Supply Side Management

While you offer your customers exceptional service with Evolution CRM on the front end of your company it only makes sense that your solution can effectively manage your supply side demands on the back end. Evolution compliments the Customer Relationship Management tool sets with a similar approach to Supply Side Management for a complete ERP solution.

Supply Side Management within Evolution is designed to compliment the Customer Relationship Management tools for your customers by providing an effective and efficient solution for all the processes your customers never see.  Evolution is designed to meet a variety of needs and has built in tools to automate critical processes at different steps in the way of your Supply Side Management.

Whether you have a diverse product offering, offer both products and services, only drop ship, have assembly or kitting needs, use a just in time ordering process to fill orders or a combination of any of the above Evolution can successfully automate your Supply Side process based on your business requirements.

Ordering & Suppliers

Evolution handles your every supplier need. If it is your choice and you enable Evolution to do so, at the time of re-order Evolution can automatically scan through all of your supplier's price lists and order from the least expensive supplier without any manual human intervention. They say: Every minute saved is a dollar earned; Evolution helps you achieve this repeatedly on a daily base.

Given Evolution's powerful B2B (Business to Business) capabilities, your company can even share a direct link with your supplier's version of Evolution and the two can update each other on a regular basis. This is great for Just In Time Management and Shipping / Distribution Interaction. All B2B integration is done without opening any security vulnerabilities to your company or company information. Everything is Evolution is always "Locked Down".

Evolution, each Supplier Account, Manufacturer and Dealer Account has their own Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable information. All accounting is automatically linked to your General Ledger and accounted for properly. Evolution comes complete with integrated order tracking even has custom quoting functionality and more. Evolution is created to allow Suppliers to have dual roles as also Customers; unlike many software applications presently on the market today, Evolution is built to handle any real world management scenario. The Evolution Suppliers Window tracks of all Purchase Orders and all Purchase Order history for every supplier independently. Meld all of this together Evolution's Advanced Reporting features and you now have a package that truly stands above all else.

Evolution is also fully divisionally capable therefore certain every division can easily contain Customers, Warehouses and Suppliers that are accounted for and considered independent from every other division within your organization. This makes localized and global accounting and business management an absolute breeze.

Other related articles:

Accounting Management
Advanced Reporting
Advanced Accounting & Reporting (concept)
CRM / Sales Automation
Process Optimization (concept)

Warehouse Management

Evolution allows easy and intuitive tracking of an unlimited amount of warehouse locations and store fronts. Evolution has advanced search capabilities that enable you to find any information at anytime, anywhere within seconds.

See: Information Management for more information.

Each warehouse in Evolution can transfer products between locations through our easy to follow wizards. Our management wizards vastly reduce human errors in many areas because they automatically adhere to the many rules needed to ensure a proper completion of a task. This applies for warehouse specific data, difficult accounting procedures and every other function within the software.

Warehouse adjustments, inventory levels, and other details are intuitive and automated. Evolution works flawlessly with barcode scanners and any other inventory management devices. Because stock inventory levels are automatically docked as soon as products are sold and shipped, your company will experience a very streamlined annual or semi annual inventory review and because most human error has been factored out of the equation, warehouse inventory levels should be about 100% accurate 100% of the time.

Warehouse Automation:

When permitted by you, Evolution will fully automate your stock amounts and inventory control procedures. Because of Evolution's centralized GBM success, Evolution can revolutionize your warehouse procedures by automatically incrementing and decrementing your warehouse data after every shipment and upon receipt of every order; completely eliminating the need to update your warehouse inventory levels manually and eliminating any human error and lay time associated with inventory adjustment. Evolution allows fine grained control of every inventory demand (SKU labels, items per box, build variables etc.) and can customize in every way to fit how your corporation prefers to adjust its inventory: "First in First Out", "First in Last Out" is just an example. With Evolution, you can completely specialize your software experience to reflect exactly how you would like to manage your business.

Evolution inventory completely automates itself allowing you to know where you stand on an hourly and even second by second basis; locally, divisionally and internationally. Evolution can even substantially cut down your frequency of stock and inventory counting. Our revolutionary stock automation process offers less chance of human error and simply saves you money on a daily basis. Evolution also makes the tedious task annual inventory adjusting a much smoother procedure.

When certain stock items fall below your specified threshold, Evolution offers you the power of:

1. Auto ordering stock from preferred suppliers
2. Scanning all supplier prices from your supplier list (as their prices change) and choosing the least expensive one
3. Notifying staff so that they can take the appropriate action
4. A blend of all of the above and more

This crucial JIT (Just In Time) architecture comes packaged as an integrated part of the Evolution Software solution. Try Evolution Today

Evolution will keeps precise track of your cost of goods sold right down to hard cost of every widget, nut, bolt, and box in your possession. Yet another key asset for inventory decision making and clearance strategies.

