SoftShoe’s Sourcing Manager gives your team the tools they need to work collaboratively with your global trading partners. It provides a common environment for managing Orders, planning and tracking critical production tasks, coordinating and reporting quality assurance inspections and capturing shipping events and information. Orders that used to take days or weeks to confirm can now be delivered, viewed and confirmed inside of a day. Queries by your staff, overseas offices, suppliers and even customers on orders and shipments are always available.

Orders generated by your ERP or Order management system can be manually transferred to Sourcing Manager or received through an electronic interface. Once the Order has been received in Sourcing Manager, it is broken down by line/product and shipment. SoftShoe can handle orders with multiple lines/products and multiple shipments. Users can easily review all Order details such as shipment quantities and required ship dates.

Order status, including Production, QA and Shipment information, are easily reviewed and updated from one screen with SoftShoe’s unique and highly intuitive 3-tier Order Status screen.

Order Information and Production Events

Provides a summary of Order details and allows Users to plan and track dates for critical events related to the Factory – such as components arrival, cutting, stitching, lasting and production completion. The system automatically calculates remaining Order balances. The grid view also displays whether or not events are early, late or on time allowing you to anticipate delays and reschedule events or commitments.

Quality Assurance

By providing a forward view of production status (queries can be made by factory, country, customer, etc.), your inspectors are able to more efficiently schedule on-site inspections. As importantly, inspection results and any QA alerts or product quality issues can be posted back to Sourcing Manager by the QA team. This information is then immediately available to everyone else on the system.

Shipment

Sourcing Manager allows you to follow the goods from Ex-factory to the point where your existing logistics system receives them. Outbound logistics (getting the goods from the factory to the end customer/distribution point) could involve use of your own freight forwarder, your customer’s or that of a contracted manufacturer. In all these cases, Sourcing Manager provides an integrated environment for capturing and communicating this information. Interfaces can be developed so that Sourcing Manager can receive EDI or other data inputs from Freight Forwarders.

SoftShoe’s 3-tier grid view provides everyone with a complete picture of Order Status – Order, Production, QA and shipping information. Sourcing Manager gives you forward visibility.

Customized to your requirements

The system plans and tracks according to your business’ requirements. You can define the milestone events in the production, inspection and shipment processes that you wish to track. You can even set up different sets of milestone events for different product categories – meeting your business’ requirements.

Flexible Deployment

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