What is Boardsoft?

Boardsoft is a product designed specifically for the forest products industry that is a flexible, cost-effective solution which includes the Demand Capture to Demand Fulfillment modules and functionality with an emphasis on commodity-based, configured products.

Designed to fill the gaps conventional ERP systems do not address

Boardsoft includes functionality around Order Entry, Inventory, Scheduling, Logistics, and Transportation.

Boardsoft is built on Microsoft technology with custom adapters to a variety of systems. Our customers can choose to have the solution hosted for them, whereby they pay a subscription fee and pay for the software on a per user basis.

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Customer Self Service

  • Customer order inquiry

Customer Master Creation & Maintenince

  • Create and maintain attributes and rules for customers

Item Master Creation & Maintenince

  • Create and maintain attributes and rules for items

Quoting

  • Rapidly quote and capture customer orders in an attribute based fashion, with support for multiple unit-of-measure pricing as well as mill or delivered pricing.

Order Entry

  • Supports attribute-based items with an unlimited number of attributes
  • Allows variable pricing based on any attribute or unit of measure
  • Provides item (mill) and delivered pricing
  • Feature-rich order notes
  • Prints order acknowledgement
  • Capture external, intercompany, drop-shipped, VMI/CMI, credit, and quote orders
  • Supports customer self-service on order status or rail car position
  • Integration with legacy purchasing for finished goods or raw materials

Transportation Management

  • Integrated transportation with order management
  • Carrier self-service
    • Load tendering & acceptance
    • Shipment information
    • Shipment status
    • Shipment bidding
  • Zone-based routes for easier maintenance
  • Zone-based origins for easier maintenance
  • Supports Truck or rail routing
  • Automated freight rate computation for truck-load, railcar or LTL quantities
  • Automated application of freight surcharges

Scheduling

  • Attribute based scheduling to support batching of similar products to optimize equipment time.
  • Multiple scheduling options for each type of product line (lumber, panels).

Mfg/Inventory Creation

  • Provides a list of orders from which to create inventory and print tags (banding screen)
  • Supports the completion of lines and orders, either manually or automated
  • Provides lot tracking capabilities through inventory attributes
  • Inventory transformation from one finished good to another

Inventory Commitment

  • Tracks location of tagged units with items and attributes

Shipping

  • Allows shipping of tagged or untagged inventory
  • Consume inventory based on ship line quantities
  • Prints packing slip, pick list, and bill of lading
  • View inventory quantities and dynamically soft- or hard-commit inventory to orders
  • Provides staging via hard-commit inventory
  • Provides an advance ship notice to customers
  • Supports integration with scanners
  • Split lots to transform units into two half-units
  • Print pro-forma custom invoices

Invoicing

  • Invoicing at time of shipment with the option to auto-create invoices; issues/exceptions will be flagged for user review
  • Prints invoice

Availible to Promise

  • Real-time Available-To-Promise functionality based on outstanding orders, uncommitted on-hand inventory, and forecasted facility output
  • Forecast by product family, attribute, timeframe, and facility

Carrier Self Service

  • Carrier self service for load tendering and acceptance

Materials Planning

  • BOM maintenance
  • Raw material inventory (for discrete items)
  • Raw material demand generation
  • Integration to purchasing
  • BOM usage explosion and inventory reduction

Integration to Back Office Systems

  • Exchange credit information with AR system
  • Move invoice and accounting details to financials
  • Adaptable to existing systems with standardized interface for multiple systems

Document Management

  • Email/Fax/Print documents and reports

Reporting and Decison Support

  • Inquiry screens
  • Standard reports
  • Supports custom reporting through SQL Reporting Services

Global Application Features

  • External web search
  • Internal Application Search
  • Customizable Grids
  • Easy export/import using Excel
  • Form (menu), field, and row-level security