Purchasing & Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)

Apprise Distribution purchasing and DRP provides powerful, yet flexible, rule-based and time-phased tools to effectively manage inventory and your supply chain. Maximize your revenue opportunities while minimizing your costs through efficient purchasing, streamlined supplier management, and integrated inventory forecasting and planning.

Key benefits include:

• Flexibility
  • Rule-based environment automatically identifies and alerts you to business issues based on exceptions to criteria that you define, enabling you to purchase from multiple suppliers, trade in multiple currencies, and manage inventory across multiple warehouses with maximum efficiency and control.
  • Forecasting and planning algorithms utilize a broad array of industry standard inputs - including point-of-sale (POS) data, customer forecasting, historical sales trends, seasonality, varied supplier lead times, and more - alongside customized inputs to optimize purchasing and DRP.
  • Create product inventory demand schedules based on your forecasts and utilize them to collaborate with suppliers on the creation of optimal purchase order and shipment plans.
• True enterprise-wide integration
  • Integration across all of your business operations means data is entered only once and is immediately available throughout your organization to those authorized to view it.
  • A time-phased approach helps you manage and track multiple purchase orders and shipments to gain valuable insights into inventory levels and shipping status for comparison to pending customer orders and sales forecasts - enabling you to initiate new purchases when appropriate, select the best suppliers, and efficiently manage your inventory.
  • Historical product sales and performance trends can be integrated in real-time with new product forecasts for improved assumptions, testing, and planning.
• Enhanced profitability
  • Streamlined supply chain management considers all the factors – including potentially lengthy inventory order lead times – to provide for timely purchasing and the receipt of inventory aligned with customer demands, helping you maximize order fulfillment and minimize excess inventory.
  • Increased revenues are attained by meeting the fluctuating demands of your customers while also lowering inventory carrying costs -enhancing profitability.

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