COSYS industry-specific software solutions are an essential pillar for your business. COSYS solutions cover many areas of operations, whether it´s inventory for retail or a complete system with warehouse management for wholesalers with multiple warehouses. The solutions are flexible and can be tailored exactly to your company.
COSYS Food Industry Software
The food industry is one of Germany´s most important. From supermarkets to wholesalers and suppliers, companies in the food industry keep stomachs and shelves full. COSYS intervenes everywhere in your company where goods are stored, delivered or purchased and the software solutions collect and display important data about stocks, item information or best-before dates.
From cross-industry software to special LEH modules, all solutions important for your industry are listed here. Solutions include modules that contain individual functions, such as the recording of a goods receipt. Depending on your needs, you can combine the individual modules and omit modules that you do not need from your solution.
COSYS software is compatible with all common MDE devices and, depending on the solution, also with smartphones with Android or iOS. Data, goods movements or inventory queries are recorded via barcode scan, either by the dedicated scanner of a MDE device or simply by the smartphone camera.
Concrete solutions for small businesses/ POS
The COSYS food retail software range includes solutions for small businesses as well. The solutions are set up in a simple way and include as standard the basic functions necessary for professional digitization of the business. Thanks to many years of experience and coordination with our existing customers, the services for small businesses are precisely tailored to your requirements, but of course you can still expand or even downsize your software solutions in consultation with your contact person.
COSYS establishes three basic solutions for small businesses in the grocery industry: Retail Management and Point-of-Sale, Inventory Management and Physical Inventory. Inventory software is a cornerstone of COSYS´ main solutions and is the same for all industries. With this software, your stock levels can be digitally noted quickly and without errors.
Inventory management is a part of the Retail Management solution. With the inventory management software, your warehouse situation can be tracked and analyzed in the long term. Using barcode scans via MDE device or smartphone, the warehouse data is recorded and transferred to the browser-based COSYS WebDesk via the COSYS backend. From the COSYS WebDesk you can view and change your inventory, master and item data. The COSYS WebDesk can also be connected to your enterprise resource planning system via interface. All common ERP systems are compatible with the COSYS backend.
The COSYS Retail Management solution gives you a complete overview of your processes, inventories and article and merchandise information. The Retail Management solution covers all processes around your store. The "Price Change" module is responsible for changing and printing the labels of your goods. Via the "MHD Control" module, you track the best-before dates of the merchandise. In addition, the module indicates the remaining days until the best-before date, so you can also plan ahead. With the "Order", "Stock transfer", "Returns" and "Goods receipt" modules, you record the flow of goods and get a detailed view of your logistics processes. If you are looking for information on a specific item or a customer has a question about it, you can use the "Item information" module to quickly find the
Scan the barcode of the goods and receive all important data from the system directly on your MDE device or smartphone. Like all COSYS solutions, the Retail Management Software is connected to the COSYS backend, which you can access via the browser-based COSYS WebDesk. The Retail Management Software can be fluently connected to your ERP system via the COSYS interfaces. And if you don´t need all the modules from the Retail Management solution, the software can also be tailored to suit your company. Of course, you can also add other modules to your solution or remove superfluous modules.
Concrete solutions for large companies
A major part of the COSYS food trade software solutions are tailored to large, even multi-site operating companies. These solutions are ideal for wholesalers, chains and transport or logistics service providers. By working closely with our customers, we are always working on improved software and new features to keep you on the cutting edge of digital. COSYS has the capacity and expertise to implement even large projects. The COSYS software solutions for large companies include solutions for warehouse management, loading equipment management and transport, mobile driving sales, inventory as well as batch management and inventory.
The COSYS warehouse management system (WMS) records your stock levels and all goods movements to and from your warehouse. Goods are recorded via mobile data entry (MDE for short) and barcode scanning. Your employees use MDE devices during goods receipt, stock removal, acceptance of returns and more. The individual functions are represented in modules. Within the warehouse management system, COSYS offers the modules goods receipt, putaway, stock transfer, picking, returns, picking, shipping notification and reordering. The data on the COSYS backend is displayed and managed in the browser-based COSYS WebDesk. The backend can also be connected to your ERP system via interface.
