Solomon Order Altara

Order to Purchase enables the automatic creation of a Purchase Order from a Sales Order, providing Sales and Customer Service representatives with the ability to easily fulfill customers request for goods in circumstances of stock shortages.

Today's demanding business environment has made it ever more challenging to balance inventory carrying costs with customer service levels. This inventory "high-wire" balancing act can sometimes cause stock outages when delays in fulfillment or unexpected demand occur. It doesn't take long for customers to notice a decline in service levels when you're dealing with inventory scarcity. Providing Sales and Customer Service representatives with the tools they need at their fingertips to promise customers the goods they want, when they want them is crucial.

Customer service and sales representatives will benefit from the one-step process of taking a customer order and placing a purchase order with a vendor to fulfill stock needs. Tools are provided to insure that preferred vendors can be easily identified based on past performance. This will streamline the fulfillment process and enable sales people to satisfy customer demand and provide high levels of service while protecting the bottom line.

Automated Purchasing Process
Order to Purchase provides automated drop-ship processing between vendors and customers, speeding fulfillment when goods arent on hand to satisfy incoming orders. Automated purchasing efficiently sources inventory when stocking levels are low, removing the manual effort required to fulfill commitments to customers. The result is faster fulfillment with less work and higher customer satisfaction.

Improved Drop-ship Management
Order to Purchase allows you to identify inventory that is shipped from the warehouse when in stock and drop ship when out of stock. The pre-configuration of drop ship and automatic purchasing policies take the guesswork out of fulfillment so that sales representatives can focus on providing great customer service.

Multiple Auto PO Policies
Order to Purchase provides a choice of three Auto PO Policies at the inventory item and inventory site level:

1. Auto PO Always—Always generate a Purchase Order

2. Auto PO If No InventoryGenerate a Purchase Order if not enough inventory is available by the Pick date.

3. None—The Auto Create PO flag will by default be cleared.

Order to Purchase provides organizations with a flexible solution that can be configured to meet unique and complex requirements. The result is an efficient process that can be fine-tuned for the maximum competitive edge.

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Solomon SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Shipment Management

Bill of Materials

e-Commerce Gateway - EDI Edition

Inventory

Landed Cost

Order Management

Order to Purchase

Purchasing

Web Order

Work Order

Download PDF Brochure