TRIFORCE Procurement improves the efficiency of your purchasing processes and streamlines your supplier management. It is totally integrated with the accounts payable, forecasting, and requirements planning tools to optimize purchasing decisions. It smoothly manages the entire purchase cycle from planning, costing, and ordering, to tracking, receiving, payment, returns and debits.

The system allows for multiple, user defined purchase order types, for either materials or finished goods, with one-stroke conversion and the easy management and tracking of multiple purchase orders for single or multiple vendors and order shipment status. PO approval and validation process is standard. Multi-processing flow can be defined through Parent-Child Purchase Orders. System Remarks and automatic form attachments make appending standard delivery or billing instructions or specifications to purchase orders easy. Internal tracking tools and external documents exist to issue inquiries, record responses, and award contracts with bid to final payment audit trail.

Receiving can be by multiple indices with option to print receiving slips record and/or cancel back orders, or void receiving. Substandard receiving with re-direct and return vendor authorization is also standard. The integration with TRIFORCE Manufacturing also allows receiving through interactive production line receiving, as well as, product inventory allocation and purchase and production order processing. As with TRIFORCE generally, all goods may be handled in different units of measure with optional conversion.

With the exponential shift in business to a global sourcing paradigm, the TRIFORCE Vendor Connect feature provides vendors direct secured internet access to your system. Vendors can, without increasing their workload, provide real-time information which is invaluable to your operation’s increased efficiency and turnaround time. The trade management and import and export systems features include, among other things, control through a visible flow of your purchased goods. The system manages duty deferrals and obtains accurate duty drawbacks through full management of the source and allocation process of both imbedded materials and finished products.

TRIFORCE Procurement enables all forms of interactive label and thermal label generation, offers full UPC/Bar code interface and a Universal Command File Generator for user-definable integration with external Label Design tools and label print servers.

The Vendor Master File allows for detailed demographics, performance metrics, notes, recent and historical pricing, check journal, invoice ledger, and invoice status journal all with drill down. The master file also shows all relevant accounts payable information. It offers user-defined, table–driven relationship rules. The Materials and Inventory master files also allow for virtually unlimited classification and reporting, inquiries, catalogs, memos, supermemos, and Notes that make retrieving current or historical information easy.

TRIFORCE Procurement integrates with all other TRIFORCE module groups rendering the real-time updating of financial data, stock and order status seamless. The diverse range of inquiries and reports and analyses provide real-time insight into your purchasing and traffic departments. Ultimately, this real time accurate easy access to information leads to improved customer satisfaction.

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