| FEATURES & FUNCTIONS |
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT  |
| Inventory Control |
- Drop and Remnant tracking
- Full Audit Trail with user, date/ time of each transaction
- Imperial and Metric Functions
- Alloy Surcharges
- Random & Mill Length Control
- On-Line Plate Diagrams
- Customer Bought For Stock Control
- Integrated Mill Test Certificate Imaging
- Customer-Owned Material Tracking
- Tag & Product Tracing
- Mill Claim & Disposition Function
- Quality Hold & Controls
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| Purchasing & Inventory Management |
- Blanket Purchase Orders
- Purchase Orders with multiple destinations
- Mill Acknowledgement & Confirmation
- Corporate, Regional or Warehouse Replenishment
- Multi-Currency Pricing
- Full Audit control of PO changes
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| Receiving and Warehouse Operations |
 STRATIX
warehouse functions are uniquely designed for warehouse operations with
simple screen layouts, larger buttons and fonts, and streamlined entry.
- Customer Return Function
- Pre-Receiving Function
- Tailored Outside Processing Receipts
- Weighbridge Control
- Tag & Label Printing
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| WiFi & Bar Coding |
STRATIX uses PDA's and wireless technology for
shop floor
recording of tagged material. |
- Location Change
- Physical Inventory Count
- Pick Recording
- Shipment Tag Printing
- Shipping & Loading Verification
- Production Recording
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| Sales Productivity and Profitability |
The sales entry function permits rapid entry
of quote and order items while the customer
is on the phone. Special pricing functions provide more accurate information
for sales staff. |
- On-Line Item and total Sales Order Profitability
- Create Buyout PO from the Sale Order Item
- Order entry for burned shapes (circle, ring, sketch)
- Standard Customer Part Specification for repeat orders
- Inter-Company Transactions
- Source one order from multiple warehouses
- Comprehensive booking database
- Fast quote to order conversion
- Multi-Currency Pricing
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| Pricing |
- Metal Price Book with Customer and Contract Pricing
- Sawing Price Tables
- Burning, Grinding, & Drilling Price Tables
- Price Violation Hold & Release Function
- Quantity brackets based on footage and/or weight
- Lost quotation analysis
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| Multi-Step Order Fulfillment |
- Multi-Warehouse process route
- Processing Route can be changed as required
- Includes outside processing
- Transfer orders between warehouses are automatically created
- Standard Routing
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| Integrated Outside Processing |
- Outside processing is tightly integrated with order entry and the
fulfillment cycle
- Outside processing Purchase Orders are automatically generated
- Transfer orders are automatically generated
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| Value-Added Costing |
| STRATIX provides an accurate representation
of a line item's profitability: |
- Each individual process can be complemented by a value-added cost
- Includes cost of internal and outside processing
- Includes cost of transfers and final shipment to the customer
- All costs stored in database for later analysis
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| Sales Order Status |
| STRATIX enables sales to pinpoint the progression
of the order and includes the following for each item: |
- Internal & External Processes
- Production Schedule Status
- Started and Completed status for each process in the route
- Planned for shipment or shipped
- Inter-warehouse transfer status
- Invoicing status
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| Production Planning |
- On-line inquiries for Production Planning and Scheduling
- Eliminates need for paper copies of orders
- Multiple Sales Orders can be combined on a single Job
- Specialized Processing Layouts for sawing, burning and flat rolled
processes
- Planned Drops
- Optional automatic job creation
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| Job Scheduling |
- Cut & Paste On-Line Scheduling
- Reschedule jobs from one warehouse to another
- Change Jobs from Internal to External Processing
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| Production Recording |
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| STRATIX shop floor functions permit production
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- On-Line production and picking line-up
- Shop Floor Production Recording
- Automated Drop Costing
- Streamlined Pick Function
- Tag & Label Printing
- Scale Interface
- Tag substitution function
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| Flat Rolled Operations |
STRATIX has comprehensive and unique functionality for flat rolled
production
- Planning and recording
- Create a slitting job for one or more orders
- Complete arbor layout with OD breaks
- Coil break points can be calculated automatically
- Slit & re-slit functions
- Cut-to-length & multi-strand blanking
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| Toll Processing |
- Access by Mill/Customer Tag number
- End User PO and Part # Reference
- Bill at time of production or at time of shipment
- Bill on gross or net weight
- Scrap Credit at time of shipment or monthly
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| Shipping |
| On-Line Shipping Planning enables planners to
quickly set up and maximize loads. |
- On-Line Shipment Planning
- On-Line Warehouse Transfer Planning
- Sort shipments by Delivery Route & Zone
- Ready-to-ship status
- Partial Shipment Control
- Integrated Manifest and Packing Slip/Bill of Lading
- Automatic In-house and/or Original Mill Certificate Printing
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| Performance Analysis |
- On time Customer Delivery Analysis
- Customer Reject Analysis
- On time Vendor Delivery Analysis
- Vendor Reject Analysis
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| Sales Analysis |
- Executive Dashboard
- Sales Data Warehouse
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| Invoicing |
The invoicing function is fully automated for unattended operations.
- Invoices can be printed, faxed and/or emailed based on customer profile
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly Invoice Consolidation
- Test Certificates can be printed with invoice based on customer profile
- Ability to view archived invoices on-line from order status
- Automatically generate credit note from customer return
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| Credit Management |
- Integrated Credit Control and Management
- On-Line Credit Hold and Release Function
- Hold/Release Workflow notification enabled
- Credit Narratives
- Customer Credit & Payment Analysis
- Up to 16 Credit Hold Verifications
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| FINANCE |
| Integrated Financials |
- Integrated Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger
- Financial Reporting
- Third Party Financial Product Integration
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| INTERNATIONAL FEATURES |
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- Fully Multi-lingual software
- Menu, screens, reference files, lookups, reports, & documents
- Documents print in the language of the customer and vendor
- Multi-currency transactions
- Supports envelope formats for different countries
- Country specific sales tax computations
- Supports A4 Paper Size
- Date Formatting (day, month, year)
- Currency Formatting where a comma is used instead of decimals (1.000,00)
- Units of Measure with alternate language descriptions
- When a user views the history it shows the date/time it occurred in
their time zone
- Mechanical tests in imperial or metric units of measure
- Additional In-House Certificates formats to meet European standards
- Test Certificates support the printing of labels in up to three languages
simultaneously
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