I.B.I.S. Announces The New Release Of Advanced Supply Chain Software™ For Microsoft Dynamics®.

I.B.I.S., Inc., a Sonata Software Company, recently announced the new release of Advanced Supply Chain Software™ for Microsoft Dynamics®. This release adds three new modules to Advanced Supply Chain Software™: Advanced Sales and Operations Planning™, Advanced Procurement Management™ and Advanced Demand Planning™.

With the additions of the three new modules, the software now fully supports best practices planning and aligns with the Plan to Profit business management methodology allowing distributors and manufacturers to meet their most important goal – to protect and increase margins. Progressive organizations are embracing an analytics-driven culture with a destination-focused business management approach.

This release features significant enhancements and improvements such as:
◾Sales and Operations planning for manufacturers and distributors by product line, including business impact of promotional events
◾Demand forecasting with industry standard methodologies
◾Smarter buying with a Buyer Console that allows for cost effective consolidation of planned fulfillments driven by vendor minimums and price breaks
◾Lead time management and control over inventory with new calculations for average lead time, economic order quantity with reorder points
◾Vendor sourcing activities tied directly to your selling activities, with end to end margin insight particularly for items not regularly kept in stock (e.g. special or non-stock items)
◾Quote and source new items on the fly, but only release products when you win the sale
◾Advanced purchase and sales pricing with more discount tier options and the ability to have automated selection and pricing of alternate vendors or fulfillment methods, such as drop ships
◾Improved customer service console and robust sales quotation and order management through workflow
◾Automated margin and credit holds
◾New vendor catalog and purchase price update engine
◾Full compatibility with cumulative update 9 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

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