Merchandise Management
Whether sales or purchase and purchase system, whether stock management or material disposal: IFOS supports and optimises all processes of the merchandise management.
Purchase
- Different purchase types, including external production and queries
- Complex surcharge editing
- Flexible and time-saving generating of purchase order/queries from different ordering suggestions
- Supplier evaluation (standard definitions for delivery time, price and quality)
- Order-related control of purchase orders as well as invoice and goods receipts
- VDA-connection
- Sliding prices (sliding quantities or discounts)
- Support of foreign languages
- Purchase reminders and dunning system
- Text blocks


Purchase order overview
Purchase order overview with head and position data
Sales
- Different order types
- Demand and capacity simulation
- VDA-connection
- Free text design
- Flexible sales surcharges
- Different types of invoice, delivery note and credit note
- Price lists and sliding prices (sliding quantities or discounts)
- Support of foreign languages
- Combination of delivery notes with mobile registration devices (Partner: Datafox GmbH)
- Text blocks





Calculation
Diverse schemes for the offer calculation until the calculation of complex products without existence of parts lists and technologies.


Price calculation
Charging of manufacturing costs and/or sales prices based on the parts lists and the working plan data of the item.
Disposal
- Order-related demand determination
- Control of minimum and safety stock
- Purchase suggestions for purchase, external service and production
Multi stock administration
- Different stock types (sales, quarantine stock, consignment)
- Stock information with reference to item, stock place and eventually charge
- Same charges over several stocks
- Planned and unplanned stock accountings with mobile registration devices (Partner: Datafox GmbH)
- Location information in the stock
Materials administration
- Complete parts list organisation and determination of parts demand
- Registration of parts lists based on variations or conventionally as building set
- Reverse scheduling: Determination of purchase time of the order-related parts demand
- Charge tracking


Charge information and movement data
Detailed charge information concerning stock movement data.
Inventory
- Permanent or due date inventory
- Considers multi stock administration/charges
- Counting lists independently from the inventory time
- Support of mobile registration devices (Partner: Datafox GmbH)


Inventory assistant
Processing steps of an inventory
Customer and supplier information
- Flexible administration of customer and supplier information with indication of all address data as well as contact partners
- Terms of payment and delivery
Item
- Detailed illustration and administration of item information
- Item-related supplier and/or customer data for purchase and sales
- Registration of new items with automated allocation of numbers
Technology
- Structured registration of parts lists for finish parts and boards
- Fast registration of working plan with predefined process step catalogue
- Direct integration of the determination of plan and default time via HSplan (Partner: HSI GmbH)


Working plan
Administration of working plan