Purchasing
Shop Edge provides users with unrestricted purchasing, and the option of using normal, blanket or processor purchase orders. Vendors are easy to manage in our Vendor Management module. You have the ability to add automatic printed forms at shipping or receiving, and various notes to P/O's, packing slips or Bill of Ladings.
To take the guesswork out of your purchasing decisions, our purchasing system is linked directly to the production schedule. Customer releases that are weeks and months into the future are planned by the production system which generates material requirements to be reviewed by a material planner.
For details on Advanced Material Requirements Planning, click here.
Receiving
A Receiving System sensitive to coils of steel and the appropriate material specification with capability to automatically reject (and place on hold) those coils that are outside of the required tolerances works together with the Purchasing System.
Processor receiving is also an automatic process, keeping an accurate count on your inventory positions at all levels and locations.
Shipping
Knowing what and when to ship can be very difficult to coordinate, especially when last-minute customer order changes are typical. Add to that the complexity of organizing shipping paperwork, customer requirements for unique barcode labels, special shipping instructions, and export paperwork, and it is difficult to make sure the customer service, production, and shipping departments are synchronized in a timely fashion.
Our Shipping System eliminates much of the complexity by showing the shipping department daily requirements by customer, and last minute order changes are propagated to shipping immediately. There is also a last minute verification of customer-destination requirements against picked quantities. Every movement of this material is tracked by a transaction audit trail and the quantity of material out at any processor is linked directly into the production module for planning and scheduling purposes.
Features Include:
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Printing stock or customer-specified bar code labels
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Weighing/counting of containers of F/G material, creating tags and barcode labels upon receipt from production
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Assigning F/G tags directly to packing slip or stock
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Shipping quantities that are tied directly to customer orders/releases
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Processor requirements that are tied directly to the production or release systems to indicate when material should be shipped to the processor
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Transfer of component, purchased and raw material inventory for future consumption by a process done by an outside processor
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Capability to send material to a processor for non-standard processing
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Shipping history by item or customer
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Only firmed quantities are in the selection window when creating a P/S
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Customer destination-specific notes can be printed on most of the paperwork
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Matterial requirements tied directly to production schedule
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Material specifications tied to purchased items
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Purchase order types for blanket/non-blanket items
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Purchase orders for material or outside processes
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Purchase MRO items
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Vendor delivery performance reporting