Distribution Management System – Apparel (Management of Product / Style / Colours / Sizes)
DMS7 is a sophisticated, yet user-friendly software package, specifically designed to automate all aspects of business operations for: Call Centre Distribution. Purchase to Order.
DMS7 will run on a variety of Technologies.
DMS7 fully integrates with Accounting and Decision Support applications that are leaders in sophistication and flexibility. Additionally, clients can optionally employ Personnel Manager and/or Payroll Manager (USA Payroll only).
DMS7 is a fully integrated and interactive software package designed to automate all aspects of an apparel distribution environment. DMS7’s system architecture provides for the introduction of a knowledge based management process developed by DSR, after years of experience in automating various distribution environments. All system components are inter-related to eliminate the redundant processing of information and to establish high level management control over the business operation. All system options are distributed to the various operating areas and can be used by non-technical end users, as administrative support tools. The automated interface facilities then ensure that each user’s contribution becomes an inherent part of a centrally controlled administrative system. By transferring the administrative process control to an integrated system, apparel distribution businesses will experience an exceptional productivity increase and will reduce the learning curve and costs resulting from staff turnover. This will ensure that management can free itself from time consuming in-house record-keeping overheads and focus management attention to outside market trends and overall direction of the business.
DMS7 was designed to automate operational processes such as Order Processing, Billing, Inventory Management, Purchasing, Sales Analysis and Accounting. Additionally, its architecture extends far beyond into advanced decision support capability that companies now find essential to respond to a dynamic business environment. Both the areas of Sales Analysis / Forecasting and Financial Accounting / Budgeting integrate advanced concepts of information management. This architecture allows for the automatic maintenance of multi-dimensional data depositories that contain sales and financial activity data automatically provided by DMS7, which interfaces with the Decision Support environment. This eliminates the need for data re-entry/extracts onto spreadsheets and also ensures that the represented information is fully auditable.
DATABASE SET-UP AND MAINTENANCE SUB-SYSTEM
At installation time, DMS7 can be adapted to the specific profile of each organization, by allowing users to define companies, branches, warehouses, customers, products (styles / colours) and other operating characteristics, without software modification. The following main databases can be created, maintained and printed:
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
DMS7 is fully integrated with DSR’s IMS Inventory Management System, a cell structured database management system developed as a specialised tool for inventory management purposes. IMS provides an enormous level of flexibility on both the overall data management and inventory reporting by giving users the ability to expand the system capabilities and respond to unforeseen requirements without costly programming.
IMS FEATURES
Allows for the definition of input transaction formats and “posting” instructions by end-users without the need for programming.
Allows for the definition of up to 99 report formats containing up to 13 columns of information that can be selected from the IMS database, reflecting activity for a selected month or year.
Allows for the definition of mathematical computation formulas.
Allows for the definition of transaction formats that use the IMS database for both input and output, therefore giving the authorised user the ability to perform system maintenance without conventional programming.
Allows for multiple closings of a given inventory month or year.
PURCHASE ORDER PROCESSING SUB-SYSTEM
Interactive maintenance of products, styles, vendors
Interactive input, update and deletion of purchase orders
Interactive purchase order inquiry by style, vendor number, vendor name
Interactive entry of receipts, returns, adjustments, damages, comments, follow-up
Inquiry facility for history of purchases, receipts, changes, comments, follow-up
Dynamic interfaces to the Inventory Management System
Flexible Detail Activity Reporting (Report Writer Style)
Printing of purchase orders
Receipts/Returns Reporting
ORDERS / RETURNS PROCESSING SUB-SYSTEM
BILLING PROCESSING SUB-SYSTEM
REPORTS
Standard reports and/or documents generated by DMS7 are as follows:
For database set-up sub-system:
For Operations Sub-Systems:
DSS-I – Decision Support System
DSS-I is a multi-dimensional history analysis data depository which allows for the maintenance of parallel databases, automatically (ETL) created, for sales analysis, budgeting and forecasting. It is a cell structure Multi-Dimensional Database Management System designed to store historic information. It provides management with advanced decision support capability, in several strategic business areas, by extending the sales / sales budget analysis capability of DMS7 to a virtually unlimited level.
DMS7 provides the automatic interfaces required to maintain multiple Sales Analysis databases within DSS-I, to reflect “ACTUAL” sales and cost activity. Users may create hundreds of statistical reports, by simply defining data extractions and report layout instructions, without use of any conventional programming. In addition to having access to the “ACTUAL” histories, users can also define and maintain parallel databases containing sales forecasts, at multiple levels (area, customer group, customer, salesperson, territory, product class, styles, colours etc.). This information can be integrated to produce statistical reports, to monitor sales performance at a more sophisticated level. These reports can be produced at multiple levels of consolidation, with unlimited key selections (customer, products etc.) and can contain up to 20 columns of extracted or computed information.
Optional Interfaces to Following Sub-Systems: