>Stock & Logistics//

Materials-Management

• Multi-warehouse-management, management of storage-locations:
  • management of multiple warehouses (i.e. works, locations, etc.)
  • management of multiple storage-locations
  • rejected parts-storage
  • storage-management for external contract manufacturers
  • storage-management for consignment warehouses
    
    
• Material-requirements-planning:
  • Batchsize-optimized purchase- and production-proposals with consideration of deficiency-probability and item-and supplier-related lead-times
  • Optimization of supplier-proposals according to fastest supplier, most favourable price or main supplier
  • Automatic contract recognition and -assignment
    
    
• Batch-management/serial-number-management:
  • Batch-management accross multi-warehouses and multi-storage-locations
  • Batch-retracement (back to the supplier)
  • FIFO-proposals on preparation of consignments
    
    
• Inventory
  • permanent inventory, yearly-inventory
  • optional blocking of warehouse-transactions while inventory is in progress
  • evaluation of stocks and half-finished products, automated devaluation of stocks
    
    
• Inventory-management with handheld-PDAs/scanners

Logistics

• Empties-Management (pallets, lattice-boxes, etc.)
  • Flexible empties-management with automated stockbookings on creation of delivery-notes
  • Customer-specific packing-instructions (typical for the automotive industry)
  • Multi-stage-packing-materials (pallets with plastic-boxes, etc.)
  • Empties requirements planning
    
    
• Commissioning
  • Commissioning-proposals (with FIFO-option for batches) based on order-priorities and delivery dates
  • Automated delivery note generation from commissioning-proposals
  • One-step generation of delivery-note, empties-bookings, electronic transport declaration and logistics-documents
  • Creation of package labels, consignment notes and related documents

• EDI-Modules:
  • EDI/DFÃœ-modules for Ansi X12-, Odette-, VDA- and Edifact-formats
  • all common message types are preconfigured without necessity for customization (format mappings have to be individually created using the format-converter)
  • Available message-types:
    
    
    • inbound delivery-forecast, order-call, fine-order-call (delfor, deljit, VDA4905, VDA4915)
    • outbound delivery-note (delnote, VDA 4913)
    • outbound invoice (invoic, VDA 4906)
    • inbound credit-advice (creadv, VDA 4909)
    • Pick-up sheet (DELJITPUS)
    • etc.
      
      
• Customs-documents: creation of EUR.1, ATR and export-declarations (certain documents may vary for non-EU-countries and may need customization)