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System Benefits

Faster and More Accurate Commissary Transactions
The system automates all pre-sales checks needed to verify whether the offender is allowed to purchase a particular item, including implementing the DOC's earned incentive programs such as spending limits, access to items, quantity limits etc. Its real-time interface with the Offender Funds Administration system ensures that offenders are not able to spend more than their available funds. By collecting these disparate functions into one cohesive activity, the system also ensures accuracy of information.

Reduce Personnel Required For Commissary and Warehouse Inventory Management
Through the use of sophisticated software routines, UPC scanners and handheld devices, the system reduces the amount of human resources required to process commissary orders and manage warehouse inventory.

Increased Accessibility to Useful Information
The Commissary system's database is specifically designed to allow detailed analysis of offender transactional history from virtually any perspective (e.g., date, location, organization, offender, item, etc). There are numerous reports that enable warehouse, business office and security personnel to discharge their responsibilities with ease. The Commissary Operations system supports the use of third-party statistical analysis software to access its database.

Centralize Control and Program Review
Customers can choose whether to implement database servers at each individual site, or one database at a central site. The Commissary system employs a highly optimized custom transactional message queuing technology for data replication which allows customers to enjoy the benefits of a central server, even if they have independent servers deployed at each site.

The system uses the same technology to support a hierarchy of rules. At the central server, users can enter information such as policy changes and general ledger updates that are replicated to each institution. This allows central office to set the parameters which govern the application behavior. Similarly, each institution, and housing unit can set their own parameters.

Increase Efficiency in Purchase Order Processing
The Commissary system incorporates very sophisticated inventory and sales analytics to determine optimal levels of inventory. The user has the option to use the system's recommendation to generate purchase orders, thereby freeing them from complex and time-consuming inventory calculations.

Increase Commissary Profitability
With access to real-time information, sophisticated analytics, and automated purchase ordering users are able to better manage their inventory assets. The system has demonstrated its ability to simultaneously increase inventory turnover while also increasing fill rates. This reduces the capital needed to purchase inventory and personnel needed to manage inventory while maximizing sales by eliminating outages of fast moving and higher margin items. All of these directly lead to increased profitability.

Auditable Transactions
Each transaction entered in the system is stamped with date, time, user ID, and location ID. Transaction cannot be deleted or changed after it is written to the database. Changes can only be made by adding a new transaction to void previous entry. In combination, the systems transaction logging, on-line queries, and extensive reporting capabilities provide a complete audit-trail for all transactions.