Updated stock sheets automatically e-mailed every morning

SA-BASED based Macro 2000 is
certainly giving a growing band
of customers something to think
about – a freshly different approach
to utilising warehouse computer
software.
Marketing executive Anthea van
Breemen says innovation is the name
of the game, with one Macro 2000
user moving customer stock to his
own warehouse after being apprised
of the warehouse management
system software package designed to
handle stock imported on behalf of
customers.
Macro 2000 allows customers to
receive shipments in container loads,
track stock inside the warehouse and
issue “in bags” as the customer calls
off his stock.
Each batch is tracked according
to expiry date and will list the oldest
stock first when a picking slip is
produced by the operator.
An e-mail receipt, or issue, is sent
direct to clients each time, so they are
always aware of stock movements,
some preferring to receive updated
stock sheets, automatically e-mailed
to them each morning.
In addition, an invoice storage run
will automatically calculate storage
and handling charges.
“As the customer in question still
uses third party warehouses in other
areas of South Africa, it was decided to
have a virtual warehouse for each of
these, receiving and issuing in exactly
the same fashion as in their own
physical warehouses, and in so doing
offering their customers the same
benefits the warehouse management
system offers their other clients,” said
Van Breemen.