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| Business Modules |
JMAS jewelry software is a true ERP computer software solution designed to run
in concert with the industry standard Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating system
with the main focus of helping clients within the jewelry manufacturing and
jewelry distribution industries to meet the unique challenges of weight based,
commodity priced products where precious metal yields, lot control, toll
accounting, memo billing, bar coding, imaging, Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) and multiple warehouse and multi-corporation locations are of paramount
importance.
Key functionality within the core jewelry software business modules offered in
JMAS represent practical yet advanced software processes developed through
years of on-going development specifically to provide clients with the
necessary information to effectively and efficiently manage their jewelry
manufacturing and jewelry distribution business and to make strategic business
decisions.
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Core business modules within the JMAS Jewelry software suite are as follows:
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NEW Sales Extractor
JMAS’ Sales Extractor is a powerful tool for sales managers. The Sales Extractor
lets you generate sales analysis reports by accessing pertinent sales data from
the JMAS database. You can generate ad hoc reports on-the-fly, and can produce
detailed sales reports by customer, product code, gross profit, region, salesperson
and other essential criteria. Get a more in-depth view into your sales operations
with JMAS.
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Order Processing
When a customer calls in with an order, you want to be able to record the order
accurately and deliver it right the first time. CAI's jewelry software
automates order entry, invoicing, back-orders, and handling of assortments and
distribution orders. You get a complete order processing system that ensures
that orders are recorded accurately, that the goods are shipped right the first
time, and that orders are invoiced promptly.
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Receive orders from trading partners and respond with fully compliant
acknowledgements and invoices electronically. CAI software eliminates manual
data entry and has been customized to meet most large retailers' EDI
requirements.
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Memorandum Invoicing
Create memorandum invoices for products shipped on consignment or finished
goods samples to be returned or invoiced at a later date. Automatically invoice
customers for consigned merchandise after it is sold. Inquiry capabilities by
item, customer or aging let you quickly review the quantity of items on memo,
quantity returned and quantity billed to date.
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Configurator / Estimator
Save significant time and ensure the accuracy of your cost estimates. Define
different stone and metal qualities for a specific product style and generate a
complete components list with cost and sell prices. Quickly examine a range of
"what if" scenarios with or without costs.
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NEW Integration with Fulfillment Facility
Eliminate the need (and overhead) of warehouse facilities and staff and
automate purchase order management. JMAS lets you maintain required inventory
stocking levels via a third-party fulfillment center, and provides a “just-in-time’
inventory solution that meets your retail trading partners’ rigorous requirements.
Keep your customers satisfied and minimize inventory and warehouse costs.
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NEW Pick-to-Scan
JMAS’ powerful new Pick-to-Scan module significantly reduces product shortages
and overages. Using a handheld scanner, warehouse packers can scan a bar code
on the sales order as well as each item as it is boxed. This enhanced module
provides a quick and accurate account of items that have been boxed and which
items are back-ordered, out-of-stock or discontinued. In addition, packers can
immediately create shipping labels and UCC labels using this fully integrated
solution. Optimize warehouse operations, reduce errors and maximize customer
satisfaction with JMAS.
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NEW Dispatch / Delivery
More efficiently manage your daily delivery operations. CAI’s Order Delivery
Tracking System (ODT) is a flexible, user-friendly and intuitive solution that
provides accurate delivery and scheduling information to dispatch, sales, and
management organizations. This eliminates the need to call the dispatch office
to determine delivery status. Additionally, the system’s integrated GPS tracking
technology and wide variety of available black box and fixed mount vehicle options
provide real-time tracking and management of their mobile resources, and lets
dispatchers coordinate order combination, routing and fleet tracking to get the
most out of their delivery operations.
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NEW Touch Screen PC Support
In today’s industrial and commercial production and processing environments,
computers get dirty, washed down, shaken up and generally abused. JMAS is fully
compatible with ToughStation computers from Digital Dynamics, a leading
provider of rugged computing solutions for industrial markets for more than ten
years. The ToughStation computers and monitors are NEMA 4x sealed for a
completely airtight enclosure.
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NEW Warehouse Management System
JMAS dramatically improves accuracy, control, and productivity in all facets of
warehousing operations. The software supports a low-cost state-of-the-art
warehouse management system that uses high-performance laser bar code scanning
technology and wireless handheld scanners. The warehouse management nodule
provides real-time capture and sharing of inventory information at the
receiving dock, and then immediately uses this data to optimize receiving,
tracking, material movement and transfers, picking for sales orders, truck
loading and routing, physical inventory, cycle counts and employee utilization.
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Precious Metals Management
Update your precious metals (platinum, gold and silver) pricing at time of
booking or shipment as well as agreed upon fixed-market pricing. Detailed
management reports show your precious metals position by tracking issues,
receipts, inventory withdrawals and shrinkage from finished goods manufacturing
tasks.
