Designed to address these requirements, MERCHANT for Timber Merchants and Importers, provides a comprehensive, sophisticated and easy-to-use set of operational functionality.

The timber stock, sales, purchase and mill production systems are all fully integrated.

The unique combination of on-going product development with continuing stability is achieved by the use of advanced software engineering techniques. Product Option Specifications (POS) cater for many specialised needs without the development of hard-to-support bespoke systems.

Whether a business is single site or a multi-branch operation requiring centralised processing or a distributed network, MERCHANT will deliver a complete solution in today's tough marketplace.

 Stock Control Features Support:
  Softwood, hardwood and sheet materials
  Metric & Imperial measurement
  Cube, piece or specification
  Split stock and packs, and mixed widths
  Stock on the ship, at quay or in the yard
  Stock-taking at piece or pack level
  Valuation at FIFO, replacement or standard costs

 Sales Order Processing Features Support:
  Quotations, acknowledgements, yard tickets, mill orders, despatch
    notes & Invoices
  Flexible pricing regardless of stocking units & the addition of treatment
    and other added value process charges
  A calculator/estimator to speed up pricing of machined specials
  Accurate costing and line margins

 Purchase Order Processing Features Support:
  Comprehensive buying data
  Usage history by total volume or individual lengths to assist
    re-ordering
  Multi-currency facilities with anticipated exchange rates to build up in
    yard FIFO costs
  Monitoring of the progress of purchase orders by recording data from
    shipping documents
  Pack label printing in advance of receipt
  Pack transfers from ship to quay location, yard or branch(es)

 Yard & Mill Production Control Features Support:
  The allocation of stock items at time of sale or on confirmation of
    picking
  A process matrix with a User maintained list of added value processes
  The recording of material usage, processes, conversion times,
    offcuts/waste and finished quantities for comparison to projections, for
    line margin recalculations and to minor overhead recovery
  Multiple enquiry options, for sales and production personnel to monitor
    progress
  Yard ticket, job card and route card production