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.