The Alliance information system addresses the needs and challenges of all areas within the organization.

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Buyer's Management

Alliance Buyer's Management is a comprehensive system to ensure the execution of proper inventory planning and control for the efficient and timely management of inventory replenishment: the right product at the right time.

The application includes many powerful management tools, including:

• Integrated distribution resource planning
• Time-phased order point processing
• Economic order quantity
• Company-wide purchasing for all inventory, supplies, equipment and services
• Vendor quotation control
• Full requisition and purchase order generation
• Accounts payable integration
• Vendor reliability and quality tracking with full P.O. receiving and planning reporting
• This comprehensive application minimizes waste, provides cash conservation, supports better customer service, and enables your business to operate more smoothly and efficiently.
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Credit Management

Alliance Credit Management puts the timely control of receivables in your hands. Customer credit problems can be dealt with before they get out of control, greatly minimizing accounts receivable days outstanding.

The key strengths in Alliance Credit Management go far beyond simple accounts receivable:

• Full integration with order entry and complete credit limit checking by dollar, order, shipment limits and past due receivables
• Credit hold conditions
• Credit notes
• On-line credit hold/release
• Complete customer credit history
• Dunning letters
• Statements
• Finance charge assessments
• Providing such power to your credit department will have a direct and positive impact on your bottom line.
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Customer Service Management

Alliance provides the power to retrieve all relevant customer information instantly, including outstanding integrated customer credit and historical information, through its maneuverability, one-step order entry, and pop-up windows.

Key Alliance Customer Service strengths include:

• Sales order processing with full inquiry and reporting
• Kitting
• Serial number and lot control
• Service charges
• Direct ship processing
• Non-inventory item processing
• Quotations
• Estimates
• Complex price discounting
• Cost plus and chained discounts
• Contract and promotion pricing
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities

This powerful customer service system will meet your needs today and in the future. Taking advantage of Alliance's customer service features will enhance your competitive edge. more information

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Executive Information System

The Alliance Executive Information System displays current information on company trend analysis, asset, profit, sales and order levels. Transactions accessed by the executive are summarized into graphics for quick situation analysis. If desired, the executive can easily and quickly trace summarized data back to the original transactions.

Alliance's strength as an Executive Information System is due to its design as a totally unified system. One central system serves the needs of each company department, assuring you the best possible price/performance in the marketplace.

Overall, Alliance is a professional control, planning and execution system for the distributor or manufacturer who is serious about achieving competitive leadership.
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Sales Management

Alliance Sales Management maximizes the sales effectiveness, efficiency and forecasting that drives an operation's growth and profitability. Key features include integrated real-time sales analysis with sales detail by units, dollars and margins by period and year. Commissions can be calculated with rate and percentage splits.

Alliance Sales Management enhances enterprise-wide growth and profitability while providing the power to define sales opportunities and pitfalls, down to the item sales level.
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Value-Added Processing

Alliance Value Added Processing addresses your company's need to accomplish value-added processing activities that go beyond the minimum distribution activities. These include assembling, kitting and finishing of products and product assortments prior to their distribution to the end user or retail environment. Features such as the bill of material (BOM) and BOM processor, routing sheets, and work center records let you define the value-added products and processes your organization provides. Backflush and cost roll-up features let you report and control the process. With these tools, assembling items to stock or to order can be easily accomplished and controlled.
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Warehouse Operations

Alliance Warehouse Management implements tools for timely and accurate receiving, handling, perpetual inventory control, and shipping.

The inventory control function contains powerful elements such as item level location by lot and warehouse, with serial number traceability upon shipment and time-phased order points to anticipate your needs. Other key functions include cycle and physical counting capabilities, bills of material, routings and work orders for light manufacturing and full status reporting. The inventory movement function contains key elements such as return goods authorization, carrier selection, single-screen receiving, tracking from dock to stock, allocation control and support for bar code scanning.

Complete control over all aspects of shipping, receiving, placement, manufacturing and transportation minimizes carrying costs and maximizes customer service. The result is enhancement of your overall competitive position within your marketplace.
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