Purchasing

Advanced Replenishment Tools
System 2000 includes an extremely powerful purchasing program designed to help minimize the time consumed by manual purchasing operations. It automates your demand planning, purchasing, and ordering processes across multiple lines and warehouses. 

VAI System 2000's Purchasing features include:

Historical and forecasted usage for each item, seasonal trends, market demand, and vendor lead times to provide suggested purchase orders for each vendor.
Erratic demand is flagged for review and can be exponentially smoothed into demand formulas.
Group items into buy-lines for purchase analysis by product group to take advantage of special pricing and discounts.
Buy-line inquiries that allow you to compare purchasing requirements with vendor targets.
Estimated carrying costs are displayed for items that are necessary to meet the vendor target.
Complete integration to Customer Order Processing, for the processing of special orders and direct shipments.
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