Distribution & Materials Management Software

Empower your operations to work as a customer-focused team -- enterprise wide. Streamline your demand and supply chain transactions and work flows, with automatic condition/action triggers, unlimited notes and document attachments. Conduct e-commerce via the Web. Monitor performance to ensure contract and order commitments are met consistently. Improve the responsiveness and value you provide to your customers.

Sales Order Processing

• Improve customer satisfaction and increase sales with fast accurate order entry, proactive selling features, and secure self-service customer ordering via the Internet.
• Manage virtually all order type's, including quotes/proposals, future orders, blankets, change orders, multiple-ship-to orders, credit card orders, kitting and non-stock drop shipments.
• Use standard configurations, or "packages", to quickly create a single order containing any combination of product and service line items, including projects, jobs, milestones and activities.
• Quickly create sales and change orders from existing quotes/proposals and contracts. Use flexible order template and kitting facilities and order history to simplify order configuration, reduce data entry and promote suggestive selling.
• Keep employees, partners and customers informed about product and service upgrades, options, add-ons, replacements and substitutes -- to help manage product life cycles, increase sales and reduce back orders.
• Automate pricing, tax calculations, inventory status and credit checking to speed order entry, improve accuracy and ensure adherence to tax regulations and company policies.

Order Fulfillment & Billing

• Streamline fulfillment for products and services, including drop shipments for non-stock items and back orders, as well as subcontracted services, with integrated Contracts, Projects, POs, AP and AR.
• Sort and sequence picking by user-defined criteria, with complete instructions and pick-complete-except confirmation -- to improve productivity and accuracy.
• Use picking on demand, automatic checking for alternate inventory locations, fill-swap flexibility and automatic back-order fills to minimize delays.
• Provide complete packing, staging and shipping instructions and documents. Automate recording and billing of freight, and other additional charges.
• Provide customers and partners with secure, Internet self-service access to current order status information.

Inventory Management

• Classify, track and control all types of inventory, including stocked and non-stocked products and services, packaging, marketing collateral, spare parts, tooling and supplies.
• Gain enterprise-wide, visibility and control of inventories and transactions across multiple entities, channels, distribution centers, warehouse zones and detailed storage locations.
• View up-to-the-moment requirements and status information, including on-hand, on-order, back-ordered, in-transit, allocated, available and unavailable.
• Minimize transaction data entry and automate unit-of-measure conversion, cycle counting and accounting entries to improve productivity and accuracy.
• Accurately value and account for inventory via user-definable transaction types, associated accounts and variance controls, with complete audit trails and history.

Replenishment Management

• Forecast requirements and analyze performance statistics, such as usage, seasonality, lead-time and costs to determine optimum inventory control policies.
• Utilize ABC principles; min/max and safety stock targets; Gordon Graham, order-, line-, flow-point, EOQ and recurring transfer rules, paths and triggers to automate inventory replenishment.
• Automate analysis of movements, usage, valuation, review cycles, dead stock and non-stock, as well as low stock alerts, replenishment actions and truckload advise.

Lot/Serial Number Control

• Track lot/serial number-specific quality attributes and status data, including quarantine, expiration and retesting controls, and lot merges/splits from regrading or reclassifying products.
• Reduce product recalls and liability risks via immediate access to a full product genealogy history and audit trail of all sources and uses, from suppliers to final delivery.

Warranties, Repairs & Returns

• Manage customer and vendor warranty and non-warranty returns, repairs and replacements, including entitlement validations, return authorizations, tracking, accounting and billing.

Requisitions & Vendor Quotes

• Streamline process flows, from requisition and request for quotation through vendor bidding, approval, ranking and negotiation of contract terms.
• Automate stock replenishment and non-stock drop shipment requisition, pricing and order release approval, as well as online requisition and authorization of capital and ad hoc purchases.
• Use the Internet to reduce delays, paperwork and undocumented conversations among requesters, buyers and vendors.
• Capture complete audit trails and history, including unlimited notes and document attachments. Control expenditures and monitor supplier responsiveness.

Procurement Management

• Streamline, automate and control procurement of all products and services, including stocked items, drop-shipments, expensed supplies, capital assets and subcontract services.
• Deploy any combination of central and local purchasing, receiving and payables with seamless integration across entities, sub-entities, contracts and projects.
• Manage all order types, including blankets/releases, change orders, multi-ship-to and drop-ship orders. Automate calculation and application of taxes and other additional charges to order line items.
• Utilize unlimited notes, instructions and documentation attachments, and gain complete visibility of commitments, open orders, scheduled receipts, audit trails and history.

Receiving & Vendor Performance

• Streamline receiving and returns processing, and automate checking of min and max tolerances for quantity, price, quality and on-time delivery, as well as requisition, PO, receipt and invoice matching.
• Capture and analyze performance statistics and automate review cycles to assure suppliers adhere to delivery dates, pricing terms and quality specifications.

Stay up to date with contract renewals and revisions, automate billings and revenue recognition, and monitor terms and coverage using Khameleon Contracts software.

To learn more about Khameleon Contracts software and our other project centric software solutions, please contact us today at 800-655-6598 ext. 1100. We appreciate your interest in Khameleon and look forward to speaking with you!