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Purchasing, inventory and order functions have come a long way from the old "materials management" approach. Progressive companies now recognize that these processes present incredible leverage for improving business performance, including better customer service, increased return on inventory investments and purchasing cost savings.

MXP Distribution provides a flexible, easy system to automate the flow of product from purchasing to inventory to shipment. Along the way, you have access to tools that help you improve these crucial business processes. All Distribution applications are fully integrated with MXP Enterprise Resource Planning System's back office applications for a complete flow of information through your organization.

MXP Distribution's functional areas include Inventory Management, Order Processing and Purchasing.

MXP Inventory Management provides full inventory support based on internationally recognized standards such as APICS and Gordon Graham. You gain control over the most demanding inventory problems to increase inventory turns, identify overstocked and slow moving items and optimize safety stocks.

• Flexibly define warehouse codes to meet specific classification requirements
• Automatically invoke substitutions and supersessions during sales order processing
• Perform comprehensive physical inventories and cycle countsmsimagelistmsimagelistRequire reason code entry for ad hoc stock adjustments

• Track and evaluate job costs based on traditional and activity-based costing methods
• Easily update inventory costs
• Use extended ABC classifications

• Access online, real-time information for any quantity or stock status
• Trace transaction details with inventory movement inquiry
• Zoom to full item and related information through a one-step item profile inquiry
• Inventory Study report tool
• Access online, real-time information for any quantity or stock status

• Generate send stock replenishment recommendations to MXP Purchasing
• Interface with MXP Manufacturing and MXP General Ledger
• Automatically convert multiple sales or purchasing units of measure to stocking units of measure

MXP Purchasing includes all the tools you need for your purchasing process to support your business' strategic goals. You'll be able to expedite the purchasing cycle, improve vendor management and maintain optimum stocking levels.

• Enter data in your units of measure and currency or your vendors
• Access line-item information by vendor, PO number, item number or vendor-item number
• Manage sales taxes with a variety of options, including cumulative and noncumulative PST in Canada
• Integrate with MXP Inventory Management to generate replenishment POs

• Automatically perform three-way matches of invoices with PO and receipts
• Track separate tax, duty, brokerage and other costs for received goods
• Forecast receiving manpower needs and cash outlays with forward aging of scheduled receipts

• Retain closed purchase order information for vendor analysis
• Analyze vendor performance, including JIT deliveries and average days late
• Create item-vendor tables to compare pricing, lead times and other factors

MXP Order Processing lets you rapidly and reliably manage customer quotes and orders. You can minimize losses and maximize customer satisfaction with flexible and responsive handling, filling and shipping of customer orders.

• Match the way your business works with flexible ordering flow
• Keep track of current demand and advance bookings with date-sensitive reporting
• Automatically generate purchase requisitions for drop shipment orders
• Track shipping damage and other defect factors to better manage merchandise returns
• Generate order form, pick slip, pack slip and invoice immediately upon order entry

• Create multiple pricing matrices for each item to define automatic price-selection rules
• Define customer-specific products using a features-options configurator

• Track stock status for any item in all warehouses in your system
• Flexibly define rules for allocating stock as orders are taken (e.g., prioritize backorders for preferred customers)

• Check customer credit at multiple points in order processing
• Maintain an automatic audit trail of all orders released from credit hold

• Manage shipping with easy ship-via selection, packing updates, shipment releases, traffic lane analysis and outstanding shipment reports
• Automatically generate UPS and generic manifests and COD forms

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