Purchasing & Receiving: Purchase Order

The Supply Chain is possibly the single most important feature to a Manufacturing or Assembly Business. Replenishing your inventory before goods run out with Stream V is Efficient and Easy. The Stream V Purchasing module is designed to automate the process of correctly, and efficiently, replenishing inventory as orders are placed and inventory is shipped to meet customer demand.

The need for ordering inventory can come from many areas: customer demand for products not in stock, the entry of orders exceeding available inventory, usage driving inventory levels below predefined minimums, and the preparation for future sales or production runs.

Multiple Purchase Order Types for Flexibility

Multiple purchase order types are supported to provide the ability to support normal stock replenishment, special order items, factory drop shipments and purchases for in-house consumption.

Easily configure different purchase order types for specific projects. These purchase order types are supported through the use of parameter and object-based programming which allows for the easy configuration of the system for specific requirements without custom programming.

The Needed Edge for eCommerce

Numerous on-line inquiry screens and reports allow fast and easy access to vendor, requisition, and purchase order information. This 'eye' into both automated and manual processes allows you to control the flow of product, avoiding overstocked or cancelled orders headaches.

The easy-to-use inquiry screens provide multiple sequence selection, search capabilities and single keystrokes to display underlying detail. These reports and inquiry screens, which include the Purchasing Recommendations and Expected/Overdue Receipts, offer exceptionally flexible selection, sequence, and output capabilities.

As with all Cove Systems' reports, output can be routed to the screen, disk, and printer.

The Paperless Office is a Reality

For the completely paperless office, Stream V Purchasing System is able to convert sales orders directly into requisitions and purchase orders. Additionally, output can be prepared for transmission via EDI or the Internet for other systems to use as order input for a truly paperless operating environment utilizing Stream V's powerful VendorLink.

Integrated with Stream V Receiving, the Purchasing System captures and maintains comprehensive historical purchasing and receiving information that assists in making cost-effective and timely purchasing decisions. Historical information may be analyzed by vendor, item, product line and/or purchase order type, using the wide range of reports provided, the ad-hoc report writer, or by exporting the data to a favorite spread sheet program.

Stream V Purchasing integrates the diverse purchasing needs of businesses and produces the critical requirements reports, with reorder suggestions required for purchasing planning. It provides businesses with the capabilities to manage the requisition and purchasing activities of both single and multi-location distribution environments.

The Internet, the Cloud and Beyond

Stream V provides access to vendors and the supply chain via the Internet by using the integrated Stream V eCommerce, EDI, and VendorLink technologies. Stream V eCommerce allows the processing of completely secure eCommerce transactions by customers and vendors from anywhere in the world using standard Web browsers. It even allows this access if a public Web server is outside your firewall, without requiring that the data be directly accessible to the world.

Through the use of dynamic processors, customers are able to do order entry, account lookup and much more without compromising the security of data. New functionality requires no changes to the Web server, allowing businesses to move forward into the eCommerce age without worry.

Recent Features and Enhancements to this Module

• PO Estimated Ship Date/ETA Date: Modified PO Item entry to not default these fields if the lead days in inventory are less than one
• PO Entry: Changed display of cost calculation to use Text Display popup instead of Showln window
• Added duplicate line option to PO Entry line browse. When selected, user is prompted for new date (defaults to next business day 30 days ahead) and quantity.
• PO Entry: Added PO History button to item entry panel to allow user to view purchasing history for an item.
• PO Query: Developed an optional PO query to select the PO for vendor ship invoicing; it calls the Invoice Vendor Ship view.
• PO: Anchored buttons, move shipping amount to bottom of screen where it is next subtotal to eliminate confusion.
• Added preference to set PO print routing on save.
• Added Vendor PO Report
• Modified buyer name property in PO