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VerticalSoft Food Manufacturing Overview
Industry Features
   Prepared Foods
   Meat
   Dairy
   AG Produce
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System Requirements



VerticalSoft Food Manufacturing is an enterprise business solution that spans the entire enterprise, automating finance, sales operations, customer relations, procurement, manufacturing, warehousing and compliance. Better yet, VerticalSoft Food Manufacturing is rich with industry features necessary to streamline operations and enjoy the benefits of a completely integrated enterprise solution.

Highlighted Features:

Finance
Fixed Assets
Sales
Relationship Management
Purchasing
Inventory Control
Warehouse Management
Production Control
Web/E-Commerce
Dock Scheduling
Distribution Planning
Enhanced Sales
Deduction Management
Grower Accounting
Container Tracking
Automated Data Capture
Sales Status Board


Finance
The finance features make it easy to access information needed to spot trends and gain insight into business activities. Capitalize on the knowledge of how your business works by discovering opportunities that otherwise might have been difficult to spot. The VerticalSoft Product Suite offers much more than accounting tools. The software helps you understand what figures represent and makes it easier to see the activities where figures originated from.

Fully integrated with other application areas
Flow fields and lookup buttons
Easy-to-maintain Chart of Accounts
Flexible accounting periods
"NAVIGATE" function to locate all entries related to the same posting
Transaction traceability
Security and business rules
General journal templates
Budgets
Account Schedules - built-in reporting
Consolidation
Flexible dimensions
Budget by dimension
Analysis views
Foreign trade and multicurrency management
Additional reporting currency
Euro conversion tool
Fixed Assets
Bank Account Management

Fixed Assets
On-hand availability look ups and extensive item query
Set up discounts for specific combinations of customers and inventory
Every item and customer can have unique discount combinations
Unlimited alternate ship-to addresses for each customer
Select deliver-to addresses on the fly
Copy details from posted or unposted orders, shipments, or invoices
Reserve inventory items online when you place the order
Manage credit information from one screen, including open orders, aged receivables, and prior comments
Store all details of posted invoices and credit memos

Sales
Order management is a full-featured order-entry system that automates the entire sales process, including quotes, blanket orders, sales orders, shipments and back orders.

Enjoy on-hand availability look ups and extensive item query
Set up discounts for specific combinations of customers and inventory
Every item and customer can have unique discount combinations
Provide unlimited alternate ship-to addresses for each customer
Select deliver-to addresses on the fly
Copy details from posted or unposted orders, shipments, or invoices
Reserve inventory items online when you place the order
Manage credit information from one screen, including open orders, aged receivables, and prior comments
Store all details of posted invoices and credit memos

Relationship Management
The more information you know about your business relationships, the smarter your decisions. Tight integration between VerticalSoft Software front-office solutions and business-finance management solutions means precise information is always available, making everyone in the company a customer expert. It has:

Contact management
Task management
Contact classification
Campaign management
Document management and interaction log

Purchasing
Purchase and Payables allows complete control of finances through tracking and managing detailed information about vendors and detailed records of every purchase. Also offered are efficient features for managing payments to vendors and for reordering.

Automate the entire purchasing process
Optional purchase requisition system
Reorder inventory automatically
Link purchase with specific sales order
Ship items directly to the customer from the vendor
Approved vendor list for inventory items

Inventory Control
Purchase and Payables allows complete control of finances through tracking and managing detailed information about vendors and detailed records of every purchase. Also offered are efficient features for managing payments to vendors and for reordering.

Automate the entire purchasing process
Have optional purchase requisition system
Reorder inventory automatically
Link purchase with specific sales order
Ship items directly to the customer from the vendor
Have an approved vendor list for inventory items

Warehouse Management
This application area organizes the receipt, put-away, assigning, picking and shipping of items to and from each warehouse. The flow of an item through the warehouse is described by the activities performed on the item.

Shipping and receiving
Bar code transactions
Efficient picking and put away features
Pallet tracking
Multiple locations planning

Production Control
Production orders and related finished goods items are captured in a production control system that records output and raw material items consumed in the process. Lot information on consumed raw material items is captured along with lot information created for items produced.

Lot tracking
Process oriented inventory control
Yield gains and losses
Lot strength

Web/E-Commerce
The internet provides a powerful new platform for collaborative commerce. A company's supply chain can be strengthened and become more efficient with Web/E-Commerce. Collaborative solutions offered today only list product offerings. They don't take advantage of the full potential to streamline commercial interactions, giving supply chain partners access to real-time information and self-service.

Dock Scheduling
The Dock Scheduling module will facilitate the scheduling of trucks to be loaded. The system will determine the earliest possible hour when a shipment can be scheduled, taking into account the freshness requirements of the customer versus the aging of available onhand inventory. Plus, it determines the scheduled receipts by hour from the factory and from vendors, and the dock loading capacity as well. It will also allow for re-scheduling of appointments as changes in supply occur and for reprioritizing of shipments.

Distribution Planning
Fast and easy route assignment. Expedite truck loading and improves efficiency. Routes are automatically built from customer route matrices. Stop sequence displays on screen with easy reassignment.

Enhanced Sales
VerticalSoft's enhanced sales granule optimizes multi-faceted sales operations: contract pricing, customer pricing, commodity market pricing, promotional discounts, quantity break discounts, multiple selling/pricing units of measure, off-invoice allowances, unlimited price levels, suggested retail price, customer authorization codes, future price lists, and recalculation of selling price based on a changed cost.

Deduction Management
Columbus IT's Deduction Management was designed to assist companies in managing the remittance process, in particular unallowed and allowed deductions that tie back to marketing plans if so desired. In addition, the granule allows for greater flexibility in applying customer payments than is offered in standard NAV. Users can quickly identify all payments awaiting application for each customer, and new and improved forms provide a comprehensive look at that customer's open entries, making it remarkably easy to apply a specific payment to a specific entry or entries. Deductions to these payments can be recorded and either posted along with the payment, or kept open within the system for resolution at a later time.

Grower Accounting
The Grower Accounting module will provide the capability to track and calculate the settlement of commodity pooling contracts with growers. Contracts by grower/season/commodity can be established that specify the equity split, pricing determination method, agreed charges for services provided to the grower, estimated yields, and all other pertinent information. Costs for each planting are tracked, along with advances to cover growing costs. As the crops are harvested and sold, the average price across the pool is calculated including adjustments for credit memos and returns, and payments due growers for net proceeds can be automatically generated. Red ink and other adjustments will also be automatically calculated.

Container Tracking
Container tracking provides a facility to track both consumable and returnable containers. All containers can be serialized and traced: drums, totes, railcars etc. Status of containers can be viewed onsite, indicating empty or packed including contents. On-Site and Off-Site inventory is available at any time. Weight and capacity information is captured allowing each container to be valued and stored by actual weight. Container history is readily available to facilitate the return process. Items can be packed in unlimited container types. Customers can then specify how items are packed at the time of sales order entry. Lot information can be tied to one or many containers, providing the capability of lot and sub-lot tracking.

Automated Data Capture
VerticalSoft's automated data capture and bar code solutions enable complete control over the supply chain: raw material receipt, intermediate and finished product movement, customer requirements, destinations, catch weight, bill of lading, invoicing and distribution.

Sales Status Board
The sales status board will show a static or dynamic picture of the holdover/inventory position, sales orders and shipments, and purchase orders and receipts, and production orders and receipts, as well as current market prices. Individual users can choose if they want to see the current, static view of inventory and orders, or an updated inventory that changes dynamically throughout the day. It will be displayed for up to a three-day view, and NAV's drill down capability will make rapid access to underlying data a matter of a single click.