What does it mean that the product was sold from a remote warehouse. Remote warehouse: another solution

Many stores, due to either low purchasing power or the inability to bring large quantities of goods to display, began selling them from warehouses. Firstly, this provides a much larger assortment for the buyer than its presence on the window. You can choose expensive and exclusive models that are unlikely to be brought to the display case to sit gathering dust or, moreover, to be damaged. Secondly, the seller does not bother with the fuss associated with packing and unpacking the goods. Plus, you need to find it and bring it from the warehouse, wipe it, turn it on and demonstrate its functionality, fill out the warranty, make a “hole” after itself, print and cut out the price tag for the new one, etc. and so on.

Also, the seller rests when the car arrives, because it does not arrive as loaded as if it were all being transported to the store.

In some companies, the seller earns even more for selling from a remote warehouse than he would have sold it from a storefront.

Benefits for buyers

  1. The buyer will be 100% sure that his product has never been on display, has not been shown as a sample, the product will be in original packaging and completely new.
  2. The time to complete a purchase is reduced several times.
  3. There is no need to look for a delivery vehicle and people who will load the goods into the vehicle.
  4. There will be no need to look for people who will lift goods into the apartment and pay them for each floor passed.
  5. Delivery of the goods will be carried out on any day chosen by the buyer.
  6. The buyer has the opportunity to choose a wider range of goods than in the store, since the full range is not always presented on the display case.

Advantages of selling from stock using samples

Saving effort and time

  • there is no need to search for sold goods in the warehouse
  • no need to check, unpack and pack
  • no need to issue a warranty card (if included)
  • there will be no “holes” that need to be closed when selling from the storefront (move, raise, lower, rearrange by price, etc.)
  • saving labor for loaders when unloading cargo containers, there is no need to order goods that can be sold according to samples in large quantities
  • When selling by sample, you do not need to place a new product in place of the sold one every delivery.
  • the uniform always remains clean.

Improving the quality of customer service

  • speed of sales processing increases
  • more time to serve other customers
  • increasing the prestige of the store: we always have a full display case and the opportunity to purchase a completely new product in packaging, and not the last one from the display case as in many competitor stores
  • the risk of damage to goods packed in original packaging is less than those packed in film.

Increasing store turnover

  • no overstocking of warehouses
  • the ability to free up warehouse space for goods that cannot be sold from the warehouse based on samples
  • maintaining the full range
  • possibility of selling goods in large quantities
  • the ability to sell a set of “main product + gift” in the absence of a gift or main product in the store
  • the opportunity to sell goods that are not in the store’s assortment
  • the possibility of selling the expensive segment through brand catalogs.

The store fulfills sales indicators from the warehouse.

In the recently released release 7.70.905 of the standard configuration "Trade + Warehouse" (revision 9.0) for "1C:Enterprise 7.7", along with other changes, the "Remote Warehouse" web application was implemented. "Remote warehouse" is intended to automate the trade of companies with warehouses physically remote from the central office. This is a ready-made solution for ensuring collaboration between a remote warehouse and the central office. In this material, 1C methodologists talk about the capabilities of the new application. This and many other interesting articles are included in the next release of the Information Technology Support disk for the 1C:Enterprise program system (ITS disk). About subscription, ask 1C partners in your region.

The new application is an example of using the Web Extension component developed for the 1C:Enterprise 7.7 platform and can be used as a template for creating other products based on it that use communication via the global Internet.

It implements the ability to prepare warehouse documents, such as inventory of goods, write-off act and capitalization of surplus, to edit and print documents issued at the central office, as well as to issue invoices directly at the time of de facto receipt and/or shipment of goods. In addition, the remote warehouse portal allows you to build warehouse reports: a report on the movement of goods in the warehouse and a report on the balance of goods.

The scheme for working with remote warehouses assumes that all documents related to the purchase (receipt at a remote warehouse) of goods and their subsequent sale (shipment from the warehouse) are issued by a manager located in the central office. These documents are carried out directly by the warehouseman (materially responsible person) who accepts or ships the goods from the warehouse. The warehouseman can independently change the composition of the invoice, for example, in the case when the quantity of goods written out in the invoice exceeds the current warehouse stock. After that, he can swipe and print this document. On the other hand, the storekeeper can carry out an inventory in the warehouse and, on its basis, through the portal of a remote warehouse, generate documents such as an act of writing off goods and posting surpluses.

