Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management
Purchasing
• Supplier
• Supplier breakdown: ordered, invoicing, paid and group
• Supplier reminder by undelivered orders on outstanding products
Product categories
• Grouping of products
Products
• In stock or not, management of serial numbers, lot numbers and sub-lot numbers
• Default supplier per product and per product/site
• Product reference, product description, units, minimum purchase quantities customizable
by supplier
Units
• Stock units
• Packing units with fixed or variable conversion factors
• Commercial units (sales, purchases)
Prices & Discounts
• Configurable price structure by supplier
• Configurable multi-criteria prices
• Price management by currency, coefficient, quantity
Commercial documents
◦ RFQ (Request for Quotation)/Purchase request/Order
◦ Order/Invoice
◦ Order/Receipt/Invoice
◦ Order/Invoice/Receipt
◦ Direct invoice
Purchase workflow
• Purchase requests, orders, and open orders to sign
• Signed requests, orders, and open orders
• Historical purchase open orders, and purchase documents signed
• History of documents on which there is an approval or rejection
• Cancellation of the signature action for a document.
Logistics
• Optimize freight cost and quantity optimization according to container capacity
• Plan shipments based on product in a container and track the movement of that container
from supplier to delivery location
• Supplier shipment coordination to reduce transportation costs
◦ Identify other products and suggestions for the supplier
Stock valuation
• Cost monitoring: global, detailed and at a specific date
• Standard cost, Revised standard cost, Average unit cost, Average lot cost, FIFO, LIFO, last
purchase price and simulated cost, standard price and simulated price
• Adjustment of supplier invoice (value, quantity, exchange rate)
• Adjustment of additional invoice (carrier invoice)
Stock
• Traceability
• Actual or projected stock inquiry with first availability date
• Detailed stock inquiry
• Inquiry by storage site or consolidated inquiry
• Stock movement history inquiry
• Stock in transfer and transit inquiry (inter-site or inter-company)
Marginal Revenue Product (MRP) calculation
• Point/periodic/inter-site reordering
• MRP calculation
• Purchase recommendations for specific Project and tasks
• Calculation according to safety stock
Receipts
• Direct receipt or receipt by order line picking
• Receipt of inter-company shipments
• Receipt of sub-contracted services
Quality assurance
• Stock status management: accepted, rejected, inspected
• Quality control procedures with analysis request
• Expiry date management
• Upstream and downstream traceability management
Returns
• Creation of returns by selecting receipt lines or direct entry
• Reincorporation of returned quantities on order
• Generation of corresponding credit note
Supplier invoices
• Configurable invoice types
• Recording and checking
• Invoice/Receiving slip/Order reconciliation
• Credit note/Return/Invoice reconciliation
• Additional invoices and credit notes
• Breakdown of invoice footer elements by line
• Value adjustment of stock movements according to invoice variances
Integration to accounts
• Invoices receivable
• Credit notes receivable
• Supplier invoices
• Stock movement posting
• Tax
• VAT on debits and receipts
• EU Intra-community VAT
Inventory Management
Stock valuation
• Standard price
• Revised standard price
• FIFO price
• Weighted average price
Analysis tools
• Consumption analysis
• Histories
• Stock Valuation reports
• Stock turnover, etc.