Inventory

An accurate and detailed view of inventory across all levels and facilities is a critical business tool.

Knowing the location, status, value, and lead-times of inventory is essential to making the most effective business decisions.

Datatex Inventory accurately handles all levels of inventory and warehousing - from raw materials to finished goods, as well as all levels in between.

Warehouse Management System

• Physical Warehouse
• Logical Warehouse
• Warehouse Group
• Consignment Warehouse
• Transit Warehouse
• Bill & Hold Warehouse
• Internal, Customer, Supplier Warehouse
• Accounting Warehouse

Warehouse Management System (Physical Warehouse)

• Warehouse/zone/bin location level
• Weight, volume, length, height, width plus 5 user-definable measurements/constrains (for example roll type, box type)
• Bin nature (picking, transfer, dock, quality control and other)
• Bin priority and status (active/blocked)
• Different products, lots, containers, partial entries/issues allowed per location
• Improved warehouse organization for better response times and increased customer service levels
• Optimized warehouse efficiencies with engineered location control for quicker response times Warehouse Management System (Logical Warehouse)
• Possibility to stock any type of products like fiber, yarn, raw materials in general (chemical, dyestuffs, spare parts) greige products and finished products like finished fabric or apparel
• Management by quantity, lot, container type, container #, element, # of elements (roll, carton, # of cones per carton) level
• Multiple types of UM’s: Kg/lb, meter/yards, each/unit, lots, bales, pieces, packages, cones, cases, pallets, rolls, colors, sizes, put-up’s
• Visibility by quality level for the same item number / SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)
• Simultaneous balance by 3 UM’s (length, weight and packaging)
• Allocation to other warehouses, customers, or production orders
• Balance for a product in the same logical warehouse can be stored, by company and/ or customer

Warehouse Availability

• User-definable stock type (availability status like for example stock on hand, reserved for customer order, allocated…)
• Multiple user-defined availability formulae
• Negative stock concept
• Multi company / warehouse analysis
• Drill down facilities from company to element/location detail
• “Wild card” searches by article codes
• Searches by element, container, location or movement status
• Inquiry per period evidencing negative availability
• Possibility to reserve the goods for customer / project
• Inquiry by matrix (color-size) for the apparel section

Stocktaking

• By warehouse / location or product
• Simultaneous stock take by item on different or same logical warehouse
• System authorization management
• Label scanning and barcode capturing

Accounting / Valuation

• Inventory valuation reports by standard cost, last cost, average estimated cost or average period cost
• Cost at product, lot, element and quality detail
• LIFO inventory evaluation

Warehouse Transaction

• Internal order and internal document (bill of lading) management for warehouse transfer
• Warehouse and / or bin location transfer
• User-defined warehouse transaction codes
• Single entry, issue, transfer by quantity, lot,container, element
• Multiple entry, issue, transfer by quantity, lot, container , element
• Product name, lot #, roll # and container # change
• Ability to split or join elements with full traceability
• Quality level downsize
• Printed labels (bar-coded), documents and reports

Material Replenishment

• Automatic calculation of order points to insure minimum / maximum safety stock levels