Alphasoft
Alphasoft Application Overview - Purchase Order Processing

Alphasoft
Financial and management information solutions

Advantages
Optimised purchase ordering and tracking are important to the success and growth of an organisation. From small companies to large groups Alphasoft purchase order processing has been selected as a flexible yet robust part of a fully integrated systems solution.

Options
Selected or all parts of the full order cycle may be implemented: order entry, goods received tracking and matching of suppliers invoices. Thus the Alphasoft sale order processing system is used successfully in a wide variety of types of business. A full stock control module may be integrated or a simple generic product file used. Product categories may be linked to nominal ledger accounts and invoices verified in the purchase ledger. Other options include custom forms for all documents and a full user definable report writer.

Main features
  • Suppliers orders.
  • Multiple supplier branches
  • Non stock, free text items
  • Multi line/page (spreadsheet like) item entry
  • Automatic cost analysis
  • Batched or real-time processing
  • Inbuilt 'fault tolerance' with error recovery
  • Full search and browse facilities throughout
  • Automatic account and product adding from transaction entry
  • Purchase analysis by multiple criteria
  • Screen enquiry with 'zoom' to order detail or auto print
  • Multiple currency option

  • Alphasoft Purchase Order Processing - Checklist
    General
  • Multi-company
  • Multi-currency
  • Multi-user
  • Multi-tasking option
  • Batch controlled
  • Full audit trail
  • Full security system
  • User definable report writer
  • Automatic error detection and recovery
  • Facility to add or change records 'on the fly'
  • On-line help and desktop calculator

  • Products
  • Full product file maintenance
  • Two separate stock codes
  • Searching and browsing by either, with wildcards
  • Multiple locations, colours, styles
  • Three cost types : standard, average and avg. inclusive
  • Product category linked to nominal ledger
  • Allocation of supplier and user definable analysis criteria
  • Recording of month and year to date statistics

  • Transactions
  • Order processing
  • Separate suppliers addresses
  • Separate delivery addresses
  • New accounts adding during transactions
  • New stock adding during transactions
  • Various despatch methods e.g. parcel post, mail
  • Goods received verification in stock control.
  • Invoice verification in purchase ledger
  • Special instructions and repeat messages
  • Multiple line entry and editing
  • Up to four line of changeable text per item
  • Options to override price, discount
  • All documents (orders etc.) user definable

  • Analysis and reports
  • Option for purchase order print summary
  • Full order status reporting
  • Analysis by supplier, product, category, buyer, area, type, manager or user definable criteria
  • Analysis by turnover month or year to date
  • Analysis as above for twenty four months
  • User definable report writer

  • Other features and options
  • User definable document numbers maintained
  • User definable prompts e.g. location, colour, style
  • Locked or open accounting periods
  • User definable analysis fields
  • Quantities to decimal places
  • Multiple orders per invoice
  • User definable order messages
  • Multiple orders per invoice

  • Integrated options
  • Purchase Ledger through to nominal ledger
  • Stock Control
  • Job costing
  • Estimating
  • Electronic data interchange (EDI) for incoming and outgoing orders
  • Output to 'open' formats: ASSCI, DIF, CSV file formats
  • Integration with Microsoft ‘desktop tools’ Excel, Access, SQL
  • E-Mail output option.

  • Notice
    The processes and all the routines contained herein are proprietary properties and trade secrets. Except as provided by license agreement, this code and documentation shall not be duplicated used or disclosed for any purpose or reason, in whole or in part, without the express written consent of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    This document is copyright of The Alphasoft Consultancy Limited.
    For more information contact Alphasoft on 020 7384 4980, fax: 020 7384 4989