Purchasing and Inventory

Helping You Balance What You Buy with What You Sell -- Profitably


Your customers want their orders filled fast -- and they want them filled right. Activant Eclipse lets you meet those demands -- and maintain your profitability -- by giving you complete control over every aspect of supply chain management.

We can help reduce your carrying costs, maximize product turns, and optimize your buying power, with applications for:

Purchasing and Transfers

Maximize your inventory and purchasing control through automated purchasing functions supporting:

  • Line point/order points
  • EOQ
  • Min/max calculations

Automated Suggested Purchasing Queues:

  • Expand and subtract the order cycle to maximize purchasing dollars
  • Instantly identify service issues
  • Calculate carrying costs when vendor targets are not met

Prepare yourself for the expected -- and the unexpected:

  • Calculate product demand automatically -- based on sales hits for branch and network analysis
  • Exclude exceptional sales as needed, and compensate for lost sales or changing customer demand and vendor lead times
  • Create flexible procurement schemes for both distributive and centralized purchasing and warehousing -- so you can respond quickly to demand
  • Manage emergency service needs for a branch or network via the emergency procurement queue
  • Balance buying opportunities with carrying costs, using the suggested purchase order program to consider vendor targets, line buy discounts and promotions
  • View inventory commitments and replenishment schedules in a future ledger
  • Provide automatic stock/non-stock determination based on branch or network hits

Manage automatic transfers based on:

  • Committed sales
  • Day's supply
  • Branch transfer schedules
  • Surplus inventory

Inventory Management

Maintain all product information including:

  • Unlimited descriptions
  • Order entry reminders
  • Substitute products
  • UPC codes
  • MSDS tracking
  • User classification

Built-in management tools let you:

  • Turn around physical inventory counts quickly with count sheets or cards
  • Capture average cost, last cost, landed average cost and multiple user-defined costs basis
  • Calculate real-time inventory value relative to any "as-of" date
  • Select products for cycle counting based on:
    • Rank
    • Hits
    • Location type and priority
  • Rank products by multiple methods for each branch
  • Define product kits or create them dynamically as needed

Monitor your inventory investment with rolling 365-day gross margin return on investment (GMROI) analysis and track details for:

  • Consignments
  • Rentals
  • Lot items
  • Hazardous materials
  • Serial numbers

Manage work orders and value-added processes such as:

  • Finishing
  • Treating
  • Cutting
  • Welding
  • Assembly

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