The CANTOR tools for purchasing and materials management create the ideal requirements for always keeping an overview and for being able to work on-schedule and demand-driven. Easy and safe when used, easy to learn and a comprehensive scope of services.

Overview:

• Just-In-Time material requirements, scheduled for the day, on which the material is needed

• Order related procurement with prices and the right date

• Stored delivery times of products and supply calendar

• Integrated receipt of goods and auditing

• Optimized stock

• Stock values are always known

• Stocktaking

• Various stocks for multiple sites

• Consignment stores, storage area for blocked stocks, storage at the coater

• Electronic ordering with openTRANS

Just-In-Time Materials Controll

Just-In-Time Ordering
Order related goods on commission or parts on stock ‑ they always rely on an on-schedule control. On-schedule means: as late as possible but as early as needed ‑ with a high level of reliability.
Material, which arrives too early can be damaged, consumes space and must be paid for earlier. Material, which arrives too late, delays production and therefore delivery dates.
By integrating purchasing and procurement, CANTOR ensures the control of materials Just-In-Time. This is the most cost effective method for you ‑ related with a low stock on materials but with guaranteed availability.
CANTOR already creates a material order at the time when the scheduling of the customer order is made: That is right after the order entry. Each part, which has to be procured individually for the order, is evaluated regarding it's procurement time. The software assigns the part to a supplier, whose supply-calendar is checked. It's no use, if you require the material on tueday but the supplier only delivers wednesdays. The electronic data processing system must know that the wednesday of the previous week must be scheduled for the supplier.
This method works similar for stock goods. CANTOR creates a reservation of the required material for a date, on which the material is actually needed for production. Should there be insufficient material on stock, the program will determine the supplier, check his supply-calendar and the  replenishment time. The material will only be booked and scheduled if there's enough time to procure the material.
The system is flexible and orders can be rescheduled afterwards ‑ this triggers a new evaluation can conflicts will be shown immediately. This prevents rescheduled customer orders from causing material-conflicts.

Receipt of Goods
CANTOR always knows, which deliveries of goods occur on a certain date. Should deliveries be cancelled, you will know immediately, which orders are affected. They can be rescheduled to avoid production interruptions.

Invoice Auditing
Invoice auditing should also be part of an efficient purchasing-solution. Deliveries, which have been booked during receipt of goods can be converted to purchase invoices with the press of a button. The supplier prices have already been calculated on the basis of agreed terms. The invoice amount of the supplier can then be easily compared with the total of the computer system. Deviations can be easily recognized and pursued in detail at item-level. Released purchase invoices can be transferred to financial accounting per interface.

Integration
Only a system, where the purchasing and stock sections are part of the ERP-solution, provides the required transparency and consistency in a process. Solutions that have a so called configurator, which is connected via interface to a standard materials management module, can only transfer a fracture of the information and are often "one-way streets". CANTOR offers a seamless integration of all program-modules for windows construction in one software package.

Stocktaking and More
Of course, CANTOR supports your inventory procedures on every level. Appropriate lists and types of bookings are available for creating efficient balancing. But also framework agreements, delivery reminders and remainder stocks are managed efficiently.

openTRANS
CANTOR can electronically send purchase orders as a data record to all suppliers, which support this standard. This enables a supplier to convert a purchase order directly into an order in his computer-system ‑ this avoids mistakes and processing times will be shortened.
But openTRANS is much more and works in both ways. Order confirmations, delivery notes as well as invoices can be sent back by the supplier and converted to documents in CANTOR. Order confirmations are automatically evaluated regarding their date and quantity. Employees will be automatically informed, should there be any deviations. The system does this without manual interventions.

Stocks and Sites
In practice, there any many storage areas and storage types, depending on the organization. Whether it's standard stock, consignment stock, storage areas for blocked stocks or the material stores at the supplier (e.g. for profile lamination) ‑ all storage areas are managed at once. This also applies, if you have more than one site and these storage areas have to be equally structured.