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Lumber Inventory Software

WoodPro's Lumber Management solution helps your organization achieve operational excellence in all key areas by simplifying, standardizing and automating business processes. The Inventory Management module provides a solid foundation for companies in the distribution of lumber and building materials. Build market share through exceptional and profitable customer service; cut costs by minimizing your investment in inventory and improving stock management, procurement, and logistics execution.

Automate and streamline business processes with greater adaptability.
Increase productivity with a role-based solution and centralized information.
Integrate processes and increase inventory visibility to help you supply quality products and services to your customers.
Build a strong partnership network through collaboration with all value chain partners in the lumber and building supplies industry.
Keep your finger on the pulse with business alerts.
Improve decision making with strategic business insight.

Identifies Opportunities: Comprehensive reporting and evaluation of market trends analyzed by item, product line, market sector, geography, and customer give you a clear picture of where your best opportunities for profit lie.

Balances Supply & Demand with Inventory Policies: Integration with our demand planning solutions will allow you to more effectively plan your inventory needs. Our time-phased Inventory Long/Short Display allows you to analyze your inventory, providing a strategic and tactical view of both supply and demand. Recommend to Purchase and Recommend to Produce enable real-time generation of Purchase and Work Orders, balancing supply with demand and inventory policies.

Frees Up Resources for Investments: By achieving operational excellence, you can free up resources and budget from day-to-day operations and invest more in innovation. You can then create a real competitive advantage, prepare for the future, and become one of the best-run businesses in the lumber and building materials community.

Screenshot: The Inventory Available Inquiry provides complete details and status for each inventory item. Available inquiries include General, Category, Cross Reference, Location, Lot, Sales History, and Price.

Industry Specific Inventory Management

Effective Inventory Control is the cornerstone of an efficient customer response strategy, the premise of which is to deliver maximum customer service at an acceptable cost. Our industry specific inventory management solution is completely integrated, so you would be able to know the status and location of where your inventory is at all times.

Supports the unique requirement of wood, lumber, building products, hardwood, treated lumber, poles, pilings, laminates, plywood, remanufacturing, etc.
Handles softwood and hardwood Lumber Tally calculations with ease.
Defines inventory in your terms, including multiple units of measure, package sizes, multi-line free form item descriptions, and configuration rules for automatic Item Number Generation.
Supports the unique requirements for Vendor or Customer managed inventory.
Manages different replenishment rules by locations.
Uses barcode technology to track each inventory movement - track individual Items, Packages, Lots or Tags and Universal Product Codes (UPCs).
Provides flexible units of measure conversions including Pieces, Random Length, Random Width, Board Feet, Linear Feet, Square Feet, Cubic Meter, etc.
Tracks end-to-end processing from Logs to Finished Goods assemblies.

Additional Inventory Management Module Features:

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT	INQUIRIES	REPORTS
Inventory Available Inquiry by Location	Sales History Inquiry by Item	Sales History Report by Item
Inventory Available Inquiry by Product Line	Sales history Inquiry by Customer	Sales History Report by Customer
Custom Pricing	Monthly Sales History Inquiry by Customer with Comparison	Inventory Available Report
Stock Taking	Package Inquiry & Inventory Value with Sales Inquiry	Reorder Report
Inventory Adjustment	Sales Analysis by Salesperson	Inventory Tag Report by Location
Loaded Cost Averaging	Aging Inventory by Buyer	On Hand by Status
Bin Transfers and Putaways	Sales Summary by Salesperson	Inventory Long/Short Report
Bin Inquiry	Purchase Summary Inquiry by Buyer	Stock Status Report by Buyer
Production Processing	Special Order Item Value Inquiry	Purchasing Worksheet Report
Tag/Lot Processing	Group - Sales Analysis Inquiry	Item Type Listing with Cost

Lumber Sales Management Software

WoodPro InSight’s Sales Management module facilitates efficient entry of orders, supply tracking, and timely delivery of goods. With sophisticated Back-to-Back Order Processing including Direct Purchase Orders, Quick Re-man, and Make to Order Work Orders, order entry and fulfillment can be performed efficiently. The use of Order Fulfillment Management features and barcode technologies and labels makes tracking supply of goods easier. The forecasting features, which drives the Recommend to Produce and Recommend to Purchase functions, helps you deliver the right products at the right time to ensure complete customer satisfaction. Below are some additional benefits.

Industry Specific and Integrated System: Supports the unique requirements of the lumber and building products industry. The Sales module is fully integrated with the Inventory, Purchasing, Accounting, Finance, Reman, Production, Transportation and Executive Summary modules.

