Real-time inventory across multiple warehouses, retail stores, vendors (drop ship), Kiosks, 3PLs or anywhere else you manage inventory - is key, to the buy, sell, and fulfill anywhere experience customers have come to expect.
Standard Inventory - Regular stock, including things like parts and raw materials. Can also be converted to non-inventory stock on the fly while building a sales order if you want to drop-ship it from a vendor.
Non-Inventory - Items drop-shipped from vendors to customers.
Service based items - With units measured in hourly time.
Serialized & Lot# items - Assign Serial# / Lot#s when items are picked.
Matrix Items - Such as clothing which has size and color attributes. Our matrix builds can also be customized while building an order to generate precise inventory levels (rather than the typical X / Y grid approach which can be so confusing and cumbersome at times).
Kitting - Virtual items made up of real items (e.g. “Bag of screws”).
Assemblies & Bills Of Material (BOM) - - Finished goods made up of other items (can be multiple levels deep).
Assets - Items you own, which typically require a depreciation schedule.
Demand Planning - Forecast demand based on comprehensive formulas made up of many sources of data (See Order Management).
Reorder Point - The quantity threshold point at which you want to trigger a purchase. Dynamic re-order points are also supported, which set quantity variables based on elastic demand.
Reorder Quantity - How many you’d like to order each time.
Vendor Minimum Order Quantity - Because some vendor’s minimum order quantities may exceed your own (e.g. off-shore vendors have different quantity minimums than local vendors).
Vendor Lead Times & Incentives - Different vendors have different lead times based on any number of variables such as ship-from to ship-to distance. They may also offer incentives based on things like quantity, amount, or even weight purchased.
Counting Inventory - Count and update inventory quickly while moving through the warehouse, without opening item records (using a tablet with Wi-Fi for example).
Inventory Transfer Orders - Create transfer orders between locations or business entities, using the purchase order framework, including the receive and put-away process typically used for vendor purchases.
Instant Inventory Transfers - Move inventory from one location to another instantly simply by updating quantity.
Update inventory via CSV.
Whether you need to customize an existing item such as a chassis or base unit that requires selectable product or non-inventory variables, our item configurator will very likely fit your requirements. It provides you the ability to dynamically configure items up to hundreds of thousands, or even millions of possible configuration variables.
Multiple configuration dynamics
Order Only based SKU #s - Setup a item / SKU that only exists in the order on which it’s configured. The assumption being that it’s a one-off custom configuration where creating a new item for future off the shelf use may not be desired.
New Inventory based SKUs - Newly configured items can automatically create new SKU entries from the configuration, so they can be reused over and over again with future orders. This includes Kits and Assemblies used in manufacturing work order builds.
Endorsement: FSB Germany uses SAP for their European operations but came to BizAutomation for their North American operations primarily because of our ability to handle complex item configurations.
Inventory Movement - Track every inventory insert, update, and delete event, including when, where, and how, which include both automated and manual sources such as changes committed by employees.
Transaction Auditing - As items are added to sales and purchase orders, returned via vendor or customer RMAs, or modified via transfer orders, transactions will recorded so you can easily track them.
Customer and Vendor Item Trackability - In each Customer and Vendor record, a section called “Items” tracks items vended and purchased.
Customer Items - Your customers may have SKU #s and names which have to be mapped to your SKUs, so that when they issue a purchase order you can easily create Sales Orders from the foreign SKUs.
Vendor Part #s - Create Purchase Orders from Vendor Part #s, which are automatically mapped to your own item naming convention for reconciliation on purchase fulfillment processes.
Picking, Packing, Shipping, and Invoiceing procedures can be processed within the order itself or in a batch mode where hundreds of items and orders can be processed at a time.
Picking
Packing, Shipping, and Invoicing
BizAutomation can connect to 3PL facilities that supports the exchange of XML via SFTP (Any modern 3PL should have this capability). This will enable the ability to:
Create any number of external locations - Which can be anything you use to store stock, such as a traditional “Warehouse”, or maybe you prefer to call it something else such as “Store”, “Truck” “Vending Machine”, “Kiosk”, (Storage Closet ?), etc..
Create any number of internal locations - Including any combination of Aisle, Rack, Shelf, and Bin. Multiple bins per location are also supported.
Warehouses can be selected while building an order internally, or auto-set from the self-service Ecommerce platform, based on several criteria.
Map default warehouses:
By Employee - If employees need to order and/or fulfill by location such as a store or territory, this defaulting mechanism will come in handy, and can be used with multi-entity configurations.
By Customer - Customers that need to default order from a particular location.
Smart warehouse select - Automatically select warehouses based on criteria such as location proximity to ship-to addresses, and inventory availability.