The key to excellent purchasing is to provide great inventory service and get the most value for the money you invest in inventory. Your customers and employees want inventory to be available when they need it. But if youre not careful you can eat up all your profit in inventory carrying costs.
SouthWare's Purchasing integrates with SouthWare's Inventory/Sales Series to help you achieve your inventory goals. You get the help you need to set and maintain target stock levels, to analyze usage trends, and to check vendor performance. Whether youre maintaining a well-stocked inventory or ordering for just-in-time delivery, Purchasing has the tools to help you.
Have all the work of creating suggested POs done for you
Use your judgment more efficiently by focusing only on any needed adjustments to suggested purchases
Trust that your purchasing decisions are based on assumptions that are continually updated for recent trends
Create just-in-time POs from your sales orders
Make special adjustments to the purchasing controls for any stock item
Identify seasonal sales items and adjust suggested purchases for seasonal needs
Recognize normal and abnormal usage patterns for your inventory
Order the most profitable quantity levels based on EOQ or other quantity discount calculations
Take into account line buying and other special vendor requirements
Know which vendors are giving you the best performance on each item