The "Remote Warehouse" web application allows for close interaction between the warehouse and the central office in the "On Line" mode, without wasting time synchronizing the work of the warehouse and office. This interaction occurs within the same information base, i.e. in the same information space, thanks to which both the “Remote Warehouse” portal and the central office have the opportunity to receive operational data on the condition of the warehouse.

To connect a remote warehouse to the central office, it is sufficient to have a computer installed in the warehouse, connected to the Internet, with a navigation program such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator (Communicator) installed on it.

In the central office, to work with a remote warehouse, the “Web extension” component of the 1C:Enterprise 7.7 system must be installed on the computer. (See the documentation for the "Web Extension" regarding its installation and the prerequisites for this). Installing the “Remote Warehouse” is similar to installing the example “Reseller Portal” Web application included in the “Web extension” package.

Configuration

The "Remote Warehouse" web application supplied on this disk works with the standard "Trade + Warehouse" configuration of version 9.0, starting with release 7.70.905.

Description of the remote warehouse site

The user can work on the site in the following modes:

  • Magazine;
  • Inventory;
  • Write-off of inventory items;
  • Capitalization of goods and materials;
  • Remaining goods;
  • Movements of goods.

To protect against unauthorized login, the user's authorization on the site is checked at the beginning of each session. To authorize, the user (storekeeper) must enter his name and password. The user name and password are specified in the configuration in the "Users" directory. The portal operation scheme assumes that the user works with documents issued to the warehouse selected as the “main warehouse” for this user on the “Default Values” tab of the “Users” directory element form. Only a wholesale warehouse can be selected as the main warehouse.

Site operating modes

1. Magazine

This page appears immediately after logging into the system and is intended for obtaining a log of documents for the warehouse. The journal may include documents for a given warehouse. It is possible to select documents by their number, type, status (posted or not posted), counterparty, date and company.


When you set a filter by type of document: “Sales”, “Receipt of goods and materials”, “Return to buyer”, “Return to supplier” - both documents with the transaction type “purchase and sale” and documents with the transaction type “commission” will be selected.

Selecting the counterparty by which documents are filtered is done using the "..." button, and clearing the filter by counterparty is done using the "X" button. When selecting a counterparty, a special window opens in which you can search for the required counterparty by code, by the beginning of the name and part of the name. Such a search can be performed by clicking on the “Find” inscription.

As a result of the search, all elements and groups of the counterparty directory that satisfy the request will be shown at the bottom of the window. You can also select the required counterparty without searching by code or name, but using a selection from the directory, the structure of which is presented in the list at the bottom of the window.

Initially, this list contains all the groups and elements of the directory of first-level counterparties. By clicking on a group of counterparties from this list, you can go down one level in this directory by expanding this group. To select a counterparty, click on the ">>" button located to the right of this counterparty. Using the "Clear Filter" button you can clear all log filters.

Attention! Installing a filter on a log does not automatically reformat the log. In order to regenerate the log, click on the “Show Log” banner.

The generated document journal has the following columns: document (document type), number, date, time, counterparty, company and posted (document status). By clicking on a document number, you can view and edit this document. You can view and edit only the following types of documents: "Receipt of inventory items (purchase and sale)", "Receipt of inventory items (commission)", "Sales of inventory items (purchase and sale)", "Sales of inventory items (commission)", "Return from the buyer ( purchase and sale)", "Return from the buyer (commission)", "Return to the supplier (purchase and sale)", "Return to the supplier (commission)", "Inventory of goods and materials (by warehouse)", "Write-off of goods and materials" and "Capitalization of goods and materials ". For each of these documents, you can edit the "Quantity" column in the document specification and the "Comment" field. Changed documents can be saved and printed by clicking on the "Save Changes" and "Print View" banners, respectively. The documents “Sales of goods and materials (purchase and sale)” and “Sales of goods and materials (commission)” can also be printed in the form of “TORG-12”, for which you should click on “TORG-12”. Based on these documents, you can issue an “Invoice” document or view this document if it has already been issued previously. To do this, click on the inscription "Invoice". Please note that if an invoice has already been issued previously on the basis of an invoice, then each time the invoice is opened, its composition will be reformatted. Therefore, it is recommended not to view the invoice unless necessary and to open it only when the composition of the invoice has changed and the invoice needs to be reissued. The invoice can be saved and printed.

