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	Zeta Distribution

Inventory Control

Stock items

• Maintain stock details for raw materials, assemblies, finished goods, spare parts etc.
• Specify a full inventory policy for each stock item including:
  • Units of measure for stocking, buying, selling and despatch.
  • Weight or specific gravity.
  • Economic order quantity.
  • Supersessions for obsolete products.
  • Alternatives where stock is unavailable.
  • Reorder level and safety level.
  • Production lead time.
  • Maximum stock holding.
  • Preferred supplier.
  • Purchasing reorder time.
  • MRP ordering rules.
  • Expected yields (purchased & manufactured product).
• Record technical descriptions for individual stock items including customer specification, quality control procedure, Certificate of Conformity, dimensions, drawing references and catalogue reference.
• Set traceability level for each stock item.
• Value stock by a choice of weighted average, standard or LIFO/FIFO costing.
• Record the current and expected costs of producing or purchasing each item.
• Break down the cost of each stock item by material, labour, overhead and outwork.
• Record percentage uplift to costs for use when costing bills of material.
• Record product group analysis codes for use in sales and purchase analysis.

Warehouses and bins

• Keep stock in multiple logical or physical warehouses and identify bin locations within these.
• Define hierarchical warehouses and zones.

Product group codes

• Define your own product groups for sales, stock and purchase analysis.
• For each group codes, set up the valid values.

Record Transactions

Record the following transactions in either the Inventory Management module or modules within the overall integrated solution.

• Receipts from suppliers.
• Stock issued to production.
• Returns from suppliers.
• Write-offs.
• Returns from customers.
• Sales despatches.
• Adjustments.
• Transfers between warehouses or bins.
• Finished goods manufactured or assembled internally.

Manage your stock

• Automatically recalculate economic order quantities, reorder levels and safety stock via user-defined formulae.
• Track receipt, production and issue of serial controlled items and batch tracked items.
• Issue stock in bulk for shop floor use.
• Perform A-B-C analysis for automatic classification of stock.
• Keep histories of:
  • Movements in the current year.
  • Demand and zeta(issues and sales) in current and previous years.

Maintain traceability

• Define the level of traceability for each stock item. Choose from batch tracked, serial numbered or non-tracked.
• If tracking items by batch:
  • Track by batch number, sell-by date, use-by date, expiry date.
  • Specify the inspection cycle and inspection yield for each stock item that you want to inspect.
• Issue batches according to their expiry date, best-before date, sell-by date or date received.

Stock Taking

• Carry out both continuous and cyclical stocktaking.
• Print bar-coded stocktaking cards, produce variance reports and update inventory records automatically if required.

Standard Reports

• Stock Status Report.
• Brief and Full Stock Detail Reports.
• Batch and Serial Number Listings.
• Stock Valuation Report.
• A-B-C Analysis Report.
• Inspection Status Report.
• Inactive Items Report.
• Stock Standard Price List.
• Transaction Audit Trails.
• Shipping Note Audit Trail.
• Stock History Report.
• Stock Movements Report.
• Reorder Proposal.
• Overstocked Items Report.