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Priority includes a special module for the Fashion, Apparel & Footwear industry. The central tool in this module is a style/size/color matrix - a multi-dimensional table used to itemize inventory transactions. The horizontal axis of the table represents the range of sizes in which the style is produced, and the vertical axis contains a list of colors. The table's cells are used to indicate required quantities of each size/color combination.

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Priority allows you to avoid opening massive quantities of parts in the part catalogue, by selectively opening only the specific parts required, according to a clearly defined set of part specifications (specs) and corresponding values.
 
To do this:

• Define possible specs for your base products (e.g., material type, leg type, cloth color).
• Define possible values for each spec (e.g., cotton/leather, nickel/wood, red/white/green).

Once you have completed these definitions, you can specify the desired base product in a sales order, together with the values requested by the customer for the relevant specs. The system then checks the part catalogue for an existing part with the exact spec values requested. If such a part already exists, its part number appears automatically in the itemized sales order. If not, the system creates a new part with those values.

Priority enables you to define product assemblies that include different quantities of assorted products in various combinations. The list of products can be transferred automatically from one sales document to the next (price quote, order, packing slip, and shipping document), and quantities adjusted as needed, enabling quick and efficient delivery of the entire product set to the customer.

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You can define a standard production routing for a manufactured part, while maintaining the flexibility to report the production operations that were actually performed.

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In the production routing defined for each part, you can define alternates to the default operations that make up the routing. When reporting production, you can specify either the default operation or an alternate operation, depending on the machine that was actually used.

Priority allows you to link byproducts (in negative quantities) to the bill of materials of a manufactured part, such that in production reports for that part you can specify the quantity of byproducts that were actually created.

To do so:
 

• Enter the sub-level of the reporting form, Manual Issues to Work Order. The parts defined in the BOM (in negative quantities) appear automatically.
• Specify the actual quantity of byproducts created by the reported operation (in negative quantities). You can also define the warehouse and bin to which the byproducts were transferred.

Marking a palette containing finished goods by printing an identifying label when production is complete.

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Report the completion of production for the work order in question. When reporting, run a program that prepares a label with all the relevant information regarding the manufactured products (e.g., work order number, part number, finished quantity, production date, production line). Run an interface with a label printing program to produce the label and apply it to the palette.

When goods are received into inventory, a barcode label must be applied to each item before it can be distributed to stores. In order to save valuable time when receiving the goods and avoid distribution delays, you can run a simple program well before the goods are received, which sends the correct amount of labels for each part directly to a label work area, according to the itemized vendor invoices linked to a given shipping voucher.

The bonus system in Priority enables you to offer customers bonus parts when they order a certain quantity of a specific part or parts belonging to the same part family. There are two types of bonuses:

• Regular bonuses are given upon purchase of a certain part by some or all customers.
• Special bonuses are defined for specific customers and are given to those customers only.

You can define progressive bonuses based on quantity purchased, so as to increase the customers' incentive to purchase large quantities

Priority includes a program for automatic assignment of sales orders to distribution routes.
The Schedule Deliveries program assigns sales orders to distribution routes based on the order supply date, delivery routing, delivery days defined for the customer, and the company's working hours. For an order to be included by the Schedule Deliveries program, it must have a status flagged in the Schedule Deliveries column of the Statuses for Orders form..

Purchase Planning (MRP) for Commercial Companies

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Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for Distributors enables the planning of required issues for sales orders and forecast orders (without addressing BOMs or production/assembly operations of any kind).
 
Such planning "explodes" requirements for the assembled product to the next level down in the BOM. For instance, it will generate purchase requisitions for the component parts of a bicycle.

Changing a Part Number & Description Already Recorded in the System and Used in Transactions

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Priority offers a special mechanism for updating a part description and its catalogue number, even after transactions have been recorded for the part, without damage to the database. In other words, the part history is saved under the new part number and/or description.

Priority allows you to record up to 20 specifications for each part in the Part Catalogue. These specifications categorize the various attributes of the part in a hierarchy of categories which can be used to retrieve parts in specific cross-sections.

You can use the Part Specs Work Area to move through the hierarchy of specifications in order to locate specific parts. The part specifications are also included in purchasing and sales report generators. You can also use the Part Specs Work Area to build new parts by combining different specifications. The catalogue numbers and/or descriptions of these parts are determined automatically, based on their constituent specifications.

