VP Full includes everything.  Here’s a brief outline of key functions and features, in addition to those provided in VP Lite, that are included in VP Full.

 

Warehouse Management Applications

Raw Materials Inventory

• Interactive, real-time inventory of fabrics, trims, and other miscellaneous items.

• Inventory parameters include material code, color, warehouse, location, and quality.

• Supports inventory control at a lower, roll number level.

• Supports multiple items for a location and multiple locations for an item.

• Allows converting inventory from one item to another, and adding value in the process

• Supports scanning barcoded roll tags and box labels when capturing transactions.

• Wireless scanners can be used for mobile transaction entry.

• Real-time inventory inquiries and reports exist in many flexible formats.

• Excellent audit trials of inventory balances, transactions, and costing.

• Certain date-sensitive reports permit rolling back inventory for accounting purposes.

• Excellent features for accurate physical counts, both cycle counts and full warehouse counts. 

 

Preproduction Applications

Cost Sheets

• Supports cost sheets for both cut-and-sew (domestic) and import (package) goods.

• Allows multiple versions of a cost sheet for the same item to reflect different production options.  

• Allows bill-of-materials by operation, for improved MRP-style requirement calculations.

• Can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty.

• Can use blanks or other garment “subassemblies” as a starting point, adding costs from there.

• Mass copy and update features reduce data entry work.

• Cost sheet print format is flexible and supports pictures.

Raw Material Purchasing

• Calculates raw material requirements in user-defined periods of time.

• PO’s can be manually entered or automatically created from requirements.

• PO’s can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty.

• PO forms can be printed or emailed in flexible formats.

• Open and received purchase order information is available in many flexible formats.

• Special reports analyze vendor delivery performance over time. 

Raw Material Allocation

• Reserves raw materials to fulfill production.

• Ensures coordinated items are cut from the same shade of fabric.

• Helps avoid starting production to then discover raw materials not available for later steps.

 

Production Applications

Care Labels and Price Tickets

• Uses material content and care instructions from the bill-of-materials to build care labels.

• Uses UPC numbers, prices, and other information from the Style Master and sales orders to build price tickets.

• Can be manually generated or automatically generated based on production quantities.

• Can be printed in-house or can generate a file of requests for emailing to a third-party service.  

Production Control

• Manages production in terms of quantity, where it is in the production process, where it should be, and is it on time.

• Maintains a production calendar that highlights production running late and why.

• Supports multi-department production responsibilities.

• Automatically emails executives a list of production running late.

• Captures quality control statistics and analyzes them over time.

Production Costing

• Manages production in terms of costs, comparing actual costs to standards.

• Actual costs include damages, losses, and chargebacks to vendor or contractor.

• Exception reports highlight production where costs are outside of tolerances, both directions.

• Supports control over variances in miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty,

 

Accounting Applications

Accounts Payable

• Works with Raw Material Purchasing and Production Costing to interface liabilities directly to Accounts Payable

• Interfaces can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty, sent to different vendors.

• Reconciles interfaced items with vendor invoices to release for payment and account for variances.

• Invoices can be manually entered interactively or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.

• Recurring payables can be setup manually or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.

• Special screens, reports, and notes-related features all assist your payment selection process.

• Includes other traditional features, such as aging reports, distribution reports, printing checks, and 1099 forms.

General Ledger

• Interfaces directly with all other areas to receive accounting-related transactions

• Journal entries can be manually entered interactively or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.

• Recurring journal entries can be setup manually or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.

• Excellent audit trials of account balances, transactions, and their source.

• Simple but powerful dashboard control over open accounting periods for all applications.

• Financial statements in many flexible formats.

• Financial statement parameters include division, account, department, account class, and catch-all subaccount field.

• Comparisons to budget and last year are available.

• Companies can be reported individually or consolidated.

Bank Reconciliation and Cash Flow

• Full bank reconciliation includes clearing A/R deposits and A/P checks.

• Clearing can be manually done individually, manually done en-masse, or batch-interfaced from the bank via spreadsheet files.

• Miscellaneous transactions can be entered for bank fees and other reconciling items.

• Cash flow reports project your cash position in weekly or monthly increments up to three months ahead.

• Cash flow projections include: cash receipts against existing A/R invoices, cash receipts or factor assignments on projected billings, payments on existing A/P invoices, and payments on projected contractor work and inventory receipts.