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Overview Streamlinx Distribution (IDS) was developed with input from distributors just like you and was designed to eliminate many of the headaches you may be dealing with, including vendor price lists and quotes or managing vendor rebates, processing stock or direct orders. Does your current system provide the sales person the items with the correct price and inventory availablility? Are your customers able to place orders to your system over the web? Can your system automatically send a quote or sales order via email or fax without leaving your desk? IDS addresses many of these issues and more....

Common Distributor Issues Calculating Vendor Rebates Maintaining Vendor Price Lists and Quotes Accurate Costing and Pricing Information Inventory Management and Returns Partial Shipments and Invoicing

Benefits

• Grow your business, not headcount. It is not uncommon to increase sales and maintain (or reduce headcount) with Streamlinx Distribution. Calculating vendor rebates, rekeying data into mulitple systems and report/spreadsheet creation are typical activities that are no longer needed.
  
  
• Save time. With all relevant information in one place, users spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it. And fewer manual tasks mean your team can use their skills on value-added activities.
  
  
• Enable smarter decisions. Whether they're in the office or on the road or at home, everyone will have access to key data, available at any time.
  
  
• Increase visibility. Keeps everyone on the same page in one system. Gain critical insight into the status of sales orders, purchasing requirements and inventory levels.
  
  
• Reduce data entry and errors. IDS automatically sends financial data to QuickBooks Pro to eliminate duplicate data entry and errors. If you are rekeying data, you are wasting time, effort and money.

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Features

Streamlinx Distribution

Streamlinx Platform

Customer Management - Track multiple bill-to and and ship-to customers locations and contacts. Prospect potential customers. Allow customers to place quotes via web-order entry. Customer Blankets, Quotes and Sales Orders - Create customer blankets, quotes and sales orders. Vendor Management - Track vendors, manufactured reps and vendor contact information. Link to vendor-supplied websites to view product details. Track vendor purchase history. Vendor Price Lists and Quotes - Upload vendor price lists and vendor quotes into the system via a spreadsheet upload. Vendor Rebates - Vendor rebates are tracked automatically by the system. At month-end, generate vendor rebate files for credits. Purchasing - Review system-generated purchase requirements for stock and direct purchase orders. Upon your approval, generate and email or fax purchases orders to vendors. Warehouses and Inventory - Manage warehouses and tracking inventory levels and minimum stock requirements. Pack and ship customer orders. Receive purchase orders and customer returns into inventory. Billing Generate sales invoices and credit memos from shipped orders. Enter vendor bills against purchase orders. Automatically send billing data into QuickBooks company.

User and Group Management Services - Streamlinx user and group management objects and methods store and manage user and group information. This data is used throughout the system to authenticate users, secure data, simplify system administration tasks, and personalize the user experience including portals, reporting, and menu navigation. Security Services - Streamlinx security objects and methods provide flexible functional and data-level security. Data security can be implemented at the company, organization hierarchy, group, and user levels. Additional security rules can be applied for each database table for a given security policy to handle almost any security requirement. Reporting Engine - Streamlinx utilizes an open source reporting tool (JasperReports) to provide basic level HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV reporting functionality. Streamlinx reporting objects and methods extend the tool to allow end users to create, update and maintain their own reports. When executed, each report returns data that is secured according to the user's security policy. The reporting engine can access external data sources to combine data from multiple sources into a single report. Portals - Streamlinx contains a number of objects and methods to create multiple portals for groups and users. Portal can contain a wide variety of items including reports, data views, charts, metrics and links to other web sites. Search Engine - Streamlinx search engine contains objects and methods allowing users to search all or subsets of data to find information contained in the system. When a search is performed, any security restrictions defined for the user are applied to ensure data security. Quickbooks Pro Integration - Streamlinx provides objects and methods to synchronize data from one computer to another via a combination of HTTP, SOAP and XML technologies. These services allow remote users to synchronize data from PCs and laptops to a central server, and received updates from the server back to the remote PC/laptop. Auditing Services - Streamlinx auditing objects and methods to track changes to data at the table and field level. If required, a web statistics can be activated to capture user activity and system response times. Logging Services - Streamlinx logging objects and methods record messages, emails, errors and other user activity to provide visibility of system operations to the system administrator. Messaging Services - Streamlinx messaging objects and methods send notifications, alerts and other types of emails to users and/or groups based on changes to system information.