Purchasing Features in SIMMS Purchasing Software

Every time you purchase goods from your vendors you create a contract to buy. The SIMMS Purchasing Software ensures you keep accurate records of all these very important transactions. With every order, you need to record (and keep track of) shipping method, date required and contact. You also need to confirm the quantities ordered and price per item. This module improves and organizes your entire purchasing process.

Automatic purchase orders can be auto-generated to ensure that you never run out of key items, should your on-hand quantity fall below a specified minimum. You can process partial receipts, update your inventory records when goods are received and monitor cost variances between goods received and goods invoiced.

Receipt of Goods will automatically adjust inventory quantities and produce a Back Order Fill Record if there are back-ordered items. With the implementation of SIMMS Purchasing Software, you will be able to make more informed purchasing decisions, and all of your purchasing and receiving information will be immediately available.


  • • Auto Reorder point notification
    • Item re-stocking
    • Purchase order authorization staging
    • Serial number management and lot control
    • Ability to Drop Ship Orders
    • Generate sales orders from purchase orders
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  • • Ability to define your re-stocking quantity above demand
    • User-friendly screen lets you easily purchase from multiple vendors for many items from several orders at once
    • Generate a Request for Quote (RFQ) direct from the re-stocking module
    • Review the current stock demand in one user-friendly screen.
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  • • Always have sufficient stock on hand avoiding costly stock shortages
    • Define economic or maximum stock level requirements
    • Alert on screen or via e-mail when stock level reorder points have been hit
    • Define which users get specified alerts.
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SIMMS Inventory Management software processes stock replacement and back orders promptly and accurately. You can also choose receiving locations.

SIMMS has maintained the lead in inventory software solutions for over twelve years.

SIMMS' Purchasing features keep your item details at hand, while partial orders can be processed quickly and users can make decisions based on any variances. Accuracy in costing means users receive the best deals possible on each successive acquisition. Aging of stock and all item details are recorded once they are entered into the system.

Purchasing is fundamental in any inventory program and is a valuable feature as the software expands and diversifies. However, the process continues to run simply and easily, so demanding less time for ordering and less time for users to learn. SIMMS Inventory Management Software has been evolving for more than ten years and expands as business requirements are augmented into it.

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(RFQ) Request for Quote Manager

SIMMS Request for Quote (RFQ) allows for an easy one-step transition to make a requisition into a paperless RFQ document. This can be emailed to specified vendors for competitive pricing, via a buyer and supplier accessible system (portal) for managing requests for quotes (or any other kind of supplier requests).

Item Replenishment

Determine your re-stocking requirements for your entire system in an instant with the replenishment module.

Item Fulfillment

Fulfill your orders in an instant. When product has been received for large quantities of orders at a time, use the order fulfillment manager.

Purchase Order Management

With SIMMS you can generate and receive an entire purchase order, or partially receive a purchase order, as many times as required until the whole purchase order has been received. It can then create separate Receipt of Goods & Receipt of Invoice documents for each partial order.

Auto-Reorder Points

Define automatic inventory item reorder points per location quickly, using the economic or maximum stock level requirement settings. These assign the reorder point, order quantity, minimum order quantity and maximum on hand values, and automatically generate Purchase Orders based on this specific criteria.

Landed Costing

If you have to calculate your landed costs through a series of spreadsheets, drafts, alternate programs and utilities, then the landed costing functionality found in SIMMS Inventory Management software is what you need. Let SIMMS handle the complicated task of tracking your landed costing.

Purchase Orders on Hold

Place Purchase Orders on hold in order to prevent the receiving of the specified PO.

P/O Authorization Staging

With the Purchase Order authorization staging abilities in SIMMS, you have the added security of having purchase orders approved and authorized prior to receipt.

Purchase Order Cloning

To save you time from the chore of processing repeat orders, you can easily clone a Purchase order into a new Purchase order for the same or different vendor.

Drop Ship Orders

Even drop shipping orders are made less complicated with SIMMS.

Purchase Orders for Sales Orders

Simplify even your most advanced functionality, such as creating purchase orders for sales orders and having the sales orders created automatically from the related PO, with SIMMS Inventory Software. Not only can you instantly create new sales orders but you can even add the PO related items to an existing sales order.

Quick Payment from Receipt of Goods

Also, you have the ability to apply quick payments for deposits or even payments in full to a receipt of invoice, all from the same screen.

Serial number and Warranty Tracking

Tracking and allocating a serial number to an item, secondary level serial number and purchase warranty, and sales warranty at the receiving stage is quick and easy in SIMMS Software.

Manufacturer Lot Tracking

Easily allocate and track an item’s manufacturer lot number at the receipt of goods stage in SIMMS.

Expiration Date Tracking

SIMMS Expiration Date Tracking system can track an unlimited amount of expiration dates from the time they are received into inventory, right up to the time they are issued. This information is permanently recorded in the system, allowing inventory control personnel access to a wealth of historical and validation information.

Alternate Bill to and Ship to

Quickly and easily select an alternate ship to or bill to address for your purchasing transactions.

Override G/L Distribution

You can override the G/L distribution for each line item on your transaction for simple flexible accounting.

Defer Receipt of Invoice

SIMMS enables you to choose to receive the invoice for a receipt of goods at the time of receipt , or you can defer the receipt of invoice for a later time, so postponing the distribution to AP and GL until that time.

View and report Vendor Purchase History

SIMMS offers an extensive library of Reports and report generators. These allow you to choose from some of the most versatile purchasing reports you should ever need.

Purchase Multiple Apparel Items with Matrix View

With the Apparel Matrix Inventory feature, you can effectively manage apparel and footwear styles using one item number with multiple color and size labels.

Purchase Order Reporting

From status reports to non-received PO reports you will always have the appropriate information as and when you need it.

Multi Currency

Our optional SIMMS Multi-Currency module boasts powerful and comprehensive Multi currency accounting, purchasing and sales functions. Its sophisticated currency management and smooth transactions,in any number of currencies, provides that global competitive edge.

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