July 28th, 2010
A customer calls with a need for a package of exactly twenty units of a certain product. However, your local storeroom only has fifteen. Using SIMMS Inventory Management software, the concern is quickly forgotten with a quick glance at SIMMS’ Quick Stock Window, which shows you all your stock in all your locations, both local and distant. You confirm the delivery with the customer then process an Item Transfer. Location B across town has the other five and you transfer them to your branch, and upon arrival, the entire shipment is out the door to the customer, as requested.
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SIMMS’ Item Transfers are made from a simple Transfer window that allows movement of single items (or groups of items) simply and easily. The transfer confirmation process allows for complete up-to-the-minute accuracy when the receiving department logs into SIMMS the moment the goods physically arrive. Transfers can contain many items, all of which can be targeted specifically, such as Item 1 going to Shelf A, Item Two going to Bin B and Item 3 going to Room C.
Thus, while other companies are scrambling to both get orders placed with their vendors and then scheduling the delivery date(s) with their customers, you’ve already got the order on its way to the customer. Let your competitors be rushed and frustrated. With SIMMS Item Transfer feature, you can keep your cool and provide precise and timely service to your customers.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how SIMMS can help your business succeed while you can devote more time to growing it instead of wasting time trying to run it.
Tags: stock coordination
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July 27th, 2010
SIMMS’ Fulfillment Module is designed to work in conjunction with the Replenishment Module. Once a purchase order has been generated for the stock required to fill sales orders and the purchase order has been approved and received, the sales order is added to the list in the Fulfillment Module waiting for the order to be picked and invoiced. You can process all items on a sales order into an invoice or invoice individual items on a sales order. In addition, you have the option to invoice individual sales orders or automatically invoice all sales orders, using the “Recalculate Fill Quantity” process (the fill quantity is the item’s quantity on a sales order).
Order selection can be filtered by customers, categories or items. Fill quantities can be automatically filled using available stock or reset to zero, and then can be recalculated at any time. You can manually enter only the quantities they need, avoiding investment in overstocking, thus saving you time and money. Once the required amount of stock is known, purchase orders can be created for unavailable stock involved in the fulfillment process, either an item at a time or by the batch of required items. Quantities of items already on purchase orders are displayed, helping you to avoid creating duplicate orders. Invoices that feature all (or some) fulfillment items can be generated, while any items that are already invoiced (or partially invoiced) are displayed. Comprehensive picking lists can be generated once selected quantities have been either manually or automatically updated.
SIMMS’ Fulfillment keeps all details of the stock you have ordered – or need to order – clear and concise so that you are not wasting extra time and money on stock that is not needed.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how Item Fulfillment can help you master your ordering needs and keep your customers satisfied.
Tags: accuracy, inventory, solution
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July 26th, 2010
Item depreciationis an important concern of inventory. Rotation of stock and knowledge of which items bring the greatest returns is only accurate after you have calculated the items’ depreciation. This detail of asset management is fully integrated into SIMMS to suit your requirements while eliminating redundant data entry. Information available through this module enables you to forecast next year’s depreciation expenses by employing the Accounting Modules, allowing the allocation of the depreciation for groups of assets – or individual assets — to more than one source of funding and allowing automatic journal entries to be created.
On a per-month basis depreciation is applied from its first day in the warehouse and can be reported on monthly, quarterly or annually. Customized or standard depreciation methods can be employed, and the module complies with both GASB (Governmental Accounting Standards Board) 34 and 35 requirements, as well as allowing the protection of depreciation information amongst the users of the program.
Make your choice for accurate inventory assessment with the SIMMS Depreciation Module.
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Tags: accounting, depreciation, inventory, SIMMS Software
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July 23rd, 2010
Your particular accounting needs have come in to us and are listed below (listed in order of the most responses). Click the link below for the one that matches your area of concern:
1. Banking/Bank Reconciliation/Cash Management
2. Compatibility between your inventory software and QuickBooks
3. Accounts Payable
4. Payroll Requirements
5. Accounts Receivable
6. Multi-currency Demands
7. Budgeting
8. Customizable Accounting for Specific Needs
SIMMS’ Accounting Software is a suite of robust applications covering all areas of accounting and business management.
