Material and goods movements
In PANTHEON, it is possible to precisely define the organisation of a company, whether it is commercial, manufacturing or service. The first thing to be defined are the flows of identities (goods, materials, semi-finished products) or the so-called material and goods flows.
We suggest you take a piece of paper and draw a flow diagram on it. For example, the ovals should be external partners, the rectangles should be warehouses or organisational units of the company, the arrows should indicate the flow of identities and so on.
Material and commodity flows do three things in the programme:
- a document is created to accompany the movement of goods (delivery note/receipt, delivery note/invoice note, etc.),
- there is a change in the material accounting (loading or unloading of the warehouse),
- cause one or more postings to the balancing accounts (after automatic posting).
In this section, we present several examples and explanations of material and commodity flows, which we have placed in the following chapters:
| Single warehouse scheme |
In this section, we present an example of a scheme for a simple company with one warehouse. You will see how and with what type of document the purchase of goods and materials from suppliers is carried out and how and with what type of document the sales from the single warehouse of the company to the customers are carried out. |
| Multi-storage scheme |
In this section, we present an example of a multi-storage company scheme. You will see how and with what type of document the purchase of goods and materials from suppliers to the retail or wholesale warehouse is carried out and how and with what type of document the sales from the retail or wholesale warehouse of the company to the customers are carried out. |
| Scheme of transfers between warehouses |
In this section, we present an example of a company scheme with several warehouses between which goods and materials are transferred. You will see how and with which type of document the warehouse is relieved and how and with which type of document the warehouse is burdened. |
| Scheme of transfers between different business units |
In this chapter we will learn about transfers between different business units that are not tied into a single computer system (no on-line processing). You will see that in this case transfers can be made as uncontrolled transfers, where we assume that whatever one business unit issues to another is received by the other, or controlled transfers, where we set up an acceptance control.
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| Reversals monitoring scheme |
In this section, we will learn about material and commodity flows in the case of reversals. |
| Summary invoicing |
The term 'summary invoicing' refers to a specific type of summary invoicing. In this section we will learn about the meaning of summary invoicing, its process, summary invoicing of different types of documents and more. |
| Material monitoring scheme for work orders |
Work orders are a special form of material turnover, as they usually involve the creation of a new product from components. In this chapter we will learn how work orders are monitored materially, from the unloading of warehouses, e.g. for goods, to the loading (after production is finished) of the finished goods warehouse. |
| Developed Enterprise Scheme |
In this section, we present a flowchart of the flow of goods and materials and related document types in a developed company. |
| Simplifying material flows |
It is often the case that there are simply too many material flows, or that opening them up would fragment the business too much. In this chapter we will learn how to simplify the flow and avoid opening too many types of documents. |