Supply Chain Management

The main functions of supply chain management are to increase the accuracy of forecasting, reduce inventory, improve the ability to deliver and supply goods, reduce work flow cycle time, increase production efficiency, reduce supply chain costs, reduce overall purchasing costs, shorten production cycle time, and accelerate market response time. Supply chain management primarily comprises contract management, purchase management, outsourcing management, pre-sale analysis, export management, stock management, inventory accounting and GSP quality control.

Main Functions

CRM:

Customer information database, sales opportunities, sales processing, market and service information, and sales analysis

Sales management:

Sales planning, quotation and price solution, sales order processing, sales stock-out and delivery, invoices, sales expense control, sales analysis and reporting

Stock management:

Stock-in and stock-out slips, barcodes, batches, shelf-lives, stock location, multiple transfer and counting processes, inventory analysis and reporting

Inventory accounting:

Stock-in, stock-out and storage costs, six cost calculation methods, provision for depreciation, integration with general ledger data

Purchase management:

Supplier management, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, arrival of goods and documents, invoice processing, settlement, processing of returned goods, integration with accounts receivable, purchase analysis and reporting systems

Contract management:

Contract entry, verification, amendments, settlement, contract archive collection and management, integration with accounts receivable/payable and sales systems

Outsourcing management:

Outsourcing data management, outsourcing orders, arrival of goods, invoice and settlement processing

Quality control:

GSP quality, quality inspection management of received goods and materials

Features of the Solution

• Complete supplier evaluation function including information analysis comprised of historical data, prices and rates
• Spans the entire contract cycle time and supports contract management with various alert methods
• Supports purchase management and sales management in three business categories of common purchase, commission sales and direct consignment
• Supports various common and special stock-in and stock-out businesses, barcodes, batches, shelf-lives, stock location, counting and transfers
• Supports comprehensive quality control comprising of quality inspection in multiple categories and multiple methods of processing inferior products

The underlying chart shows an overall picture of what Supply Chain Management (SCM) consists of. More details are available in a downloadable brochure: UFIDA U8(v8.70) ERP brochure (English)