Purchasing

Optimize Your Buying Power and Inventory Levels

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Activant Prophet 21's purchasing functionality offers a variety of fixed and variable inventory replenishment methods.

Capabilities:
  • Allows you to choose from multiple inventory replenishment methods for each item, for each location
  • Generates purchase order requirements and creates POs in one process
  • Offers advanced functionality for more dynamic purchasing processes
Benefits:
  • Simplifies automated processes
  • Decreases inventory levels while improving inventory fill rates
  • Optimizes and centralizes purchasing processes
  • Reduces costs
  • Reduces purchasing errors

Prophet 21's fixed control methods use established order points and quantities that you specify, giving you extra control over SKUs that need close monitoring. Variable control methods use changeable order points and quantities determined by the solution. Since these methods fully automate purchasing processes, they enable your buyers to focus on items that need extra attention. The solution then generates purchase orders based on your requirements - reducing labor costs and associated errors.

Tailored to Your Needs

Prophet 21 also lets you choose the purchasing method that best suits an individual SKU, product or vendor group, or item class. And, because many distributors have several locations at which they stock the same SKUs, you can assign each item at each location its own purchasing method.

You can even centralize purchasing processes with Prophet 21's regional distribution center (RDC) inventory management capabilities, enabling you to reduce stock levels without jeopardizing your ability to fill customer orders.

Simplifying Advanced Processes

Prophet 21 offers the functionality you need to calculate, complete, and simplify more advanced purchasing processes. For example, if you buy products from overseas vendors, Prophet 21 includes all associated costs - from taxes to port charges to freight costs - in your purchase price.

Prophet 21 also offers functionality designed to streamline direct ship, rush, and special purchase order processes. Tools integrated into the solution simplify tasks, ensuring that processes are seamless - and painless - for your customers and your employees. You can also easily convert non-stock items to stock so purchasing processes aren't interrupted by lengthy data entry.

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