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Seasoft seafood software is a true ERP computer software solution designed to
run in concert with the industry standard Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating
system. The main focus of seasoft is providing clients within the seafood
distribution and seafood processing industries with the finest and most
innovative seafood software system available.
Key functionality within the core business modules offered in Seasoft seafood
software 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 business and
to make strategic business decisions.
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E-commerce Module:
Seasoft provides unprecedented connectivity for online B2B/P and B2C commerce.
A suite of web-based tools supports complete online account management, product
catalogs and quotations.
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Remote Order Entry:
The Seasoft Remote Order Entry module gives companies the tools to compete in
an ever-growing sales market, while maximizing revenues and cutting operational
costs. Seasoft’s Remote Order Entry is a streamlined, web-based sales order entry
application that works from any Internet-connected browser. Through secure,
wireless mobile technology, outside salespeople -- and customers -- can quickly
and easily take orders in the field, view inventory levels, check product promotions
and pricing, and transmit data securely to Seasoft application server at the office.
Real-time access to the Seasoft application is a major time saver that eliminates
the need for double data entry and provides a convenient service to a distributor’s
retail outlets.
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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI):
Receive orders from trading partners and send fully compliant acknowledgements
and invoices electronically. Seasoft's integrated EDI module eliminates manual
data entry, and has been customized to meet the EDI requirements of most
supermarkets, wholesale clubs and other large retailers.
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Customer / Vendor Buying History:
Quickly and accurately record shipment related detail, including agent, packer,
shipping line, port of entry, final destination, vessel, feeder vessel and
container number.
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Portion Control:
Specify product weights to match customer requirements, convert total order to
pounds and transfer the information to the cutting room floor accurately and
efficiently.
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Catch Weight Processing:
Capture product shipping and receiving weights quickly and accurately in
purchasing, sales and shipping operations.
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Sales Inventory Inquiry:
View product prices and costs, committed and on-order inventory, lot number,
receipt date, inventory location, brand, grade, box number, and other detailed
lot-level data - all from a single screen.
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Batch Product Transfers:
Pre-sell expected product by staging inventory transfers between storage facilities.
You get instant visibility of product transfers at the receiving location.
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Purchase Order Miscellaneous Charges (POMC):
Assign landing costs to a single item on a purchase order. Assign fees such as customs
charges or duties to one item on a purchase order without affecting the landed cost of t
he other items purchased on the same order. When used in conjunction with the header-level
POMC on a single purchase order, the new POMC tool lets you spread some charges over the
cost of all the items on a purchase order and assign certain costs to individual items on
the same PO.
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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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Touch Screen PC Support:
In today’s industrial and commercial production and processing environments,
computers get dirty, washed down, shaken up and generally abused. Seasoft 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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Warehouse Management System:
Seasoft 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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Production Packing Interface:
Move your Seasoft processing to the production floor. The
Production Packing Interface
combines the Seasoft production packing software, production-ready
workstations, fully integrated electronic scales, and bar code label printers
to improve the efficiency of your seafood production, provide for more accurate
production yields and eliminate manually-entered shipped weights for every
order.
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Purchase Order Processing:
Expedite customer orders by referencing detailed customer and sales history.
Seasoft's integrated order processing system ensures that orders are recorded
accurately, that product is shipped right the first time, and that orders are
invoiced promptly.
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Costing and Pricing:
Costing and pricing your goods are essential to maintaining a profitable food
distribution and processing business. Centralize standard and actual costs so
price changes are applied quickly to lot finished products. Bill of materials
roll-up allows for quick re-pricing and costing.
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Scale Interface:
Capture weights on the shipping line, invoice weights automatically right from
the scale, update production orders and generate shipping labels. Seasoft's
provides the the most powerful and easy-touse scale interface in the industry.
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Production Processing:
Simplify the tracking of lots through production and accurately account for
processed inventory. Seasoft provides raw materials yields and calculates exact
costs for finished goods.
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Inventory Control:
Access up-to-the-minute quantity status and detailed information on each item
in your inventory. Set and maintain target materials inventory stock levels,
analyze usage trends and check vendor performance.
