Business Modules

Navision for Jewelers software is a true ERP computer software solution designed to run in concert with the industry standard Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems. The software helps clients within the jewelry manufacturing and distribution industries meet the unique challenges of weight-based, commodity-priced products where precious metal yields, lot control, toll accounting, memo billing, bar coding, imaging, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and multiple warehouse and multi-corporation locations are of paramount importance.

Key functionality within the core jewelry software business modules offered in Navision for Jewelers represent practical yet advanced software processes developed through years of on-going development specifically to provide clients with the necessary information to effectively and efficiently manage their jewelry manufacturing and jewelry distribution business and to make strategic business decisions.

The Navision for Jewelers application is divided into four distinct modules, click a module below to view full details.

Sales

Inventory/Production

Financial

Administrative

Sales Module:

	Sales Extractor Navision for Jewelers’ Sales Extractor is a powerful tool for sales managers. The Sales Extractor lets you generate sales analysis reports by accessing pertinent sales data from the Navision for Jewelers database. You can generate ad hoc reports on-the-fly, and can produce detailed sales reports by customer, product code, gross profit, region, salesperson and other essential criteria. Get a more in-depth view into your sales operations with Navision for Jewelers.
	Customer and Volume Pricing Navision for Jewelers’ inventory management solution lets you assign different prices for different types of customers. You can also assign different prices for wholesale, retail or online sales.
	Order Processing When a customer calls in with an order, you want to be able to record the order accurately and deliver it right the first time. Navision for Jewelers automates order entry, invoicing, back-orders, and handling of assortments and distribution orders. You get a complete order processing system that ensures that orders are recorded accurately, that the goods are shipped right the first time, and that orders are invoiced promptly.
	Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Receive orders from trading partners and respond with fully compliant acknowledgements and invoices electronically. Navision for Jewelers eliminates manual data entry and has been customized to meet most large retailers' EDI requirements.
	Memorandum Invoicing Create memorandum invoices for products shipped on consignment or finished goods samples to be returned or invoiced at a later date. Automatically invoice customers for consigned merchandise after it is sold. Inquiry capabilities by item, customer or aging let you quickly review the quantity of items on memo, quantity returned and quantity billed to date.
	Configurator / Estimator Save significant time and ensure the accuracy of your cost estimates. Define different stone and metal qualities for a specific product style and generate a complete components list with cost and sell prices. Quickly examine a range of "what if" scenarios with or without costs.

Inventory/Production Module:

	Production Packing Interface Integration with Fulfillment Facility Eliminate the need (and overhead) of warehouse facilities and staff and automate purchase order management. Navision for Jewelers lets you maintain required inventory stocking levels via a third-party fulfillment center, and provides a 'just-in-time' inventory solution that meets your retail trading partners’ rigorous requirements. Keep your customers satisfied and minimize inventory and warehouse costs.
	Pick & Pack with e-Ship Navision for Jewelers’ powerful new Pick-to-Scan module significantly reduces product shortages and overages. Using a handheld scanner, warehouse packers can scan a bar code on the sales order as well as each item as it is boxed. This enhanced module provides a quick and accurate account of items that have been boxed and which items are back-ordered, out-of-stock or discontinued. In addition, packers can immediately create shipping labels and UCC labels using this fully integrated solution. Optimize warehouse operations, reduce errors and maximize customer satisfaction with Navision for Jewelers.
	Warehouse Management System Navision for Jewelers dramatically improves accuracy, control, and productivity in all facets of warehousing operations. The software supports a low-cost state-of-the-art warehouse management system that uses high-performance laser bar code scanning technology and wireless handheld scanners. The warehouse management module provides real-time capture and sharing of inventory information at the receiving dock, and then immediately uses this data to optimize receiving, tracking, material movement and transfers, picking for sales orders, truck loading and routing, physical inventory, cycle counts and employee utilization.
	Precious Metals Management Update your precious metals (platinum, gold and silver) pricing at time of booking or shipment as well as agreed upon fixed-market pricing. Detailed management reports show your precious metals position by tracking issues, receipts, inventory withdrawals and shrinkage from finished goods manufacturing tasks.
	Costing / Production Tailor your pricing for specific customers and simplify annual product re-costing by tracking materials costs, labor costs, administrative, overhead, commission, profit and other factors. Whether you are a distributor that provides quotes to different customers or a manufacturer that quotes every job on a case-by-case basis, CAI's costing module lets you cost items by product category, item, customer or any combination of these variables.
	Inventory Control & Replenishment Get up-to-the-minute quantity status and detailed information on each item in your inventory. Set and maintain target finished goods and component inventory stock levels (including loose stones) and analyze usage trends. Automatically update stock records after every sale, purchase, return, commission, profit and transfer to keep inventory data current. With Navision for Jewelers’ inventory replenishment capability, you can ensure that you have enough product on hand to fill anticipated orders, while keeping excess stock to a minimum. Average lead time, historical or seasonal-based sales, and number of days' supply to stock are used to dynamically set reorder point and preferred stock level for each item.
	Customer and Production Tracking Streamline production scheduling and order tracking. Eliminate human error while expediting shipments and phone inquiries.
	Manufacturing / Job Bag Create work orders for production with bills of materials, work center routings, manufacturing specifications and images.
	Loose Stone Inventory Track your precious and semi-precious stones by piece or by weight. This valuable module contains full parcel management, and can be set up to accommodate an electronic scale interface.
	Electronic Scale Interface Monitor and accumulate diamond weight and other items as they travel from one work-in-process center to another in the production cycle.
	Bar Coding Facilitate production, lot tracking and more. Provide bar coded bill of materials, routing and manufacturing specifications on job tickets, bags for production order tracking, UPC labels and ring tags. Reduce handling time by printing bar code caster bags and scanning them into the jewelry software using bar code scanners (sold separately).

