Posts Tagged ‘inventory’

Landed Costing

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

SIMMS Inventory Management software contains the landed costing features required to make this important process easy. All cost elements for purchased items are identified, while concurrently the progress of orders and their shipments are tracked in real-time. Both lot and serial numbers allow users to track stock in the system and allow their easy assignment to sales projects or orders, while building a shipment and sales history. Warehouse costs can be updated automatically, allowing smooth and simple posting of all landed cost prices. In addition, several orders can be combined into single shipments, saving you time and money on orders made through your decided vendors.

Other available features include the ablity to use FIFO (First-In, First-Out) allocation of goods to track your costs. Generally, items are “pre-costed” before the shipment arrives, and their separate costs are allotted based on several criteria such as weights, value, quantities and/or volume, depending on your needs. When combined with SIMMS’ General Ledger module, your actual expenses and revenue can be pinpointed, allowing your best decisions to be made quickly and soundly, down to the level of separate bills of costs for a single item.

To see more on the SIMMS’ Landed Costing features, read more by clicking here, or gain access to a video illustrating the features here.

How the Fulfillment Module Can Help Inventory Management

Tuesday, 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.

All About Item Depreciation

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Even the Price of Down is Up...

Item depreciation is 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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Getting the Inventory Information You Need

Monday, 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.

Hot Turnover

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Most companies have only a set amount of funds to invest in inventory each year. Moving the stock you have is of paramount importance so that you can meet your overhead expenses. The rate at which you sell compared to the rate at which you buy is your turnover rate. The higher the rate, the better it is. With SIMMS Inventory Management software, you can check your item turnovers together or by individual item, and make necessary adjustments to your outlay for goods.

When combined with high ROI and high customer service satisfaction levels, you’ll be well on your way to the level of success you desire. Contact KCSI today to find out more about how SIMMS can help you toward those goals.

Our VIM Has ZOOM

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

SIMMS’ Visual Import Manager provides a comprehensive solution for importing your important inventory item data, customer/vendor data as well as quotes, all from an easy-to-use program – Visual Import Manager.

“Open architecture” is the catch phrase for business application software and databases these days. Companies that in the past may have put up with discrete applications running stand-alone, and performed software “gymnastics” to obtain integrated reporting from their tools, are now demanding that these products work together. To facilitate this process, an industry standard known as open database connectivity (ODBC) was developed. SIMMS’ Visual Import Manager has been designed to facilitate seamless integration between SIMMS data and Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, CSV (comma separated value) files and TXT (text) format files.

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Day of the Robust

Friday, May 7th, 2010

In today’s fiercely competitive business world, management needs to aim beyond survival. SIMMS Inventory Management system is the superior inventory software solution with advanced features like lot control, kitting, serial number tracking, item replenishment, item fulfillment and inventory management that is dependable, direct and robust. It meets all requirements for companies to succeed. Whether your business is large or small, SIMMS can help — contact KCSI today to learn more.

Old Items in New Places

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Often times the storage of older items that have not been redeemed through sales become an impediment if they are kept in storage areas nearest the shipping department. Constantly elbowing things out of the way adds to inefficiency in the overall stock processing system. SIMMS Inventory Management system shows all stock in each location, and Item Sale History Reports indicate the pieces that move—and those that don’t. Do yourself and your staff a favor and move the ’slow’ items into a location furthest from where all the action is. And then seriously consider a special project in which the items is featured; once the special creates a demand for handling the slow items, they can be shunted back to where they are handy. Remember, it’s not the steps you make today that leads to success, but the steps you SAVE. Contact KCSI today to learn more tips on how your inventory management can be streamlined using SIMMS.

So That They Get What They Want

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

A good Supply Chain Management solution provides a comprehensive series of features to support end-to-end processes like order management, which includes automatic order entry, versatile supplier scheduling, as well as pricing and product configuration to accelerate the order-to-delivery cycle. Using SIMMS Inventory Management software, each step can be examined on its own to see if the policies in place are measuring up to the needs of the clients. Contact KCSI today to discover more of the features of SIMMS, THE comprehensive SCM inventory solution.

When Precise Demand Is Met With Precision

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

A good Supply Chain Management solution provides a comprehensive series of features to support end-to-end processes including sound inventory management to guarantee the optimum stock levels of components for production, provide finished goods for customers in a timely manner, and coordinate spare parts for field service technicians, all while eliminating every unnecessary storage cost. SIMMS Inventory Management solution keeps the data and stock flow simple and precise, so that all departments and personnel can keep on top of demand, in order for your buisiness to provide better service than your competitors. Contact KCSI today to take these positive steps toward your own success.