By default, the Loc SMS point of sale system comes with DSD receiving out of the box.
DSD stands for Direct Store Delivery. These are orders from your vendor where the vendor made their own purchase order and just shows up with the delivery in the backof the store. You create a DSD receiving document on a workstation computer or PDA device, then scan in all the items to verify that the order is accurate and you are maintaining accurate pricing and costing information. At the conclusion of the document, your receiving document should match the receipt the delivery driver has. If the receipt doesn't match what the DSD document in the pos system says, it's likely because the vendor has changed the cost on some items. It is the receiver's job to find the problems, and adjust the costs in the system accordingly. If you wish to perform DSD receiving in your pos system it requires that you enter cost records for each item you wish to receive. You assign each item to a specific vendor, and enter the case information and pricing prior to starting a DSD document.
DSD receiving is labor intensive. It's typically a full time job for at least one person, if not two people. You need to have someone on staff at all times when your store might receive a delivery. Receivers are excellent at catching cost increases. If a can of green beans goes up by $0.10 one day, the receiver will notice that cost increase because the DSD document doesn't match the delivery driver's receipt. If you sell 15 cans of green beans every day of the year, 15 x 0.10 x 365 = $547. The grocery business is a game of pennies. Receivers watch the pennies. In the case of the green beans, the receiver would notice the $0.10 cost increase, and adjust the retail price accordingly. Now you're not losing $547 a year multiplied by thousands of items in the store. Receiving and checking in orders at the back door is one area where extra effort on the point of sale system pays off.
DSD receiving is not an all or nothing proposition. You do not have to check in every single item in the store. Receiving is done by vendor. You can perform receiving only on your main vendor for example, or perhaps only on the liquor or cigarette vendors. You can perform receiving on as much or little of the store as you want.
DSD receiving will also add inventory to your system. If you receive a case of green beans, it will add 40 units of that particular item into the on hand amounts in your pos system.
The receiving module is quite powerful. You'll find it in the SMS program, (not SMS Pro) under the Buy tab, on the left hand side of the screen you'll see a section for "Buying", and in there you'll find the "Extended Module". This is where you go to perform DSD receiving documents. Once in this section, there's a green button that says "Deliveries" at the top of the page. That's a DSD document.