In addition to editing, saving and printing, you can also post certain types of documents, namely: “Receipt of goods and materials (purchase and sale)”, “Sales (purchase and sale)”, “Receipt of goods and materials (commission)”, “Sales (commission)”. Documents of the types “Inventory of goods and materials”, “Write-off of goods and materials”, “Capitalization of goods and materials” and “Invoice” are not allowed. The latest documents can only be posted by the administrator or manager of the trading system.

2. Inventory

This page is intended for generating and saving new inventory records. To create a new inventory, select the company and date and click on “Create a new Inventory”. As a result of this operation, the composition of the new inventory will be automatically filled in accordance with the calculated warehouse balances.


After this, the inventory composition can be edited. In the composition, you can change the number of goods actually present in the warehouse, you can add new products to the composition. To add new products to the inventory, use the "Add product" link.


It opens a window for selecting goods, similar to the window for selecting a counterparty for a filter in the document log (see above).

Using the ">>" buttons located to the right of the products, you can select new products for the inventory. In the field next to the ">>" button you can set the quantity of goods when selecting. If this quantity is specified, then each time you press “>>” an additional specified quantity of goods is selected. If the quantity is not specified, then the first time you press “>>” one unit of product is selected. The generated inventory has the ability to set a comment, it can be recorded and printed.

3. Write-off of inventory items and capitalization of inventory items

These two pages are used to generate new documents “Write-off of inventory items” and “Capitalization of inventory items”. It is possible to generate new write-off and capitalization documents both without a basis and on the basis of a previously completed inventory of goods. In the first case, you should click on “Create an act without a basis,” and in the second, first click on the “Show list of Inventory” button, and then in the list of inventories that appears, select the one on the basis of which you want to issue a new document. Selecting the required inventory occurs by clicking on the number of this inventory. The composition of the documents “Write-off of inventory items” and “Capitalization of inventory items generated on the basis of inventory” is filled out automatically, based on the specifications of the inventory itself.


After this, the “quantity” column in the document specification can be changed, new product items can be added to the document specification (see selection of goods for inventory above), the document can be saved and printed.

4. Remaining goods

This page is intended to obtain information about the estimated (based on completed documents) balances of goods in the warehouse. Balances can be viewed for a specific date specified on the page. Enabling the "Only in stock" switch means that only those products with a balance greater than zero will be shown. It is also possible to filter products by group (or element) and property. Setting a filter by product group or product property is carried out in the same way as setting a journal filter by counterparty. As a result of clicking on the "Show balances" button, a table will be generated containing information about the balances of goods in the warehouse.


This table includes the following columns: “Description” (product or group of products) and “Remaining” (remaining product in stock in default units).

5. Movement of goods

This page is used to obtain information about the movements of goods in a given warehouse, i.e. on the quantity of goods received and shipped for a particular period and on the balance of goods at the beginning and end of the period. In the settings, you can set the interval (the boundaries of the reporting period), you can set a filter by products and their categories. Also, by setting the switch “With detailing according to documents”, it is possible to enable detailing of movements of goods according to documents.


By clicking on “Show Movement”, a table is formed with the columns: “Description” (group of goods, product or document), “Beginning balance” (balance of goods at the beginning of the reporting period), “Receipt” (receipt of goods for the period), “Expense "(consumption of goods for the period), "Balance at the end" (balance of goods at the end of the reporting period).

Owners of manufacturing and trading companies do not need to explain why a warehouse is needed and what strategic function it performs. However, many beginning entrepreneurs who want to get maximum profit from their activities and recoup investments in a developing business as early as possible neglect the need to rent premises for storing products.

This is partly due to the fact that the cost of renting non-residential space still remains at a fairly high level, despite the fact that the economic crisis has “decimated” a considerable part of potential clients who are forced to close their businesses.

Today we will talk to you about how to organize the work of a warehouse “from scratch”, we will give several “reinforced concrete” arguments in favor of its necessity, and we will also think about how and what you can save on by organizing its work.

Everything seems to be clear. Then go ahead!

Classification

In order to choose the right strategy for arranging a warehouse space, you need to have a clear idea of ​​what function it will perform for you, both for the owner and for your potential buyers. All warehouses can be divided into three categories:

    Administrative household. Such premises, as a rule, are used for storing equipment, food products for domestic use, medicines, household chemicals and other products not intended for sale. It happens that the “administrative and household department” is formed within the confines of a utility room, let’s say, in order to save money. Current legislation regulating this issue does not prohibit this;

    Technological. These warehouses represent a kind of “transshipment point” for products that you are going to produce yourself or import from its manufacturer. The speed of shipment of goods will largely depend on the operation of such a warehouse, because Today, quite a lot of software has been created for these needs, designed to create comfortable conditions for accounting for inventory items. Here's a good example! Check out the tariffs and ;

    Ancillary. The name of this type of warehouse speaks for itself. Some particularly economical entrepreneurs manage to combine all three types of warehouses within one area, but doing this is not entirely correct. In our case, if we are talking about a “utility room”, then it is better to organize it within the office. It will be cheaper and won’t interfere with work either.