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Costing / Production
Tailor your pricing for specific customers and simplify annual product
recosting by tracking materials costs, labor costs, administrative, overhead,
commission, profit and other factors. Whether you are a distributor that
provides quotes to different customers or a manufacturer that quotes every job
on a case-bycase basis, CAI's costing module lets you cost items by product
category, item, customer or any combina tion of these variables. You can access
purchasing and manufacturing information in real-time to assist in decision
making while the customer is still on the phone.
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Inventory Control
Get up-to-the-minute quantity status and detailed information on each item in
your inventory. Set and maintain target finished goods and component inventory
stock levels (including loose stones), analyze usage trends and check vendor
performance. Automatically update stock records after every sale, purchase,
return, commission, profit and transfer to keep inventory data current.
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Customer and Production Tracking
Streamline production scheduling and order tracking, and eliminate human error
while expediting shipments and phone inquiries.
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Manufacturing / Job Bag
Create work orders for production with bills of materials, work center
routings, manufacturing specifications and images.
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Loose Stone Inventory
Track your precious and semi-precious stones by piece or by weight. This
valuable module contains full parcel management, and can be set up to
accommodate an electronic scale interface.
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Electronic Scale Interface
Monitor and accumulate diamond weight and other items as they travel from one
work-in-process center to another in the production cycle.
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Bar Coding
Facilitate production, lot tracking and more. Provide bar coded bill of
materials, routing and manufacturing specifications on job tickets, bags for
production order tracking, UPC labels and ring tags. Reduce handling time by
printing bar code caster bags and scanning them into the jewelry software using
bar code scanners (sold separately).
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General Ledger
Access up-to-date financial data and accounting information and produce
attractive financial reports on demand to gain valuable business insight.
Navision provides daily financial management tools, not just a once-a-month
report. Instantly access every G/L amount and transaction, and set-up your
accounts and sub-accounts to enhance your decision making, improve processing
time and automate routine activities.
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Accounts Receivable
Manage your receivables to maximize cash flow and net profit. Promote and track
sales, payments, and other activity with your customers. Record communications
with customers and prompt credit managers for follow-up to help you get paid on
time.
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Accounts Payable
Record vendor transactions, write checks, and track vendor activity. Get better
control over payables to your vendors with less time and effort.
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Toll Accounting
Track precious metals and provide an accurate accounting of your precious
metals assigned to your vendor's location and your customer's precious metals
assigned to you, including weight and dollar value.
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NEW Direct Shipping Interface
JMAS lets you manage all of your shipments from your desktop—from origin to destination.
You can quickly and easily extract sales order and shipping detail from JMAS into a full
range of third-party shipping companies, including UPS WorldShip, Federal Express and
Pitney Bowes. By enabling you to check all orders shipped, this fully integrated module
enables JMAS to perform all billing of outbound orders.
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NEW Report Viewer
JMAS provides unmatched capabilities for viewing business reports. JMAS puts your critical
data at your fingertips with a new search capability that lets you quickly pinpoint specific
records in a report and avoid endless scrolling. In addition, JMAS enhances report readability
with a powerful new Zoom feature. The software also facilitates sharing and e-mailing of
reports that can be converted directly to Adobe PDF format.
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Paperless Document Management
Scan, file, store, and retrieve documents, fats and efficiently. CAI’s software is integrated
with DataView RMS, a total Record Management System developed by MultiProcess Computer
Corporation (MPCC). DataView RMS is designed to help you reduce costs, labor, paper and storage;
locate documents instantly, prevent document loss, protect documents with image dating technology
and restrict access by providing security. Misplaced or lost files are a thing of the past.
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Imaging
Print full-color images on quote sheets, job bags and marketing literature.
Comprehensive photo imaging capabilities let you view your photos on screen to
help reduce errors.
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Open Database Access
Access business data any time, anywhere through Microsoft® applications like
Excel, Word or Access as well as other reporting tools.
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Business Intelligence (BI)
Access and utilize valuable data to enhance your business decision processes. JMAS'
integrated BI Module is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art BI solution that lets you view
customer, sales, inventory and other key performance indicators (KPI) as intuitive and
graphical dashboard objects so you can identify business trends, monitor progress toward
business goals and diagnose overall organizational health.
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CRM
View your customer's historical purchasing activity and tailor new product
offers to boost sales.
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With the goal of providing the ultimate in jewelry software
flexibility within its jewelry manufacturing and jewelry distribution software
systems, CAI has employed a sophisticated and, unique to the industry, concept
of software parameterization. Through this technique, Computer Associates
industry consultants are able to selectively activate individual jewelry
software functionality features within the system that most suit the individual
needs of any particular client. This amounts to a partial customization of the
software to each individual clients unique requirements without the need for
programming, which translates to a near custom system at the cost of a standard
package.
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