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Supply Chain Tools

Epicor iScala’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) products support almost all production and distribution environments, from complex engineer-to order through to repetitive manufacturing, from single local store-rooms, to complex multiple warehouses with quality control. From the most simple to the most complex, one thing all these environments have in common is the need to work with supply chain partners. Epicor iScala Supply Chain Tools adds the tools to let other Epicor iScala supply chain modules (material management, warehouse management and manufacturing) participate more effectively. This translates to better relationships with suppliers, reduced transaction costs, increased customer satisfaction and eventually increased profit.

Features

LEAD TIME MANAGEMENT
At the heart of any lean or agile organization is an awareness of each process and the underlying activities. Epicor iScala’s lead-time management lets users define each activity in detail, and how these activities are combined to create overall purchase and other lead times. Users can use this data to identify and eliminate non-value added activities therefore becoming “leaner” Customer satisfaction levels can be significantly improved through the simple expediency of knowing some suppliers take longer to deliver certain goods than others and that not all deliveries take the same time. By using this knowledge delivery expectations can be better managed and more orders can be delivered on the promised dates.

AVAILABLE TO PROMISE INVENTORY
One way to keep customers happy is for sales staff to only make delivery promises that can be kept. The Epicor iScala ATP inventory feature calculates the stock that will be available on the proposed delivery date, allowing for other sales orders, planned purchase deliveries, your own internal lead times to manufacture the item and lead time from suppliers. If sufficient stock is available the sales people can make a promise, confident that it can be kept, or they can propose an alternative date when the required stock will be available. The rescheduling feature can be used if plans need to be changed, for example if a supplier cannot keep a delivery promise, by identifying which sales orders cannot be fulfilled on the promised dates so that the customer can be contacted or an alternative supply of stock obtained.

AVAILABLE TO PROMISE CAPACITY (GRAPHICAL PLANNING)
Epicor iScala’s ATP Capacity is a graphical planning tool that enables sales and other staff to graphically see production capacity, manually assign work orders to work centers and even move operations from one work centre to another. This lets sales staff in a make-to order/ engineer to Order (MTO/ETO) environment reserve production capacity whilst taking a sales order, which means that they can be more certain about completion and delivery dates during the sales process. Of course, any previously allocated work orders will be visible within this tool so there is no conflict even if both ATP capacity and the full MRP II processes are in use.

DROP SHIPMENT
A drop shipment is when you sell goods from your suppliers. The difference from a normal order is that the supplier delivers (drops) goods directly at the customer saving on storage and shipping costs. The commercial side remains the same as for traditional orders with the sales company invoicing the customer and the supplier invoicing the sales company. Depending on the terms of sale, clever sales companies can even manage to invoice the customer and get payment before they need to pay the supplier! The ability to identify particular stock items as eligible for drop shipment processing can also help to reduce stock levels for slow moving items, storage costs for items that require special storage and release capital that would otherwise be tied up in stock.

For further information, please contact us at (852) 2581 9373 or email to salesenquiry@polyasia.com.

For the product details, please refer to the official web page of Scala Business Solutions at http://www.scala.net