As you can see, the general concept of “warehouse” has a fairly broad paradigm of meaning. In many ways, it is a clear understanding of the purposes for which the premises will be used in the future that determines the future success of this enterprise.


Where to begin?

Once you have decided on the purpose of the future warehouse, it’s time to start looking for suitable space. It just so happens that most of the premises designed for these needs are located in industrial zones of cities.

This was partly facilitated by privatization, when fairly “solvent” gentlemen simply bought out entire buildings from dilapidated factories and subsequently began leasing out space. You need to be prepared for the fact that the location of the warehouse too far from your office may create some discomfort in interacting with future employees in this area.

    In any case, remote warehouses have one advantage - rental costs can be significantly lower (generally high) than in areas located closer to the city center.

To find the right place, you can use two well-known methods:

    Search for information on the Internet. Here you can count on a fairly wide range of offers;

    Drive around the city and pay attention to the signs. As a rule, in especially “hot” places they are posted even with the rental price per 1 m 2 indicated;

    Find out from friends. It is quite possible that they themselves were looking for the right premises not long ago;

    Choose a location close to future customers (you probably already know exactly who you will sell your products to).

Regardless of where the warehouse will be located and what the owner will charge for rent, it is important to take into account its future “decoration”. On the Internet you can find a huge number of standard layouts, one of which can be applied to your area. The image above shows a standard plan designed for responsible storage of products - just our case!

What's next?

After the lease agreement is signed, it is necessary to begin arranging the premises. But before that, it is important to carefully read the contract and check with the owner who will pay for utilities. that this particular issue becomes a stumbling block in rental issues. You should be more careful here.

However, let’s assume that all the ambiguous aspects of cooperation have been resolved, and now you need to organize the direct work of the warehouse. Depending on how adapted the room is to this, the order of further actions will depend.

There are quite a large number of offers on the market where ready-made warehouses with racks, pallets, forklift services, jacks, etc. are rented. If this is not your case, then you will have to rent equipment and furniture (the Internet will help), and this is an additional expense. In any case, this makes it possible to organize the space exactly as you wish. At this stage you will need to do at least a few things:

    Agree with workers to perform “rough” work (arrange shelving, make partitions, clean the area, etc.);

    Find people from among warehouse workers (preferably with good work experience), estimate what the number of personnel should be;

    If you have your own freight transport, you will need a driver and a forwarder;

    Get . It should be inexpensive.


The diagram shows the well-functioning work of warehouse personnel

Attention to employees

The people you work with will be especially important. Their diligence, responsibility and basic decency will determine how correctly the warehouse will be filled, how quickly the products will be shipped, and whether or not problems with damage or theft of products will arise.

    One of our previous articles is about how accounting writes off damaged or stolen goods from the organization’s balance sheet. Be sure to read it, but we hope that you still won’t need it.

You can and should entrust the selection of personnel to a recruitment agency if you do not feel confident in your “recruiting” abilities. Their specialists, as a rule, are well versed in the specifics of this work, they know how to identify potential thieves and slackers, thanks to which the candidates who have passed the selection will be practically ready to work for you. Here we should not forget about labor protection. How well are you familiar with the legislation in this area? Be sure to check it out.

Among other things, you will need to resolve issues with overalls, staffing, internal daily routine, place to relax and much more, which is to some extent different from “office” work. Do not forget that in the Russian climate, staff will need to be provided with free tea and cookies. If in the office this is more of a “fad”, then in the warehouse it is already an urgent need.

About work control

"Trust but check"– the only correct approach to working with warehouse personnel. This does not mean at all that you need to come to the warehouse every day, sit somewhere in the corner and vigilantly watch how others do their work. It is quite enough to periodically go into and observe how much product is left in the warehouse, what shipments are taking place, how quickly the storekeepers “release” arriving vehicles, etc. The current development of programs allows you to do this not even from the workplace, but, for example, from a phone, laptop or tablet. The “” service largely favors this.

conclusions

    Based on all of the above, we can conclude that organizing the work of a warehouse is a rather labor-intensive, but quite feasible process, where a lot depends on the approach to the matter, on the available resources, as well as on the kind of team that will surround you. Whether to work with like-minded people or with simple “mercenaries” is up to you to decide. We hope that the material we offer will help you develop your business!

