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Import and Distribution Software
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  • Do you offer a range of items in different categories, with multiple configurations, long-lead times, assortments and pre-packs?
  • Is your business a mix of importing, assembly and light manufacturing?
  • Do you frequently introduce new items with volatile sales profiles?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Navision IDEAS is worth a look. Based on Microsoft’s award winning Navision ERP software solution, IDEAS is fully-integrated, IDEAS - Import and Distribution Software Windows-based software that streamlines your importing and distribution business.

For more than a quarter of a century, CAI has applied advanced, industry-specific software concepts and technology innovations to everyday business issues. The IDEAS software was designed by our staff of industry consultants utilizing the core Navision software suite, with input from an advisory group of clients and industry experts within the importing and distribution industries. The result is a modular, end-to-end ERP solution that is flexible, easy-to-use and enhances performance and profitability.

CAI customers are located throughout the United States and Canada. Products distributed include:
  • Furniture & Other Home Furnishings
  • Giftware
  • Greeting Cards, Stationery, Invitations
  • Health, Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Home & Garden
  • Household Appliances & Lighting
  • House Wares
  • Industrial Goods
  • Kitchenware
  • Linens
  • Leather Goods
  • Luggage & Travel Accessories
  • Paper Products
  • Sporting Goods
  • Toys, Games, Hobbies & Novelty Items
The IDEAS software system will run your business in a completely graphical environment utilizing Microsoft standards and open database connectivity to interface to other industry financial software products such as Microsoft Excel and Access, Crystal Reports and others. As the requirement for long term strategic planning becomes more acute to stay abreast of the ever tightening competitive forces within the import and distribution industries, better and more accurate management information is not only necessary but also an absolute pre-requisite.

IDEAS - Import and Distribution Software In order to insure the highest level of management reporting, software performance and on-going client profitability, CAI has developed a unique concept within the importing and distribution industries, which is our ‘Guarantee Against Software Obsolescence’. Under this concept, research and development on advanced computer software processes is on going and results in the periodic release of new software functionality, which not only meets the current needs of our business partners but sets the standard for importing software and distribution software nationwide.
The IDEAS solution provides:
  • Sophisticated control of long lead-time purchasing, in-transit tracking and control, bills-of-materials, drop shipments and FOB shipments
  • Full allocation / reservation system to intelligently match current and projected sales orders against finished inventory, unassembled / unfinished stock, goods in transit, and goods on order
  • Comprehensive history and analysis of sales, order bookings and cancellations
  • Flexible commissions and royalties tracking and reporting
  • Return authorization / adjustments processing
  • Automated multi-criteria credit and order discrepancy checking
  • Sales order “stage control” to enable automated batch processing, including credit checks, qualifying / prioritizing for shipment and packing slip and invoice creation
  • Purchase planning based on multi-criteria history
  • “Virtual” warehouse support, directed or non-directed palette and bin / backup tracking
  • Integrated EDI support
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