| | 1. Optimized Information Technology Spending: | The new IBM Power™ Systems offer an integrated, reliable server that supports multiple operating environments and can run a variety of applications through PowerVM virtualization technology. It provides faster, more reliable and highly secure ways to help you simplify your IT environment by reducing the number of servers and associated staff required. This can help you save money and reinvest in growing your business.
IBM Power™ Systems with IBM i operating system can even help avoid the headaches of security problems and viruses. The IBM i operating system has virus-resistance and security features to help keep your business information safe and within your control. In addition, the Self-managing features of the IBM i operating system can help automate monitoring to promote high availability and prevent downtime. For example, these servers can pro-actively alert IBM to problems often without requiring human intervention. In some cases, IBM may even be able to correct errors before an administrator spots them, greatly reducing troubleshooting time, lowering staffing costs and limiting service interruptions. |
| 2. Unlimited Growth Potential: | | VAI is committed to the growth and success of your business. Not only are our solutions price competitive, but our value pack offering includes source code, an unlimited user license, and no upgrade charges ever! This value pack will allow you to grow your business, add new users (and RF warehouse users), and incorporate new technology as it is developed, without having to pay additional licensing fees. |
| 3. Increase Staff Productivity with Advanced Features: | S2K Enterprise - Windows Application Integration: VAI's S2K Enterprise software provides complete integration with PC based productivity products such as Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word. At the touch of a key, users can move data into Excel Spreadsheets, send emails to contacts, create customer letters in Word, and schedule appointments into their Outlook calendar. In addition, options like *View and *Excel allow users to create PDF or Excel files for all reports. This integration provides users with the flexibility to utilize desktop applications while taking advantage of the power, reliability, and security of the VAI Enterprise software.
S2K Enterprise - Conditional Emails (Work Flow): The S2K Enterprise Work Flow Alert's feature supplies today's management with the tools required for successful business making decisions, by providing automated, timely information and support via e-mail. Alerts can be entered to specify tolerance levels, and multiple users can be notified of the same event. Internal flags have been incorporated, aiding in maintaining email frequencies. Maintaining a successful distribution operation relies on the timely communication between management and employees. The S2K Enterprise Work Flow Alerts provide the communication links necessary for optimum order processing and tracking. Through automatic conditional emails, these alerts can aide in achieving proper customer satisfaction, managing credit flows, effectively tracking inventory, and managing cost.
S2K Enterprise - Job Scheduler: The S2K Enterprise Job Scheduler provides users with the ability to process reports and other events at specified times and intervals throughout the course of their business cycles. Through the use of a Never Ending Program, the System Administrator can scheduled jobs to process daily, weekly or monthly at specified times and days. Entering various parameters enables jobs to be scheduled to run repeatedly during the day, prior or after the End-Of-Day, and Consolidated End-Of-Month processing. Scheduled reports can be printed or emailed to specific users or groups. |
| 4. Reduced Inventory Levels: | | S2K Enterprise provides one of the most advanced purchasing programs available today. This dynamic application provides a myriad of tools to help minimize the burdensome tasks associated with manual purchasing by automating your demand planning, purchasing, and ordering process to optimize buying power across different product lines. Powerful formulas analyze historical and forecasted usage for each item, seasonal trends, market demand, and vendor lead times to provide suggested purchase orders for each vendor. Erratic demand is flagged for review and can be exponentially smoothed into demand formulas. Items can be grouped into buy-lines for purchase analysis by product group to take advantage of special pricing and discounts. Buy-line inquiries allow users to compare purchasing requirements with vendor targets. Estimated carrying costs are displayed for items that are necessary to meet the vendor target. These advanced purchasing tools maximize your buyers' efficiency, enabling them to spend more time on profit-oriented tasks such as reducing dead stock inventory, increasing customer fill rates, negotiating pricing with suppliers, and reviewing product mix. |
| 5. Eliminate Costly Mistakes & Increase Productivity in your Warehouse: | Receiving / Pallet Creation: Warehouse Pro supports receiving by Purchase Order or Container, with manual or RF posting of the receipt. Item bar codes can be generated automatically for all products received. All items are received into the location's default Loading Dock staging bin. Customer Returns can be verified against RMAs and held open for multiple return shipments. Refused Shipments can be easily returned to inventory and the system can automatically create the related customer RMA.
Product Movement: Warehouse Pro's product movement program will automatically create move tickets for received items and for bin replenishment, based on picking lane requirements and bulk stock merges. Using the RF move ticket entry program, the user can scan the "from" location, the item or pallet being moved, and the "to" location. Upon accepting the move, the system will immediately transfer the quantity to the newly assigned bin. Item History keeps track of all movement for each product.
Order Verification: Warehouse Pro Order Verification allows the user to verify the items that have been picked against the customer order. Upon scanning each item, the system will verify that the correct item and quantity was picked for the order. Box/Carton tracking is available to allow the user to designate which items are in a specific box. Upon ending each box, the system will allow the user to enter in the weight, ship-via, freight charges and the tracking number of each box. Upon ending the order, the system will prompt the user to backorder any items that have been short shipped and total all the cartons and freight charges for the order. The user has the option to print a packing list or an invoice. The user can designate the orders being shipped on a specific truck and generate a bill of lading, if required. For EDI orders, UCC-128 labels and 856 Advance Ship Notices can be generated automatically.
Cycle and Physical Counting: Cycle and Physical Counting programs provide management with efficient tools to control and gauge the accuracy of current inventory records that are maintained in the locator system. Automatic cycle counting takes place continuously, based on the cycle class code assigned in the Item master file. The cycle count process writes transaction records, prints count sheets, allows RF-based counting and produces variance reports. Full physical inventory counting is supported using wireless terminals or count sheets. Detailed inquiries display all counting activity and variances reported. |
| 6. Reach New Customers and Provide Better Customer Service: | | Reach new customers and provide better customer service: VAI's e-business applications are completely integrated with our enterprise application. S2K Enterprise Commerce Express allows you to set up an online catalog that will display product, specifications, extended descriptions, thumbnail and full sized images, pricing and availability. Dynamic searching features let users locate products by category, part number and description. Web based promotions and dynamic pricing can help improve product marketing and increase sales of slow moving inventory. Existing customers can utilize past order history to build new orders or use "quick entry" to expedite large orders. Order confirmations are automatically emailed back to customers and online customer service screens provide real-time order status information. This end-to-end solution provides real time processing and complete supply chain fulfillment. With easy to use interface options and data tables, this powerful solution allows your staff to spend less time integrating and developing e-business applications and more time focusing on developing e-business marketing strategies and promotions that will ensure your long-term competitive advantage. |
| 7. Streamline your Customer / Prospect Database: | | VAI's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution is a dynamic suite of applications that can help you cost-effectively identify, acquire, develop and retain your most profitable customers. With one central database, Contact Management provides an enterprise-wide view of all interactions with Customers and Prospects. Unlimited user-defined fields provide a flexible database for searching and analysis, and detailed notes help track all communications. From one sales team dashboard, users can generate quotes and track specific opportunities, review account information and history, and create to do lists to flag follow-up activity. Marketing Automation provides the ability to automate marketing campaigns to the contact database via email, fax, or mail. Using the group email feature, a user can send promotional information, price lists, and collateral instantly to specific contacts within the database. |
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