INVENTORY & LOGISTICS MODULE

Datatex Inventory & Logistics module is part of the NOW ERP suite designed specifically for textile and apparel manufacturers. It provides full control over raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods across physical and logical warehouses, ensuring real-time visibility, traceability, and accurate stock valuation from yarn to finished garment.

With structured warehouse architecture, multi-unit measurement handling, and detailed lot-level tracking, the system enables manufacturers to manage complex textile inventory scenarios with precision and operational efficiency.

How Does Textile Warehouse Structure Work in Datatex ERP?

The system supports a structured warehouse hierarchy designed for textile complexity. It distinguishes between physical and logical warehouses, enabling companies to manage multiple sites, divisions, customers, and warehouse groups within a unified environment.

Warehouse structure includes:

• Physical warehouse management (warehouse, zone, bin level)

• Logical warehouse segmentation for operational and accounting purposes

• Consignment, transit, internal, customer, supplier, accounting, and Bill & Hold warehouses

• Multi-company and multi-division warehouse visibility

• Engineered bin configuration with picking, transfer, dock, or quality-control nature

• Bin priority, status control (active/blocked), and capacity constraints

This architecture ensures that every product is stored, located, and controlled according to operational and organizational requirements.

How Does the System Manage Lots, Rolls, Containers, and Multi-Unit Measurements?

Textile inventory management requires traceability beyond simple SKU control. Datatex ERP enables detailed tracking at multiple levels:

· Product number / SKU

· Quality level

· Lot and batch

· Container number

· Roll number / element

· Pieces and packaging units

The system supports multiple units of measure simultaneously, including kg/lb, meters/yards, pieces, cones, rolls, pallets, colors, sizes, and packages. Inventory balances can be managed across three units at once (e.g., weight, length, and packaging).

Additional capabilities include:

· Visibility by quality level for the same SKU

· Split and join element functionality with full traceability

· Container-level and roll-level tracking

· Partial entries and issues per location

· Barcode label printing and scanning

This ensures precise traceability from raw fiber and yarn to greige, finished fabric, or apparel.

How Does Inventory Availability and Allocation Work?

How Does Inventory Availability and Allocation Work?

The Inventory module provides advanced stock availability logic tailored to textile operations.

Key capabilities include:

• User-definable stock types (on hand, reserved, allocated, transit, etc.)

• Multiple user-defined availability formulas

• Negative stock management logic

• Multi-company and multi-warehouse analysis

• Drill-down from company level to warehouse, location, lot, or element

• Allocation to production orders, customers, or other warehouses

• Reservation management per customer or project

• Matrix-based inquiry (e.g., color-size grid for apparel)

These tools allow manufacturers to make informed production and purchasing decisions based on accurate, real-time availability.

How Are Warehouse Transactions and Transfers Controlled?

The system manages all warehouse movements with full traceability and document control.

Warehouse transaction features include:

• Internal orders and bill of lading management

• Warehouse and bin-level transfers

• User-defined warehouse transaction codes

• Single or multiple entry, issue, and transfer by quantity, lot, container, or element

• Product name, lot number, roll number, and container number updates

• Quality level downsize handling

• Printed bar-coded labels and documentation

Every movement is recorded and traceable, ensuring operational transparency and audit readiness.

How Does Inventory Valuation and Stock Take Support Financial and Operational Control?

Accurate inventory management also requires financial visibility.

The system supports:

• Inventory valuation by standard cost, last cost, average estimated cost, or average period cost

• LIFO inventory evaluation

• Cost visibility at product, lot, element, and quality level

• Simultaneous stock take across warehouses

• Stock take by location or product

• Authorization management for inventory counting

• Label scanning and barcode capturing

This integration between operational inventory and accounting ensures consistency between physical stock and financial reporting.

How Does Material Replenishment Improve Production and Planning?

The Inventory module supports automated replenishment and planning alignment.

Capabilities include:

• Automatic calculation of order points

• Minimum and maximum safety stock level management

• Replenishment policies aligned with production demand

• Interoperability with Production and Planning modules for purchasing and supply coordination

By connecting inventory control with planning and production, the system reduces stock discrepancies, prevents shortages, and optimizes working capital.