Offering a broad range of functionality, Pick/Pack/Ship (PPS) is designed especially for medium-sized distributors. A multi-point order fulfillment system designed to accommodate the various methods your business employs to fill your customer's orders, PPS can benefit you if your system has any or all of the following: a central distribution center from which you order merchandise, shipping consolidation department, multiple locations sharing inventories/transferring merchandise, the need to track backorders and procure substitute items, or a warehouse picking and shipping environment. PPS provides you with the following tools you need to optimize distribution from order and fulfillment through delivery, invoicing and service:
Ability to place non-stock items on estimates, orders, purchase orders, or on the "Buyers List"
You can add Special Order items to an Estimate or Order (including items not in your inventory file), eliminating the need for two separate transactions
Customer-level flag to indicate if a specific customer allows alternate items (substitutes) or allows backorders
Customer-level flag to indicate a ship via code, and whether or not a customer is to be charged a freight charge
Quantities exceeding available quantity are automatically placed on back order. Backorder items move to "on order" status when the quantity available can meet the need.
Several options are available to help you better handle backorders: you can include back ordered items in transaction totals, automatically place backorders on Buyer's List, and automatically display a Source Menu when an item has insufficient quantity available.
The Source Menu also contains an "Available to Promise" screen. You can view this screen from Order Entry, Inventory Maintenance, the Buyer's List, or the Purchasing window. This useful screen shows the following information: the item's Inventory information, stores' availability of the item, open transactions for the item, PO's that contain the item, alternates (substitutes) for the item (if available), and pricing information about the item.
New committed quantity types: "reserved" and "released" quantities
Auto-generated Transfers
The system can use the customer’s order balance in calculating their credit available
Customized forms for Order Entry ("Enhanced Forms") that fit your specific needs
Ability to post freight to an order using custom freight tables and freight factors
Ship Via/Post Freight/UPS WorldShip Integration
Ship Via allows you to set up the various shipping methods you use in your business. The application comes with a default table that includes the UPS World Ship standard shipping codes, and can support multiple shipping tables. Ship Via also allows you to set up shipping types, and charge according to type. You can even have a ship method that integrates to UPS World Ship, so that when you are creating a transaction in Order Entry, you can "hot key" into UPS World Ship to calculate freight and post the amount back to Order Entry. Upon invoicing, a tracking number linked to the UPS World Ship site will be imbedded in the QuickRecall document. When freight is posted to a transaction, the system will post multiple lines containing: 1) Your default freight SKU and the amount, 2) the number of packages, and 3) the tracking number(s).
Ability to create Work Orders, and mark them "released" and "shipped" at the appropriate times. You can use immediate or batch invoicing for completed work orders.
Hold Options are available that govern the ability to release and/or invoice an order. You can even set up Eagle Alerts to warn you when an order goes on hold.
Order Detail Viewer
Very flexible and powerful, the Order Detail Viewer provides line-item detail for open documents. You can see all the occurrences of a particular SKU across all transactions, or you can select a transaction type, such as orders. You can display all the items on order for a particular customer/job, or you could limit the display to a certain transaction type such as special orders. You can even view all items that have a particular status, such as Shipped, Backordered, Reserved, Released, Current Committed, Future Committed, Received by P.O., Expected by P.O., Transfer In, or Transfer Out. You can select all statuses, or just certain ones. This viewer can be accessed from the Misc Menu of the Order Entry/POS Order Viewer, or the Misc Menu of the Order Entry/POS Open Document Viewer (there is also an "Order Detail" link in this viewer).
Ability to create RMA’s (Return Material Authorization)