Our new
Inventory & Purchasing module can help you track and manage your inventory from
the generation of purchase orders through the relief of inventory and reporting
on its usage.
You can
maintain your mill pricing and track price changes by date (even future ones). The
customized purchase orders you generate can link to the price in effect at the time
of shipment.
Now,
that you’ve ordered the steel, receiving it should be simple, right?
Many systems force you to wait until you actually receive the shipment before you
can enter it into the system. This can cause costly delays while you wait for someone
to generate inventory tags as the truck waits to be unloaded. Our system allows
you to electronically download the Bill of Lading (including the list of each bundle
on the incoming truck) AND mill heat information BEFORE you receive the steel—in
most cases as soon as the truck leaves the steel mill. This means you can have tags
and a checklist waiting when the truck arrives.
Tracking
your inventory usage can be as easy as scanning a barcode on the inventory tag and
on the production tag as the operator produces them. This will not only mark each
stock bundle as consumed, but also make the appropriate mill heat assignment to
the releases being produced.
The Inventory
module also gives you the information you need to better gauge your fab shop’s productivity.
You can begin to see production rates per machine, rates per operator, crane delays,
and even production rates per bend type. You can then make informed decisions on
equipment purchases and operator training.
We designed
this module to be able to relate multiple vendor invoices to a single receipt. For
example, steel mill invoice, freight invoice, and even coating charges. You can
mark these as “Approved”, reconciling them to the Purchase Order, before transferring
them as an Accounts Payable transactions to your accounting system.
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