 

The Outgoing Shipping Vouchers module provides two main functionalities:

• Tracking the outgoing shipment process (from a logistics perspective)
• Allocating outgoing shipment expenses (e.g., shipping, insurance) to the relevant customer invoices, in order to obtain the part's true profitability in sales reports

The general idea is to enable management of all information that is relevant to the outgoing shipping process within a single module, for maximum data control and accessibility.
 
This module allows you to track and record:

• Shipping data (sender details, dates, etc.)
• Formal shipping documents
• Sales and purchasing invoices related to the specific outgoing shipment
• Management and follow-up of the outgoing shipment is supported by the BPM flow chart.

Management and follow-up of the outgoing shipment is supported by the BPM flow chart.

Priority's Special Offers module enables users to offer incentives to customers that purchase a designated amount of goods within a defined period.
 
In the first stage, you assign a name, start and end dates, and Priority to the offer (i.e., if two offers are defined for the same part or part family, the offer Priority determines which one will be attached first to invoiced sales when the campaign is over). Later on, you can define a target quantity for the part, which the customer must purchase in order to be eligible for offer benefits. Alternatively, you can define a target sum; customers who purchase target parts equaling this sum during the defined offer period will be eligible for benefits.

Customer compensation can be according to any one of the following models:

• Offered Products:Select a part number and quantity to which the customer will be entitled if they meet the offer target.
• Credit in Percentage of total purchases during the offer period:
  Determine the credit % which the customer will receive.
• Fixed Monetary Credit for purchases made during the offer period:
  Indicate the amount of credit which the customer will receive.

Priority's Replenish Consignment Warehouses program calculates current and projected inventory levels in consignment warehouses and determines the quantities of each part that are needed to replenish the supply, according to a set of inventory parameters defined by the user. Furthermore, the program can be set up to open the necessary orders automatically.

Priority enables you to define and manage the company's branches. Each branch can be linked to an area, enabling sales analysis by branch and by area. Each branch can be linked to the branch warehouse, and its inventory can be managed by the desired inventory levels, as defined for the branch.
 
Each employee is linked to the branch in which they work. Document numbering can be defined separately for each branch.
 
You can produce reports summarizing sales by branch (at the order, shipping document, or invoice level), determine separate numbering patterns for each branch's documents, and attach a separate logo to printed documents for each branch.
 System access can be limited by user branch, so that each user can access only data related to their own branch or to other branches for which they have been given privileges.

For companies that deal with diverse parts characterized by a variety of parameters (e.g., spare car parts), Priority offers a module that allows you to define specifications for each part, and to locate the part from within the lines of a sales order using a Part Specifications Explorer.
For example, you can locate a spare car part by the car's make and model, the side damaged, etc.

Companies that manufacture and distribute products often maintain identical parts with different characteristics. For instance, for the electrical industry, this may be identical products with different voltages (110V vs. 220V); in the Fashion, Apparel & Footwear industry, this may be shirts of different colors, fabrics and/or sizes. These products need to be maintained separately in inventory, yet should be analyzed in executive reports as the same product.
Priority allows you to define a common base product for parts with similar characteristics. In this manner, for example, you can analyze sales data for a 110V part separately, or for the base product, which takes into account sales of both the 110V part and its parallel 220V part. This makes it easier to determine how many units of a particular product were sold or will be sold, regardless of differences in a particular feature (voltage, color, fabric, size, etc.).

Managing raw materials that are purchased from vendors by weight (kg) and maintained in the factory in sheets (e.g., sheet metal, sheet rock, fabric).

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Priority allows you to manage a part in two different units, with a fixed conversion rate between them, where the first unit - in which the part is purchased - is based on weight, and the second unit - in which the part is processed internally - is in sheets (i.e., single part units). 
 
To do so, the following must be defined in the system:

• The buy/sell unit - the unit commonly used in the market for parts of this type (in this case, "kg")
• The factory unit (ea). Throughout the purchasing process - vendor price quotes, purchase orders, invoices - the buy/sell unit is used.

In internal transactions, such as inventory counts, warehouse transfers and issues to the plant floor, the factory unit is used.
You can use alternate parts to define the sheet in a bill of materials, and to use sheets of various sizes in keeping with the factory's existing inventory.