Purchasing

Crafted ERP for Purchasing Teams

Crafted ERP empowers purchasing teams by giving them a real-time 360-degree view of their supply chain management function. 

Single platform giving you complete visibility into your supply chain management's business performance.

Configurable dashboards to see the information you need to make good decisions about your supply chain and purchasing.

Streamline your purchasing team's workdays with configurable automation and approvals.

Maximize revenue and profits by implementing industry-leading procurement management practices. 

Optimize your procurement process for cost certainty with workflow-driven approval routings.

Purchasing can be a time-consuming and inefficient ordeal, especially when requests for goods and services have to be processed manually using a combination of phone calls, emails, paper catalogs and faxes. Crafted ERP's procurement solution helps companies buy goods and services at the best cost and on time, saving valuable time with easy-to-use capabilities. Our solution reduces costs by channeling purchases to approved suppliers and pre-negotiated contracts while improving visibility by rendering real-time information into company spend and vendor performance.


Crafted ERP also streamlines and improves the accuracy of the procure-to-pay process by automating and linking key procurement transactions and providing approval and matching workflows to support internal controls and compliance requirements.

Empowering Purchasing Teams

Key Benefits of Crafted ERP for purchasing teams

Receiving

Just-in-Time Inventory

Demand Planning

Multiple Inventory Locations

FEFO Inventory (First Expired, First Out)

Lot Control

Lot Tracking

Supply Chain

Vendor Portal

Unit of Measure Conversion

Time & Expense

Point-of-Sale

Easily manage the creation and maintenance of purchase orders throughout your supply chain.

Creating and managing vendors, purchase orders, receipts, and other relevant transactions is one of the simplest yet comprehensive aspects of the system. Vendors can be established and shared across all subsidiaries in your system to get a truly global view of your relationship. 


The order items screen is the main place a user will monitor the list of orders that need to be placed, whether they are generated due to the supply planning process, blanket POs, or reacting to re-order point parameters. In all cases, if there is a purchasing contract in place, that pricing will be automatically applied.

Define, monitor, maintain and automatically apply purchase contracts with your vendors.

Negotiating price and supply agreements with your vendors is a critical piece of your overall procurement strategy, and Crafted ERP handles both of these natively. Improve buyer efficiency, accuracy and potentially reduce procurement spending by using blanket purchase orders that define a pre-determined price for a set quantity of items you will buy from a vendor during a specific time. 


The purchase contracts feature enables purchasing managers and buyers to use contracted terms, pricing, and delivery schedules when purchasing materials so buyers can automatically take advantage of quantity-based terms and discounts based on an annual volume of goods or services purchased.


Ensure compliance with company policy and department budgets with configurable workflow approvals.

Crafted ERP offers two approval processes out-of-the-box. The first is a simple approval process based on a dollar amount assigned to the employee. We utilize the workflow approval routings that come with example workflows to get you going for more advanced approval processes. 


These workflows can be easily modified to consider such things as department budgets, location, item type or project you are purchasing against. The graphical nature of the workflow tool makes it easy to create, monitor and maintain.

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