2.1 PURCHASING ORDER SYSTEM
A purchasing order (PO) is a commercial document and first official offer issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services. It is used to control the purchasing of products and services from suppliers. The issue of a purchase order does not initiate a contract. If no prior contract exists, then it is the acceptance of the order by the seller that forms a contract between the buyer and seller. Purchase orders can be an essential part of ERP system orders. According to business dictionary, purchase order is a buyer-generated document that authorizes a purchase transaction. When accepted by the seller, it becomes a contract binding on both parties. Then, a purchase
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This slight mistake can cause a big problem on amount of stock and also wasted the money when doing the production product. If company have a good relationship with customers, company can immediately follow up to admit the mistake and rectify the order. This can save company from considerable hardship in the long run. Then, company should give the speed of transactions because ordering errors and require checks and balances that throughout company supply chain. However, adopting a protocol that allows for approval from more than one person is one safeguard against mistakes like this in the …show more content…
After follow that step, purchaser need to add other step before key in database. According to flow chart at Figure 2.1 (b), purchaser need do double check in system before key in databases or record. A good ordering system will help maintain satisfactory supplier relations, improve cash management, aid in inventory control, and increase the overall profitability of company.
Besides that, Permintex Sanko also needs to do the manual method like keep in log book. After keep in the data, employees need to record in log book. This can be as plan recovering if crash data happen in future. This log book also is very important to track back PO number. However, log book also can control the mistake happen when purchaser able to trace back the flow of purchasing order and detect the mistake. This one of corrective action and prevention plan can reduce the mistake for accident
Kuiper Leda lacks an effective Inventory Management to handle properly the increase in demand of stock and production. An inventory management plan would be capable of forecasting errors in production, client-required service levels, total lead time in manufacturing a unit or batch of the product, and demand priorities. Inventory control is a challenge currently because of the size of Midland Motor's order. In order to meet the demand the company needs to increase the inventory which increases the inventory costs. KL have an opportunity of using the Just - In - Time method of inventory control which eliminates waste by making the resources and labor available only in the time and amount required. It will help increase productivity, product quality and work performance while saving inventory costs for the company. (Curtin, 2008). Kuiper Leda also needs to keep in mind that they will still have to fill orders from other clients that have previously placed orders or even new customers.
Finance has continued to use legacy system to maintain general ledger. This SAP system integration made employees to enter all required information in the correct manner, so that they don’t have to correct the mistakes manually.
…the increased variability in the order process (i) requires each facility to increase the safety stock in order to maintain a given service level, (ii) leads to increased costs due to overstocking throughout the system, and (iii) can lead to an inefficient use of resources, such as labor and transportation…
In the first weeks, our inventory could keep up with the incoming orders in the supply chain which is the ultimate affect of the uncertain customer demand. As the wholesaler, I was dealing with the orders of the retailer who is responsible for the direct customer orders which was stable at
Improve decision making on customers and sales orders based on the information provided by the new system.
Setup early warning system to inform customer about a potential stock out and supplier about a delayed order from CMO. This will help in reducing stock out situations.
Example. For example, if a user needed to enter the sale of a product on credit to a customer, if the customer has already been entered into the system and the inventory item is already set up to be tracked by the system, the user would need to enter the customer and what was sold and any additional information which differs from defaults. If the sale was preceded by a sales order, the product information can simply be imported from the sales order. The user can then print the invoice, send it to the customer, and wait for payment to come.
“The book-keeping, invoicing, stocktaking, payroll functions and customers’ details, weekly wage bill employee’s details are kept manually.”
With your POS system, you could begin to develop true revenue, expense and ultimately profit center to see what is driving profit outside of your corporate apparel sales. This would evolve into a monthly scorecard showing key revenues, expenses, key ratios and profit measures.
Seller assist is part of a real estate selling agreement, where the buyer asks the seller for assistance with the transactions’ closing costs. The normal terms and conditions remain intact allowing the seller and buyer to create financial arrangements for completing the sale of the property. It can be confusing as a benefit for the seller and the buyer, but the mechanics actually work in the right situation. The seller only agrees to the arrangement, there are no additional costs for the seller assist.
Order winning criteria enables the company’s products to gain an advantage over their competitors in customers view. Winning orders through the price, delivery, Customer service, flexibility and quality.
In addition, at the time, the economy was doing great, therefore, using the push system to stock pile inventory was acceptable. However, during the dot-com bust of the 2000’s, its sales and the demand for its products greatly decreased. Unfortunately, during this time, Cisco discovered that it possessed an abundance of inventory, and, wrote off more than $1 billion in inventory. Consequently, the company learned that acquiring inventory in anticipation of market demand, and not factoring in the human element of its business increased its risks of failure. Obviously, Cisco wanted to meet its customer’s demands, however, the problem was that it held more inventory than what the customers were demanding. Nevertheless, afterwards, it knew that it needed to adopt a new, more efficient approach to inventory. Therefore, Cisco had to reevaluate its supply chain system and seek input from IT, customers, suppliers, and finance. Further, by including input from these sources, Cisco adopted the more efficient pull system. The pull system, is dependent upon producing smaller repeating orders. Rather than the push system, which relies on larger less repeating orders. Effective inventory management, when administered correctly, can reduce and keep the inventory to a more desired level. In addition, Cisco discovered that inventory management can reduce inventory levels, enhance cash flow and reduce overall
Step 1, need recognition: the organizational buying process is a form of problem solving resulting from a buying situation that is created when someone (the purchasing manager, the consulting manager or as regulatory requirement) in the organization recognizes a problem that can be solved through some buying action so that the discrepancy between a desired outcome and the prevailing situation can be resolved.
Nowadays with the implementation of new emerging technologies, the way businesses keep this financial information has become computerised. At the moment businesses use computers with a computerised accounting system in order to perform many other new activities than what they were able to do in the past. Businesses can access financial information from different department in the organisation, access to the information through computers and find financial data very fast, being more efficient. (Beliss, 2013)
The Information revolution is changing our daily lives. With the rapid development of computer and internet, online commerce become quite common and plays an important role in the modern world. The online business has booming development in these few years. US online retail sales raised an average of 11% in the first three months of 2009 (“US Online Sales Up,” 2009). The growth of online sales may due to the growing number of consumers who shop online. In the case of Asia, survey reported 77.6% of Internet users have online shopping experiences in 2003 (as cited in To, Liao & Lin, 2007). Online shopping is very different from traditional shopping. Consumers cannot touch and check the product before purchasing it, which means they are at higher risk of fraud than traditional shopping. Consumers also have other concerns such as credit cards security of online shopping. Then questions should be raised: what is the advantage of online shopping? Why people shop online? In following paragraphs, the advantage of online shopping for the consumer and consumer’s motivation to shop online will be reviewed and discussed.