- Shape Catalog, using “Attributes” of each metal product, such as Standard, Grade, Chemistry, other user defined properties, processes required, test management, source material and finished
- “Tagged” numbered inventory master with all related details, Purchasing/Receiving data, dimensions, weight, linear info, last cost-replacement costs, standard costs, avg cost for reporting, cost breakdown summary showing all accumulated costs raw material, processing, scrap, freight, duties, others, plus defects, hold codes, claims, parent-child relationships for tracking, related customer parts, tests, chemistries, documents, UOM, dates in/out/age, etc.
- Material Hard or Soft Allocation management
- Optimize inventory levels to have the right quantities of products on hand, by calculating real booked demand against on-hand inventory and “days of inventory-on-hand” targets, using material demand projections
- Inventory accounting performed automatically for transfers between locations, internal shipping costs added automatically to material costs
- Stock search automatically applies best-fit criteria to speed up the identification of available tags and the allocation of materials to the order, detailed stock search and reservation system
- Demand Planning System – linking product codes to user defined historical sales analysis and average day’s usage, all sales order, purchase order demands, inventory availability and then a buy quantity to meet the current period DEMANDS and Purchasing Quantities required for these DEMANDS.
- Product/Shape/Sales Codes for analysis, location code, item name, disposition code, type
- Physical Count
- Tag-Heat-PO History, Genealogy –to track-trace finished material back to source material and mill using parent-child tags, drill down views
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