Purchasing

Control the complete supply chain cycle

Successfully manage your Purchasing and Procurement operations, buy the right products at the right price, delivered on the date you require.

Control the complete supply chain management cycle for all goods and services. From Enquiry, Quotations and Requisitions through Purchase Orders, Delivery Bookings/Schedule, Goods Receipts and Inspections to Stores, Line Side Production and Invoice Matching in the Accounts Payable application.

Whole spectrum of purchasing activities

Manage Inventory, Non Inventory, Capital and Maintenance items and Vendor Consigned Inventory.
Answer Purchasing covers the whole spectrum of purchasing activities from the one-off purchase of specific goods and services to purchase contract management, Vendor and Supplier Schedules, through to the bulk purchase of Raw Materials/Components required on an hour-by-hour basis.
Linked with Sales Order Processing, Purchasing can confirm receipt/shipment of Direct Delivery Items.

Performance Analysis

Performance analysis of early, late, on time, full, over or part delivery, cost and quality rejects enable you to focus your expensive management time where it is most required and will deliver the greatest benefits.
These performance analyses provide you with full back up when it comes to negotiating new prices, delivery, quality and service level agreements with your Vendors.

Back to Back Purchase Orders

Answer Purchasing allows the auto creation of Purchase Orders based on a Sales Order - a back to back.
Answer also allows the Linkage and Back to Back relationship between Sales Orders and Purchase Orders and Purchase Orders and Works Orders.
Stock can be automatically Hard Allocated to a Work Order from a Purchase Order on receipt of the goods.

Landed Costs

Answer Purchasing allows for Back to Back Purchase Orders enabling third party vendor charges to be linked to Raw Material Purchase Order Lines from unrelated Vendors.
These 'Charges' (Freight Transport, Duty etc) affect the Raw Material's Landed Cost impacting on the Parts Average, Last and Actual Costs. A Fast Charge entry facility allows charges to be easily linked to a Purchase Order Line.
These charges can be attached at Header Level and pro-rated based on Quantity, Value, Weight or Volume.

As an integral component of Answer Enterprise ERP, Purchasing integrates with the Answer Planning and Scheduling, Inventory and Warehouse, Sales and Plant Maintenance, Extended Attribute Processing, Capacity Requirements Planning, Analytics, Quality and Financial Modules to ensure Purchasing works as one with the rest of your business.

Key Features Manage purchasing and procurement operations Cover all purchasing activities Performance analysis Back to back purchase orders Fast charge entry facilities

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