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Optimized Orders: Pointing Your Products in the Right Direction
Key Features
- Shipment optimization logic that balances constraints such as weight, cost or dimension to meet desired minimum or maximum aggregate order sizes
- Order fill logic that balances days of supply of products at a stocking location while meeting shipment minimums
- Multiple graphical displays to show conditions such as percentage of order fill, promotion percentage or ABC contribution
- Accepts and uses customer purchase order ranges for order creation in a VMI environment
- Integrates EDI transaction sets in support of VMI programs
- Considers calendar parameters such as eligible shipping days and customer receiving days for order due date calculation
- Replenishment sets and groups for easy maintenance of order cycle
No matter what type of collaboration initiatives your company is involved in … Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Make-to-Order, or Continuous Replenishment Planning (CPR), it is vital that you generate timely and cost effective replenishment orders. You need to know when and where products are required so that manufacturing has enough lead-time to keep costs intact. In short, you need a powerful, easy-to-use tool that provides you with replenishment order suggestions incorporating all the relevant knowledge across your enterprise.
Prescient’s Optimized Orders does exactly that. It will also suggest additional items to include in a shipment when you need to meet minimum requirements or purchase order constraints, while minimizing inventory investment. Once orders are confirmed, the software enables you to transmit details on shipment in a variety of formats to other systems requiring the information. Optimized Orders provides unmatched flexibility for compiling and managing replenishment orders, based on the unique needs of your organization. You will improve on-time delivery, minimize the need for costly expediting, and contribute to the success of programs that are visible to your management and your customers.
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