DNA/IM – INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

The inventory management module interfaces with the purchasing, job cost, order entry, point of sale and general ledger modules. Information is only entered once and is immediately reflected in all other affected modules.

Products may be "looked up" by identifying a part of the item number, by part of the description of the product, by part of the category of the product, or by part of the supplier's part number. Products may be purchased from multiple suppliers with the most recent identified first.

Inventory is tracked on a FIFO basis. As purchase orders are received, they are put into inventory at the purchase order cost and a liability recorded for that amount. When the payables invoice is received, it is matched to the PO and any variance adjusted to inventory for the unsold stock, or to cost of sales for the stock that has been sold, or to work in progress for stock transferred to a job.

Inquiry screens provide sales and cost information for as many year's of data as is maintained on the file. Committed inventory is tracked and used to provide purchasing reports with suggested "buy" quantities to satisfy stocking levels and confirmed orders and jobs. Inquiry screens also provide movement information by fiscal period including an estimated "out of stock" date based upon sales history, and a movement detail that tracks each movement of inventory including associated costs.

Physical counts may be conducted without shutting down the operations. Cycle counts are easily handled by class or category or for specified products with the option of clearing all items not counted to zero.

Velocity reports track your best products by quantity, sales dollars or margin earned. Many other reports have been created to provide you with the information you need to maintain inventory levels for the best customer service possible within the financial constraints of the organization.

The pricing module permits unlimited special price books that contain any quantity break-level you want for that customer. Retail pricing can be established by a gross margin percentage desired, or the price specified and the gross margin will be displayed. Cost of inventory is tracked to purchase cost, landed cost (includes foreign exchange conversion, freight, duty and any management fees), and last received cost (includes any adjustments to the previous purchase order cost adjusted to actual landed cost).

New pricing can be established for a product, a class of products, or a category of product (a category is a group of classes) as at some future date. Price changes can be specific, or a percentage change rounded to a nearest specified decimal dollar - ie. nearest .50 or .99 etc.

Cost changes may be imported from media provided by your supplier.

No end of period or end of year processing is required until you wish to remove the movement records from the file. All reporting is based upon the corporate fiscal calendar, and the number of years of inventory information may be maintained separately from the number of years of general ledger information.

As with all DNA systems, any report may be exported other third party software for further processing or presentation.

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