The COSYS "loading equipment management and container management" software solution ensures a problem-free and efficient process for your loading equipment management. The software helps to record the loading equipment and notes the location and quantity of the loading equipment, such as "at customer X", "in warehouse A" or "at supplier 1". COSYS loading equipment management lets you see through your transport processes, which not only allows you to plan better with your loading equipment, but also to counteract loading equipment shrinkage. With the COSYS software, damage to loading equipment or containers can also be easily photographed and documented using MDE devices.
Inventory
COSYS inventory software continues to impress new and existing customers every year. With the inventory software you accelerate your inventory dramatically, while confusing paper lists and counting errors are eliminated. For your inventory you receive MDE devices with the COSYS inventory software as a loan, which are immediately ready for use. So you can start your inventory as soon as possible. The warehouse data is automatically read in with the MDE devices via barcode scan and noted in the COSYS backend of the inventory software. All master data and your stock can be viewed after or during your inventory via the COSYS WebDesk.
Concrete example supermarket
Here we show you a concrete insight into a sample company that wants to digitalize itself through COSYS software and thus become more efficient, faster and more future-proof. Muster-Markt GmbH is a medium-sized company with 30 employees. The company sells food such as fruit and vegetables to private customers in its own store and to other companies via its warehouse. Muster-Markt GmbH also delivers fresh food to commercial customers in mobile drive-in sales.
In the warehouse of Muster-Markt, the employees scan the barcodes of the incoming goods in the goods receiving area and the outgoing goods in the goods issue area with stable MDE devices. The software recognizes each scanned item and the quantity, and the changes made are automatically transferred in real time to the COSYS backend and via interface to Muster-Markt´s ERP system via the cross-warehouse WLAN network. B2B sales staff use the COSYS WebDesk to create repeat orders and manage food deliveries to customers. Likewise, transports of foodstuffs are tracked and organized via the WebDesk. Due to the best-before date control, the employees always see in the system how long the goods can still be stored. Thanks to the COSYS warehouse management software and the interface to the ERP system of Muster-Markt GmbH, normal warehouse tasks, the documentation of the inventory and the warehouse management are much easier and faster than before. Thanks to the wide range of data, employees can identify sales hits and prevent your goods from going to waste in the unsold warehouse.
The COSYS Retail Management Software is used in the food retail trade of Muster-Markt GmbH. The employees of Muster-Markt scan incoming goods and articles via MDE device. If customers have questions about item price or remaining stock, this can be easily checked via barcode scan on the MDE device. With best-before tracking, employees always know which merchandise needs to be sold quickly before expiration. To sell these goods faster, employees lower the prices of the product using the price change function. In the event that price tags are damaged or missing, employees quickly and easily print new price tags via price tagging. All inventory data is tracked via the COSYS backend and stored on
the COSYS WebDesk and via interface to the ERP system of Muster-Markt GmbH. Via the WebDesk, new goods are ordered, article data is edited and the inventory history is checked, even from the secure home office thanks to browser-based operation. Via the COSYS WebDesk, employees view the inventory history and recognize items that are selling very well or not at all. This allows the supply to be adjusted quickly and in line with the market.
In mobile drive-in sales, Muster-Markt employees drive through nearby locations and distribute orders from customers that have either been received beforehand or are placed on site. The drivers receive the order data via your MDE device and tablet. This is also how you enter new orders, deliveries and changes. At Muster-Markt, the COSYS Mobile Sales solution is integrated with the warehouse management system. The warehouse workers and employees in the administration of Muster-Markt can thus better prepare for driving sales and stock the warehouse according to demand. When customers ask on-site questions about item information, the employee can simply scan the item´s barcode and receive a list with all stored information about the item.
