AutoSimply Purchase Planning
For Sage 300
AutoSimply’s Purchase Planning (I/P) is an easy to use inventory planning solution for small to medium-sized trading companies.
What is Purchase Planning?
With Purchase Planning Module, trading companies can now generate complete purchase plans for all their inventory items with consideration of either Sage 300 Bills of Materials or Kitting Items.
It is fully integrated with Sage 300 Operation modules and makes full use of sales information in OE, inventory data in IC, and purchase orders in PO to generate realistic plans.
Why use Purchase Planning?
With businesses facing greater competition, it’s imperative for companies to be efficient in its use of inventory to minimize wastage. Planning ahead for inventory purchases is crucial for meeting this goal.
Purchase Planning minimizes inventory stock and prevent items shortages leading to improvement in customer service levels at the same time. With IP, planners can actually spend time planning instead of tracking, compiling, and calculating stock requirements.
Key Features
Available to Promise (ATP)
- Provide stock inventory information such as on hand quantity, PO on order quantity, SO allocated quantity by location
- Displays the default sales price based on Sage Accpac I/C
- Displays summary customer credit status based on Sage Accpac A/R
- Includes a date-based sales history information
- Displays detailed item planning information for the selected item
Item Planning
- User may also define an order multiple (purchase unit) for each IC item
- Purchase lead time can be maintained for each IC item
- Option to automatically generate planned orders for selected items
Consumption of Sales Forecasts
- Actual Sage Accpac O/E sales orders can consume user-defined sales forecasts thus preventing excessive estimation of item demand.
- Consumption tolerance can be defined by using backward and forward consumption days
Flexible IC Location Coverage
- User-defined I/P Distribution Networks determine the scope of purchase planning runs
- I/P Distribution Networks are used to group I/C Locations to form supply chains
Simplified Planning Runs
- User-friendly planning run interface requires only one click of a button to run the entire purchase planning process
- Includes option to exclude I/C stock, P/O orders, O/E orders
- Includes option to ignore minimum stock levels and work calendar
What If Scenarios
- Allows four (4) other planning records per Distribution Network to simulate "What If” scenarios
- Option to copy a source planning record to any target planning record
Auto Generation of Purchase Requisitions
- Planned orders can be automatically converted to P/O Requisitions via the I/P Generate PR routine
- Buyer has the option to combine or generate separate P/O Requisitions
- Buyer has the option to change order dates, due dates and order quantities for planned orders prior to generating P/O Requisitions