Purchasing
These modules will help you effectively manage the flow of goods to satifsy customer demands at multiple operating locations. This suite lets you take control of your business - and profit from all your hard work.
The Online Advantage Purchasing module provides a comprehensive service for the administration and control of all the purchasing function in organisations of any size.
The Purchasing module is designed to provide you with versatile and efficient order control whilst helping you minimise your investment in inventory because we understand that having stock sitting in a warehouse never made anyone any money. The Online Advantage Purchasing module provides you with the tools necessary to place, monitor, adjust, cost, and report on all your local and foreign purchase orders for all you suppliers, regardless of whether you are buying raw materials, finished product, non-stock items or sundry (expensed) items used in the general office.
Key Purchasing features include:
- Minimising stock holdings – Forecast and Planning tools to help determine your inventory spend
- Order Tracking – keep track of supplies on order, due dates of arrival, vessels on the water
- Versatile order types – control both domestic and international suppliers with the one system
- Costing – handle both local and foreign shipment costing
- Order control – control on-order details, in-transit goods, in-store stock, over and under-supplies and supplier returns
- Day-to-day re-order control – suggested re-order reporting serves as a guide to purchasing decisions
- Importing – with functions to facilitate the creation, tracking and costing of foreign shipments, from one or multiple suppliers in one or multiple currencies with multiple deliveries to multiple warehouses for multiple products covered by multiple creditors' invoices
- Expenses take-up – process delivery invoice at same time as goods receipt
Detailed Functions and Features:
Shipment tracking – enables shipments to be created from one or more purchase orders and tracked through the system with the following:
- Shipping port
- Vessel name
- Delivery method
- Departure date
- Expected arrival date
- Expected payment date
- Shipment notes
- Shipment identification number
Shipment costing – is a compressive set of tools to calculate the landed cost of all items on a shipment to be used in the cost into stock and ultimately for the cost of sales of those items. Shipments can be costed across multiple currencies, each at a variable exchange rate, with different duty rates per product and duty exchange rates incorporated
Additional costs – estimated or actual "on-costs" can be distributed across the items on the shipment to cover a user-defined range of other expenses incurred against the shipment (for example, insurance, wharfage and cartage)
Costing methods – each individual "on-cost" can be allocated or spread across the shipment based on a pre-defined selection of costing methods. These methods include each products weight, volume, the quantity shipped/received, the value of the product, a manually entered amount, or based on a percentage of the value of each product
Supplier pricing matrix – for manual or automatic creation of pricing data by supplier by individual product including the following:
- Purchase unit of measure and conversion to stock unit of measure
- Purchase currency
- Cost to land product
- Unit weight and volume
- Supplier product code and product name/description
- Current buy price with quantity price breaks
- Next or future pricing, with quantity price breaks and "activation" date
- Special pricing, with quantity price breaks and start/end dates
Monitor and analyse – Monitor and analyse the quality, accuracy and timely delivery of all purchased materials through comprehensive online enquiries. Choose from a variety of ways to look up crucial details such as:
- Supplier and shipment details
- Quantities ordered, shipped and received
- Pricing, weight and volume information
- Duty and on-cost allocations
- Shipping information (vessel, bill of loading)
- Activity audit trail.
Other benefits include:
- Consolidate multiple Purchase Orders on a single shipment
- Automated Purchase Price Variance Take-up within specified parameters
- Track actual purchases against established budgets for each buyer
- Calculation of non-value-added costs (such as Freight and Insurance) based on Weight, Volume, Quantity, Value, or a fixed Percentage to compute the Landed Cost for each purchased item
- Record unique cost, quantity conversion and product identification by Supplier for products that may be purchased from multiple sources
- Dynamic re-calculation of purchase order values expressed in foreign currencies when exchange rates fluctuate
- Minimum order values held by supplier allowing for control over vendor imposed limits
- Purchases orders may optionally be faxed or emailed to suppliers, reducing costs for printing/postage/handling as well as reducing lead times
