Supply Chain Management Software

Improve control, visibility, productivity, quality and efficiency throughout the supply chain with Advanced Business Solutions' supply chain software.

In a world where the cost of goods is under increasing downward pressure, high availability of products is critical, competition is increasingly aggressive, orders are smaller and suppliers are increasingly remote, it is more important than ever to manage the costs of the business, increase visibility across the supply chain, better manage demand, supply and inventory and provide a level of customer satisfaction that leads to improved customer retention and acquisition of new customers.

The Advanced Smart Business Suite includes a comprehensive Distribution, Production & Supply Chain Management software solution with extensive reporting integrated with our financial, payroll and HR solutions.

Our customers repeatedly experience reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

The architecture adopted ensures an open, highly flexible and configurable system, able to meet customers specific needs in a timely and cost effective way.

Our software provides comprehensive facilities such as full lot tracking allowing the monitoring of expiration dates, and supplier batch information, together with links to other key information. Our streamlined and flexible sales and purchase order entry systems allows your staff to efficiently take and place orders in a high pressure environment, whilst preserving customer service levels. With a fully integrated web option Advanced can provide you with the complete business management system to help your business grow and succeed.

Using an integrated system from Advanced means you can increase profitability through more efficient inventory control and controlled order processing, allowing you to target your efforts in those areas that will increase customer satisfaction, keep a lid on costs and therefore improve your margins.

Advanced's products give you the ability to provide a better service your customers, work more efficiently with key suppliers, drive down costly inventory, whilst improving delivery performance through use of the comprehensive standard functionality.

Feature and Benefits

• Better management information
• More effective sales order processing
• Smarter buying
• Efficient stock/warehouse operations
• Stock and pricing data integrating with accounting and invoicing systems.
• Single set of data, so you only have to input the data once.
• Sales Order Processing and Purchase Order Processing is integrated in the system so that stock balances and statistics are automatically updated as orders are processed.
• Automatic stock monitoring, triggering orders through MRP and MPS.
• Automatic batch, SSCN and serial number control.
• Bar coding systems which speed up processing and recording. The software will print and read bar codes from your computer.

Our software for distribution is designed to be rapidly installed and easy to learn, cutting training time and a fast return on investment.

Our success is intimately tied to that of our clients, working as a business partner rather than the traditional customer/supplier model has led to an approach which results in a very close working relationship where both Advanced and our clients staff are working to a common goal, that of achieving the stated benefits and then constantly looking for additional savings.

OpenLogistix is a comprehensive Supply Chain Management software solution from Advanced. It is fully integrated with Advanced's financials, payroll and human resources solutions enabling the provision of a 'Best of Breed' ERP solution. Offering a breadth and depth of functionality that will meet the needs of most organisations whilst at the same time providing the scalability required to ensure an appropriate match to customer needs, the system is designed to support small to large end user populations and transaction volumes. OpenLogistix is a 'state of the art', web enabled business solution that operates on both Windows and UNIX platforms supporting multiple user interfaces.

OpenLogistix is highly configurable and uses a unique design concept of Order Cycles, through the use of workflow methodology, which allows the software to be configured to address the many different types of business processes required to handle order fulfilment. The software supports multi-currency, multi-company, multi-branch, and multi-warehouse processing providing a flexible solution for many different needs.

Advanced's Supply Chain Management solution is functionally rich and windows based with processing rules driven by the order cycle system control routines and a background management support system that allows for a wide range of parameter driven features to support the operation, ensuring a package solution which caters for many different needs without requiring extensive and costly bespoke add-ons. Workflow is an integral part of the core product linking all modules to provide progress reporting on all stages of the production cycle, and a structured methodology guiding users along key stages in Sales, Purchase and Works Order Cycles.