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  Sales Order Processing

Taking orders is the lifeblood of successful business.  Abel provides an excellent platform to conduct Sales and Order Processing
in an environment that continues to place increasingly emphasis on responsiveness and accuracy.
 
Abel can take electronic orders online through an interface and automatically process them.  This provides the ability for instantaneous order response and transaction verification.
 
Abel provides the ability for businesses to reduce inventory stocks and order leads.
 
The features provided in Abel Sales Order Processing include:
  • Back-to-back ordering
  • Direct supply ordering
  • Forward orders. (Forward orders are orders forecast into future periods)
  • Margins can be made visible on any order document
  • Fully integrated with all other Abel functions, including billing, manufacturing and client management
  • Full quotations, with the ability to automatically turn an accepted quote to an order
  • Automatic backorder management with full backorder visibility
  • Price and customer groups for automatic application of customer group attributes to an order such as customer specific pricing and discount options
  • Stock rental handling
  • Multiple supplier handling with automatic supplier preference
  • Sale price manipulation can be enabled allowing sale prices to be manipulated on any item at the point of sale
  • Order in foreign currency
  • Multiple addresses with multiple delivery contacts
  • Custom design and printing of packing slips, consignment notes, picking slips, labels, invoices and other documents
  • Automatic and visible stock-checks in real-time at point of sale
  • Standard, repeating and blanket orders
  • See and pick stock from multiple locations from the order screen
  • Soft (definable) document layouts and configurations to suit different document requirements
  • Barcode input and search
  • Returns (RMAs) and product evaluations
  • Auto-filling fields speed the population (filling out) of documents and reduce input errors
  • Interactive fields allow access to other relevant information, lists, windows and screens without leaving the order document, accelerating the population and processing of the order
  • Approvals
  • Automatic handling and processing of external electronic orders, including transaction verification response back to the customer (interface may be required)
  • Real-time transaction processing and updating
  • Order search tools
  • Order copying
  • Discontinued stock highlighting
  • Ability to track order progress
  • Automatic order numbering
  • Attach text notes to documents