CompuPlants Platinum

In CompuPlants Platinum, each module is packed with features and flexibility to give you a power packed nursery management system, providing maximum processing capability for your nursery. Design your own custom forms with the award winning design report writing tool. Awarded #1 in the class of report writing tools in 2004. Easy to use interface component wins award for company of the year and #1 in the category of interface components. View, fax, and email near laser quality from anywhere you can get an internet connection. Available on multiple operating system platforms.

Base Package

Inventory Tracking and Availability base package maintains and tracks all information regarding saleable inventory for current and projected future periods in an easy to use perpetual inventory database.

Product Catalog

Multi part product code. On-the-fly screen availabilities for color assortments and hardiness, as well as full, partial, and wildcard searches on any single field or combination of fields. Real time customer sales and supplier purchase screen inquiries. Purchase Order entries create real time additions to product catalog, and track product received from suppliers.

Inventory Control

Unlimited number of availability dates by product. Fully detailed growing cycle information. Automatic calculation of inventory transactions for propagation, movements, shifts, and losses for every product. Special screen allows you to see all inventory, production reserve and sales information at a glance. The Transplants Scanning add on module interfaces with Inventory Control, allowing you to see your entire inventory no matter where you are. Inventory, orders, and picklists can all be created and adjusted away from the office, via Pocket PC using barcode scanning in the field.

Order Entry

Sales order system that keeps detailed, real-time records of all orders, allowing you to track orders by customer, projected ship date, inventory ready dates, and master order reservation. Easy to use customizable data entry and report generator for quotations, acknowledgements, confirmations, invoices, credit memos, and more. Automatically adjusts for changes in inventory status or ship/add dates in real time. Pricing flexibility includes routines for trade class, volume ordering, specials, and truckload discounts. Keeps constant track of plant shipments by customer for orders spread over several weeks or months, and confirms orders only for inventory that is ready to sell. Records ship-to, bill-to, and credit information, and flags accounts over credit limit. Add orders on the fly to master tie-offs. Automatic item and quantity changes. Automatic or custom order numbering. Unlimited number of items on order. Handles special customer note and barcode requirements - UPC and SKU# fields by item. Assortments automatically consolidated on invoices. Interfaces with Order Distribution - update truck, drop, and picking sequences at the touch of a key.

Order Distribution

Automatic order assembly, pull sequencing, and truck building. Quickly and efficiently produces all necessary shipping paperwork, calculates freight and drop charges. Allows assembly of products by truck, consolidating and creating picklists by order and single or multiple trucks. Prints shipping manifests, load lists, and truck summaries. Includes truck broker and load time information. Automatically calculates order volumes so you always know how much space you have left to fill a truck. Includes trip and truck instruction fields for every load. Unlimited number of drops per truck.

Sales Analysis

A complete and sophisticated report generator that allows you complete, customizable control over your sales activity. Reprints invoices. Examine open, invoiced, master, canceled, and credit orders by product, customer, or sales representative, in a variety of report combinations.

Purchase Orders

Fully integrates vendors with product. Immediately enters plant purchase into availability. Handles master purchase orders. Allows vendor/product analysis. Integrates with growing and selling inventory. At-a-glance inquiry screens show product sales and vendor purchase information.

Accounting Package

The Accounting package provides a complete set of tools to give you the information you need to make profitable decisions about your operation - general ledger, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable - and a complete chart of accounts for instantaneous financial information about your nursery. The industry's first accounting module which allows full cost control and reporting capabilities for nursery operations. Unlike the "band-aid" approach of commercial, consumer-oriented accounting packages, where you have to be a programmer to extract data you need, here you have it all - one package, complete financial controls - tailored to the dynamic needs of the nursery operation. Designed by an accountant and operations planner with over twenty five years of nursery experience.

Accounts Payable

Automatic check generation. Includes as-needed, user-defined manual check generation. At-a-glance look at vendor information. Includes last payment and current balance owed. Easily edited cash disbursement list shows detailed information on what is owned to whom. Complete bank reconciliation functions which allows for unlimited voucher distributions to specific accounts. Many informational reports.

Accounts Receivable

User-defined credit limit flags via extensive date-defined customer information. Statements and invoices designed to run on your own letterhead or on a preprinted form. Automatic routine for calculating, editing and posting service charges. Apply cash receipts by customer invoice or by product. Over twenty custom reports.

General Ledger

Complete, full-featured G/L reporting module for Income Statement and Balance Sheet preparation, reporting, and analysis. Interim financials reporting at your fingertips via trial close functions. User defined, customizable cost grouping and coding. All costs maintained and allocated on a perpetual basis.

Additional Individual Modules

Commissions

Quickly and accurately calculates sales commissions by sales representatives with any one of three methods: percent by order/sales representative, percent by product, or amount by product.

Costing

Manages inventory by the group costing method. Inventory relief done on a FIFO basis under the GAAP "test of consistency" basis. Calculates over cycle costs via plant dates. Projects costs at maturity which allows you to determine if the production of the plant is profitable on current market conditions.

Payroll

Allows for automatic and manual check generation. Multiple hire/termination date fields. Unlimited number of work activities per employee per accounting period. Automatic federal, state, SDI, and FICA tax computations. I-9 and Social security information and tracking. Many payroll and disbursement reports for accurate accounting. Tracks employees births and anniversaries.

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange software which is customizable for all major vendors processing orders and payments electronically. EDI for Lowes, Home Depot, WalMart, and Costco, is currently installed at multiple sites.

Bar Code Labels

Directly print to Zebra printer from within CompuPlants Platinum. Create labels by location, order, product, and lot.

Transplants Scanning

Utitilizing various models of Symbol Pocket PC scanners, you can now see your entire inventory no matter where you are. Inventory, orders, and picklists can all be created and adjusted away from the office. Using barcodes (optional) you can also speed up data entry by location or product, and reduce errors. Available for use in wireless or batch mode. All modules include growing calculator, plant count calculator, and plant search with notes.


Beginning Inventory

For customers just starting the inventory system, or for those that prefer to clear their inventory each sales cycle. This program contains your plant master file with a quick easy plant name lookup making hand writing long names a thing of the past.

Recount Inventory

Implements a modified cycle counting for periodically reviewing and updating the inventory counts, working with existing inventory. A complete list of items can be downloaded to the PDA, saving time by not having the write the products, locations, and sell dates. Includes plant counting calculator.

Physical Inventory

Designed for once a year counting practice for a full reconciliation of counted inventory to existing inventory. Server programs provide a comparison of this year's count against previous year's count.

Transaction Inventory

Allows you to record inventory changes as they happen. Records losses, shifts/transplants, adjustments, and movements. Includes growing calculator.

Availability

Creates lists of items for sale, such as favorites of the week, just in time, and specials.

Picklists


Propagation


Order Entry and Order Loading


Individual Rack and Lot Counting