| Features & Functions |
Inventory and Purchasing  |
| Inventory Control |
| Handles all metal products with intuitive metal references,
dynamic dimensions and thickness/gauge control, multiple inventory-control
methods such as weight, pieces, footage, measure, tagged, non-tagged) with
complete physical & chemical specifications. |
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| Purchase Order Processing |
| Accommodates standard, blanket, or outside processing purchase
orders. Uses standard material specifications and manages original and current
due dates. |
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| Inventory Management |
| Analysis of sales and usage history for comprehensive inventory
planning with flexible re-order reporting based on re-order points or minimum
months of stock. Allows inventory forecasting for customer program material
and products with long lead times. |
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| Optimized Inventory Levels |
| Analyzes the inventory on a regular basis to determine optimum
inventory levels to match sales and production activities. |
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| Sales & Profitability |
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| Customer Service |
| Permits access by customer PO, customer part number, or product
for comprehensive order status inquiry. It provides users with ready-to-ship
availability, production shipping status, and shipment history. |
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| On-Line Quotation System |
| Responds in real-time while the customer is on the phone.
It provides improved margins with instant on-line profitability; improved
quote-to-order ratios through rapid turn around of quotations; and greater
accuracy while reducing the time needed to prepare quotations. |
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| Sales Order Processing |
| Comprises complete order fulfillment processing including
on-line profitability, processing, production and packaging specifications,
as well as mixed order fulfillment on one sales order (stock, buy-backs
and misdirects), multiple change items for each item and copy item functions. |
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| Computerized Price Book |
| Improve sales staff productivity and customer service while
providing customers with accurate and consistent pricing information. Eliminates
the requirement for a manually maintained price book and allows users to
quickly update the price book to reflect the changing metal market prices. |
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| Customer Specifications |
| Stores detailed customer processing specifications to increase
sales productivity, decrease customer rejects, improve customer service
and reduce customer returns. |
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| Barcode Integration |
| Improves inventory control and location management with barcode
tag generation for receiving, production, and shipping. There are facilities
for physical inventory, production, and shipping checks as well as radio
frequency devices. |
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| General Material Processing |
| Improves production efficiency with the integration of capacity
planning, job scheduling, costing, product-to-product conversions, and more
- in single or multi-order combinations. |
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| Flat Roll Production |
| Offers a host of fields including arbor layout, on-line yield
calculations for flat roll specific work orders in single or multiple order
combinations. Enables the better use of material by identifying return-to-stock
before they are produced. |
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| Toll Storage & Processing |
| Integrates tasks such as mill coil tracking by customer and
mill reference, invoicing at either production or shipment, integrated scrap
credit billing, real-time transmission of AISI and X.12 transmission and
other tasks. |
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| Tube Mill Planning & Production |
| Provides the facility for specifying rolling schedules and
the ability to book against the schedule for capacity and production planning. |
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| Optimum Machine Utilization |
| Allows the loading and monitoring of production facilities
for maximum usage of slitting, cut-to-length, burning and other production
machinery. |
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| Traceability & Mill Test Certification |
| Offers complete trace-ability of the material from the purchase
order through to the delivery of the finished products with complete chemical
and physical properties. Maintains customer profiles with preferences for
certification and offers automatic printing of certification at time of
shipment. |
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| Corporate Productivity |
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| Integrated Financial Systems |
| Fully integrated with Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable,
General Ledger and Financial Reporting utilizing MS/Excel. |
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| Vendor & Customer Performance Evaluations |
| Analyze vendor on-time delivery, vendor rejects, customer
on-time delivery, complete shipment, and customer returns. |
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| Document Image Storage |
| Supports mill test certificate imaging by on-line indexing
and is fully integrated with shipping functions. Scanning, storage and indexing
of all customer delivery documents. |
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| Ease-of-Use |
| User productivity and flexibility is maximized with multiple
windows, action bars, contextual help, reference file look-ups, and function
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