DTR Software: Plastics-specific Inventory Control

With the DTR Plastics software inventory control features, you have complete control over the management of raw materials (including blends), assembled work-in-process (WIP) items, finished goods, and other items. In addition, you can manage multi-level pricing and maintain fixed and variable standards, averages, and last costs of all inventoried items.

Multiple units of measure are tied to each inventory item and available at purchasing and sales order entry. DTR Plastics software will calculate the conversion quantities and relieve inventory in the base unit of measure.

DTR makes it easy for you to configure the period-end inventory close-out process to match the way you do business. DTR provides complete audit trail traceability in inventory.

The inventory control capabilities within DTR Plastics software include:

• Multi-warehouse, multi-location, lot code management and serialized inventory
• Location, lot, serial number and revision tracking
• Quick inventory transfers and adjustments
• Min/max/reorder levels
• Costing to the fifth decimal place
• Vendor contract pricing tables and product price list reports
• Vendor and customer cross-referencing
• Standard reports: where used, cost variance and more
• Multi-plant inventory counts and costing supported
• Physical inventory counting, transfers and adjustments
• Comprehensive audit trails
• Inventory update by ticket
• Cycle counting
• Inventory reconciliation (records all transactions affecting an inventory item for period specified)

Consignment Inventory

Now you can gain complete visibility into your customers’ inventory. The consignment inventory feature is offered as an enhancement to the standard inventory module within DTR Plastics software and is designed to support plastics manufacturers that warehouse their customers' inventory. With the DTR Plastics software consignment inventory feature, you’ll know what is on hand in your customers' inventory and have the ability to easily transfer the inventory to different locations. Consignment inventory is fully integrated into sales, shipping, accounting and scheduling functions within the DTR application. You can:

• Transfer consignment inventory from plant to plant and from floor location to a new location.
• Include lot codes, revision and serial numbers on documentation.
• Mass create transfer packing slips to accompany transfers.
• View customers' inventory in query format—no need to print large reports.
• Relieve the consignment inventory at invoicing.
• Obtain separate consignment reporting for valuation purposes.

Shop Floor Data Collection (bar coding)

You can increase the accuracy of your inventory and reduce labor costs with real-time data collection. RF bar code solutions are integrated with DTR Plastics software for maximum efficiency.

Whether you’re looking to more reliably track location, lot code, and revisions or to simplify the creation of physical inventory tickets and packing lists, DTR's bar coding feature give you complete inventory control over all items entering and leaving your plant. You can:

• Manage location controlled inventory for increased accuracy and reduced man-hours locating inventory for shipping and production.
• Automate picking and labeling of cartons of shipped product.
• Validate picked inventory for reduced shipping errors.
• Perform cycle counting of the finished goods warehouse.
• Collect production data—eliminating handwritten run sheets and shift reports.

Projected Inventory Flow

DTR Plastics software can help you keep track of the future activity of items in purchasing, manufacturing, and shipping. A “can ship” date is calculated for each sales order, based on production scheduling and purchasing. You can quickly view, in query or within standard reporting, activity on raw materials, finished goods or work-in-process. In addition, you can:

• “Click a button” to display all BOMs using a specified material and view bill of manufacture structure in indented breakdown format.
• Empower your customer service reps and plant managers to quickly view jobs from scheduling and advise customers if shipments will be on time.