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Manage your inventory like you never did before!

Managing inventory and keeping stock at optimum levels is one of the foremost considerations in the supply chain and distribution business. Keeping track of what needs to be replenished, needs to be adjusted and sold right away are just a few of the tasks that needs to be accomplished with caution and accuracy. Now, you can experience fuss-free inventory management, when you experience Interprise Suite.

AspDotNetStorefront IS gives you full control of your inventory, letting you supervise every step of the supply chain and reducing to a minimum - if not completely eliminate - errors brought about by the complexities of overseeing multiple warehouses and locations. For every item in your inventory, you will be able to track costs and item usage and keep all relevant information as long you may require. You can compare supplier details side by side helping you make well-informed purchases with up to date costs, information on priority suppliers, purchase trends and more. AspDotNetStorefront IS includes a range of different pricing options allowing you to setup simple, multi-level and customer specific pricing and still flexible enough to handle other pricing schemes.

Managing warehouses has never been easier until AspDotNetStorefront IS. The Inventory Module let�s you create warehouses to store your inventory and assign them for various purposes such as consignments. The Warehouse Management option in the Inventory Module allows you to manage each warehouse down to each location. You can designate locations to be the preferred �pick� and �put away� areas to easily fulfill and dispatch customer orders. The more you know about Interprise Suite, the more you�ll discover how inventory management can be far easier than before.

Interprise Suite Inventory Module Benefits
Superior Inventory Item Maintenance
Matrix and Kitting Items
Advanced pricing options
Integrated eCommerce*
Comprehensive purchasing features and cost options
Support for multiple currencies and selling languages
Support for inventory barcoding
Create and Manage Warehouses Languages
Tools and Setup

Superior Inventory Item Maintenance

The AspDotNetStorefront IS inventory screens serve as a central place for all inventory-related setup and historical data. Information that is usually separated among different accounting modules (Sales Order / Purchase Order / Warehouse / etc) or completely different applications (eCommerce / CRM systems / etc) are all brought together in one logical location. This comprehensive approach allows you to increase efficiency and profitability by helping you to better manage your inventory, spot emerging trends and monitor supplier performance.

Designed with today�s dynamic business in mind, the AspDotNetStorefront IS inventory module supports an incredible number of advanced features as illustrated below.

Tabbed screen format brings all inventory-related data together
Support for a variety of item types...
- Stock: Items that is being stored in a warehouse and quantity is being tracked
- Non-Stock: Items in which quantity is not being tracked
- Item Matrix: Similar items with varying attributes. i.e. color / sizes
- Service: Service that is rendered to your customers
- Kits: A group of items that can be sold as a package
- Assembly: A group of components that fit together to create a self-contained unit.
Detailed inventory item information
Support for units of measures (i.e Each, Dozen, Case, etc)
Support for barcodes per units of measure (i.e. one barcode if sold in each � another if sold in dozen)
Support for tiered categories and departments which automatically flow to the web module
Support for custom fields
Displays average, current and standard costs per item
LIFO, FIFO or Average Costing with advanced posting processes
Setup accessories and substitutes per inventory item
Display stock totals of item per warehouse
Support for warehouse zones - i.e. receiving, dispatch, repair, scrap, etc.
Integrated item ledger to display a table to recent transactions a particular item has acquired per warehouse
Simplified stock adjustment and stock transfer forms
..and much more

Matrix and Kitting Items

Companies that sell items with different attributes (sizes, colors, designs, patterns, etc.) or in configurable kits (computers, jewelry, etc) will love our Group Matrix and Kitting features. Both features are extremely easy to setup � thanks to our setup wizards that guide you through each process. The Group Matrix feature allows you to setup the product attributes and AspDotNetStorefront IS will automatically create the corresponding items, while the kitting feature allows you to setup predefined options allowing your customers to upgrade and downgrade items in your kits. Both the Group Matrix and Kitting feature easy to use �speed entry� popup forms that significantly increase order entry time and work with our ecommerce module so your website is automatically configured.

Group Matrix Features
- Attributes can be of any variance such as size, color, style, design, etc.
- Up to 7 attributes per item
- Display item matrixes during order and purchasing processes for faster, more accurate data entry
- Attributes automatically flow to the ecommerce module allowing you to group item matrix items together
- Attribute "swatches" can be setup for eCommerce

Kitting Options
- Support for option groups
- Support for required, optional and multi-select option groups
- Option groups are designed for the web and include html description and graphical icon options
- Support for upsell and downsell items with each option group
- Display item kits during order and purchasing processes for faster, more accurate data entry

Advanced pricing options

You need the flexibility to price your products as you see fit. To accomplish this task Interprise Suite has some of the most sophisticated pricing methods available. Additionally Interprise Suite allows you to set these prices on a �per currency� basis allowing even the smallest business to go global.

Inventory Wholesale and Retail Pricing: This is the most common pricing method allowing you to setup a wholesale, retail and suggested retail price for each of your items. Prices can be manually populated or automatically calculated up based on cost, last cost or profit margin.

