Purchasing
The time and effort required to develop purchase orders and to track receipts against open purchase orders can be significantly reduced with WoodStock©. Suggested purchase orders are automatically produced based on twelve months of item sales history, trend, seasonal weighting factors, weeks stock desired, vendor lead time, current "on-hand" supply.
Highlights
- Automatically generates suggested purchase order based on item sales history and current coverage, with a supplemental report showing limited demand and lost sales due to out-of-stock conditions.
- Purchase Order Alert Processing reports items that need ordering and will not be received in time for scheduled deliveries allowing for greater inventory control.
- Conformation processing and detailed analysis of purchase orders.
- Freight Variance Spreading.
- Ability for changes, deletions or additions to suggested orders by the buyers.
- Tracking and Analysis of purchasing history.
- Purchase order types can be tracked.
- Cube and weight tracking/reporting to assist in purchasing.
- Optional manual entry of special or stocking orders, and of drop shipment orders.
- Multiple product lines on a purchase order to a single vendor.
- Automatic conversion to vendor’s unit-of-measure and prices.
- Prints open purchase order and pro-forma receiving document for use when stock order is received.
- On-demand tracer letters for orders not received by the expected due date until the shipment is received.
- Vendor inquiries by name or number with lead time and phone numbers
- Allows for orders to be entered in random lengths or board feet and then received in specific lengths.
- Suggested order based on 12 months of item’s sales history.
- Suggested order quantity can optionally be converted to the manufacturer’s shipping unit.
- Sales History for superseded items is combined with current item.
- Can manually override the ship-to address for direct or drop shipments
- Automatic facsimile transmissions of purchase orders.
- Vendor EDI communications.