Strong financials form the foundation of ALERE’s all-encompassing character. Not only does ALERE® have that in plenty, but it also goes above and beyond what most other packages accomplish, offering a real-time general ledger backed by an uncommonly deep level of online traceability. As a period closure is automatic, no human input is needed.

With ALERE integrated ®’s document management, a user just needs to navigate down from the graphical chart of accounts to view an original invoice or receipt in just four screens.

Every sale or purchase order, together with every associated general ledger journal entry, may be viewed throughout its whole life cycle, from quote to payment.

The manufacturing technology used by ALERE® is so advanced that it can do “synchronous manufacture,” which entails knowing exactly which set of materials to supply to which work center for a given task at a given time of day.

For total traceability, the entire manufacturing process is transaction based.

Data collection and barcoding are at the heart of ALERE®. It lowers errors and boosts productivity by handling all inventory receipt, shipping, and transfer moves, supporting physical inventories, monitoring production activities, and labor postings. The core of ALERE® incorporates barcoding and data collecting. By managing all inventory receipt, shipping and transfer movements, supporting physical inventories, tracking production activities, and labor postings, it increases productivity and reduces errors.

With the help of the CRM program InTouch, you can manage your connections with suppliers, clients, and potential customers. It will manage your itinerary with real-time Microsoft® Outlook two-way communications, track all of your conversations, and maintain a list of tasks that you have pledged to complete.

By implementing and overseeing mass email campaigns and maintaining direct mail lists, InTouch helps your marketing campaigns.

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Software Functionality Summary

PLATFORM

• • LAN, client/server, and cloud using a ame code base to handle many businesses (LAN and client/server) with a single menu that includes customized business customizations
  • Object-oriented architecture with multiple tiers and levels of product customisation Languages; lingoes; user hooks/custom code; data-driven definition elements
  • Changes made using the inheritance modification technique are transferable to new product releases.

COMMON PRODUCT DESIGN

• • Various document interface (MDI) featuring dynamic screen scaling
  • Real-time data collecting and general ledger processing
  • connects to external resources like webpages, PDFs, videos, etc. and internal resources like data items, displays, documents, etc.
  • Management of documents
  • drilldown on data
  • Conditional statements are used in data browser searches, and they can sort, print, export, save user preferences, and have “persistence,” which enables in-depth analysis of numerous records using a single browser session.
  • Desktop-compatible fetch search tool that gives users access to the whole spectrum of data
  • Automated alerts with native email functionality and predefined event triggers
  • One-stop shop for businesses and all associated data for potential clients, consumers, vendors, etc.
  • Multicurrency support for exchange rates, variations in exchange rates, and rate history supported by graphs
  • Continuous corporate history is provided by data archiving, with optional data reduction for data mining
  • User-defined fields and notes that make it simple to customize the collection of data particular to a firm or industry Screen and reporting engines that facilitate emailing, exporting to Excel, printing, and creating PDFs

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

• • handles potential clients, consumers, and suppliers with a focus on people rather than businesses
  • maintains a contact log (emails, calls, visits, etc.), schedules appointments, and monitors tasks
  • Managed independently from customer and supplier contacts and companies are prospects’ contacts and companies.
  • brings in potential data from Excel
  • generates and maintains prospect quotations, which can be sent out as invoices or sales orders.
  • uses company templates to convert prospects into customers and incorporates prospect history
  • Campaign management for direct mail and email marketing
  • Links in real time between Outlook and mobile devices
  • CRM is a key component of ALERE®, giving users access to all of the ERP product’s features and data, which makes it more advantageous than a stand-alone CRM program.

SALES

• • Order entry, processing, linked activity trail, and GL posts are all completed on a single screen.
  • includes price contracts, consignment orders, credit memos, blanket orders, recurring orders, sales orders, sales invoices, and consignment orders.
  • Multiple authorization levels are supported in the online purchase approval process, along with automated notifications.
  • Orders in the “pending” status can be entered without the order becoming active in the system.
  • Order lines that support several services (sell, drop ship, return, credit, freight, and financing) allow a single order to fulfill several needs.
  • Configuring sales orders online using rules
  • De- and kitting with a range of options
  • Orders are accepted, invoices are generated, and statements are emailed in bulk.
  • Direct creation of purchase orders from sales orders
  • Commissions and real-time order filtering are sent to the sales team.
  • One button to convert credit memos to payables
  • Payment allocation to various invoices across corporate locations

PURCHASES

• All order details are displayed on a single screen. PO input, processing, and associated tasks path as well as GL posts
• includes blanket orders, buy requisitions, blanket orders, recurring orders, return orders, payables, and accounts payable.
• Multiple authorization levels are supported in the online purchase approval process, along with automated notifications.
• Entry is permitted by pending status orders, which prevent the system from going live.
• On a single order, multiple-function line items (buy, return, credit, and freight) are allowed concurrently.
• Printing checks, approving payments both in bulk and individually

