions, PDE and wholesaler list price for new items.
• Product descriptions • PDEs • Barcodes • Wholesaler retail units • Recommended Retail Price (RRP), where available • New products • Amended product details You can save even more time by automating the import of MNPN and Wholesaler updates.
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Value-added services We have a range of services that assist pharmacies to maximise their performance, including: Minfos App† (Stocktaking Scanner)
Product Catalogue
This low-cost solution allows multiple staff to simultaneously conduct stocktaking.
Finding products and supplier information is easier than ever. The online Minfos Product Catalogue contains 500,000+ products and their attributes, such as: • Barcodes • Suppliers
With this App, stores can: • Queue labels • Make real-time stock-on-hand (SOH) adjustments
• Product descriptions
• MNPN
• Ordering codes
• PDEs
The Minfos App is available from the Apple App store or Google Play to compatible devices.
SMS Connect‡
Use this App with a specialised scanning device# to conduct robust stocktaking.
Minfos Ordering integration with Symbion SSCC Tote Identifiers This labour saving initiative will help stores across your group streamline the process of receiving Symbion orders. Stock Controllers can sort their order by tote or value, which enables high-value items to be easily identified for manual verification.
Fees apply for device and the App This is a paid service and not included in your Minfos subscription fee † Cloud Backup service is not available for Multi-store databases # ‡
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Your pharmacies can send personalised SMS texts to their patients or customers through Minfos. Our SMS message service will help you stand out from your competitors.
Minfos Cloud Backup‡ † Protect your pharmacy’s Minfos data, including their sales, dispense, patient details and stock information using our cloud backup. This off-site backup solution is designed to safeguard your Minfos stores data against malware, fire or theft.
Help centre We are here to support you so that you can run your business efficiently using Minfos. Customer care
Training
Our customer support team are here to help. You can get in touch with us using our online Customer Portal or via phone.
We know time is money, which is why our knowledgeable Trainers will teach you all the Minfos Multi-store tips to improve your retail performance including:
Online help You can easily search our Customer Portal to access useful step-by-step guides, tips and FAQs.
Installation Our expert installers will assist in the installation and implementation of a multi-store to ensure a seamless rollout within your group.
• Multi-store management • Minfos Online Reporting and Minfos Multi-store Reporting • Minfos Centralised Ordering • Promotions and pricing
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Integrations Some of our popular integration are:
Dispense
Robotics
Electronic controlled drug register
Accounting
POS
Ordering
Third party packing
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HR/Payroll
Loyalty
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