Inventory Price Lists: This offers the greatest amount of flexibility by allowing you to setup price lists per currency. Price lists supports quantity discount schedules and can be set by units of measure.

Inventory Promotional Pricing: This allows you to set items on sale for a particular period of time. During order entry AspDotNetStorefront IS will automatically calculate the customers� regular price against the promotional price applying the lower price to the order and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Customer Discount Price: This common pricing method allows you to assign a fixed discount to a customer on all of their orders. i.e. 10% discount.

Customer Negotiated Pricing: This pricing method allows you to override the default pricing method for items on a per customer basis.

Customer Last Price Paid: This pricing method will automatically retrieve the last price the customer paid during order entry. If it is the customers first time ordering the product, then the default price will be displayed.

Customer Markup: This pricing method allows you to assign a markup off the cost price for items on a per customer basis. For example, you can setup a customer to have a 50% markup and the system will automatically calculate the price during order entry.

Category Discount Bands: This pricing method allows you to set discount bands per category which then can be assigned to customers. For example you can setup a category discount band that will give customers 10% off hardware and 20% off software purchases.

Integrated eCommerce*

eCommerce is becoming an essential part of business in today�s internet based world. With this fact in mind we wrote eCommerce capabilities into the DNA of AspDotNetStorefront IS. This is especially true in the inventory module where a multitude of options give your company the flexibility it needs to sell its products online.

Inventory web options are mainly found in the inventory, category, department and manufacturer screens. As you add items into AspDotNetStorefront IS and select them to be shown on the web they are instantly available on your website. This full integration significantly reduces the setup and ongoing maintenance costs of going online. No import / export - No upload / download � just results.
Support for AspDotNetStoreFront XML packages allowing page layout design flexibility
Fully integrated � both Interprise Suite and its eCommerce module share the same database and tables for real-time business
Integrated HTML Editor
Support for both Retail (B2C) and Wholesale customers (B2B)
Inventory options setup in AspDotNetStorefront IS also works on your website. For example � negotiate a special price for a single customer and that will be the price they pay on your website as well
Ability to assign a single inventory item to multiple departments and categories
Support for accessory items which then are displayed when items are ordered
Support for substitute items which then are displayed when item details are viewed
Support for all AspDotNetStorefront IS item types including kits and group matrixes on the web site
Support for sale, featured and exclusive items
Support for suggested retail prices
Support for �display only� items (no add to cart button is displayed)
Support for Minimum Advertised Price programs whereas price can not be displayed until the product is added to the cart
Support for search engine friendly fields.

Comprehensive purchasing features and cost options

AspDotNetStorefront IS supports suppliers for each of your inventory items on a per warehouse basis. To help you best organize your suppliers and maximize profitability for each item, AspDotNetStorefront IS allows you to setup supplier priority levels for each of your warehouses which flow to the auto purchase order functions found in the supplier modules. With this feature you can assign a default supplier for an item �per warehouse� allowing you to choose the nearest supplier and reduce shipping changes.

Purchase details such as lead time, purchase item number, purchase description and purchase tax rates can be setup per supplier for maximum flexibility. Promotional pricing and volume discounts are also supported. For suppliers in foreign countries, the purchase order descriptions are multi-lingual allowing you to print purchase orders in your supplier�s native language.

AspDotNetStorefront IS has complete support for average cost, LIFO and FIFO costing options and advanced posting routines ensure accurate cost of good sold and inventory valuation reports.
Support for suppliers per item - per warehouse
Support for lead time, purchase item number, purchase description and purchase tax rates on a per supplier basis
Support for Average costing, LIFO and FIFO costing
Support for supplier currencies and languages
Support for supplier promotional pricing
Support for supplier volume discounts

Build assembly items

The assembly feature accommodates very basic manufacturing requirements. For example, if you sell furniture and can sell them alone or with rolling casters, you may create new items in stock for the furniture with casters attached. In house assemblies of such items can be done in the Assembly/Works Order feature of AspDotNetStorefront IS by taking out component stock items and putting them together as an assembly item. The Assembly Works/Order form can be customized to display information on committed, available, and on back orders for each assembly component.

Detailed Assembly details and instructions
Build new assemblies from the Assembly detail form
Calculation of default cost for assembled items
Option for external and in house assemblies
Customizable Assembly/Works Order form
Opening balances for already assembled items

Support for multiple currencies and selling languages

Although the internet and reduced telecommunication and shipping costs have made it considerably easier for the smallest of businesses to go global, the current crop of business software application have simply not kept up with these new business opportunities.

To assist companies with global ambitions, AspDotNetStorefront IS supports multiple �selling languages� and "currencies" to help you better localize your products for each market you want to serve. Selling languages defined in AspDotNetStorefront IS flow through to the eCommerce module giving your company a true multi-lingual website.

