Manufacturing

Apprise Distribution offers fully integrated manufacturing capabilities – including kitting and work order management - designed to specifically meet the needs of distributors. Enhance your ability to meet your customers’ requirements with streamlined operations and improved flexibility.

Key Benefits

Increased sales and warehouse efficiencies

• Rule-based environment lets you predefine products in fixed or configuration kits, enabling sales representatives to efficiently and accurately process orders to customer requirements.
• Gain warehouse and labor efficiencies by picking kit items concurrently during the warehouse picking process.
• Meet customer specific demands with build-to-order work order management.

Enhanced flexibility

• Flexible build-to-stock and build-to-order work order management ensure that the right products are available for your customers at the right time.
• Varied costing methods, including standard, average, LIFO, FIFO, lot, serial, and landed, give you real-time information to effectively track, manage, and reduce your costs.
• Comprehensive labor, overhead, and fixed and variable expense allocation provides maximum cost management insight and control.
• Multiple level bills of material provide deep insight into all of the materials and components that make up finished products and kits.

Streamlined operations

• Back flush bins enable you to streamline the inputs for work orders and kits and gain assembly efficiencies.
• Optimize the use of backordered materials by allocating them to work orders based on your business rules that maximize sales and revenue potential.
• Leverage disassembly work orders to streamline product returns and restocking.

Apprise® is a registered trademark of Apprise Software, Inc.