ABS Order Management provides the specialized flexibility required to support today’s fast-paced business-to-business and business-to-consumer invoicing requirements of retail and wholesale organizations.

The system supports multiple shipping facilities allowing a company to determine how best to source product for their customers. Its pricing routines provide for exception or custom pricing at the item level for both warehouse selling prices and store retails.

The system can handle both pre and post-billed invoices and allows for billing of variable-weight items using average or actual weight. The credit and charge sub-system provides for complete control and reporting of credits, returns, and miscellaneous billing transactions by referencing them to the original customer invoice. A cafeteria plan for fees is available to charge customers for the services used, and provides an incentive to optimize distribution costs.

OMI’s ABS Order Management System is installed in both wholesale and retail distribution operations providing the flexibility to bill for all activity with prices and margins that reflect true costs and competitive retail pricing.

Product Highlights

Customer master subsystem. ABS enables the control of business functions by authorizations and turn them on or off by the following levels: administrative information, credit information and department information.

Suggested retail pricing subsystem. ABS calculates fixed or floating retail prices by desired margin or markup.

Warehouse sell pricing subsytem. ABS has the capability of using the base price or average cost with additional markups or markdowns by dollar amount or percentage.

Custom schedulng. ABS can individualize order scheduling based on customer/department/day of the week/order-type level for regular and holiday weeks.

Allocation of ordered quantities. ABS can allocate ordered quantities against items with insufficient inventory.

Forced distribution orders. ABS can automatically distribute inventory quantities by region, district, or chain, using a specified quantity or a volume distribution code.

Order process/calculation. ABS can either pre-screen or not screen inventory prior to order selection.

Online maintenance. ABS enables you to maintain different types of information online: order, item, quantity, license plate information for catch weights and the ability to flag a post-bill invoice as complete.

Fee subsystem. ABS enables you to set default fees by adminstrative center, chain, customer/department and fee type. You can maintain the fee records within ABS.