Integrate your social services agency warehouse management with the rest of your operations to streamline operations, reduce costs, and speed order fulfillment for your contracts.

As part of our Vertex Financial Manager ERP solution for social services agencies that serve workers with disabilities, we offer a warehouse management solution designed to help reduce costs through effective warehouse and distribution processes.

This application is aimed at those human services agencies with sheltered employment facilities that need to receive and ship goods, while maintaining an optimum utilization of space and knowing specifically where all goods are stored at any given time.

Our Warehouse Management system, based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, provides functionality for handling advanced warehouse processes that involve zones and bins, directed picks and put-aways, as well as automated data capture systems.

The Warehouse Management application of the Vertex Financial Manager is meant to help you maximize the potential of your warehouse. By indicating sorting and picking criteria, you can take advantage of recommended cross-docking opportunities, shortened routes or other results maximizing recommendations. You can root out bottlenecks and inefficiencies by putting to use industry best practices. The automatically rooted out data handling processes such as pick and pack updates will allow you to focus on next phase growth.

Utilize Vertex Systems’ Financial Manager to help your Warehouse and Distribution Processes:

• Work with “Real Time” financial management
• Accurately track your inventory
• Link several different business departments together
• Have access to critical business intelligence
• Increase productivity
• Create strategies for your business
• Reduce your inventory
• Streamline your supply chain
• Get your items to your customer more quickly
• Improve your customer service
• Bring in more contracts
• Earn more revenue with your warehouse
• Save money on your shipping costs

 

Item Costing
Understand item costs throughout the production process, including inventory, work-in-process (WIP), and cost of goods sold (COGS). Break down costs according to categories such as materials, capacity, subcontracting, and overhead. Tighten control of closing processes, improve batch job costing, and streamline reconciliation with the general ledger.

Returns Management
Process returned inventory and account for additional costs. Automatically organize credit memos, replacement goods, returns to vendors, and partial or combined return of shipments or receipts. Exact cost reversal helps increase inventory accuracy.

Cycle Counting
Determine the counting frequency per item or stock-keeping unit to help increase inventory accuracy and meet shipping deadlines.

Internal Pick/Put-Away
Pick or put away items and debit or credit inventory records independently of purchase receipts, sales, or source documents so you can maintain accurate inventory records even when accessing items for testing, display purposes, or other internal or operational needs.

Item Tracking
Trace lot or serial numbers to quickly determine where items were purchased, processed, or sold. Help reduce waste and limit carrying expired inventory with support for FEFO handling.

Automated Data Collection System (ADCS) Support
Improve visibility into inventory, and help increase the accuracy and efficiency of your warehouse management-picking and putting away of items, physical inventory counts, and moving items from bin to bin-with ADCS.

 

Warehouse Management
Tightly integrate order processing, manufacturing, and warehouse functionality to help optimize layout and space utilization, manage replenishment, and handle multiple orders at once. Incorporate a variety of pick prioritization methods, including first in/first out (FIFO), first expired/first out (FEFO), or last in/last out (LILO), into directed pick, movement, and put-away decisions.

If your social services agency, with warehouse facilities, includes the tracking of and the management of inventory, you need a manufacturing and distribution solution that will understand the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of each turn in your process. With our ERP solution, you will eliminate the blind spots and eliminate the wasted steps, which will have a major impact on your organization’s bottom line – which means you’ll be able to do more for your clients.

Our Manufacturing ERP solution streamlines your agency so you can meet the following requirements:

• Run your warehouse processes in paperless mode
• Reduce the amount of wrong picks and/or deliveries
• Improve traceability from start-to-finish
• Manage order information by ASN and EDI
• Provide warehouse workers with efficient tools

The Warehouse Management & Distribution function streamlines order management, receiving, stocking, replenishment, picking, and shipping. This system helps you focus on what keeps your agency thriving: enhancing customer satisfaction with faster turnaround times and precise order fulfillment. This can help you keep existing contracts as well as help you get new contracts in due to the high quality of your data, your efficient processes, and your enhances warehousing capabilities.

 

Vertex Financial Manager, based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, drives greater productivity for individual end-users with role-tailored views and role centers and a broader portfolio of data analysis, business intelligence, and reporting tools. Our financial system helps social services organizations automate and simplify processes across the entire agency to drive greater productivity, collaboration and communication, and, ultimately, growth.

 

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