DISTRIBUTION & LIGHT MANUFACTURING
Assemble, kit and ship with full lot visibility.
ERP for distribution and light manufacturing
Manage your entire distribution and supply chain with Visibility ERP. Inbound sales orders arrive through order management integration instead of manual processing; scheduling, allocation, reservation and fulfillment run on deep functionality across material planning, procurement, warehouse management, logistics and shipping. Need end-to-end material traceability? Lot number, serial number and as-shipped configurations are tracked through the full order-to-cash cycle, including returns, quality, warehousing, brokers, RFQs, and contract sales and purchases.
Industry-specific functionality
Warehouse Management System
Purchase Order Processing
Location Control
Bar Code Data Collection
eCommerce Integration
Logistics and Shipping
Unit of Measure Management
Order Workflow Approvals
Material Review Board
LIFO, FIFO, Actual, Standard Costing
Sales Order Processing
Inventory Control
Cycle Counting
Receiving and Inspection
Physical Inventory
Mobile Material Planning
Lot Tracking
Requisition Processing
Available to Promise (ATP)
Quality Control
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
How distribution and light manufacturing runs on Visibility ERP
Sales order processing with available-to-promise, workflow approvals and CRM on the same record.
Material planning balances inventory investment against service levels.
Bar-code data collection and VisMobile run receiving, cycle counting and picking on the floor.
Warehouse, inspection and shipping close the loop from dock to invoice.
Business intelligence tracks cycle times, delivery performance, material aging and utilization.
Volume is not the constraint: on-premise or in the cloud, Visibility is production tested at thousands of orders, line items, shipments and invoices a day.
Dock to invoice without the gaps
Distribution economics are simple and unforgiving: margin is made or lost between the dock and the invoice, in allocation, picking, shipping and the inventory decisions behind them. Systems that treat distribution as an afterthought leak at each step.
Visibility ERP runs the full cycle. Inbound orders arrive through sales order processing with available-to-promise, workflow approvals and CRM on the same record. Material planning balances inventory investment against the service levels you actually promise customers. On the floor, the warehouse management system runs receiving, put-away, cycle counting and picking with bar-code data collection and VisMobile, so inventory records match the shelves. Inspection and shipping close the loop from dock to invoice: pick lists, packing lists, bills of lading with NMFC classifications and weights, shipping labels and certificates of origin generate from the shipment itself, for LTL and TL alike, with carrier integrations for UPS, FedEx, DHL and LTL carriers. Lot tracking carries traceability through the whole order-to-cash cycle, returns included.
Business intelligence keeps score on the metrics that matter here: cycle times, delivery performance, material aging and utilization.
Light manufacturing is still manufacturing
Assemble, kit and ship sounds simple until the kit has revisions, the assembly needs quality checks and a customer wants to know which lot went into last month's shipment. Visibility ERP treats light manufacturing as manufacturing: BOMs, work orders, quality and full lot visibility, with LIFO, FIFO, actual and standard costing so the books match how you value the goods.
And the volume holds up. On premise or in the cloud, Visibility is production tested at thousands of orders, line items, shipments and invoices a day.
Common questions from distributors and light manufacturers
Does Visibility ERP include a warehouse management system?
Yes. Location control runs to the bin level, definable by aisle, row, rack, shelf and bin, with directed put-away suggestions and location-confirmed picking via barcode scanning. Receiving and inspection, cycle counting and physical inventory run in the same system, not through a bolt-on WMS with its own database to reconcile.
Can warehouse work run on mobile devices?
Yes. VisMobile puts receiving, cycle counting, picking and material moves on tablets and handhelds, so transactions are recorded where the work happens.
What order volume can it handle?
Visibility ERP is production tested at thousands of orders, line items, shipments and invoices a day, on premise or in the cloud.
How fast can we go live?
Most implementations run four to six months, delivered by our in-house team. Since 1988 we have never had a failed implementation.
Cloud or on premise?
Both. The system is browser based, delivered as managed SaaS or installed on your own servers.
Ready when you are.
Bring your data and workflows. We'll show them running on Visibility ERP.