Suppliers and Purchasing

Improved Quality

Reduce the cost of quality by gaining insights into quality issues and vendor performance metrics.

Improved Compliance

Improve compliance by tracking performance metrics and procuring from approved suppliers.

Increased Cash Flow

Improve cash flow by timing purchases based on usage.

Better Collaboration

Collaborate with suppliers by providing self-service capabilities and just-in-time purchasing.

Workflow Automation

Reduce purchasing costs by automating procurement workflow and reducing paperwork.

Inventory Visibility

Improve inventory management with end-to-end visibility of inventory and traceability data.

Purchase Orders

• Create and maintain purchase order including blankets, and outside assembly purchases
• Create Pos or blanket releases from MRP
• Apply correct pricing from pricing files or last purchase data
• Automate workflow by using approvals based on roles and spending limits
• Email PO directly from ERP

Supplier Performance and Analytics

• Gain insights from comprehensive metrics on supplier performance
• Review supplier quality, on-time performance by various parameters like Item numbers, Item Type, and Vendor
• Publish performance and dashboard data to users based on roles

Integrated MRP

• Utilize MRP output to determine purchasing requirements
• Create or add to existing purchase orders from MRP
• Automatically compute and use Lot sizes for purchasing
• Consolidate purchases into one PO per vendor to reduce paperwork
• Create blanket releases from MRP

Outside Service Purchase

• Create purchase orders for work in process inventory
• Create shipping documents
• Track outside inventory and publish vendor inventory on dispatch list and work order status reporting
• Define and use vendor and part lead times and utilize actual lead times in scheduling
• Track quality on outside service receiving
• Manage returns and AP process for outside service purchases

Vendor Data

• Maintain detailed vendor data including ratings and approval

Receiving

• Receive goods and outside service purchases
• Perform quality inspections and manage returns process efficiently
• Automatically generate AP invoices
• Generate bar coded labels and receiving documents
• Receive inventory based on lot or serial number
• Receive using mobile devices

Requisitions and RFQ

• Enable users to request items
• Electronically process requests based on user roles
• Create PO or add to existing POs

Integrated Accounting

• Create AP automatically from receiving
• Create credit memo from returns
• Track accrued purchased and pending bills
• Track variances in purchase price and AP price