Alpha SCM Benefits

Alpha SCM optimizes your Production, Inventory, Distribution, Payments and gives you numerous SCM benefits...

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Today's companies, manage supply and demand in a business climate characterized by instability. In response, they seek Supply Chain Management - SCM Solutions for enterprise-wide order processing and warehouse and transportation management as well as collaborative planning and forecasting to maximize efficiency and strengthen supplier and buyer relationships.

Through the use of SCM, we can achieve better information engineering. In simple terms supply chain improvements have resulted in a reduced inventory levels, reduced logistics costs, and streamlined payments. These are SCM benefits - improvements to help produce macroeconomic benefits such as more stable economic output and higher productivity growth.

Alpha SCM Solution is a powerful, yet flexible set of applications that enable you to plan proactively, streamline inventory and distribution costs and optimize resources.

Alpha Supply Chain Management Solution enables you to develop accurate forecasts by creating a collaborative environment for multiple individuals, groups and partners. You can create effective forecasts that result in a single set of plans for your business.

The system helps you implement your plans by developing realistic schedules that maximize the utilization of your plants, equipments and inventory to reduce cycle times and improve profits.

It also supports make-to-order (MTO), make-to-stock (MTS) or just-in-time (JIT) inventory needs with extensive analysis and simulation capabilities. You also have the visibility needed to support collaborative programs such as vendor managed inventory (VMI), CPFR and continuous replenishment programs (CRP).

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Workflow
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SCM benefits - Purchase Manager:

• Enter PO Types
• Enter Suppliers Data
• Define Payment Terms and Standard Purchase Terms
• Define Sales Tax Rules, Customs Excise Rules for each item as applicable
• Enter Supplier Pricelist or create vendor-item catalogue
• Pre-define quotation for each supplier
• Pre-define PR approval routes based on amount authority.

SCM benefits - Store Manager:

• Maintain Stores, Racks Bins data
• Receive Delivery Order (DO) based on Open Purchase Order (PO)
• Enter DO without PO
• Approve DO, Print GRN Update Stock
• Reject DO, Print DR
• Inventory Analysis: ABC, FSN, SOS, VED
• Stock or Bin Card
• Stock Requirement List or MRP Table
• Movement Analysis
• Track all materials by Batch no./Lots number
• Value Inventory based on various methods FIFO, LIFO, Weighted Average Standard

SCM benefits - Purchase Controller:

• Publish Tender
• Create Request For Quotation (RFQ)
• Generate Approve Purchase Requisition (PR)
• Generate PO
• Access Vendor Performance
• Compare Bids for Tenders Select Supplier and best bid
• Compare Quote for RFQs Select Supplier and best quote
• See Supplier Stock
• Create PO from PR
• Create PO from MRP based on predefined Supplier Quotation
• Assign PO Number by grouping different items for same Supplier
• Print Send PO
• Suspend, cancel or close PO
• Create Delivery Schedule Releases
• Create PO amendments

SCM benefits - Supplier Self Service:

• Enter Quotation Against RFQ
• Enter Bid against Tender
• Enter Supplier Stock
• Supplier Payment Tracking
• Supplier Aging Analysis or Pending Payments/Credits

SCM benefits - Material Requirement Planner:

• Define Production Plan as per Sales Order ATP Delivery dates commitments
• Carry out BOM explosion for the plan and generate Material requirements for each item using MRP Server
• Generate MRP on any interval and create PO based on MRP Plan or Matrix

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