Rental Production Overview

The Tuxedo Production System module known as (TPS) is designed to manage the reservation & production of rental items/garments. It is important to note that this system can reserve inventory on a day by day basis instead of a week by week period.

The software can easily support company owned rental stores providing real time rental item availability. Wholesale account support is also available via the optional Accounts Receivable/Invoicing module.

WinTPS can provide real-time item availability for any day in the future. Day basis reservation is defined as follows: An order's items will be reserved against inventory for the exact number of days needed. Unlike other reservation systems which reserve items for a week and allow only 52 rental opportunities, day base reservation can allow more rental turns by providing 365 possible rentals. The software allows an operator to know the status & availability of any rental inventory item, to create and edit records of rental orders via a retail Point of Sale ticket or Rental Order Entry Module, to manage the production/assembly, location, sub-renting and laundry status of inventory. Numerous reports are offered for tracking rented and sub-rented items, receivables, current orders, inventory, etc.

WinTPS can reserve specific items for any day of any year, and will tell you when items are overbooked. Inventory can be controlled to the specific item level via the utilization of item Serial/ID numbers. Also, inventory items may be non-tracked eliminating a scanning requirement, yet WinTPS will maintain their availability also.

Production tickets may be printed on laser printers or thermal printers. Knowing the performance of the rental inventory is very important. This information allows decisions to be made when a garment should be retired, when more quantity should be purchased and how well the investment has preformed. This is accomplished via the tracking of turns (the number of times the item has been sent out) & revenue (value of the orders the garment was assigned to). Turns & revenue are incremented automatically by WinTPS. For orders going to non Company owned stores, the turns/revenue are incremented when the item is SHIPPED. For company owned stores (Company owned stores are entered with the ProfitSystem Multi-Store option via the System Set-up form) turns/revenue are updated when the order is PICKED UP by the customer.

Rental Production Diagram The primary process steps for production management are: A) Enter reservation order via WinTPOS Point of Sale or within the Production Order entry module B) Order/sub-rent overbooked items by use date range via reviewing the on screen report of overbooked items, then indicating to the computer that they have been ordered and from whom. C) Receive Sub-Rented Inventory D) Print Production tickets for period and/or location E) Assemble orders. Scan barcodes of tracked items during QC. F) Ship rental order to account/remote store by entering/scanning orders being shipped. G) Print Packing Slips and/or Invoice H) Return rental items from account/remote store by scanning all item barcodes or entering order number. I) Send to laundry dirty items J) Return items from laundry