Jupiter Systems, Inc. 1985: ERIC (ERP Software)- Distribution

Distribution

The ERIC Distribution Suite effectively manages finished goods warehousing, invoicing and delivery through Order Entry and Billing. Advanced Purchasing handles the entire acquisition cycle for component materials, equipment and supplies. ERIC Distribution links with the financial suite for payables, receivables, and other functions.

Advanced Purchasing

ERIC Advanced Purchasing automates your company's entire purchasing operations: from creation and approval of purchase requisitions, acquiring price quotations, supplier evaluation and selection, processing and printing of purchase orders, to tracking of supplier deliveries. The system provides purchasing statistics that help in the analysis of supplier performance and price trends. It also provides a comprehensive facility to handle import purchases and compute their associated costs.

Inventory Management

ERIC Inventory Management provides up-to-date information for all types of inventory. It supports a comprehensive set of on-line transactions to record inventory movement as it happens. It promotes warehouse efficiency with configurable location controls. Its extensive cycle counting facility ensures that inventory balances are always accurate. The system supports all major inventory costing methods and provides crucial reports for better supply-chain management decisions.

Order Entry and Billing

ERIC Order Entry and Billing module automates your company’s sales operations from order taking to shipping and invoicing. Accurate and on-time order processing increases customer satisfaction while minimizing administrative efforts on order quantity/item corrections. Operational efficiency is improved by reducing the number of tasks to ship and bill customers. There are extensive routines to process sales returns, product replacements and credit memos. The system allows for a variety of pricing, discounting, and promotion schemes to satisfy diverse sales promotional requirements.

Sales Analysis

ERIC Sales Analysis is a ready to deploy Business Intelligence tool for ERIC Applications. Sales Analysis has a pre-defined data catalogs from master files and transactions in ERIC OEB and IM.

This data has been arranged according to multi-dimensional relationships. ERIC Sales Analysis allows users to view this data from a variety of angles, enabling them to identify trends, drill down into specific information, or present data graphically.

Warehouse Management

ERIC Warehouse Management is the recommended materials management solution for companies that handle a large volume of inventory transactions and keep a busy dispatching operation. Aside from the powerful standard features found in ERIC Inventory Management, WMS has the capability for put-away, picking, and dispatching, and cross docking activities.

WMS also features enhanced location format definition, an expanded set of location properties, and support for barcoding.