Centralizes Information: Centralizes all customer-related activities across departments such as fulfillment, transportation, invoicing, and accounts receivable. Displays pricing information (ie. price lists, sales history, effectivity dates, formulas), profit margins, credit limits, aging period, order status, freight costs, discounts, and costs of each order.

Reduces Order Entry Costs: Copy Previous Order feature and pre-defining profiles for customers and employees to automatically populate the sales order with unique requirements, such as supply location, delivery options, pricing, messages, and remarks, help reduce order entry costs.

Processes Point of Sale Transactions: Lumber and building materials dealers and retailers can process Point of Sale (POS) Cash Register transactions using barcode scanners and merchant debit and credit card terminals. The system accepts payments made by cash, on account, or by credit cards.

Handles Multiple Unit Conversions: Provides flexible processing of various lumber item types, including Random Lengths, Random Widths, Units Sizes, Tags, Board Feet, Linear Feet, Square Feet, etc.

Enables Secure Remote Access: Generate quotes, process orders, inquire inventory availability, and look up order statuses anywhere through remote wireless access, using tablets and smart phones (Windows, Android, and IOS).

Processes Complex Orders Quickly: Sales reps quickly respond to complex order requests by combining any type of transaction into one sales order, including stock items from multiple locations, all back-to-back order types, split shipments and drop shipments.

Facilitates Daily Routing: Daily route maintenance assists with the assembling of truckloads based on the weight of the orders and the maximum truck capacity. The orders are organized for delivery according to Delivery Zone. If the weight exceeds the truck maximum, it is displayed in red. A complete history details the deliveries made with a direct link to the appropriate Bill of Lading.

Handles Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Form documents that correspond to various business transactions (ie. sales orders, purchase orders, etc.) can be instantly transmitted to other parties involved using EDI, XML and service-oriented architecture technologies.

Additional Sales Management Module Features:

ORDER PROCESSING	INQUIRIES	REPORTS
Customer Service	Inventory Available for Sale	Sales Order Detail/Summary Listing
Quotation Processing	Inventory Available by Item	Sales by Buyer by Vendor
Sales Order Maintenance	Random Length Inventory Available Inquiry	Sales Profitability
Tally Calculator	Sales Order Inquiry by Item	Print Invoice by Detail/Summary List
Back-to-Back Sales Order Processing	Sales Order Inquiry by Customer	Print Invoice by State
Multi-Ship Sales Order	Sales Order Inquiry by Delivery Date	UPC Label by Item
Scheduled Order	Sales Order Special Item Inquiry	Product Analysis Code Report
Invoice Maintenance	Sales Invoice Fax/Email Inquiry	Picking Statistics Report
Cash Sales Processing	Back to Back Sales Without Purchase Inquiry
Shipping Schedule and Route Planning	Inventory Sales Inquiry
Bid Processing	Customer GM Analysis
Job Control Processing

Customer Management

WoodPro InSight provides a Customer Relationship Management solution that can help you strengthen your relationships with your customers. Our fully integrated solution helps you provide exceptional customer service.

Manage and document each interaction with your customers and prospects
Create new quotations
Track the status of an order
Inquire about sales history
Manage returns
Track outstanding orders and payments

Purchasing & Receiving Software

WoodPro’s feature rich procurement solution helps you strategically source products and manage the entire transaction process from purchasing, receiving to payment. The module is integrated to other modules, including Inventory Management and Sales Management modules, so that ordering and receiving of inventory can be done more efficiently for companies in the lumber and building products industry. WoodPro InSight offers many other advantages:

Inquire, buy, and sell lumber with ease with the system’s Lumber Tally features.
Handles the entry of block tallies, pieces and package tallies for random lengths, random widths, and specified lengths products.
Enter purchase orders with ease as a variety of information look-up options are available at your fingertips from the Inventory Available for Purchase Inquiry. Users can quickly inquire about inventory availability, item history, and purchase order history, for example.
Save input time as new orders can be copied from previous orders.
Achieve a better return on your investment from a simple, scalable, and easily-implemented Procurement system.
Shorten lead times significantly, reduce costs by eliminating time-consuming paper trails as electronic ordering and document imaging promote paperless procurement.
Identify and evaluate supplier performance.
Reduce the receiving, accrual, reconciliation to payment processing with our secure, sophisticated workflows and business alerts.
Leverage the comprehensive analytics to make better supply and spend management decisions.
Recommend to Purchase and purchase analysis is available to you in driving better sourcing solutions.