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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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