Inventory and Fulfillment

Inventory

Automate the management of your raw materials and finished goods, to maximize profit and provide superior customer service.

From the generation of purchase orders to real-time roll-stock inventory management, Monarch effectively manages and controls your most expensive outside costs. With Monarch you can automatically receive materials, compare them to purchase orders, issue materials to jobs and automatically track the quantity and location of stock and finished goods.

For businesses managing customer inventories, Monarch’s Finished Goods and Fulfillment tools streamline your processes and maximize customer service and satisfaction with online client desktop options for catalogs, ordering, status, and inventory management. See the Fulfillment tab for additional information on Monarch Fulfillment, Radio Inventory and Parts Inventory.

Fulfillment

Manage fulfillment operations with integrated tools designed to boost your process and profit potential.

For businesses managing a finished-goods inventory and/or providing fulfillment services, Monarch’s integrated fulfillment system can help you provide these value-added services without the operational complexities normally associated with manual or a non-integrated solution.

• Maintain and track finished goods inventories for one or many clients.
• Manage company owned and customer owned inventory.
• Perform multi-level kitting.
• Generate separate GL reports for finished goods, sales and costing.
• Manage multiple ship-too locations for each client and on a single order.
• Pull tickets automatically generated by shipping location.
• Fully integrated with receivables invoicing program.
• Order management with drill-down capability for detail review.
• Internet-based option provides direct access for client order entry, tracking and review.

Radio Frequency Inventory

The Monarch Fulfillment inventory management system has been enhanced to provide inventory receipt, movement and utilization tracking through the use of hand-held radio frequency (RF) guns. These units beam all transactions directly to the management system providing accurate, real-time inventory management.

• Interface directly with the Monarch database for rapid, systematic inventory tracking and control.
• Process finished goods receipts and shipments, do cycle counting, inventory movement and reconciliation.
• Generate shipping, warehouse and bin, container and item labels.
• Support warehouse mapping and container tracking methodology.

Parts Inventory

The Monarch Parts Inventory is an advanced, integrated option designed to track job skids, providing a printing business with effective management of jobs parts as they move through both internal and external production locations and suppliers.

The Parts Inventory utilizes a location ID that can be assigned to skids as they are loaded with product. The ID can be included on the skid ticket and used to track parts as they move to a bin in a warehouse or staging areas throughout production.

• Provide a real-time snapshot of skid locations throughout your business.
• Eliminate delays in locating skids or rework when a skid is lost.
• Improve job status inquiries by providing exact locations and skid counts.
• Improve job management by ensuring all skids and components are where they need to when they are needed.
• Provide a high level of flexibility, letting you identify warehouse locations and/or bin locations to indicate status, such as Foil Stamp Staging, Lamination Staging, Folder Staging Outside – Acme Bindery.
• Support management and production with Skids Available and Skid History reports, real-time updates to jobs, and skid ticket printing on demand.