Item Substitution

Offer your customers alternative items when:

§  Those they want are out of stock.

§  The alternatives are cheaper with a higher profit margin.

Item Cross-References

Identify what your customers want by cross-referencing any customer code, internal code, or vendor code.

Nonstock Items

Provide customers requesting nonstock items:

§  Immediate quotes.

§  Nonstock item numbers automatically created.

§  Orders for nonstock items processed in the same way as for stock items.

Multiple Locations and Responsibility Centers

Handle inventory in more than one location (for example, warehouses in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles) from one database to:

§  Gain a complete real-time business overview.

§  Create cost and profit centers.

Stockkeeping Units

Manage items individually per location. With stockkeeping units, items can be described and managed individually per location including:

§  Replenishment methods

§  Safety Stock

§  Costs

Location Transfers

Manage the movement of inventory between warehouses. Produce an overview and report of inventory in transit whenever you or your customers require it.

Order Promising

Calculate item availability and deliver on your promises:

§  Available to Promise feature for planning.

§  Capable to Promise feature for “what if?” scenarios.

Calendars

Specify working and non-working days designated to customers, vendors, locations, company and shipping agents.

Item Tracking

Track and trace items at any time during the sales, purchase, transfer process, and afterwards with serial numbering and lot tracking.

Returns Management

Handle returned inventory and account for additional costs such as restocking charges. You can also automatically organize:

§  Credit Memos.

§  Replacement goods.

§  Returns to vendors.

§  Account for additional costs.

§  Partial or combined return of shipments.

§  Partial or combined return of receipts.

Shipping Agents

Control your distribution by relating shipping agents to the services they offer.

Warehousing

§  Order-by-Order Warehousing enables your employees to efficiently complete warehouse tasks and have an overview of where items are located. Order-by-Order Warehousing is easy for your employees to learn and use.

§  Multiple-order Warehousing is an affordable extension that gives you the functionality you need and grows with you.

§  Reduce costs through effective warehouse processes with Warehouse Management Systems:

§  Plan Shipments

§  Directed Pick and Put-away.

§  Picking items can be performed in several different ways: per order, to stage, to tote.

§  Putting items away either into the warehouse or cross-dock to shipping.

§  Replenishment of bins based on pre-defined maximum or minimum bin quantities

§  Receipt and shipment filtering of released source documents.

§  Efficient picking methods.

§  Cross-docking.

§  Achieve cost savings by streamlining your inventory management processes with Automated Data Capture Systems:

§       Collect and use accurate, real-time inventory data.

§       Simplify and speed up your data capture system using radio frequency technology.

§       Increase the visibility of accurate inventory data throughout your company.

Cycle Counting

Maintain and increase inventory accuracy by verifying inventory record data.

§  Allows you to differentiate the counting frequency per item or stock keeping unit.

Pricing

Efficiently manage sales and purchase prices and line discounts with customers and vendors.

§  Specify specific sales/purchase prices and line discounts for individual customers and vendors.

§  Manage general sales prices and line discounts for groups of customers or all of your customers.

Item Charges

Improve cost control by including the value of additional cost components to the unit cost or unit price of an item. For example, such cost components could be freight or insurance.