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Materials Management

Inventory Management

Inventory Management provides the key functions necessary to update and maintain raw materials, WIP and finished goods inventory quantities and costs. When a new job is entered through the Job Management module or generated from Order Management, the material requirements create inventory allocations.These allocations are relieved as inventory items are issued to the job, or as purchase order receipts for purchased items are posted.

Issued inventory reduces inventory quantities on hand, which are continually replenished through the processing of purchased or manufactured item receipts into inventory. Receipt processing provides a continual update of inventory average and lost costs, maintained for every item. A variety of screen inquiries, including Part Tracker and printed reports, provide extensive management analysis in the areas of material requirements planning, shortage monitoring, reorder analysis, stock status, valuation and critical items.

• Online Part Tracker
• Flexible Costing
• Mass Issue
• Time-Phased Material Inquiry/Report
• Multiple Warehouses/Bins
• Substitute Parts
• Material Backflush
• Cross Reference
• Part Master Price Breaks
• Physical Inventory
• Inventory Lot Tracking
• Serial Tracking

Shipping/Receiving

Shipping/Receiving provides a central application within Vantage to monitor incoming and outgoing items, whether it is shipments against an order, sending subcontract parts to a vendor, receiving raw material from a purchase order to a job or into inventory, or filling an order from stock. All activity relating to shipments and receipts can be performed and tracked through this module.

On-line transaction processing promotes efficiency and ease of use, while on-line editing promotes accuracy. With Shipping/ Receiving, a consistent interface processes all shipments and receipts in an efficient, accurate, cost-effective and profitable manner.

• Shipping Performance
• Mass Ship
• Subcontract Parts
• Shipping Labels
• Miscellaneous Receipts
• Packing Slips
• Payment Vouchers
• Auto-Invoice
• Utilities
• Auto-Close
• Flexible
• User-Defined Forms
• Bill of Lading
• Integration

Advanced Shipping Management

Vantage offers two options for streamlining your shipping processes: ExpressShip, and Advanced Shipping Management.

ExpressShip
ExpressShip is a new module which integrates your common carriers with the Vantage Customer Shipment process. By offering multiple container capabilities and direct integration with UPS, FEDEX, and USPS, ExpressShip allows you to efficiently manage the shipping process while reducing data entry errors. After the packing slip is created Vantage, a single click allows you to calculate freight based on shipping method, shipping location, and box size. Because the charges are calculated before the packing slip is printed, you can ensure your customers are accurately billed for freight!

Advanced Shipping Management
Vantage's Advanced Shipping Management module efficiently manages shipping logistics to streamline inventories and warehouse management. It tightly integrates your carrier’s tracking system with Vantage. This link between shipping and customer service reduces shipping errors, while giving your customers accurate and timely information about the status of their shipments. Additionally, you can manage your customers’ and carriers’ labeling and packaging requirements.

Standard Carriers

Billing Options

Supplier Relationship Management

The Supplier Relationship Management module provides a tool for purchasing agents or quoters to request quotes for raw materials or subcontract services from one or multiple vendors. Request for Quotations (RFQs) are generated with one or more lines, each line having the ability to request pricing from one or more vendors. An internal worksheet may be reviewed prior to sending the RFQ form out via mail, e-mail or fax.

Vendor RFQ responses automatically build or add to existing part pricebreak tables, with current effectivity dates to be used in other Vantage modules. With Supplier Relationship Management, you can promote efficiency and accuracy in your material purchasing and be more responsive to customer quotations.

• Flexible
• Data Mining.
• RFQ Decision Wizard
• Supplier’s Workbench
• Vendor/Part
• Partial Job Quotes
• Search Capability
• Review Worksheet
• Form Customization
• E-mail Integration
• Part Price-Break Tables
• History Reports
• Supplier Connect
• Integration

Purchasing Management

Purchase Management handles purchase order writing and the tracking of vendor performance. Detailed line items
indicate planned receipts to inventory or to a job, although their destination may be changed at the time of actual receipt entry. Purchase order receipt processing updates suggested vendor and detailed purchase history files, which provides continual reference to aid in making purchasing decisions. An online Time-phased Material Requirements Report provides a strategic planning tool to buy the right amount of material—at the right time.

With Purchase Management, you can reduce inventory levels, improve on-time deliveries, enhance your cash flow and increase your profit levels.

• Automated Purchasing Tools
• Planning
• Blanket Purchase Orders
• Purchase History
• Mass Purchase Order Receipt
• On-Line Purchase Order Entry
• Flexible
• Cross-Referencing
• Purchase Order Printing
• Purchase Order Tracker
• Part Master Price Breaks
• Vendor Tracker
• Purchase Requisition
• Approved Vendors
• Integration

Advanced Materials Management

With Advanced Material Management (AMM), manufacturers gain advanced inventory tracking capabilities. AMM enables manufacturers to produce electronic requests for materials, dispatch those materials, and track inventory movements of all inventory including raw materials and work-inprocess. Using wireless terminals and bar-coding technology, manufacturers are able to track inventory in real-time. A manufacturer using Vantage now has complete control and visibility of raw materials and work-in-process as it travels throughout the enterprise.

• Shop Floor Interface
• WIP Locations
• Reporting Scrap
• Security
• Bar Coding on Demand
• Material Handler Interface
• WIP Staging
• Part Identification
• Scanning
• Sales Order Allocation
• Prioritizing Orders
• Reserving Inventory
• Integration

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