We wish you good luck and see you soon!

Each such department needs its own database for record keeping, and full or partial data exchange with the central database is desirable. As practice shows, such a simple situation is often resolved by enterprises not only “unsuccessfully”, but completely unacceptable. In this article we will not consider illustrative examples of unsuccessful implementations; on the contrary, we will consistently consider the simplest and most effective method. So, the situation: There is an office of an enterprise in the city center, records are kept in standard 1C Commerce. The type of activity does not matter to us, well, for example, furniture. The company has a geographically remote warehouse on the outskirts. Task:

  • The warehouse requires a database for quantitative accounting of materials and components. Data on the receipt of inventory items is received and downloaded automatically from the office DB (Database).
  • The "Nomenclature" directory in the warehouse and office databases must be the same.
  • Primary documents (receipt of goods and materials, etc.) are entered into the office database. Their subsequent transfer to the warehouse DB (Database) is necessary. Based on receipt, picking documents and invoices are entered into the warehouse database. After their creation, they are transferred to the office database.

Thus, in the office and warehouse there is a real picture of the movement of goods and materials. A question immediately arises. How to transfer data from database to database? It is clear that not every enterprise has its own programmer on staff. But here you don't need it. Both of these configurations are the same. Therefore, data transfer can be carried out using standard 1C reports supplied with the program or with the ITS (Information and Technical Support) disk. Here is a short recommended description of such a system:

Key points:

  • The Warehouse database is an exact copy of the Office database, geographically located in a remote warehouse and exchanging with the Office database documents of receipt and expenditure of inventory items, as well as relevant directories.
  • Data exchange is carried out using standard processing “Universal data upload” and “Universal data loading” (You can find them in the Service / Additional features section).

Work algorithm:

  • Inventory receipt documents (materials) are entered into the Office database (manually or automatically). During the document entry process, new item items are introduced.
  • At the end of the working day (or if necessary), the entered documents are uploaded to a file using the standard “Universal data upload” processing through the Tools / Additional options menu. This is done simply. Processing starts, the upload period is selected, and the documents that need to be uploaded are checked. The report then automatically generates the file. This is convenient because the user can select not only the types of documents to upload, but also individual documents of each type. The whole procedure takes 1-2 minutes.
  • The data file is sent to a remote warehouse. Upon receipt, the data is loaded into the Warehouse database using standard processing "Universal data loading" (Menu Service / Additional options). Loading is done fully automatically; during the loading process, new item items are created (if necessary) while maintaining the “directory tree” (hierarchy).
  • If necessary, a special “Configuration” document is created in the Warehouse database. The purpose of the document is to deregister the components included in the set of equipment being sold and to register the receipt of this type of equipment at the warehouse. You can specify the composition of the kit in the Directory "Nomenclature" / Directories / Components. Packing documents are located in the menu Documents / Kits / Log of picking documents.
  • At the time of shipment of goods and materials at a remote warehouse (DB Warehouse), the “Implementation” document is made on the basis of the “Complete” document (or, if there was no configuration, then on the basis). The buyer company is selected as the counterparty. Documents Implementation and configuration are uploaded to a file according to the algorithm described above and then sent to the Office database. You don’t have to indicate prices for equipment, since the Warehouse database only keeps quantitative records.
  • In the Office database, Sales and Assembling documents received from a remote warehouse are loaded in the standard way. Then the Packaging document is carried out (at the moment, the components included in the selected equipment are written off and the equipment itself is registered). The required retail prices are established in the Sales document, and the document is also posted.

General remarks:

  • Organization of work at this stage presupposes the presence of a qualified user in both information bases.
  • In case of such specific situations as dismantling of equipment, return from the buyer, etc. the corresponding documents must be transferred from the Office DB to the Warehouse DB to match the quantitative accounting in both configurations. Data exchange is carried out according to the algorithm described above.
  • Any documents contained in the databases can be transferred.

Both reports used are simple, and loading data does not require any action from the user other than selecting a file. Does it make sense to pay to write specialized transfer systems that, with the slightest configuration change, will require reconfiguration by the programmer? There is one key condition in the described algorithm - the databases must be the same, so if you make changes to the configurator in the office database, then you need to make them in the warehouse database. In general, this algorithm is quite simple and does not require programming skills.

