BENEFIT SOFTWARE has developed the Stores & Provisions Module in order to help you to handle external procurement for stores and provisions. It electronically transmits data between the vessel, office and vendor and monitors all the deliveries and payments to vendors.

With the Stores & Provisions module  you will be able to:

• Document oriented system.
• Base your supply cycle on the requisitions list.
• Manage the Inventory Procedure and monitor the Item’s stock control.
• Check invoices.
• Search for requisitions using multiple search criteria.
• View all the case documents (enquiries, quotations, evaluations, orders and invoices) at the same time in a single window.
• Automatically convert units of measure between the local system and the vendor’s packaging.
• Easily access requisition information such as current stock, last goods receipt (including date, cost, port and vendor data), delivery schedule, etc.
• View a library of provisions and stores (use catalogues IMPA, ISSA, or any other private Supplier catalogue).
• Automatically check vendors’ prices and/or purchase order split among more than one vendor.
• Monitor order costs per group of items (provisions, cabin stores, engine stores, paints, etc) and in line with budget.
• Compare purchase orders between vessels either per group or globally.
• Compare inventory reports and display consumption differences.
• Merge multiple requisitions.
• Automatically generate requisitions from predetermined lists of materials.
• View a list of unbilled orders.
• Manage the forwarding procedure and monitor the status of orders.
• View vendor’s pricelists.
• Monitor & compare the actual budget with the inserted budget per company based on date, vessel, period and cost criteria.
• Operate the module in combination with the BENEFIT Budgeting Module and Financial Management & Control system modules.
• Automatically update the office’s database with details of vessel requisition.
• Automatically update the office’s database with supplier’s quotation.