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The NGRERP business management system includes transportation management functionality to allow manufacturing and distribution organizations to manage their complete transportation requirements. NGRERP includes the definition of carriers, lanes, contract terms, and freight rates to support load planning, freight rating, and route optimization. NGRERP gathers shipment and delivery data to calculate and evaluate carrier performance.

Transportation Management Highlights

Supports definition of carriers and their associated lanes and contract rates
Supports freight rate shopping
Supports freight consolidation based on load planning and optimization
Supports dock scheduling and yard management
Supports load tendering and associated document creation
Stores proof of delivery details including date, time, and person who signed for shipment

NGRERP seamlessly tracks and documents all material movement and generates all accounting entries associated with intercompany transfers. Intercompany transfers can be entered manually and generated automatically by establishing the internal supply chain within the organization. NGRERP tracks in-transit inventory from shipment to receipt to provide complete visibility during the transfer process. In addition, NGRERP monitors and tracks transfer pricing and creates all necessary intercompany financial transactions.

Intercompany Management Highlights

Supports consolidation of all plant information
Supports networked multi-plant requirements processing and centralized procurement
Supports consolidation of supply requirements across multiple sites within the time-phased requirements planning process (MRP, DRP, etc.)
Supports recognition of forecasted or planned interplant demand
Multi-plant availability and message review
Created intercompany supply orders
Supports transfer of supply orders for an item to another facility
Supports accounting of material and transfer costs in-transit between demand and supply locations
Supports accounting of site-specific product and location costs
Prioritizes the hierarchy for supplying facilities

NGRERP's warehouse management functionality supports manufacturers and distributors various shipping requirements from small package to LTL to full truckload shipments. NGRERP seamlessly integrates with common carriers' shipping systems, including UPS and FedEx. All shipping information and associated tracking numbers are available to customer service personnel and can be accessed via the customer’s e-Commerce account or transmitted to the customer via EDI.

NGRERP's warehouse management solution provides a daily due out schedule to enable truckload consolidation, rate shopping, and route optimization. NGRERP's shipping process supports lot and serial number recording, shipment of license plates, and standard form creation for packing slips, DOT documents, VICS bills of lading, and shipping cover letters.

Shipping Highlights

Supports load consolidation
Supports order consolidations and carrier load assignments
Shipping information and associated tracking numbers are available to customer service personnel and can be accessed via the customer's e-Commerce account or transmitted to the customer via EDI
Automatically generates necessary shipping documents and labels
Performs freight rate calculations and identifies the least cost carrier
Enables preferred carriers to be assigned to specific routes
Carrier load notification can be accomplished using EDI, automatic FAX of load notification report, or direct communication
Supports yard and trailer management
Supports interfaces to other manifesting systems, including Clippership
Supports unship or shipment cancellation options

The NGRERP system supports a variety of picking methods including pick by order, pick by area, cart picking, zone picking, wave picking, and pick queue processing. NGRERP enables manufacturers and distributors to have complete control over picking processes with flexible picking rules definition and selection criteria. NGRERP's warehouse management system allows an organization’s picking rules to be defined differently at various times during the business day, within months and quarters, and at year end. NGRERP also offers a directed picking environment which systematically balances employee work loads. Through NGRERP's flexible picking methods, manufacturers and distributors can optimize their pick, pack, and ship operations.

Pick Methods Highlights

Supports distribution of picking requirements across multiple facilities for a single order
Supports a variety of picking methodologies including pick by order, pick by area, cart picking, zone picking, wave picking, and pick queue processing
Allows for different picking rules to be defined at different times during the business day, month, quarter, and year
Generates picking lists by using multiple sets of criteria including location, batch, FIFO, FEFO, employee, zone, lot, or serial number
Supports RF-directed picking
Supports stock rotation through the definition of picking and putaway locations and automated replenishment notifications
Enables optimized pick, pack, and ship operations

The NGRERP business software suite can perform inventory putaway in a variety of methods including fully directed, straight to stock, or dock to stock. At the time of putaway, bar code labels or license plates can be printed and applied to the product. As with other NGRERP's warehouse management operations, these transactions can be performed using a keyboard or a handheld RF-enabled barcode scanner. NGRERP offers a flexible inventory putaway solutions tailored to each manufacturer's or distributor's warehouse requirements.

Inventory Putaway Highlights

Supports fully directed, straight to stock, or dock to stock inventory putaway methodologies
Putaway can be recorded via standard keyboard entry and handheld RF-enabled barcode scanners

NGRERP's warehouse management functionality supports the recording of incoming material receipts via standard keyboard entry and handheld RF-enabled barcode scanners. Incoming receipts can be placed into segregated inspection locations, directly into active inventory, or in cross-docking locations. In addition, product labels can be applied when such labeling has not already been included by the supplier.

For those items requiring inspection, received material can be immediately placed on hold and applicable QC personnel alerted for further action. When lot or serial tracked items are received, NGRERP enforces the recording of lot and serial data at the point of receiving. NGRERP can then automatically generate applicable lot and serial number labels.

Receiving Highlights

Receiving can be performed against a single purchase order, multiple purchase orders, and when no purchase order exists
Receiving can be recorded via standard keyboard entry and handheld RF-enabled barcode scanners
Supplier advance shipping notifications (ASN’s) can pre-fill anticipated receiving quantities as an additional checkpoint for data integrity purposes
Supports automatic placement of received goods on QC hold on a product-by-product basis
Damage identification can be recorded upon receipt
Supports immediate allocation of inventory to sales order line items through receipts from vendors and intercompany transfers

NGRERP's warehouse management functionality supports warehouse optimization and worker productivity. In the NGRERP system, zones, locations, and bins can be assigned to facilitate warehouse slotting, optimal inventory placement by product velocity group, and optimal pick path for improved worker efficiency.

Warehouse Configuration Highlights

Supports definition of logical facilities within a physical facility
Supports slotting Optimization
Supports location mapping that takes into account zones and temperature requirements
Supports definition of warehouse zones, locations, and bins with associated capacities
Locations and bins can be assigned a unique storage type
Warehouses can have a variety of different location and bins types, such as picking, non-picking, staging, dock, back stock, cart, and primary pick areas

NGRERP's warehouse management functionality is fully RF and barcode-enabled. NGRERP supports barcode printing on forms such as pick tickets, packing slips, and work orders, and can print labels for products, locations, and pallet ID’s or license plates. In addition to on-demand barcode printing, all major warehouse management transactions can be performed directly using handheld RF-enabled barcode scanners. When using scanning technology, NGRERP can perform task interleaving, thus enabling warehouse efficiencies by directing the next highest priority task to warehouse personnel automatically. All activities are time stamped to allow for further warehouse productivity evaluation.

Wireless Warehouse and Barcoding Highlights

Supports printing & scanning barcode labels including raw materials, finished goods, license plates, location and bins
Supports barcode printing on all documents
Supports barcode scanning in all warehouse operations
Supports warehouse productivity evaluation through transaction time stamps

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