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Frontier Inventory Management is designed to help an organization
manage, plan and analyze inventory investment across the entire
production and distribution network. The Frontier® ERP System
has been developed around a multi-plant foundation, supporting
flexible levels of inventory control and planning methodologies
for both stock and customer specified products. Frontier iInventory
is an Internet-based inquiry application designed to provide enhanced
visibility and drill-down into Frontier based inventory status,
requirements, replenishments and transaction history.
Frontier Inventory Management Supports:
- A multi-plant database foundation providing centralized visibility
and management of inventory requirements, replenishments,
and availability across all plants and warehouses
- Flexible levels of inventory control defined by product
and plant/warehouse, including a basic four walls inventory,
location control,
lot trace ability, and serial number tracking
- Time phased inventory availability with detailed pegging
of on hand inventory, replenishments (purchases, plant transfers,
and returns) and requirements (customer, production and plant transfers)
- Sophisticated warehouse management functions with user-defined
logic to support automated material put-away, location letdown
and material movement operations
- Detailed inventory audit file tracking to record inventory
transaction information, with flexible inquiry and reporting
to support
the review and analysis of audit transactions
- Multiple inventory planning methodologies, including
Reorder Point (ROP), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Distribution
Requirements Planning (DRP), Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Drop Shipments,
and Sales Order Discrete
- Integrated forecasting methodologies based on product
sales and/or historical material usage models
- Summary and detailed inventory reporting to help manage
inventory shortages as well as excess inventory situations
Frontier iInventory Supports:
- A Java™ based, IBM WebSphere development environment
that can be deployed on any standard web server and utilizes
an Application
Program Interface (API) layer to leverage Frontier® ERP
based application program logic and data
- Inventory Audit File - Inquiry into historical inventory
transactions supporting multiple inquiry prompts, summary and
detailed
views of the information retrieved, as well as integrated drill-downs
into transaction level details
- Overall Inventory Availability - Inquiry into summarized
time phased inventory requirements, replenishments and availability,
supporting flexible buckets (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly) and date ranges,
as well as integrated drill-downs into sales, production,
plant transfer and purchase order level details
- Manufacturing Inventory Availability - Inquiry into
summarized inventory requirements, replenishments and availability
for exploded component parts based on the Bill of Material definition, supporting
integrated drill-downs into detailed component availability
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