Goods inward is managed through standardized steps linking preparation, ordering, and receiving, with verifications against supplier documents.
An organized assortment as the starting point for procurement, sales, and warehousing:
- Item master data with internal codes and EAN barcodes
- Item activities and restriction rules per document type
- Packaging codes and alternative codes
- Assortment groups, exceptions, and ordering controls
- Item storage locations and picking orders
- Item search by multiple identifiers and support for units of measure and smaller packs
Price management through regular and promotional price lists:
- Centralized price calculation and price lists by point-of-sale type
- Master price list and price groups by location
- Price list overlap rules and price priorities per location
- Authorization, activation, copying, and deactivation of price lists
- Importing supplier price lists via electronic data interchange
- Promotion performance analysis
Ordering via standard processes and automated steps:
- Centralized procurement, goods ordering, and distribution within own network
- Overview of ordered and undelivered goods
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) of documents
- Automated ordering based on multiple algorithms
- Automatic creation of purchase orders to suppliers and pro-forma goods receipts
- Automatic periodic ordering and internal ordering based on sales data
- Internal orders between locations
Goods receiving through controlled steps and documentation:
- Goods receiving via temporary entry documents or direct manual entry
- Reconciling orders with original supplier documentation
- Segregation of receipts by supplier and procurement terms
- Handover records regarding discrepancies between delivered and invoiced goods
- Supplier credit notes and goods receipt recapitulation
- Processing supplier documents from EDI and error correction
- Import (Intrastat) and consignment, including Intrastat form and XML preparation