Distribution/Inventory Related

Supply Chain Management - Distribution/Inventory Related

Item Substitution

Offer your customers alternative items when:

• The items 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
• Automatically created nonstock item numbers
• 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, companies, 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
• Accounts 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.