Inventory, Warehouse, and Supply Chain Management Software

Inventory, warehouse, and supply chain management is as much an art as it is a science. Slingshot’s web based applications provide you with the tools that enable you to take your craft further than ever before.

• Integration with planning and execution applications ensures that your inventory is in the right place at the right time.
• Constantly monitor supply and demand across your supply chain - taking automated action and prompting manual intervention to keep your inventory at target levels.
• Define facilities as (among others) offices, stockrooms, manufacturing plants, satellite warehouses or large distribution centers
• Configure alerts to notify you immediately if something is wrong, and what to do about it
• Set processing rules for each facility ranging from simple stock control to advanced warehouse management
• Enter transactions on a standard browser or using wireless radio frequency scanners.

Slingshot’s inventory, warehouse, and supply chain management suite comprises two integrated management applications: Stock and Plan. Here’s a little about them:

STOCK

Stock provides the functionality to efficiently manage and monitor your inventory for all types of products in all types of facilities. It provides the controls needed to maximize your inventory throughput and profitability. It also provides you with real-time management information allowing you to react instantly as market conditions change.

• Virtual warehouses allow you to track inventories of strategic supply chain partners
• Flexible warehouse configuration allows you to fully control an unlimited number of facilities down to the zone level
• Track products by lot and/or serial number to enable shipment or warehouse based tracking, as well as date sensitive picking and replenishment
• Stock status and usage statistics provide detailed summaries of on hand, demand, and supply totals
• Financially, Stock supports LIFO, FIFO, Standard Replacement and Average Cost calculation methods
• Multiple stratification methods are supported, including monetary value, velocity, or velocity time value.

PLAN

Slingshot’s patented planning system provides you with the control and flexibility you need to stay on top of your supply chain at all times.

• Color coded graphical displays let you view real-time inventory projections for a product, product group, planner, warehouse or any combination
• Plan responds instantly to changes in planning rules, inventory levels, supply, demand and the sales forecast. This continuous planning eliminates plan latency.
• With user defined forecasting periods and “bucket-less” calculations, inefficiencies introduced by “bucket averaging” are also eliminated
• Maintain a plan for every stock item in every location. Changes to supply and demand will trigger a series of configurable actions, resulting in the optimal supply plan at all times
• Collaborate with your partners in real time, across the entire supply chain.
• Careful system design allows you to model complex, multi-level supply chains and to scale indefinitely into the future as your business grows
• Plan forecasts can be entered for each item at each location. Using demand history, forecasts can be created automatically or manually
• Manufacturing planning makes sure that your purchase, warehouse transfer or assembly work order is created when an order is placed
• Transportation planning allows you to view future transportation requirements across the entire supply chain
• Peg all demand to its true source (customer orders, forecast, lot sizing or safety stock

A NEW APPROACH TO BUSINESS SYSTEM OWNERSHIP

Like all Slingshot products, the customer relationship management module is developed using eTools, our rapid application development tool. Owning eTools enables you to remove your dependence on a third party vendor for the support of your systems. This significantly lowers your costs and risk exposure.

eTools Allows You To:

• Extend your applications, without programming
• Lower your costs and risks by developing and deploying your applications quickly and with minimum disruption to your business
• Preserve your unique system functionality during base system upgrades
• Quickly meet any new or changed regulatory/legal requirements (SOX, PCI, CFR Part 11 etc.)
• Enjoy the functional power and fit of a tailored system for the price of a packaged solution

Give Your Team the Latest Features:

• Use the internet to collaborate with your team, trading partners and reporting authorities – wherever they are
• Multi currency and multi lingual control options for your global enterprise
• A user configurable dashboard keeps your team informed about exception conditions and selected performance indicators
• A fully integrated Crystal reporting environment
• Span of Control based security enables you to determine the functions and data that each member of your team can access

• Plan
• Stock