SYM-PAC’s huge range of standard Inventory functions, plus retail intelligence tools building on your own store data, gives you a powerful edge for your merchandising.

Suggested Ordering

• Suggest an order for Warehouse, Agency & Direct, Suppliers.
• Add items into the TBO (To Be Ordered) system for editing and purchase order creation.
• Sort and view suppliers to establish if suppliers minimum order values have been met.
• Saves staff time spent on scanning products into PDAs and PDEs and possible overstocking.
• Eliminates the need to create manual purchase orders for stock.
• Uses Stock On Hand and Stock On Order to establish if an order is required.
• Suggested Order quantities are based on rate of sale.
• Suggested orders can be given to reps to review and check stock on hand.
• Ability to set up order tables for suppliers, seasonal products (for example — watering), and for groups of products (for example — paint).

SPI Reporting

SPI = Stock Productivity Index, which is a measure of how efficiently the stock is performing.

• Quickly identifies products that are performing poorly — for fast & accurate decisions with merchandising strategy.
• Can be run as a summary and then drill down to specific products by various sorts, for example — by bin location.
• Identifies products where stock on hand is too high for the rate of sale.
• Identifies products which have a low gross profit.
• Identifies products with low stock turns — and also those fast selling products with high stock turns.
• Gives you the information you need — instantly — to make your stock more productive.

Stock Replenishment

• Replaces stock sold for a given date range
• Adds products that need to ordered into the TBO system
• Used for new stores who may not have sales history or Min Max quantities set
• Saves ordering time as order is suggested and added to the TBO system

Automated Min/Maxes with Overstock Reporting

• Set Min Max for a range or ranges of criteria.
• Set Min Max for a range of suppliers through tables.
• Fully functional for days stock required and lead times.
• Reduces time manually setting Min Max by each product, supplier or department.
• Reports where there are over stocks.
• Takes into account re-order quantities.
• Obsoletes slow selling products.
• Can be run in report mode so you can view what will change.
• Combined with Suggested Ordering, this process will reduce slow selling inventory and increase better selling inventory.

Import & Export Min/Maxes

• Export data with your selection criteria.
• Sort data using Excel sort tools.
• Enter in the Min Max levels.
• Import back into SYM-PAC and changes are effected immediately.
• Quick and efficient way to manipulate data.
• Time saving on keying in products individually.