INVENTORY

• Planning for sales orders and automatically creating purchase orders are included in DRP (distribution resource planning).
• Standard, LIFO, FIFO, and average support
• Features of an inventory item include safety stock, reorder points, order size, weight, cost, units of measurement, and so on.
• Support for inventory by location, store, and bin
• With lot inspection and expiration serial numbers inside lots, lot/serial number/trait capability is provided.
• Cross-references between item numbers from suppliers and customers
• Transfer orders that include the necessary documentation for the immediate relocation of inventory between locations
• Data collection and bar coding for receiving, issuing, and moving inventory
• Monitoring of current and upcoming inventory activity, including action at the item level

GENERAL LEDGER

• • Current, on-demand reporting is made possible by automatic period closures with real-time postings.
  • 99 distinct time periods maximum
  • six-segment alphabetic chart of accounts with a maximum width of 24 characters, created, viewed, and drilled down using TreeVision, a graphical user interface akin to Explorer
  • Comprehensive reporting that includes account filter rules, 12-month comparisons, user-defined date range comparisons, and the creation of custom reports
    • Multi-company consolidation
    • Budgeting optionally integrated with Excel
    • Journal entry distribution templates
    • Journal entries that can be pending, recurring or reversing

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

• • a single report that seamlessly combines data mining from the past and present
  • Analytics for the general ledger, inventory movement, suppliers, consumers, and items are provided through 3D graphical analysis. • Charting the “hotspots” in terms of distance, firms, and sales
  • Sales analysis with configuration data mining integrated

MOBILITY

• • Web development support with selectable data uploading to the Cloud and definable synchronization intervals
  • Management of mobile devices through the Cloud
  • Sales Call Sheet App for smartphone or tablet (Android or Apple), providing timely sales information available to sales force
  • Documentation and examples to develop custom apps
  • Support for web development with defined synchronization intervals and configurable data uploading to the cloud
  • Using the Cloud Sales Call Sheet App on an Android or Apple tablet, sales representatives may manage their mobile devices and access up-to-date sales data.
  • Samples and guidelines for developing custom applications that allow users to log in and see filtered contact and sales data based on their permissions choices for logging in that, depending on user permissions, allow access to filtered contact and sales data

DATA ACQUISITION

• • Scanning is done in real time and is interactive with the operator through a “prompt” process
  • Uses wedge scanners or scanners running under terminal services
  • Entering and shipping items on a sales order
  • Receiving items on a purchase order
  • Doing inventory movement and adjustments
  • Posting transactions to manufacturing work orders

MANUFACTURING

• • Monitoring attendance and time requests for information on the item’s supply levels
  • Create item labels by printing them.
  • Locations of the items, lot and serial numbers, and characteristics assist
  • Extensive assistance with procedures that are build-to-stock or build-to-order
  • Material requirements planning (MRP) can incorporate pending (forecasted) orders and is a single pass through all BOM levels with the option of time-phased data or monthly/weekly time periods.
  • MRP on-demand for single goods and sales orders
  • Calculated recommended work orders and purchase orders are shown for approval or revision before being released for creation.
  • Push/pull scheduling with order modifications executed automatically
  • Forward/backward concurrent work order finite scheduling with operation overlap and yield/scrap computations
  • Order or work center schedules that are graphically displayed and have a timeline scale that may be manually adjusted
  • Using 3-D graphics, the factory loads orders, items, customers, or work centers that are available.
  • Modern synchronous manufacturing methods link production and material planning, enabling practical JIT.
  • Bills of materials indented (BOMs) designed and updated graphically, supporting phantom, alternate, modular, changeable, component, disassembly, and kit bill kinds
  • BOM updates with current and past dates
  • BOM connection with fully functional configurations
  • Disassembly and item-level editing for BOMs, work orders, sales order line items, and return orders, together with their subsequent return to stock
  • Work orders that are transaction-based and have the ability to route, track ID, configure, list materials, and take pictures
  • Assemble/build/maintenance/rework type work orders
  • Preventative maintenance incorporated into material planning and scheduling
  • Analysis of machine downtime
  • Routing creation supported by library of operation steps, separate setup/operation times and machine centers • Route/material association by operation step
  • Analysis of actual routing data with optional updating of master routes
  • Work center capacities with efficiencies/alternates/online dates
  • Cost analysis for both planned and actual work orders
  • Fixed and variable overhead costs applied using six costing methods with general ledger support
  • Rolled up BOM/route/overhead costing by indented level and total, including automatic updating of inventory standard and actual costs, and general ledger adjustments