Purchasing

This module provides the capability to manage the relationship with suppliers as for orders, deliveries, offers. The modules receives purchasing proposals from other modules as for the following:

• Items currently out of stock: these requests come from inventory analysis or from manufacturing plans
• Items out of stock in projection: these requests come from MRP-II which examines the stock movements in projections depending on the sales orders on dates.

The modules have the following entries:
 
Suppliers
This entry replicates the same function already described in R&D module. It is also here to ease the user.
 
General Items Ordering
This entry allows to use the Purchasing procedure also for non-manufacturing items. This entry has been foreseen to ease the user so that he can use a single procedure for all purchases.
 
Supplier’s Offers
This entry allows the user to store offers provided by suppliers. An offer has different unit price for different size of goods.
 
Ordering
This entry allows the user to insert, consult and modify orders provided by customers.
 
Goods Arrivals
This entry allows the user to insert arrivals of goods from suppliers. An arrival is store as a lot. Each lot updates consequently the original order and the stock situation. Is a raw material of a packaging item is covered by a specification, then the lot is kept as “pending” until the analyses certificate has been accomplished and all the analyses result acceptable. At the same time a statistical report is updated for later consultation.
 
Cash Flow
This program allows the user to consult what is the financial engagement towards suppliers has been assumed for the orders already issued but not yet received.. The program considers the foreseen delivery time and the payment terms of each single order.
 
Statistics
A series of statistics allows the user to consult the situation of shipments by item and by supplier.
 
Batch Reports
A series of batch reports is available.