KB20230503/01: Sage X3 – Capabilities – Supply Chain Management.

Supply Chain Management is another rich solution capability of this ERP system.

  • Manage your products, customers and suppliers by Category and Statistical Groups.
  • Rapid creation of a product inheriting the default management rules and values for the category.
  • Manage products as stock, non-stock, services or Fixed Assets.
  • Configurable pricelists by customer or supplier, with easy export and import for mass changes.
  • Retail sale orders generated automatically from purchase orders for inter-company transactions.
  • Configurable purchasing cycle:
    • Purchase Order, Receipt and then Invoice.
    • Purchase Request, RFQ (Request for Quotation), Purchase Order and then Invoice.
    • Purchase Order and then the Invoice.
    • Process a Direct Invoice.
  • Advanced Purchasing Costs enables users to foresee the purchase costs for international imports using incoterms.
  • RFQ (Request for Quotation) Management for multi-product and multi-supplier: Tender comparison, manage responses and reminders, price list generation.
  • Workflow engine incorporated into the process
  • Approvals by electronic signatures.
  • Attaching documentation such as proposals, proof of banking details, BBBEE certificates etc.
  • Use MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning) and MPS (Master Production System) to drive suggestions for purchases.
  • Detailed traceability by lot or serial number.
  • Manage multiple warehouses, multiple locations.
  • Manage stock in dedicated locations per product.
  • Quality Control for receipting, manufacturing and deliveries with expiration management.
  • Manage minimum, maximum, EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) quantities.
  • Manage stock by status: accepted, quality control, rejected.
  • Stock valuation by: standard cost, FIFO (First in, First out), LIFO (Last in, First out), average cost, last price.