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
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Interactive, real-time inventory of fabrics, trims, and other miscellaneous items.
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Inventory parameters include material code, color, warehouse, location, and quality.
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Supports inventory control at a lower, roll number level.
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Supports multiple items for a location and multiple locations for an item.
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Allows converting inventory from one item to another, and adding value in the process
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Supports scanning barcoded roll tags and box labels when capturing transactions.
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Wireless scanners can be used for mobile transaction entry.
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Real-time inventory inquiries and reports exist in many flexible formats.
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Excellent audit trials of inventory balances, transactions, and costing.
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Certain date-sensitive reports permit rolling back inventory for accounting purposes.
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Excellent features for accurate physical counts, both cycle counts and full warehouse counts.
Preproduction Applications
Cost Sheets
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Supports cost sheets for both cut-and-sew (domestic) and import (package) goods.
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Allows multiple versions of a cost sheet for the same item to reflect different production options.
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Allows bill-of-materials by operation, for improved MRP-style requirement calculations.
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Can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty.
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Can use blanks or other garment “subassemblies” as a starting point, adding costs from there.
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Mass copy and update features reduce data entry work.
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Cost sheet print format is flexible and supports pictures.
Raw Material Purchasing
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Calculates raw material requirements in user-defined periods of time.
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PO’s can be manually entered or automatically created from requirements.
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PO’s can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty.
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PO forms can be printed or emailed in flexible formats.
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Open and received purchase order information is available in many flexible formats.
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Special reports analyze vendor delivery performance over time.
Raw Material Allocation
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Reserves raw materials to fulfill production.
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Ensures coordinated items are cut from the same shade of fabric.
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Helps avoid starting production to then discover raw materials not available for later steps.
Production Applications
Care Labels and Price Tickets
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Uses material content and care instructions from the bill-of-materials to build care labels.
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Uses UPC numbers, prices, and other information from the Style Master and sales orders to build price tickets.
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Can be manually generated or automatically generated based on production quantities.
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Can be printed in-house or can generate a file of requests for emailing to a third-party service.
Production Control
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Manages production in terms of quantity, where it is in the production process, where it should be, and is it on time.
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Maintains a production calendar that highlights production running late and why.
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Supports multi-department production responsibilities.
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Automatically emails executives a list of production running late.
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Captures quality control statistics and analyzes them over time.
Production Costing
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Manages production in terms of costs, comparing actual costs to standards.
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Actual costs include damages, losses, and chargebacks to vendor or contractor.
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Exception reports highlight production where costs are outside of tolerances, both directions.
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Supports control over variances in miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty,
Accounting Applications
Accounts Payable
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Works with Raw Material Purchasing and Production Costing to interface liabilities directly to Accounts Payable
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Interfaces can include miscellaneous costs, such as freight and duty, sent to different vendors.
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Reconciles interfaced items with vendor invoices to release for payment and account for variances.
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Invoices can be manually entered interactively or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.
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Recurring payables can be setup manually or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.
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Special screens, reports, and notes-related features all assist your payment selection process.
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Includes other traditional features, such as aging reports, distribution reports, printing checks, and 1099 forms.
General Ledger
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Interfaces directly with all other areas to receive accounting-related transactions
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Journal entries can be manually entered interactively or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.
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Recurring journal entries can be setup manually or batch-interfaced via spreadsheet files.
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Excellent audit trials of account balances, transactions, and their source.
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Simple but powerful dashboard control over open accounting periods for all applications.
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Financial statements in many flexible formats.
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Financial statement parameters include division, account, department, account class, and catch-all subaccount field.
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Comparisons to budget and last year are available.
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Companies can be reported individually or consolidated.
Bank Reconciliation and Cash Flow
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Full bank reconciliation includes clearing A/R deposits and A/P checks.
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Clearing can be manually done individually, manually done en-masse, or batch-interfaced from the bank via spreadsheet files.
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Miscellaneous transactions can be entered for bank fees and other reconciling items.
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Cash flow reports project your cash position in weekly or monthly increments up to three months ahead.
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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.