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PBPlus brings you a sophisticated set of tools that can help cut the
cost of procurement in half. Not only does it help your buyers
respond to the needs of your clients more quickly but it also
ensures they do it accurately, helping to maximize your margins and
making sure you stay in control.
Features:
Generate form specs from predefined templates.
Request quotes from an unlimited number of suppliers.
Automate all aspects of estimating
including supplier selection and price review.
Choose the right suppliers for the job by
selecting them according to their known strengths.
Automatically fax or email enquiries and quotes
direct to their intended recipients.
Job /
Order Tracking
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PBPlus allows you to manage the complete print procurement lifecycle
in a collaborative and informative way. Buyers can create job
specifications, gather and evaluate pricing information, place
orders with nominated suppliers and track the entire proofing stages
of a job.
Features:
Drastically reduce the
time it takes to process, track and manage jobs.
Improve communications
with suppliers through electronic communication.
Reuse or repeat existing orders and
job specifications.
Optimize your whole procedures through comprehensive
set of reporting tools.
Automatically fax or email sales orders and quotes
direct to their intended recipients.
Stock
& Forms Management
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As you might
expect, PBPlus has a comprehensive fully integrated stock and forms
management facility that allows you to track, maintain, analyse and
call off stock throughout its entire life cycle.
This
provides you with a comprehensive way to handle large contract
orders, which have multiple call-offs or delivery zones. Each time a
call-off is made, pricing and delivery details are inherited from
the original order.
Furthermore, call off lists allow you and your customers to see the frequency and
quantity of stock being used. Expiration dates allow you to be
proactive by predicting what and when customers should be
reordering.
Features:
Full stock
traceability and movements analysis.
Comprehensive stock take facility.
Contract and free stock call of by customer or item.
Stock usage and analysis reports.
Purchase Order Processing
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The PBPlus purchase order processing module is
fully integrated with the other components including
Stock Control,
Sales Order Processing
and Job Tracking. POP no longer needs to be a long and tortuous
task. As you might expect, purchase orders can be entered manually
but more often than not can be generated automatically from
the sales order processing module.
Features:
Copy products and delivery details from a sales order directly to
a purchase order.
Fully integrated with other PBPlus modules including stock and SOP.
Part of full receipt of goods with allowance for over-shipments.
Update routine for posting direct to
Sage™
Accounts.
Automatically fax or email purchase
orders
direct to their intended recipient.
Sales
Invoicing & Despatch
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PBPlus streamlines the process of raising, tracking and maintaining
sales invoices whether they are entered manually or generated via
SOP or stock call off. Consolidated invoices allows you to please
even those awkward customers that only want to see one invoice per
month. Generate despatch notes automatically from either SOP, call
off or free stock shipments.
Features:
Fully
integrated with other PBPlus modules including SOP.
Multi line
invoices and despatch notes.
Consolidated invoicing.
Update routine for posting direct to
Sage™
Accounts.
Customer & Supplier Management
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PBPlus provides
you with everything you need to keep track of what you buy as well
as what you sell. Customer analysis allows you to focus on key
accounts whilst nurturing those that aren't quite as productive or
fruitful as you would like them to be. Likewise focusing in on the right
suppliers for the right jobs helps you make informed decisions,
become more productive and ensure your margins are always
maintained.
Features:
Customer and Supplier performance
analysis.
Up to 999 customer delivery zones.
Supplier capabilities chart.
Real-time integration
with
Sage™
Accounts.
Report Writing & Analysis
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PBPlus provides
you with a comprehensive and informative reporting tool that you can
use to design or amend reports and layouts such as purchase or sales
invoices which do not meet your exact requirements 'out of the box'.
Features:
Unlimited number of data groupings.
Up to 5 sort fields.
Simple drag and drop
operation.
User driven selection criteria by report.
Sage™
Accounts
Integration
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PBPlus can be
fully integrated with your Sage™
Line50 Accounts suite. Forget double entry bookkeeping, PBPlus will
automatically post both sales and purchase invoices direct to Sage™.
Furthermore PBPlus will categorise your sales by posting to
predetermined Sage™ sales groups. If you don't use Sage™ then PBPlus
will provide you with a full audit of transactions that have been
processed through the POP, SOP or Invoicing modules.
Internet Ordering and Call Off
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PBPlus now
enables you to offer your clients the opportunity to reorder or call
off their most regular stock items over the Internet. This
procurement solutions help you and your client reduce costs
whilst at the same time speeds up the whole transaction process. It
doesn't stop their, your clients can proof their own artwork online
without a single piece of paper passing hands or one telephone call
being made. And if that's not enough, no sooner than your client
submits their call off requirements on the web, a despatch / picking
note will be produced in your warehouse. Then to round it off you
can send your clients reports on their monthly / annual usage or
even break it down into cost centre analysis.
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