Alphasoft
Alphasoft Application Overview - Stock Control

Alphasoft
Financial and management information solutions

Advantages
Optimised stock control, holding just enough to fulfil customers requirements, re-ordering in time for your suppliers or works. This is critical to the success and growth of an organisation. From small companies to large groups, Alphasoft stock control has been selected as a flexible yet robust part of a fully integrated systems solution. This application is parameterised and may be used in both distribution and manufacturing.

Options
The stock control module may be integrated with sales and purchase order processing, through to accounts. Stock may be held at a single or multiple locations. The concept of location may be applied to place or other criteria such as colour or style with user definable terms. A bill of materials option is available as is a full user definable report writer.

Main features
  • Full stock file maintenance
  • Multiple locations option
  • Multiple companies linked to single clients
  • Stocktaking, issues, receipts and transfers
  • Multiple prices, flexible pricing including customers own prices
  • Standard, average or average inclusive costing options
  • Inbuilt 'fault tolerance' with error recovery
  • Full search and browse facilities throughout
  • Automatic category and location adding from file maintenance
  • Stock status, valuation and requirements reporting
  • Analysis by multiple criteria

  • General
  • Multi-company
  • Multi-user
  • Multi-tasking option
  • 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

  • Alphasoft Stock Control - Checklist
    Products
  • Full product file maintenance
  • Two separate stock codes
  • Searching and browsing by either, with wildcards
  • Multiple locations, colours, styles
  • Multiple prices, linked to customer
  • Three cost types: standard, average and avg. inclusive
  • Alternative stock codes
  • Product category linked to nominal ledger
  • Allocation of supplier and user definable analysis criteria
  • Recording of month and year to date statistics
  • Recording of quantities on hand, on order etc.
  • Decimal quantities option
  • Quantity per carton, cartons per case
  • Purchase order and manufacturing lead times
  • Weight
  • Physical stock enquiry
  • Non-stock items
  • Delete dormant stock option

  • Transactions
  • Issues, receipts and transfers, batched with full audit trail
  • Multiple line entry and editing
  • New items may be created on receipt
  • New cost option on receipt
  • Stock taking, by category or selected
  • Stock takes comparison report
  • Sales order processing link
  • Purchase order processing - full or partial module options

  • Analysis and reports
  • Full stock status reporting by various criteria
  • Price lists by various criteria
  • Stock requirements report
  • Stock valuation report - exclude dormant stock by various criteria
  • Gross margin analysis report
  • Stock turn report
  • Reports available by bin location
  • User definable report writer

  • Other features and Options
  • Multiple locations option
  • User definable prompts e.g. location, colour, and style
  • User definable batch numbers maintained
  • Quantities to decimal places

  • Integrated options
  • Sales order processing through to sales and nominal ledger
  • Purchase order processing through to purchase and nominal ledger.
  • Bill of Materials
  • Job costing
  • 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