MDE devices / rent / repair
At COSYS you not only get reliable and fast software, you also get the hardware to go with the software. The wide range includes label printers, MDE devices, handheld scanners and their accessories. Thanks to COSYS partnership with MDE manufacturers such as Unitech, Zebra or Datalogic, COSYS can always offer you the most advanced MDE hardware at the best prices. COSYS replaces your old MDE devices with new, faster MDE hardware if you want to modernize your hardware and make it future-proof.
For projects like Inventory you can also rent MDE devices from COSYS. Quickly shipped and if desired already pre-recorded with the COSYS Inventory software. COSYS offers about 2500 MDE devices for rent, from classic Windows devices to modern Android devices and smartphones. So no matter how extensive your project is, you can rely on the large fleet of COSYS MDE rental hardware.
Are you looking for a repair for your MDE devices and printers? Thanks to the large on-site spare parts warehouse, knowledgeable repair experts and years of experience, COSYS is the perfect repair service provider. The repair experts are specialized in repairing old devices and MDE devices that are no longer available. Simply repair your MDE devices instead of buying expensive new devices.
Grocery Software Features:
conveniently and quickly manage all work with the MDE device
individual tuning suitable for your company
wide compatibility with all popular MDE devices
BBD, price control, tobacco track and trace
full compatibility with ERP systems through COSYS interfaces
full access to all system data everywhere thanks to COSYS WebDesk
Grocery Software Advantages:
Efficient and convenient use of the systems
Customer satisfaction thanks to fast customization
You can view and manage all your processes digitally
early warning in case of soon-to-be-perishable goods
Securely completed orders, with damage documentation and pictures
Save costs with modular and individual software solutions
Food trade complete solutions
Thanks to the wide range of software modules, you start at the work steps that are most likely to need faster processing. COSYS has already gained a lot of customer experience within the food industry and can therefore offer qualified recommendations for warehouse, retail and transport.
Bearing solutions:
The warehouse management software records your warehouse digitally and accelerates warehouse processes such as goods receipt and picking
With the MHD control you track your perishable goods and are always informed about soon expiring goods. This way you avoid having to throw away food unnecessarily.
Branch exchange
The module for the Branch exchange enables you to quickly exchange and transfer goods from one branch to another without the need for time-consuming posting of goods receipts and goods issues. In this way, you can balance branch inventories or quickly deliver replenishments of a highly demanded item.
Price control
Price control allows you to check the current price of an item stored in the system. This is helpful if labels or price tags are illegible or the price is not visible due to discount promotions.
Counter sales
Via the counter sales single parts or short-term purchases from your warehouse are done. Like at a modern cash register, the item code is scanned and the quantity is read in. Prices can either be taken from the system or determined on site, discounts and other functions are also included.
Goods receipt
If goods receipt and putaway are separate processes, we map this via the putaway module. The employee scans a booked article and sees on the MDE device the storage bins where the article is already located. Arriving at the storage location, he scans the storage bin for the item or selects it via drop-down. He completes the storage process by clicking "OK".
Storage
You use storage to assign a storage location to the incoming goods. In this way, the system learns where and how much goods are located and actively helps in the other storage processes. Storage happens in the blink of an eye: Scan the article code, scan the storage location, store.
Outgoing goods
Outgoing goods accompanies every process from picking and shipping control to loading the means of transport. Barcode scanning is used to optimally record processes and stock issues and post them to the enterprise resource planning system.
Article information
With the Article Info module, you can quickly call up all information such as the stock in the warehouse or article information about an article. This way, employees can also view important information on the sales floor or better advise customers.
Inventory
The inventory module notes all scanned articles. In each case, an article and a storage location as well as the quantity of the existing article are entered via barcode scan. This data can then be viewed or sorted either directly on the MDE device, or on the COSYS WebDesk via the backend.
FAQs in the food trade
Yes, all COSYS software solutions can be connected to your ERP system, such as Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, SAP, etc. via interface.
Yes, the Shelf Life Tracking module allows you to view all stored goods by expiration date.
Yes, the COSYS loading equipment management gives you a clear overview of the number of loading equipment and their location.
With the module Price change and Price re-tender you can easily print new labels with the COSYS software via MDE device.
Do you need more information?
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