The SCM Procurement solution provides buyers and management the ability to control the purchasing function and increase productivity. The system is designed to allow your organisation to operate with the least amount of inventory, while maintaining management mandated service level goals. The system helps the buyer determine when to place an order and how much to order in an automated fashion.
The primary function of the system is the automatic determination of when to place an order and how much to order. The system reviews every item daily, regardless of the vendor’s review schedule. This ensures that even on a non-scheduled review day, there is enough on-hand or on-order inventory to maintain service levels to your customers/stores.
Features
- Web capability
- Vendor profiles
- Deals and promotions
- Forecasting with seasonal trending
- Item and vendor substitutions
- Billback tracking and reporting for vendor deals/promotions
- Investment Buy Recommendations
- On-line Investment Buy Simulations
- Relational Data Base
- Promotion/Ad Grouping
- Vendor Managed Inventory Support
- User defined deal and purchase order history
- Multiple Item Descriptions
- Retail Pricing Support
- Lead Times by Day for each vendor
- Inquiry of item movement week-to-date and year-to-date
- Multiple truckload building capabilities
- Express order review
- Cross docked purchase orders
- (EDI) abilities
- Purchase order management
- Future Item and Vendor Maintenance
- Unlimited Item/Vendor Relationships
- Bracket Pricing Alerts
- Floor Stock Protection Support
Benefits
- Increased customer service levels
- Increased inventory turns
- Reduced inventory
- Improved ROI
- Maintains strategic service levels
- Consistent application of Management Buying Policies
- Improved buyer productivity
- Increased visibility to data
- Reduced errors
- Optimised purchase conditions
Data Base Management
Provides the users with the ability to manage critical vendor, item, deal and purchase order characteristics used throughout the purchasing system.
Vendor Profiles
The system maintains comprehensive information on vendor name and address, as well as other demographic information. Freight and payment term agreements and representative relationships are also established.
Item Maintenance
The system provides maintenance of comprehensive information such as item description, category, cost, warehouse information, ordering information, point of sale characteristics and billing prices.
Details And Cost Profiles
Supports eleven different deal types, bracket pricing based on order quantity, and tracks bill back deals.
Forecasting And Seasonal Trending
The forecasting function produces weekly forecasts of expected shipments. These forecasts are automatically adjusted based on actual movements each week. The technique draws on historical demand and movement data, seasonality and advanced statistical projections.
Allocation And Order Determination
The order determination function formulates and suggests turn orders from the forecast. The system refreshes and positions the entire list of suggestions every day.
Suggested Order Review
The system displays suggested order lists for every buyer by order of customer service. The list references and groups items under their primary supplier. As events change during the day, the buyer has the flexibility to re-run a suggested order(s).
Investment (Forward) Buying
Investment buying focusing on meeting the best timing and overlap of buying opportunities to suggest investment quantities.
Purchase Order Management
Any purchase order can be maintained with actions such as edit, delete, create and reinstate. Some of the data that is available to change is scheduled receive date and time, quantities, all cost elements and purchase order notes.
Management Support
SCM/e ™ provides a robust range of query functions that allow the user to access critical business information. |
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