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Agents and Merchants
The agent's role is to receive, warehouse,
prepare and sell the produce sent by the packhouse. This may be undertaken on a commission
basis or a merchant basis (involving outright sale of the product to the agent).
The agent must bill all their buyers and on finalisation of sales for a consignment,
report pricing back to a packer.
Market Agent Management Products
Business Structure
- A flexible company and infrastructure model (multiple offices/DC's/pack houses etc) for own business and all third parties (eg. packers, unloaders, transport companies, buyers)
- Editable Payment Terms, Credit Terms, Credit Hold etc. per Company
- Flexible stock tracking structures for all sites through user-configurable storage facilities
Product characteristics:
- Produce Type (eg. Tomato, mango)
- Variety
- Size or Count
- Colour
- Brand
- Class (eg. First, Second)
- Pack Type (eg. 14kg Carton, 7kg Tray, hat bin)
Traceability levels in stock control:
- carton/tray (unique carton number)
- pallet (unique pallet number)
- none (ie. Stock Sheet level only)
(note: If tracking containers on any level, this is usually done with the aid of handheld wireless scanners)
Real time stock control through direct entry of:
- Receivables (Stock Sheets), managing a designated batch of product
- In Transit
- Received
- Part Sold
- Fully Sold
- Fully Priced
- Released
- Advised
- Paid
- Sales, with following sales types
- Cash
- Account
- Credit
- Allowance
- Provisional (Buyer Order)
- Unpriced Sale
- Consignment
Flexible charging and costing:
- Any number of customisable Levies, Transport Charges, Packing Charges, Commissions, Unloading Fees, Storage Fees
- Transport information supports Trans-Shipping
- All charges may be configured as costs (to agent), charges (by agent to client) or both (cost passed on to client)
- Supports Pooling (averaging) of prices and charges by Consignment, by Pack Date, or by Sell Date.
- Pallet Hire Tracking, paperwork generation with local tally or dehire options
- Flexible Periodic Billing with optional Billing Agency (eg. BMCA)
- Woolworth’s and Fresh Direct Invoice formats, with TI/HI, TU and Item Numbers
- Built in ledger or use external ledger (eg. Accounting Software)
- Sales Tracking by department, supplier, buyer and category
Full paperwork and analysis reporting:
- Purchase Memos, Stock Reconciliation, Grower Remittances, Dissections, Discrepancies, Exception reporting, Shortages
- Buyer invoicing (incl. Woolworths, Coles)
- Profit by Salesman/Division, Account aged balances
- Benchmarking, market/buyer performance analysis
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