Order Management System

The Order Management System(OMS) offers a variety of functions to manage products, customers, suppliers, RFQs, purchase orders, supplier orders, RMAs, inventories, shipments, etc. The details of all these entities such as the actual names used and the contents of the actual orders and customers etc. can be customized according to the specific needs of your company. So please consider the screenshots used below in this overview as just examples.

User Roles

Different user roles can be configured. Each role is granted different access levels to the application. There are roles such as Admin, Sales, Supplier, Accounting, Warehouse. In the following sections, the Admin user is used. It can access all the data of the application.

System Menu

The following shows the main menu of the system when "Customer Order" is selected.

Main Menu

RFQ Management

  1. Create RFQ. You can use the menu "RFQ → Create" to create an RFQ. Below is the screenshot of the RFQ creation page. Create RFQ To add a line item to the RFQ, just click the "Add LineItem" button. The following will show and you can fill in the details of the item. RFQ Add line item
  2. Search and Edit RFQ.You can search RFQs by the RFQ status, the RFQ ID, the customer name, the contact email, the range of the created date, the item part number, and the dollar amount and the various result types. Below is a screenshot that shows all the RFQs created between the specified dates whose current status is OnlinePending or Processed. Search RFQsTo edit a particular RFQ, just click on the ID of the RFQ and a page with the detailed data of the RFQ will appear. You can then modify those data.

Customer Order Management

  1. Create Order. First search customers. In the following, all the customers whose name contains "B" are displayed. Search Customer Then just click on the customer ID, you will get the following screen. You can enter the RFQ ID or create the order directly. Create Order1 If you enter the RFQ ID, it will create an order with pre-populated information of the customer and line items specified in the RFQ. You can keep those information or edit them if needed. You can also create an order directly without an RFQ. Below is the screenshot of the order creation page. Create Order Create Order Continued Click "Add LineItem" to add new line item to the order: Add LineItem Click "Edit LineItem" to edit line items in the line item table of the order:
  2. Edit Order.You can search existing orders by the order created date, order number, customer name and product number. The following shows the search results: Search Orders Clicking on an order ID, you will get the details of the order to edit.
  3. Order Email Notification. You can click on the "Send Email" button on the order page to send email notification to the customer and the related departments. Order Send Email
  4. Order Shipment and Invoice. The order screen has a "Shipment" link. You can create and edit the shipments for the order: Shipments Similarily you can create and edit the invoices for the order.

Customer Management

  1. Create Customer. Under the "Customer" menu, just click "Create" and you will get the following screen: Create Customer You can click the "Add Address" button to add the shipping addresses and billing addresses of the customer: Add Address
  2. Edit Customer. Under the "Customer" menu, just click "Search and Edit". You will get a screen to search for the customers. And you can then click on the customer ID to edit the customer. The editing screen is as below: Edit Customer
  3. Sales Representitive. Under the "Customer" menu, just click "Sales Rep". You will get a screen to create and edit sales representitives. The following is the screenshot: Sales Rep.

Product Management

  1. Search products. You can search products by product type or part number. The following searchs all products whose part number that contains "N". Search Parts
  2. Add a new product. Click the "Add Part" button. Add Part
  3. Edit products. Click the "Edit Part" button in the search screen. Then click the checkbox to edit or delete the products. Edit Parts

Instock Order

  1. Instock Order. You can use the "Instock Orer" to create, edit and search line items for instock order. Instock Order

Supplier

  1. Create Supplier. You can use the menu "Supplier → Create" to create a supplier. Create Supplier
  2. Edit Supplier. You can use the menu "Supplier → Search and Edit" to create a supplier. The following screenshot shows all the suppliers whose name contains "S": Search Supplier Clicking on the supplier ID will bring you to the supplier details for editing.

Supplier Order Management

  1. Create Supplier Order. You can use the menu "Supplier Order → Create" to create a supplier order. Create Supplier Order Clicking "Add LineItem" to add new line items to the order.
  2. Edit Supplier Order. You can use the menu "Supplier Order → Search and Edit" to edit supplier orders. You can search supplier orders by the created date, the supplier name, supplier order number and the product number. The following screenshot shows the supplier orders for the given date range and order status.Search Supplier Orders Clicking the supplier order ID will get you to the screen to edit the order: Edit Supplier Order
  3. Supplier Order Shipment. Similar to the customer order, there is a "Shipment" link on the supplier order. You can click on that link to create and edit the shipment and bill for that supplier order. Supplier Order Shipment

RMA

    RMA is the Return Merchandise Authorization process.
  1. Create RMA. In the order page, there is a link that you can use to create the RMA for that order. Below is the screenshot for creating an RMA. RMA Creation
  2. Edit RMA. You can search and edit RMA items under the RMA menu. Below is the screenshot of the search screen. RMA search You can search RMA's by the status, the created date, the part number, the customer name, the supplier name, etc. On the search results page, you can click on the ID of the RMA to go to the page that will show the details of the RMA. And then you can edit that RMA.

Inventory Management

You can create, search and edit inventory items. Below is a screenshot of the search screen which also show the different sub menu items under the "Inventory" menu. Inventory search

Reports

There are various reports to help to monitor the overall order data.The following are just some examples.
  1. Unfinished Supplier Items. The following screenshot shows all the unfinished supplier line items for the supplier "SUPPB" Unfinished Supplier Items
  2. Sales by Product Type. Sales By ProductType
Other reports include sales by year and month, sales revenue, sales commission, etc.