Epicor’s Purchasing solution, a key component of Epicor’s Supply Chain Management Suite, provides a comprehensive solution for tracking your managing your procurement process.

With the Purchasing Module, you can manage your entire procurement process to control expenditures and improve productivity.  With the right solution in place to manage purchasing, you will experience a number of benefits, including:

• Complete and fully integrated purchase order processing
• Assurance that your receipts are meeting your standards for quality with fully integrated quality control
• Automated tolerance checking at receiving to make sure you aren’t receiving more than was ordered
• Graphical vendor performance analysis to monitor on-time delivery and product quality
• Access to information for making more informed purchasing decisions and negotiating better vendor contracts.

Purchasing lets you automate your procurement process and manage your inventory so you can reduce paper flow, improve productivity and cut costs. Routine tasks are simplified so you can focus on more strategic pursuits such as negotiating contracts and developing your supplier base. Purchase orders, receipts, returns, matches and adjustments can be entered quickly and accurately.

Bar-coding technology is integrated with the receiving function to improve efficiency and accuracy. The system will even generate purchase orders automatically based on inventory levels and reorder points, thereby eliminating data entry entirely.

Should you need support for strategic sourcing or a Web-based electronic procurement solution, you may want to read more about the Epicor Supplier Relationship Management Suite.