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Frontier Purchasing and Receiving is designed to help an organization
manage the business activities associated with material procurement,
quality control and vendor management. The Purchasing and Receiving
module is tightly integrated with other Frontier® ERP modules
to automate material requests and the processing of vendor payments.
Frontier iPurchasing is an Intranet-based inquiry application designed
to provide enhanced visibility and drill-down into Frontier based
purchases, requisitions and historical performance.
Frontier Purchasing and Receiving Supports:
- An integrated requisition module to review and authorize suggested
purchases generated internally by planners or automatically
by the Frontier® ERP Material Planning modules
- Integration with the Frontier® ERP Product Configuration
Management module to support the automatic generation of requisitions
for
customer specified, make-to-order purchase parts
- Comprehensive vendor files to maintain product, pricing,
shipping, payment and contractual terms associated with a vendor
- An integrated buyer “workbench” to review
open purchase requests, providing integrated drill down into
detailed
product/vendor
information and automatic conversion to authorized purchase
orders
- Automatic tracking and qualification of vendor performance
based on product quality, receipt accuracy and delivery timeliness
- Integrated material receipts processing supporting
detailed inspection criteria, automatic inventory updates and
flexible product
disposition options
- Import Tracking functionality to calculate a product’s
landed cost based on the automatic prorating of all associated
importing
fees and costs
- Subcontract functionality to authorize and track materials
that are at outside vendors for processing
- Drop shipment functionality integrated with the Frontier® ERP
Sales Order Processing module to automatically process direct
shipments from a vendor
- Flexible inquiry and reporting to provide summary and
detailed purchasing commitment, performance and exception information
Frontier iPurchasing 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
- Purchasing Inquiry - Inquiry into open and closed purchase
order and requisition activity supporting multiple inquiry prompts,
summary and detailed views of the information retrieved. Integrated drill-down
into transaction level details based on the status and
type
of
the purchase order being reviewed.
- Current Purchasing Analysis - Inquiry into summarized
time phased purchasing requirements against planned demand, supporting
flexible buckets (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly) and date ranges, as well
as integrated drill-downs into purchase order and requisition
details.
- Historical Purchasing Analysis - Inquiry into historical
purchase order activity, performance measurements, and vendor
quotation information. The flexible design of the inquiry supports
multiple prompts and displays based on user-defined selections, including
integrated drill-down into detailed transaction level
data.
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