Supply Chain Management

Enterprise Business Software

Outsourcing Enterprise Resource Planning


Big Sky Carvers
The Verticent ERP system helps Big Sky Carvers quantify promise-dates with sufficient and accurate enterprise information.

The Verticent outsourcing enterprise resource planning system tightens your back-office supply chain operations by streamlining inventory management, enabling customer order inquiry, solving shipping/receiving issues, supporting RF/barcode capabilities, manage suppliers and more. To help communicate accurate delivery dates [and keep customers happy] Verticent delivers up-to-the-minute information about on-hand available inventory, in-transit inventory, replenishment orders, manufacturing schedules and lead times. For shipping/receiving, Verticent's Distribution solution allows you to define carriers, shipment methods, freight rates and customer routings. Verticent's Distribution also interfaces with third-party shipping and manifest software.

And RF/barcode functionality provides the following transactions to help ease data collection: inventory move within a facility, print location labels, shipping, inventory move, physical inventory and cycle counting. Inventory attributes such as chemical and physical properties are easily tracked and transacted with this metals supply chain management solution.

Landed cost and vessel tracking are critical needs for outsourcing enterprise resource planning companies including those in metals supply chain management. Inventory may be your largest single asset (besides your customers and employees). It's important to track the location and the costs along the way until it arrives at your distribution centers or reseller of your products.

Outsourcing enterprise resource planning needs to incorporate electronic data interchange (EDI) to enable electronic communication with suppliers, customers, or retailers. Verticent's ERP software delivers EDI capabilities whether it's for retail or metals supply chain management.

The web is critical for today's supplier. With Verticent's eSeries you provide self-service applications for business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) sales management.  All integrated to the outsourcing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in real-time from one provider, Verticent.  These applications are quick to deploy and can take advantage of the look and feel of your website while securing data and access down to the user level.  Users (customers, manufacturer representatives, distributors, or employees) will have the benefit of 24X7 access to their order information.  Users can enter quotes or orders and construct proper configurations with the built-in web based configure-to-order module.

Verticent enables your distribution department to share specific customer data with the entire enterprise.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) counts, too! And Verticent provides a comprehensive CRM and metals supply chain management system. Integrated with our outsourcing enterprise resource planning ERP applications, Verticent CRM helps boost sales and improve customer satisfaction by providing enterprise-wide systems for lead capture, lead management, opportunity management, time management, marketing automation, pre-sale and after-sale customer support and more.

Integrated financial applications such as general ledger, financial report management, accounts receivable, and accounts payable are provided as well from Verticent. Support for multi-entity, multi-location, multi-currency, etc. are built right in to complete the operational execution in your organization.

Many organizations have benefited from business Intelligence reporting solutions to help them with deployment of metrics to monitor their business and properly execute in their supply chain.  Verticent's business intelligence solution turns data into decision support information to enable change and improvement.  Digital dashboards and key performance indicators can be deployed.  Simple ad-hoc reporting can be developed and deployed within Verticent's ERP software suite enabling end users to get the information needed when it's needed.

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