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Country of Origin Labeling (COOL):
Track and label country of origin data to comply with USDA mandatory labeling
requirements. Generate labels at time of receipt with COOL and MOP details,
including method of production, where the product was grown, packed and
processed. Assign unique transaction and lot numbers when items are received in
inventory, and track product through the shipping process to an unlimited
number of locations.
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SAFIS Module:
The Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System (SAFIS) provides seafood
dealers and fishermen with online form that satisfies multiple state and
federal reporting requirements. Seasoft assigns a Trip Report Number to each
purchase order to identify every catch landed by a vessel. In addition,
vendors in the Seasoft database can be assigned a Permit Number, Gear Type
Description, and Home Port Description. The fields in the Seasoft database will
facilitate the SAFIS upload and allow for tracking of product received by
seafood dealers.
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Bar Coding:
Facilitate production, lot tracking and more. Capture bar code data (using bar
code scanners sold separately) and print labels to track catch materials
through the shipping process.
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Lot / Yield Management:
Control and manage inventories and perform on-demand inventory lookup, tracking
and history of all products. This essential module ensures compliance with FDA
regulations.
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Enhanced Yield View:
Maximize the profitability of each order, and be more responsive to your customer's
business needs, with fast access to each customer's purchasing history as well as
the cost and gross margin for each product.
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Automated Purchasing:
Calculate average daily usage based on your unique parameters, direct purchase
orders and purchase order returns. Order materials, track purchase orders and
match receipts and invoices. Seasoft's automated purchasing module pulls direct
line items from sales order entry into a purchase order.
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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.
Seasoft 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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NEW 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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Settlement Processing:
Automates the tracking of all catches purchased on consignment. On-demand
reports provide detailed settlement information required to cost a catch after
it has been sold. Cash advances and outstanding receivables are utilized to
arrive at a settlement amount. A payables check can be generated automatically
once the settlement amount has been accepted.
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Imaging:
Print full-color images on quote sheets, packaging 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 anytime, anywhere through Microsoft® applications like
Excel, Word or Access as well as other reporting tools.
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CRM:
View your customer's historical purchasing activity and tailor new product
offers to boost sales.
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Graphical and Intuitive User Interface:
Seasoft runs in concert with the industry standard Microsoft Windows operating
system to run your enterprise in a completely graphical, intuitive and fully
integrated environment.
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Business Intelligence (BI)
Access and utilize valuable data to enhance your business decision processes.
Seasoft's 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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Flexible Drill Down & Query:
Access critical information with state-of-the-art drill down and query
capabilities. Detailed inventory, lot, customer and vendor histories are
readily available to key personnel.
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Management Reporting:
Produce detailed management reports, including SIR (Sales/Inventory Recap),
SOBER Inquiry (State of Business Effectivity Report), GMROI (Gross Margin
Return on Investment) and more.
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Truck Route / Manifest:
Dynamically route trucks, assign stops in the appropriate sequence, and ensure
drivers have complete and organized delivery manifest. Quickly review stops
assigned to each driver, the number of stops on a truck, total weight, and case
count.
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Sales Analysis & Reporting:
Analyze up-to-the- minute corporate data, sales information, inventory status,
accounts receivable and profit margins with detailed and customizable sales
analysis reports and summaries. Seasoft is ODBC compliant, making it possible
to use Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access and other
third-party applications to review real-time information.
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Smart Reporting
Ever been frustrated by generating a report and discovering it does not provide
the right information? Seasoft’s Smart Reporting feature includes a data file
that automatically stores each user’s individual settings for each report. You
can save your report settings and load the report with these settings each time
the report is run. What’s more, each user can store and run the same report
with their unique settings.
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Management by Exception:
Generate insightful reports and screen views for Gross Profit and Discounts
that fall outside of user-specified acceptable business ranges.
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Import Tracking:
Quickly and accurately record shipment related detail, including agent, packer,
shipping line, port of entry, final destination, vessel, feeder vessel and
container number.
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UPS Worldship® Integration:
Manage all of your shipments from your desktop— from origin to destination—and
back again. You can Extract sales order and shipping detail from Seasoft into
the UPS shipping interface with the push of a button.
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In en effort to provide the ultimate in seafood software
flexibility within its seafood distribution and seafood processing 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 computer
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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