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Friedman Corporation's Frontier system is specifically designed
to provide the window fashions fabricator with the tools needed
to fully integrate their order fulfillment cycle. Frontier, our
configuration-based software solution provides the flexibility to
seamlessly extend product and customer service information out
to the Internet and/or to the dealer base. Our industry-focused
development and experienced industry consultants ensure that your
project will be completed timely, so that you can quickly realize a
return on your investment.
Dimensional Configurator designed specifically to
handle complex and simple window treatments:
- Easy to use product workbench enables user to define all
options and validation rules for each product
- Reusable modular configuration approach provides faster
product definition – reduces the overall number of models and
simplifies maintenance
- Extensive inquiry capabilities such as where used formulas, rules
and options designed to improve product data management and
maintenance
- Unlimited options enables user to configure complex window
treaments: Wood Shutters, Commercial Multi-Banded Shades and
Motorized Units
- Extensive formulas and rules enables configurator to select
correct materials based on computed weight of shade and torque
- Matrices maintainable within Microsoft Excel used to
dynamically validate configurations, create bills of materials,
calculate lead times
- Configurator-based pricing to determine sell price based on list
price and dealers multiplier
- Supports customer quoting and ordering via the web and with a
remote application (Windows-based)
- Provides improved communication of all new product offerings
and discontinued products and options
Order Entry
- Speed up your order entry process with global options, enables operators to specify common options for a group of shades that will
inherit a common set of options for each
- Global Option maintenance provides mass change capability, i.e.
fabric, bracket type, etc.
- Promotional pricing support
- Line Item Order Promising based on user defined constraints i.e. Material Availability, Production Capacity, Shipping Schedules
- Visibility to material availability including fabric, provides true
available to promise and accurate promise dates
- Track material remnants to improve accuracy of availability
- Real Time Cost and Profit Analysis at Fabric Order and Line Item
Level
- Cash Posting for deposits including Credit Card Processing and
Approvals
EDI
- System supports EDI transactions with mass retailers and catalog
companies e.g. Sears, J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart:
Sales Orders (850)
Acknowledgement (855)
Advanced Ship Notice (856)
Invoices (810)
Web Based Order Entry
- Electronic Product Catalog provided on-line to either end
consumers or dealers
- Supports replacement parts and Finished Goods, ordering with full configuration functions
- No re-keying of orders placed via the web
- Credit Card approvals and user generated profiles
- Acknowledgement communicated to customer on-line
- Constraint based order promising executed for all line items to
provide customer with accurate promised date at time of order
- Extensive imaging functions 2D and 3D
Remote Dealer/Rep Order Entry (Powerbids)
- Fully functional quoting and ordering tool supports both remote
sales reps and dealers/distributors
- Includes dealer specific multipliers and discounts, also enables
dealer to manipulate selling markup or profit percentages to
calculate end user/consumer selling price
- Tracks Deposit Payments and includes Miscellaneous and
computed charges such as delivery and installation
- Copy feature enables multiple quotes for same job provides
pricing comparisons, e.g. Roman Shade vs Wood Shutter
- Electronic transfer of orders direct to manufacturer and/or
fabricator
- Electronic upload of all product catalog and pricing updates
insures 100% accuracy of orders and quotes taken in the field
- Local Customer Database enables dealer to maintain their own
set of customers with pricing and discount rules
- 2D, 3D images and scaled drawings provided for each line item
and printed on quotes
- Check in and Check out facility enables user to check quote out
to support a field measurement process
- Quotes may be generic i.e. not all configuration options maybe
required for quote, e.g. fabric choice
Production Scheduling
- Fully integrated work cell scheduling functions:
Attribute Based i.e. sort by fabric, specie, finish
- Finite Capacity can be defined per work cell in any unit
of measure i.e. Dollars, Units, Hours
- Multiple Work Orders Generated for each subassembly, provides
the ability to individually schedule and sequence each department
- Graphical Schedule Board provides visibility of bottlenecks in
production environment
- RF Based Bar coding provides feedback to monitor actual
progress against schedule
Material Optimization and Machine Integration
- Production Runs released by the scheduler will create cut files
for fabric, header rails etc, which will then be optimized by our
lineal and fabric optimizer (ARDIS), includes optimization for
complex material i.e. Cellular Shades
- Optimizer will control and utilize available remnants prior to
using full rolls, greatly reducing remnant inventory
- Fabric cut requirements can be passed electronically to
automated machines
RF Bar Code Production Reporting
- RF Bar code functionality provides real time feedback from shop
floor including the tracking of rework and scrap
- Real time status for each work cell shows remaining work for a
given day or shift
Truck Load Planning and UPS/Fedex Integration
- Integrated truck load planning functions for any full truck load
or LTL shipments to dealers/customers
- Integration with standard carrier shipping systems e.g. UPS,
FEDEX, DHL
Returns Processing
- User defined rules for identifying reason codes for returns and
reorders, includes the automatic generation of credit memos, return
goods authorizations (RGA’s) and repair work orders
- Multiple reason codes per return provides cost analysis by
reason
code within the General Ledger
- Returns receiving process will enable product to be returned to
inventory or stored in a separate return warehouse or location
- Full Inventory Control for all returned merchandise and full cost
control for all repair orders
- Repair orders integrated with normal production activities
Accounting
- Fully integrated accounting functions include: Product Costing,
Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payables and General Ledger
- Credit Management module maintains credit data i.e Credit limit,
Total A/R, Past Due Status, Credit Hold Status, fully integrated with
order processing
- Multiple credit hold points i.e. Hold Order do not Allocate
Inventory, Allocate Inventory do not Make, Make but do Not Ship
- 3 Way and 4 Way Document matching for all purchases
- Purchase Price Variance Reporting
- Integrated General Ledger with full “drill” down functionality to
source transactions
- Full Integration with Microsoft Excel for real time extraction of
data
- Supports multiple budgets for comparison reporting
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