If your greatest need is not in the above list, contact KCSI today to let us know what it is – we’re certain we can help.
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Tags: accounting needs
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July 22nd, 2010
Version 7.3.4 of SIMMS Inventory Management software is now available for trail and download. A new suite of features as well as improved and expanded modules make this version of SIMMS the best yet.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about the world’s leading inventory/accounting software package.
Tags: inventory control software
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July 21st, 2010
We’re interested in hearing from you — the Inventory Managers and personnel — about things you wish worked better in your system. Please feel free to post your wish list for features, name the challenges you have in your specific business or industry, or just ask questions about how your inventory experience could be better.
We’ll poll our experts for comments and advice to help you achieve your goals.
Look forward to hearing from you — SIMMSGuy
Tags: inventory management software
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July 19th, 2010
Inventory is always about information. If you don’t have enough stock, your customers go elsewhere; if you don’t have enough information, you can’t fix your stock shortage problems.
SIMMS Inventory Management software provides advance notice of pending reorder points and helps you plan order of inventory that not only will guarantee that you have enough goods to keep your clients supplied but also helps you take advantage of volume buys that optimize your cash investment and lead to stock turnover — where you reap the profits from the sales of that stock.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how information about your inventory is truly power.
Tags: accuracy, customer satisfaction, inventory
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July 14th, 2010
In any production/manufacturing center, works in process (WIPs) are commonplace (unfortunately) but sometimes are inevitable (and whose frequency of occurrence should be kept to a minimum). With SIMMS Inventory Management software, every step — and most importantly every REASON — for a WIP can be logged and tracked, with the eventual aim toward identifying the factors causing any hold-up in their completion.
WIPs require dedicated and valuable storage space and goods assigned, which, if used in other BOM (kit) manufacture, can cause those BOMs to remain incomplete for longer that usual, mostly due to insufficient component stock counts.
One method employed for good effect that helps a great many WIP delays is known as the Teeter-Totter. The goal is to have as many of the subassemblies completed ahead of time so that the master assemblies — the most common instances of WIPs — can be completed as soon as possible. This pre-build concept emphasizes the image of a stack of subassemblies teetering in a tall stack, ready to be used, rather than the WIP tottering on the edge of the manufacutring bench, waiting for that last piece to be added at some unknown date in the future.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how SIMMS can help you improve your stock lead times so that the number of WIPs can be minimized.
Tags: finished goods, forecasting, just-in-time production goals, WIP minimization
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July 13th, 2010
The greatest single asset any business can have regarding its inventory management is nothing more technical than an human being dedicated to the tasks required by inventory. Many businesses rely on machines from data collectors to security cameras but somewhere in the system must be an individual whose thorough understanding and adherence to sound inventory management standards. Armed with the most complete and easy-to-use tools — SIMMS Inventory Management software, for one — this devoted employee can make all the difference to a company’s stock accuracy and customer satisfaction. Someone must thoroughly understand the importance of supply chain science as well as be the versatile and reliable coordinator of physical ins and outs of the business. Inventory Lead Hands are a saving grace and few others have more knowledge of specifics of what you need.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how a set person can use SIMMS to keep you on top of your stock requirements.
Tags: analytics, economic replenishment optimization, sales, shipping, stock coordination
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July 12th, 2010
If you do consignment storage for other companies in your warehouse, SIMMS Inventory Management software permits the creation and assignment of locations (and sub-locations) for such stock management. Every size of storage area is quickly and easily labeled and maintained so that your accuracy on behalf of your clients is at its very best at all times.
Bins, shelves, rows, aisles, sections and bays (for pallets or larger items) can receive and hold as much stock as your clients need. In addition, serialization and lot assignment will keep your item history and details right at your fingertips for easy physical count confirmation and location precision.
Contact KCSI today to learn more about how SIMMS can make your stock management a snap.
Tags: accuracy, analysis, data, stock coordination, tracking
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