Financial Module:

	Accounts Receivable Manage your receivables to maximize cash flow and net profit. Promote and track sales, payments, and other activity with your customers. Record communications with customers and prompt credit managers for follow-up to help you get paid on time.
	Accounts Payable Record vendor transactions, write checks, and track vendor activity. Get better control over payables to your vendors with less time and effort.
	Bank Reconciliation Identify all paid checks and reconcile with your bank fast and accurately.
	General Ledger Access charts of accounts, balances, tax reporting and other up-to-date financial and accounting data and quickly produce attractive financial reports on demand to gain valuable business insight. Navision for Jewelers provides daily financial management tools, not just a once-a-month report. Instantly access every G/L amount and transaction, and set-up your accounts and sub-accounts to enhance your decision making, improve processing time and automate routine activities. With Navision for Jewelers, you can create accounting periods based on your fiscal and business cycle, manage bank accounts and cash and automate routines such as check-writing, bank statement reconciliation.
	Toll Accounting Track precious metals and provide an accurate accounting of your precious metals assigned to your vendor's location and your customer's precious metals assigned to you, including weight and dollar value.

Administrative Module:

	Direct Shipping Interface Navision for Jewelers lets you manage all of your shipments from your desktop—from origin to destination. You can quickly and easily extract sales order and shipping detail from Navision for Jewelers into a full range of third-party shipping companies, including UPS WorldShip and Federal Express. By enabling you to check all orders shipped, this fully integrated module enables Navision for Jewelers to perform all billing of outbound orders.
	Report Viewer Navision for Jewelers provides unmatched capabilities for viewing business reports. Navision for Jewelers puts your critical data at your fingertips with a new search capability that lets you quickly pinpoint specific records in a report. In addition, Navision for Jewelers facilitates sharing and e-mailing of reports that can be converted directly to Adobe PDF format.
	Paperless Document Management Scan, file, store, and retrieve documents, fast and efficiently. Navision for Jewelers is integrated with DataView RMS, a total Record Management System developed by MultiProcess Computer Corporation (MPCC). DataView RMS is designed to help you reduce costs, labor, paper and storage; locate documents instantly, prevent document loss, protect documents with image dating technology and restrict access by providing security. Misplaced or lost files are a thing of the past.
	Imaging Print full-color images on quote sheets, job bags and marketing literature. Comprehensive photo imaging capabilities let you view your photos on screen to help reduce errors.
	Open Database Access Access business data any time, anywhere through Microsoft® applications like Excel, Word or Access as well as other reporting tools.

With the goal of providing the ultimate in jewelry software flexibility within its jewelry manufacturing and jewelry distribution software systems, CAI has employed a sophisticated and, unique to the industry, concept of software parameterization. Through this technique, Computer Associates industry consultants are able to selectively activate individual jewelry software functionality features within the system that most suit the individual needs of any particular client. This amounts to a partial customization of the software to each individual clients unique requirements without the need for programming, which translates to a near custom system at the cost of a standard package.