Supply Chain & Distribution Management
Supply Chain Management Software is integrated with the Internet, purchasing, tracking of subcontractors’ order/shipping status and for monitoring the inventory level at the subcontractor, warehouse and distribution center locations. Supply chain planning and execution includes forecast generation from prior year’s history and offshore sourcing. Workflow Management and e-mail notification combined with EDI and Internet tracking increases the efficiency of the full service supply chain.
Customer Order Management Software is integrated with on-line sales order processing, forecasting, ERP, inventory control, purchasing, warehouse management and goods return authorization. This module provides full order visibility for Customer Services and it supports on-line order booking, picking, packing, shipping and invoicing. A Sales Portal provides for item selection supported by catalog product images, shopping cart and automatic checking of credit and payment collection. The integration of third party CRM software with JOMAR's Customer Order Management and Mobile Software provide the sales force with vital information: sales by customer, product pricing, order and shipping status, customer invoicing and goods return information. Store order entry matrix is available by multiple user defined dimensions such as style, color, size, width and length. Order pricing is supported by any combination of currency, unit of measure, item, item group, customer, customer group and user defined criteria such as color, size, width and length.
Purchasing Software provides for on-line purchase order processing and re-order reporting based on MRP – Material Requirements Planning runs complemented with information from the powerful Visual Schedule Board. Buyers manage the actual P.O. releases based on the MRP re-order report, and for supply items the ‘re-order level’ will trigger a re-order report as part of the Purchase Requisition approval process.
Inventory Control Software provides for on-line 'Availability Check' by SKU, lot, assemblies, kits, chemical containers (i.e. tote, drum, pail and bags with serialization of containers), carton, shipping containers, pallets and plastic, paper or fabric roll, steel coil (by heat number), wire spools and cables by specifications and units by serial number. Multiple units of measure are provided for length, weight and volume including conversion from metric to imperial measures. Inventory is integrated with MRP, purchasing and customer services. The cost of inventory is posted to the general ledger and inventory cost analysis including inventory valuation can be performed as required.
Warehouse management Software is supported by RFID, a Bin Locator system and R.F. picking lists with touch-screens and special packaging software functions for high-rise picking racks integrated with the distribution release for picking and packing large volume shipments to chain stores, customers and warehouses or regional distribution centers.
- Manual or user defined automatic allocation routines by item, lot, warehouse, bin, roll, serial number, carton, pallet and shipping container are available with customer specific assignment logic
- Automatic carrier and routing logic supports full truckload, LTL and drop shipments
- Transfer order processing between inter-company and subcontractors’ facilities is available
- Tracking is provided by warehouse, item, lot, bin, roll stock, serial number, carton, pallet and container
- Roll goods tracking includes cutting, slitting, batching and full lot integrity with forward and backward linkage of parent to child rolls
- Pick and pack is integrated with ‘wave picking’ and formatting of customer specific shipping labels
- Courier integration provides for world-wide parcel shipments
- Customer documents are provided with shipping
- A Schedule Board provides for order visibility across customer order processing, distribution release and shipping
- Separate bills of lading or a master bill of lading is available with shipping journal for invoicing
