Yes - Herschel is loaded with modern material management techniques to help you control your stock. All stock movements are recorded by the system and anyone can immediately see the current stock levels of any item. But – no matter what package you use you’ll need to make sure that your staff are disciplined enough [...]
As each despatch note and purchase receipt is raised, its details are passed to the History module, which allows your staff to examine past sales and purchase records instantly. For example, if a customer calls to raise an order and asks how much they paid last time, the information can be recalled with just a few [...]
No problem at all, the Store module can record quantities from 999,999,999 down to 0.000001, and costs from 9,999,999 down to 0.000001, so most products can be accommodated. Herschel’s windows and reports use a cunning display method called “smart-formatting”. This shows only the number of decimal places needed to accurately portray a number and avoids [...]
Each of Herschel’s datafiles can hold up to 1,000,000,000 records. Herschel uses clever techniques like “indexing” and “Rushmore” to find the data it needs, so there is little, if any, noticeable slowing down of the system as the number of records increases. The system also has various "tune-up" options to keep it running like a [...]
The advanced Assemblies module can handle products with up to fifteen layers of sub-assemblies. Each layer can contain up to 9999 components. That's a lot of components.
Most companies spend ages working out what parts are needed and which works order requires which components. Herschel will make this area of your business so much easier you’ll wonder why on earth you ever did it the old way. When a works (manufacturing) order is raised in the Make module, Herschel looks in the [...]