Kerridge Commercial Systems

Kerridge Commercial Systems is an integrated advanced ERP system focused on wholesalers, distributors, suppliers, and retailers. The software is designed to provide a fully integrated approach to leaders in trading and management so they can source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably, and service competitively.

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Industries Served

• Automotive Aftermarket
• Electrical Wholesalers
• Flooring and Surfaces
• HVAC-R
• Irrigation
• Kitchen and Bathroom
• Lumber, Building and Roofing
• Manufacturing
• Pipe, Valves, and Fittings
• Plumbers Suppliers
• Retailers
• Waterworks
• Wholesalers

Features of Kerridge Commercial Systems

Some of the key features of Kerridge Commercial Systems include:

Accounts Payable

• On-line A/P to P/O matching and A/P to vendor return matching
• Multiple payments, G/L distribution and remit-to addresses
• Entry of directs releases billing to customer
• Automatic passing of freight on directs
• Recurring invoices
• Automatic posting to G/L when Invoice is approved
• Alternate vendor processing
• Manual checks
• 1099 processing
• On-line cash reconciliation
• Check writing and restore

Accounts Receivable

• On-line credit management
• Job lien processing
• Flexible cash posting options
• Sales tax reporting
• Electronic batch application
• Transaction adjustments and offsets
• Account and sales tax adjustments
• Automatic posting to G/L when cash batch is posted or invoice run is submitted
• Customer enterprises
• Company, division, region, branch hierarchy support
• Supports printing, faxing, and/or e-mailing of invoices
• Dispute code processing
• Discount and payment terms

eCommerce

The Internet offers your customers 24/7 access to your products and services. The eCommerce tool allows customers to research your offerings and place orders directly.

General Ledger & Report Writer

• Automatic and immediate G/L postings for ALL system generated transactions
• Manual, standard, recurring, and reversing journal entries
• Flexible accounting periods
• G/L account drill-down capabilities
• Multiple company processing
• Postings by section / group / category / item
• Separate accounts for stock and non-stock inventory
• Variance postings ensure inventory costs are accurate
• Ability to close / re-open accounting periods
• Supports fiscal year processing
• Budgeting
• Flexible report writer

Inventory Control

• Purchasing and counter book indexing
• Real-time stock status inquiry at every branch
• Units of measure
• Warehouse location mapping
• Supports temporary items and non-stock items
• Item request system
• Lot tracking
• Hazardous material tracking
• Substitutes, associates, aliases, combination items
• Physical inventory and cycle counts

Order Processing

The solution supports orders from numerous channels:

• From your sales force
• From a call center
• Customer direct orders via the Internet
• Collaborative orders (via Electronic Data Interchange)
• Over-the-counter and will-call orders

Pricing

Extremely flexible tool allows you to establish customer pricing, vendor costs, customer discounts and promotional pricing.

• Efficient price maintenance using group discount profiles
• Customer pricing exceptions down to the item level
• Electronic vendor price sheets
• Time period pricing
• National and regional pricing
• Contract pricing/rebates
• Job pricing

Purchasing & Inventory Management

• Planned purchasing
• Demand smoothing
• Highly sophisticated lead time and service-level logic
• Demand profiling
• Point-to-point, multi-drop and redistribution purchasing
• Minimum buy optimization and purchase order ýpushingý
• ýRedistribute vs. purchaseý logic engine
• Pre-price-increase return on investment calculation capability
• Sole source, commodity and consignment inventory purchasing
• Regional cost management
• Buyer, location and product-line performance analysis

Receiving

• Detailing inbound goods upon receipt
• Accurately auditing inventory balances
• Pave the way for ýthree-wayý matching in Accounts Payable for items and freight bills

Sales Force Automation

• Remotely create, capture and transmit orders
• Generate billing and sales orders for customers
• Serve MRO and on-site operations
• Track usage of consigned inventory, allowing timely billing and replenishment

Transfers

• Full integration to Inventory Management
• Individual or consolidated transfers
• Cross-docking to support back-order fills and other branch replenishments

Warehouse Operations Management

The Mincron solution offers a menu of right-sized warehouse management tools, ranging from the highly advanced Warehouse Manager (for the largest users) to Warehouse Assistant for smaller or more basic warehouse operations. Warehouse Manager offers full radio frequency (RF) and barcode integration as a standard component.