Kolyasnikov Sergey Anatolievich, LLC VK "Ural-Soft"

One day, one of my clients, tormented by another wild mismatch of goods, decided to restore order in their warehouses. Our experience and unusual solution are in this article.

As a rule, trading companies are organized according to the following scheme: there is a central office in which transactions and negotiations take place, management and several warehouses are located. The main office is located in a prestigious area and serves as the face of the company. Warehouses are located in less prestigious areas, or even beyond the Moscow Ring Road.
With a fairly large turnover and a large assortment of goods, the question arises, how to control all this?

Typical warehouse: about 12,000 items are stored, the names of which often differ by only one digit in the 60th position

The discrepancy between real balances and central system data is becoming the norm. Shortages and mismatches bloom in full bloom.
And after a particularly large shortage, Big Boss, slamming his fist on a suitable surface, makes the decision: “We’ll do an inventory and deduct all the shortages from the salary.” The most dull ones are fined. It rarely helps. More often than not, it's not the employees. It is impossible to collect several hundred positions in dozens of documents, some of which differ only in the nth digit, without an error. A computer should help a person with this.

We applied the following scheme -
1. Upon receipt, all goods are checked for the correctness of the barcode; in case of an error, a new barcode is applied.
2. When releasing goods (assembling an order), the computer, through a barcode scanner, monitors the compliance of the released goods with the buyer’s order.

At first glance, everything is simple, we connect the scanner, put the computers in the warehouse and off we go. On the second - problems begin to appear
1. If the warehouse and office are not in the same place, you need to solve the problem of their connection.
2. Knowing our storekeepers, it becomes clear that they cannot be trusted with the keyboard.

In order to prevent damage to the computer, it had to be screwed to the table from below using a metal bandage. The monitor was screwed to the ceiling. As a result, the storekeeper only has access to a scanner built into the table.

Now we will move on to technical issues.

Initially, we considered several options for connecting the central system with a remote warehouse.
Direct connection- regular network to the warehouse. Either wires or a radio channel. In this case, the network throughput must be at least 10 Mbps. They refused due to the impossibility of reaching the warehouse with a network. The radio channel turned out to be very expensive and limited in range.
Terminal connection- in a nutshell, its operating principle is as follows: the program is executed on the server, and only the image is transferred to the client (warehouse computer). Moreover, the client may not even know that it is not his computer that is running, but the server in the central office.
The benefit is in the “width” of the required communication channel. Compared to a direct connection, it is much more modest - approximately 64Kbps per computer, which allows the use of an Internet connection. However, the connection must be continuous for it to work. The volume of transmitted data is quite large. With 5 workstations it can amount to hundreds of megabytes. If we also take into account the required licenses for the terminal connection, then the cost of the solution seems quite large. In addition, it is not entirely clear how to transfer read barcodes to the server. The terminal connection was also abandoned.
Periodic data synchronization through the 1C URBD component. A fairly attractive solution that allows you to periodically exchange data with a remote warehouse through any communication channels, even through a boy on a bicycle with a floppy disk. The only problem is that if the configuration of the central system changes, the changes are transmitted to subordinate warehouses, which requires the suspension of their work.

Our solution was like this: a minimum configuration is written for the warehouse in 1C, the functions of which are to receive release documents from the central system, control order assembly (product release), and send confirmation of order assembly to the central system. Data is sent via email. This allowed us to solve several problems at once:
- The communication channel can be very narrow, down to a simple modem.
- The communication channel may be temporary.
We connected, received information, confirmed receipt, disconnected, we work. Taking into account the fact that any connection can break, this method guarantees the continuity of the warehouse. The provider has fallen - we call another. If the telephone line is cut off, we connect the mobile phone and there is still a connection.

The next problem was the qualifications of storekeepers. There was no immediate talk about working directly with a computer. Therefore, “keys” were printed on a regular printer - pieces of paper on which information was written with a bar code - the personal number of the storekeeper and the team. Controlling a computer comes down to presenting the required key to the barcode scanner.

As a result, the entire chain of work looks like this:
1. The manager places the buyer’s order in the central system. The goods are reserved for the buyer.
2. The order is transferred to a remote warehouse.
3. At the warehouse, the order is assigned a barcode and the document is printed. Using it, the storekeeper begins assembling the order.
4. After the order is assembled, the storekeeper goes to the computer and identifies himself with his “key”
5. The storekeeper brings the printout of the collected document to the barcode scanner and the computer automatically opens the required document.