With a clean sheet to design a new stock control system, what features would you include to maintain simplicity and control; and which new features could you add to permit easy integration into the latest generation of web applications?
One very good answer is to be found in the Interprise Inventory Module.
On the face of it a straight implementation of stock control – multi-warehouse with grouped stock allowing for all stock movements (in and out) to be tracked from your sales and purchase modules with additional stock transfer and stock adjustment features provided for on the Inventory module.
The presence of a comprehensive stock take procedure, the use of factored pricing and an assembly/works order system shown depth, but dig a little deeper and the true benefits of using .Net as your development platform become clear.
Multi-Currency stock pricing for each stock item integrated into the multi-currency, multi-lingual e-Commerce module; Interprise can display the correct stock price automatically depending on the currency of the customer viewing the web site and whether or not they are, say a business user or a retail user. Depending on the criteria the correct price is displayed to that customer. Indeed, where a customer is a repeat customer with special prices awarded to them, these can be automatically displayed on the web site – a truly customised experience for your customers.
Even the photo images of the stock items are automatically loaded onto the e-commerce web site with a stock item being added to or removed from the site at the click of a button within stock control – true real time integration to e-Commerce.
Key Features and Functionality
| Stock Record |
| Item Centred View showing sales orders, purchase orders for the item, transaction history with drill downs, stock qty information by warehouse etc. |
| Unlimited Warehouses |
| Unlimited Bins |
| Stock & None Stock Item Types |
| Matrix Items with easy generation of the combinations that can occur. For example T Shirts Style, Size and Colour, you decide what combinations there are and it generates them and then you pick which you want to be stock items. |
| Assembly / BOM Item Types |
| Kit Item Types with Kit options, pictures and questions for order entry configuration. These can be priced individually or overall on the sales order easily. |
| Subscription Item for Maintenance type Sales (Allocates the revenue over the length of the subscription) |
| Accessories & Substitutes |
| Costing Methods are Standard, Average, FIFO, LIFO |
| Landed and Actual Costing Methods |
| Option to Store Items in Specific Bin Locations |
| Preferred Put away Location for each item |
| Preferred Pick Location for each item |
| Replenish Pick Locations Routine |
| Serial Number Traceability |
| Batch/Lot Traceability |
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Unlimited Units of Measure like Each, Dozen, Case, Kg, Litres etc. Qty breaks can also be fractions of the base Unit of Measure |
| Stock Routines |
| Stock Take Routine by Warehouse |
| By Location |
| By Item |
| By Stock Cycle Days |
| Stock Adjustments |
| Internal Movements |
| Stock Transfers between Bins |
| Stock Transfers between Warehouses |
| Stock Transfer Between Warehouse Routine Pick & Goods In Routine |
| Replenish Other Warehouses Stock Routine from main warehouse |
| Stock Assembly / Works Order Build Routine |
| Pricing |
| Price List Options by Supplier with Priority |
| Option for Different Suppliers for Different Warehouses |
| Price List Options by Currency by Customer |
| Promotional Pricing |
| Qty Break Pricing on Price Lists |
| Retail Price & Wholesale Price |
| Product Group Discount Bands |
| Mark-up on Last Cost / Mark - up on Pricing Cost |
| Supplier Last Price / Customer Last Price |
| Special pricing and Price lists can also be done by Unit of measure and qty breaks. |
| Other |
| Active / Not Active Flag so it will or will not appear in the search lists |
| ECommerce Integration |
| Customer Part codes & Descriptions |
| Supplier Part codes & Descriptions |
| Business Intelligence for example slow moving stock |
