Overview System Requirements
Improve customer service, reduce data entry errors, and minimize duplication of effort
Allow buyers to accumulate items onto purchase orders; then place purchase orders with vendors from handheld computers.
Provides receivers with the capability of fast and easy entry of data into a handheld computer for arriving product - at the point of unloading.
Allows staff in a 3rd party warehouse environment to receive, adjust, ship and/or apply charges to product stored for their customers. Also allows customers to access inventory information via the Internet.
Allows inventory to be counted and variances checked in real time, providing a faster and more accurate counting process.
Allows customers to place orders at their convenience 24 hours a day - 7 days a week enhancing customer service and order efficiency.
Overview
WebPICS allows the core modules of PICS (Produce Inventory Control System) to be accessed either over the Internet or on an internal Intranet. Users work with WebPICS in web browsers on desktops, laptops or wireless handheld computers. Screens are designed for optimum viewing making the best use of the size of the browser.
Fast, accessible and portable, if you have a need for speed, with up to the minute information, then WebPICS is the answer for your produce industry business.
The WebPICS Advantage:
- Allows for complete traceability
- Fast, accessible, real time data
- Versatile modules
WebPICS modules:
| Sales Order System | Purchase Order System | Receiving |
| Warehousing | Inventory Counting | Shopping Basket |
Sales Order System: |
- Fast entry of orders (this is a computerized replacement for handwritten sales books)
- Mouse or stylus assisted data entry
- Inventory information displayed as each product is selected
- Seamless printing of orders, invoices, or cash sale slips
- Pricing is filled by the system with an option to override
Purchase Order System: |
- Allows the buyer to build purchase orders as they visually inspect inventory at their supplier
- Purchase orders can be set up in advance and received when the product arrives
- Allows the buyer the freedom to enter purchase orders as they buy as opposed to waiting until they get back to the office.
- Mouse or stylus assisted data entry
Receiving: |
- Receiving can be done without having Purchase Orders in advance (direct)
- Allows product to be received in the system as it is unloaded
- Items can be backordered or cancelled
- New items can be added
Warehousing: |
- Allows product to be received in the system as it is unloaded
- Quality on arrival (receiving form) can be printed
- New items can be added on the fly
- Allows product to be shipped in the system as it is being loaded onto delivery trucks
- Unlimited types of charges can be added to the load at any time
- Storage charges can be manually added or system generated
- Allows the owner of the products to monitor their goods via the web
Inventory Counting: |
- Allows inventory quantities to be adjusted while physically counting
- Eliminates the need for variance checks
- System updated in real time
Shopping Basket: |
- Eliminate staff time required to enter sales orders into PICS
- Allow customers to enter their own orders when ever they want, 24 hours a day.
- Improve the efficiency, streamline order processing, and reduce errors due to language barriers, transcription or keypunch, misunderstandings in verbal communication
System Requirements
- WebPICS is installed and run on a Windows 2000, 2003 or 2008 Server.
- IIS (Internet Information Server) is required.
- Data entry is done in a web browser. WaudWare recommends Internet Explorer version 6 or higher.
- For WebPICS modules being run on handheld devices, we strongly recommend you arrange a demo of the device you want to use with WaudWare for testing.
