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Summary
of the story
| Country |
CUBA |
| Distributor |
MAXSO |
| User |
HARRIS
BROTHERS |
| Location |
HABANA
CITY |
REVIEW OF ECR
CASIO BUSINESS IN THE COMMERCIAL CENTER "HARRRIS BROTHERS"
 The
commercial center Harris Brothers is a complex of department stores,
markets and coffee shops of the company Habaguanex S.A., which is
under the Havana City Historian Office and its has as mainobject,
to convert the colonial architecture area of the city in an attractive
tourist place for which has disseminated in this place a lot of
shops, restaurants, small hotels, many kinds of museums among other
attractions.
Specifically, Harris Brothers is located in an old four storey building
which was renewed in order to install the biggest shop complex of
the historical center of the city, in its turn, it represents one
of the three biggest complex of this kind in the country because
of its area, to be crowded, as well as the automation level it has.
Some interesting
data related to this complex are:
| Quantity
of department stores:
| 22 |
| Food
shops:
| 1 |
| Coffee
shops:
| 2 |
| Employees:
| 90 |
| Average
of daily visitors:
| 16,500 |
| Average
of daily consumers:
| 10,725 |
| Average
of daily sales amount:
| 100,000.00
(USD) |
 This
great project was submitted to a bid process at the middle of 1998
and mainly were competing the enterprises "ABC" which commercialize
OMROM equipments and ours, MAXSO which commercialize CASIO equipment,
moreover it was indispensable to offer to the client a solution
"Turn-key Project" to guarantee full automation of the complex.
For this, we had to contract and conform a working team with other
enterprises because of the large profile of the required solutions.
Our enterprise started its work practically at the ending phase
of the civil construction, as a way to guarantee the fulfillment
of the necessary technical requirements in order to offer an efficient
solution. All this process was realized in 30 days approximately,
always under the supervision of our specialists.
The concerning to the installation of Management System (software),
ECRs programming and training of the personnel in charge of operation
of equipment took us around 15 days.
In each one of the four available floors for sales, there is an
independent net of cash registers (ECR) linked to one computer
(PC) in which they are carrying out the sales process, inventory
control, etc. In its turn, all PCs conform a net in order to consolidate
all information of the complex in a server.
Equipment and accessories installed:
- ECR CASIO
CE-4700 with communication board Superboard V.3: 29
- ECR CASIO
TK-2700 with communication boards I/Opb-11: 2
- CASIO Scanner
HHS-8: 29
- PENTIUM II
350 MHZ, 32 MB RAM, HDD 3.5GB, Ethernet ACER 10/100 with colour
display 14": 5
- Server: PENTIUM
II 450 MHZ, 64 MB, HDD Scoccer 9.1 GB, Ethernet ACER 10/100 with
display 14": 1
- Switch PLANET,
8 ports to 10 Mb/s and 2 ports to 100 Mb/s.
- HUB PLANET,
8 ports 10/100 Mb/s.
- Cable UTP
cat. 5: 1000 meters
- Cable multicom
4 x 22: 1500 meters
The nets of
the first, second and third floors have same configuration, they
are composed of: seven ECRs CE-4700 with communication boards Superboard
V.3 (SPB) and HHS-8 CASIO Scanner each one, linked by Online to
a PC which is placed at the storage room of each floor.
 In
the ground floor was installed a net of eight ECRs CASIO CE-4700
with the same communication board used in the previous cases, but
in addition was installed a gastronomic net with two (2) ECRs CASIO
TK-2700 with communication boards I/OPB-11 linked with Inline to
a board I/OPB-12 in the PC. This last configuration was analyzed
with the client with the alternative of use of the communication
board I/OB-9 but this alternative was rejected in spite of its lower
cost because of the problem of communication speed and the high
volume of information to be processed.
The software
of Sales Management used (BACKPOS) has the following facilities:
- Control
of all information, including accountancy
- Offer the
possibility of follows all movement of the goods.
- Report inventory
made up to date and the previous month one.
- Study of
inventory rotation.
- It is not
necessary the starting of ECR for sales.
- The ECR can
be blocked and end task blocked during the selling for occasional
inspections.
- Make up to
date the ECRs in a dynamic way during the sales.
As conclusive
way, we could state that this project raised up considerably the
prestige of CASIO and also ours in our country, starting from the
client satisfaction.
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