WHOLESALE BRANCH
The B.O.S.S. Enterprise ERP system also includes a comprehensive solution for managing the flow of articles in wholesale distribution centres. A wholesale branch is also a subject to central control by central administration unit and uses the central business conditions and pricing. The wholesale branch often exceeds the scope of functions and adjustments of retail shops.
The B.O.S.S. Enterprise as a warehouse management system covers typical scenarios of a wholesale branch: Configuration of precise pallet positions and defined storage locations at individual warehouses. A component of the overall B.O.S.S. Enterprise system is the so-called WMS (Warehouse Management System) module, in which incoming articles, outgoing articles and shipping of items are managed via portable handheld computers with the help of the B.O.S.S. Mobile tool.
This wholesale branch can also be used in a production mode, where it creates production plans with nested recipes from all received orders. It also ensures the distribution of products or semi-finished products to the company's own branch network or to external customers.
The wholesale branch together with POS is often used as a solution for Cash & Carry markets.
Basic wholesale branch functions
- Definition of warehouse structure, pallet plans in warehouses
- Inventory management of articles with all information on sizes, packaging, weights, dimensions, etc.
- Traceability of stocks, batches, serial numbers, warranty periods
- Cross docking
- Track & Trace - article tracking (tobacco shops)
- Creation and automation of purchase orders for suppliers
- Collection of customer orders from different channels
- Creation of shipping lists, shipment via terminals
- Pallet silo, pallet shipping, WMS module
- Packaging warehouse, management of partners' packaging accounts
- Manufacturing processes
- Delivery schedules
- Penalty module - monitoring of suppliers' obligations
- Creation of all types of documents, invoicing, automatic as well as collective invoicing
- Full EDI communication