Assign selling languages with point and click ease
Localize all inventory description related information including web summaries and detailed descriptions
Setup price lists per currency

Support for inventory barcoding

The Inventory Module includes a very powerful bar coding solution that streamlines the distribution process, allowing your company to effectively collect inventory data faster, and eliminate data entry errors made by data re-entry. Print barcodes whenever needed, like during purchase orders or receipts.

Support for UPC codes
Barcoding can easily be added to any report or form
Barcodes can be scanned into the application for quick processing
Ansi39 ANSI 3 of 9 (Code 39)
Ans39x ANSI Extended 3 of 9
Code_2_of_5 / Code25intlv
Code25mat Code 25 Matrix
Code39/Code39x (Extended)
Code 128 A/B/C
Code 128/UCC EAN 128
Code 93/Code 93x (Extended)
MSI - PostNet(USPS)
Codabar
EAN-8/EAN-13
UPC-A/UPC-E/UPC-E1
RM4SCC (Royal Mail)
QRCode
Code49 (Japanese Postal System)
Pdf417

Create and manage warehouse locations

The Inventory Module allows you to setup warehouses to manage inventory in multiple stock locations in up-to-the-second real time. Fully integrated with the other modules of AspDotNetStorefront IS, all warehouse related information is organized in the warehouse form giving you the information you need when you need it.

Multi-lingual form capabilities allow you to support international warehouses
Works with CRM functions
Manage warehouse locations with stock types
Manage all stock totals of your inventory items
Track items in stock, units committed, items on back order, items on order, items available, and more, per warehouse
Manage notes, contact history and activities in a selected warehouse
Attach documents per contact info, and per warehouse as well
Default warehouse can be assigned by customer shipping location
Support for custom stock takes.

Inventory setup and tools

Users can customize how the Inventory Module forms will perform for them. Default information can be made thru wizard setups to enhance productivity when entering and maintaining inventory data.

Add unit measures per inventory item
Map categories per inventory item
Create item class templates and price level templates for speedier data entry
Set default costing method
Set default warehouses
Set default unit measure for all items
Set default information for form fields
..and much more

Key Features

Standard

Advanced

Stock Record

Item Centred View showing sales orders, purchase orders for the item, transaction history with drill downs, stock qty information by warehouse etc.

Supports Warehouses

Bins

Warehouse Centred View on Items

Stock & None Stock Item Types

Matrix Items with easy generation of the combinations that can occur. For example T Shirts Style, Size and Colour, you decide what combinations there are and it generates them and then you pick which you want to be stock items.

Assembly / BOM Item Types

Kit Item Types with Kit options, pictures and questions for order entry configuration. These can be priced individually or overall on the sales order easily.

Subscription Item for Maintenance type Sales
(Allocates the revenue over the length of the subscription)

Accessories & Substitutes

Costing Methods are Standard, Average, FIFO, LIFO

Landed and Actual Costing Methods

Option to Store Items in Specific Bin Locations

Preferred Put away Location for each item

Preferred Pick Location for each item

Replenish Pick Locations Routine

Serial Number Traceability

Batch/Lot Traceability

Supports Units of Measure like Each, Dozen, Case, Kg, Litres etc. Qty breaks can also be fractions of the base Unit of Measure

Stock Routines

Stock Take Routine by Warehouse

- By Location

- By Item

- By Stock Cycle Days

Stock Adjustments

Internal Movements

Stock Transfers between Bins

Stock Transfers between Warehouses

Stock Transfer Between Warehouse Routine Pick & Goods In Routine

Replenish Other Warehouses Stock Routine from main warehouse

Stock Assembly / Works Order Build Routine

Pricing

Price List Options by Supplier with Priority

Option for Different Suppliers for Different Warehouses

Price List Options by Currency by Customer

Promotional Pricing

Qty Break Pricing on Price Lists

Retail Price & Wholesale Price

Product Group Discount Bands

Mark-up on Last Cost / Mark - up on Pricing Cost

Supplier Last Price / Customer Last Price

Special pricing and Price lists can also be done by Unit of measure and qty breaks.

Other

Active / Not Active Flag so it will or will not appear in the search lists

ECommerce Integration

Customer Part codes & Descriptions

Supplier Part codes & Descriptions

Business Intelligence for example slow moving stock

View Online Videos

Stock Item

Create New Kit

New Adjustment

New Warehouse

View Screenshots



Inventory Workflow Dashboard	Inventory Business Intelligence	Inventory Items Search List


Inventory Item Stock	Inventory Item Stock Setup	Inventory Item Costing


Inventory Item Costing Detail	Inventory Item Pricing	Inventory Item Warehouse


Inventory Item Ledger	Inventory Item Analysis	Inventory Item Web Option


Inventory Item Matrix Group	Inventory Item Kit	Inventory Item Assembly



Inventory Warehouse	Inventory Warehouse Locations	Inventory Warehouse Stock Total


Inventory Stock Adjustment	Inventory Stock Take	Inventory Internal Movement


Inventory Build Assembly	Inventory Stock Transfer	Inventory Stock Valuation


Inventory Profit Analysis	Inventory Wholesale Pricing	Inventory Price List