MATERIAL MANAGEMENT
Efficiency is the number one item on every company’s wish list, but translating a wish into reality means choosing a solution that manages your manufacturing and distribution processes for increased efficiency. With e-forge Material Management you can adapt your business to the opportunities of today’s rapidly changing marketplace.

With the advanced warehousing functionality included in e-forge, you can reduce costs and increase efficiency in your warehouse. E-forge Inventory Management also helps you to increase and maintain the accuracy of your inventory data with features such as item tracking. With user-specific alerts and notifications, you can maintain tight control over your inventory, for example, you can track and monitor mission-critical material, potential item shortages.

The Material Management of e-forge takes care of the material purchase and store maintenance. It keeps the record of all the indents raised from production, issue of material if the material is available in the store, raising queries and issuing purchase order. It also tracks the purchase order and issue the GRN and gives the Work Order or Purchase Order (PO/WO) status. Once GRN is issued, Store Receipt Voucher (SRV) is made to be sent along with bill to the Accounts department for releasing the payment.

An interesting feature of Material Management is that it provides a report which gives the difference between the rate of purchase and rate of agreement. This makes it easier for the management to keep track on the raw material rates.

Material Management is connected with Production Management so as to keep the track of the material issued to production department and maintain the raw material stock.

Purchase Management
Purchase Mangement deals with indents from all departments, ascertaining of stock, identification of vendors, Vendor database with all the details of the Vendor, order placement and tracking. It would culminate with the arrival of the requisite items into the store. It would also track rejects and their replacement, as well as reports required for insurance claims.

Stores Management
This part of the application would take care of receipts into the store, recording physical bin numbers and location of the item in the store, issues to various user departments, monitoring inventory levels and alerting when they fall below the cut-off level, monitoring consumption of various departments and so on. It would also aid the Finance department and in the valuation of inventory.

It provides the facility to define the raw material into categories, subcategories or both.

Quality Management
This part takes care of the inspection of raw material. Here, the inputs are made for chemical testing of raw material. You can define the heat number, lab report number, laddle properties and chemical properties piece wise. This helps computer to give the required stock of specific chemical properties at any moment.