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Material Logistics
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The Environment
The needs of todays manufacturers and distributors are varied, but trends have emerged which show a need to better manage the supply chain. Increasingly, businesses are seeing the need to become geographically disperse to better handle the demands of their customers. Multi-site and even multicompany enterprises have become the new norm. The challenges of managing multiple sites can be further complicated when multiple currencies and languages are involved. Material Logistics allows your organization to better manage your supply chain, giving you visibility across the enterprise in an unprecedented fashion. Material Logistics provides real-time visibility. Employees can see product availability across sites, regardless of where the product is located. So products stocked in another country, in another language, currency or unit of measure appear natively to local users. Material logistics provides users with full, remote real-time available-to-promise (ATP) capabilities.
Material Logistics provides visibility of orders, transfers, replenishments and shipments and can be used to account for inventory in transit, outside processing, consignments and vendor managed inventory (VMI).
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Material Logistics allows for intelligent supply chain management. Material Logistics contains logic allowing orders to be fulfilled based on a variety of criteria, such as: Distance from customer Cost to produce Product availability
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applications and databases. Material Logistics has also been designed to leverage Infor tools such as Powerlink and Netlink, making the product as flexible as it is powerful. Material Logistics IDF-derived architecture means that the application is easy to use, and provides powerful, real-time information delivered to your fingertips whether youre in the office or around the world. Material Logistics user interface has been designed to streamline common tasks. Tasks in traditional InterSite Logistics and Multi-Environment InterSite Logistics, which would have required navigating through multiple screens, can now be completed from a single, simple screen. This ability saves users time and effort to complete common tasks.
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warehouse. When the supplying warehouse ships the item, the requesting warehouse is notified of the shipment. The part is shipped at cost to the requesting warehouse. For purposes of illustration we will say that the part sells to the customer for $100 and has a cost of $100. This scenario is illustrated in
Figure 1. Figure 1 Type-2 Type-2 orders facilitate order entry across multiple plants or warehouses. It solves the issue of multiple languages and currencies. Type-2 orders also facilitate accommodation of multi-national issues such as VAT taxes and cross-border paperwork. With Material Logistics, users have the ability to view product availability across multiple companies.
Figure 2
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Type-3 Type-3 orders are orders placed with a company and fulfilled through a direct-to-customer drop-ship directly from the vendor.
Figure 3
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