Stores & Provisions
The module is designed and developed by Benefit Software in order to handle external procurement of stores and provisions. It electronically transmits data between Vessel, Office and Vendor and monitors all the deliveries and payments to Vendors.
Main Features
- Easy, user-friendly access to requisition information such as current stock, last goods receipt (including date, cost, port and vendor data), delivery schedule etc.
- Library of provisions and stores (use catalogues IMPA, ISSA, or any other private supplier catalogue).
- Automatic checking of Vendor's prices and/or purchase order split to more than one vendors.
- Monitoring of order costs per group of items (provisions, cabin stores, engine stores, paints etc) and in par with budget.
- Purchase order comparison between vessels either per group or globally.
- Comparison of Inventory reports and display of consumption differences.
- Merging of multiple requisitions.
- Automatic generation of requisitions from predefined lists of materials.
- List of unbilled orders.
- Vendor's pricelists.
- Full integration with Benefit Financial Management & Control system.
Advantages
- It’s a document oriented system.
- Supply cycle is based on requisitions list.
- Multiple search criteria of requisitions.
- Viewing of all cycle documents (inquiry, quotations, evaluations, orders and invoices) at the same time in a single window.
- Automatic unit-of-measure conversions between local system and vendor's packaging.
- Possibility of linking suggesting suppliers to specific items.
Automation
- Automatic loading and update of office’s database with Vessel’s requisition.
- Automatic loading and update of office’s database with supplier’s quotation.