Evolution can get you real time results for tracking shipping requests and ensuring process flow success by directly communicating with your supplier's software. This can be done as an E2E (Evolution to Evolution) or a E2P (Evolution to Plugin) solution. This virtually eliminates the need for duplicate records in separate divisions, partnering companies or even external relationships. also see: B2B Solution. Evolution saves you and your entire supply chain vast amounts of time and money when implemented properly across the board. In summary, Evolution is the best solution for any and all fast-paced warehouse management environment including automotive, retail and any other demanding process. Evolution is right for your specific needs.

See also: Evolution Retail / Point of Sale

Shipping Automation:

Evolution comes pre-packaged with every standard shipping company's rates and billing criteria: UPS, Canpar, FEDEX, Purolator and others. For every shipment Evolution generates (ecommerce or non ecommerce), Evolution "intelligently" selects the most cost effective company to ship based upon the items weight, dimensions, delivery timeline, destination and more. We all know shipping companies utilize different criteria in costing your shipment needs and Evolution takes that completely into account right from the start. Evolution even allows you the ability to create and select your own internal custom shipping procedures, methods and services all in one easy procedure.

If you so choose, your copy of Evolution can communicate directly with your shipper's copy of Evolution (E2E communication) or a plugin can be created to interface with a third party system (E2P). Once implemented, your company can experience seamless communication and integration between its system and the system of the shipper. This global E2E reality will one day eliminate the need for separate order tracking ID systems and make Process B2B Solutions an antiquated memory from the past. By using Evolution as your corporate solution, you immediately place yourself at the leading edge of this global movement.

For more information see:
B2B Solution
B2B (concept)
Process Automation (concept)

Until the day of a Global B2B Reality, Evolution has been designed to intuitively track your shippers shipping processes through custom plugin or the unique package ID number your shipper gives you as you ship each package. All of your shipping information is stored in one central point in Evolution so that anyone within your company: Shipping, Management, Warehousing, Sales Staff and even Customers can know exactly what is happening to their shipments at all times.

Experience the benefits of Evolution today and make all of your process headaches a distant memory from the past.

The justification of Evolution's low implementation cost is easy when measured in comparison to the vast amounts of time and money you will save as your stock inventory management processes all completely automate themselves. This cost justification is not even taking into account the vast cost savings you will experience using Evolution as your automated accounting, CRM and solution for every other area of your business. Evolution will bring in a Return on Invested Capitol well within the first year of implementation and often completely pays for itself well within the first few months of operation. Over time, your company like many others will experience a total of millions of dollars saved on an annual base. Start today. Purchase your first license now.

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Channel Management: Supporting Resellers

The dealer functionality of Evolution acts as an advanced CRM tool that tracks your all of your dealers, even if they are spread all across the world or in separate divisions. Evolution quickly can report on their performance, sales information and keep track of what products they carry on their shelves and even who what products might compete with your product. Evolution makes it easy to calculate your market share with our advanced dealer reporting features. See: Advanced Reporting

Evolution allows you to track personnel in the dealer's company and stores that information in an advanced hierarchal structure.

Product & Inventory Management

As you would expect, Evolution is a revolution in Product and Information Management success. Managing Products, Product Descriptions, Inventory, Product Pictures, Ecommerce details, Pricing and more can instantly be done through the Product Management window of Evolution. Through the Evolution Product Management window, you can even store any HTML data needed to display your products in an advanced customized fashion. This HTML data can then be used on your website or any other HTML driven area. Evolution comes packaged with its own custom designed HTML editor that makes advanced web management procedures an intuitive process.

Evolution's HTML editor can easily replace many of the external software packages that often create 'sloppy' HTML code. With Evolution there is no need for to build costly administrative backdoors or fight with frustrating FTP interfaces to manage your web or ecommerce presence. Try it today!

Multiple price list information, special specifications and document information can all, also be managed through the Evolution Product Management interface. Evolution product management is automatically shared through your entire company therefore in the event of a product change or update your entire company will automatically be notified and updated with your new product information. No double entry of cross platform translation needed. Change a product price in your system and automatically your ecommerce site will reflect that change; no lag time either. Evolution's integrated Product Management technology is elite in its field and a must to experience for every company. Please ask us for a free demonstration: Click Here

Evolution Product management can also be localized for each division within your organization; therefore certain divisions can be locked to only have access to certain products if needed. Because Evolution Product Management is so comprehensive and powerful we do suggest you fill out our "live demonstration" form to learn more. There is no way we can cover all of your questions regarding product management (and many other business areas mentioned on our website) in an articles like these. Especially since every industry tends to have specific ways of managing their products and business implementations. Our site simply describes many of the generic principles that apply to every industry. Our Evolution consulting team will be more than happy to describe every area of our software once you contact us. We will never pressure you in any way and promise address your every specific business concern. Please contact us now we look forward to hearing from you.

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