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Fradley Park, Lichfield
Staffordshire WS13 8RZ
UK
Dry Goods Management - The Problem
An extensive product range, specification changes and promotional activity generally leave your dry goods team with nothing but a headache. There is no accountability of lost stock, issued quantities or delivery forecasts in alignment with production demands. The control requires additional labour and eleventh hours adjustments or sourcing, all adding up to one thing...cost.
The Solution
Our system allows dry goods and packaging to be easily managed. Your existing stock position, forecasted deliveries and ongoing requirements based on expected finished goods sales are all taken care of. Product can be issued real time to display on-line stock or the stock take facility can be implemented to create weekly usage figures. Multiples warehouses, locations and sites are also catered for, including product transfers.
In addition, a limitless supply of reporting is available to provide detailed information relative to dry goods and packaging materials. We also have reports to help you visualise the amount of packaging 'shrink'. (See report example below)
The Result
Total control of your packaging through visibility of stock levels, its physical location, how old it is, when it is due, what has been under-delivered against supplier, where and when it was issued and by whom. By applying our bill of materials to finished or in-process products, accountability of stock is available whatever the physical state of the product may be. This in turn is referenced against projected sales, based on the finished products to return your packaging commitments in accordance with wastage regulations.
Major Benefits
- Reduced Stock holding costs
- Reduced Stockouts
- Simplified Control
- Multi UOM capability
- Reduced labour to control
- Reduced wastage
- Fingertip Valuation
Differing Units of Measure
Our system allows for three units of measure to be stored against a dry goods item. These are a Stock unit of measure, an alternate unit of measure and a purchase unit of measure. Any of these can be used when ordering, receiving or indeed stock taking which will allow for accuracy which is sometimes needed on larger items.
Other Uses
Our system cleverly makes use of areas within the system for organisation and grouping purposes. Keeping this in mind, have you ever thought about tracking the on hand stock of your maintenance parts? This can easily be achieved using our dry goods system. Maintenance items (parts) could be added to the system and then assigned to specific maintenance areas. This way the system can then be used in exactly the same way as it is used for dry goods items where they are ordered, received and issued and on hand stock levels can be reported on providing visibility to these assets.