From Winspire Solutions PVT in Pune, India comes Winspire

 

This is an add-on solution for the Distribution & Logistics Industry Winspire, with support from Microsoft has developed a feature rich add-on solution specifically designed for the Distribution Industry.

 

The intention is that the add-on will continuously enhance its functionality for the benefit of all current and future customers. This is done by allowing an almost open source nature to its product development, should you as an end user have the need for greater functionality this is then rolled out to all customers once developed, as well as there being the opportunity for end users to develop their own solutions and see their development being adopted across the very strong development community that has grown up around Winspire.

 

The main benefit for those in the Distribution and Logistics industry is the amount of features that have included in this add-on, such as the complete tracking of source of every unit sold, from manufacturer/ distributor to date of purchase, a facility to selectively carry out negative stock billing retail counters, and subsequent reconciliation, floating enquiries (Auto Email) on multiple selected distributors / vendors and getting their quotations, sophisticated credit management authorization workflow with strong controls, a facility to define customer wise or customer category wise / product group wise credit limit / terms, automatic credit hold in case of limit crossing or overdue or cheque not received in time, a facility to print customized bar code labels, the integration of serial numbers / warranty period / cash or credit card details etc. in retail invoice, a facility to specify either price including VAT or price excluding VAT in retail order and a facility to define prices under different categories for the same item / customer combination with a predefined hierarchy in which they are picked up.

 

Overall the features of the Winspire add-on provide complete flexibility and enable a business to achieve automated price control with minimum manual intervention. All orders with price exceptions go on hold and a user with appropriate authority needs to clear them. As well as capturing pricing text (justification for exceptional pricing) users can upload price lists from excel into Navision and export from Navision to Excel.

 

Distribution and Logistics is a complex industry and this add-on works well due to its virtual open source approach allowing users continually incorporate additional functionality across the entire user group.