Increase efficiency and reduce costs

We have decades of experience in managing logistics and supply chain processes for distributors. By automating your fulfilment processes and giving you real-time visibility and control, our multi channel solutions bring a dramatic improvement in the quality of information available to your customers, suppliers and employees.

You can create a proactive back office operation with total control over fulfilment processes, whether
you’re creating optimised picking and despatching processes, reducing stock-outs or improving collaboration via the web. This realtime responsiveness increases the overall speed and accuracy of your back-office operations.

Advanced warehouse management

Maginus includes in-depth warehousing capabilities to help you run a proactive warehousing operation, whether it’s a simple stockroom without location control or hundreds of thousands of square metres of space with full Radio Frequency (RF) warehouse automation. Maginus solutions provide intelligent assistance and analysis to improve the efficiency of warehouse and supply chain activities, from stock location and stock movements to replenishment and returns. You get total flexibility over warehouse mapping and storage definitions, full automation of internal stock movements, flexible control of stock counting, serial and batch number support, bar code and labelling support, bonded stock control, consignment stock management capabilities, back order management and open integration to third party warehousing systems.

Managers and supervisors get full visibility and control over warehouse operations from a central Warehouse Management Console. Maginus supports goods receipt via hand-held radio data terminals and includes directed put-away capabilities to improve space utilisation and productivity. You get full control of picking and packing activities as well as support for barcode scanning at packing stations. Maginus also enables staff to update warehouse-related product information to facilitate smooth warehousing operations.

Flexible replenishment

Maginus gives you flexible replenishment tools that help prevent stock-outs and ensure you can fulfil customer demand. Maginus supports a number of standard replenishment calculations, including order point, fixed forecast and dynamic forecast, as well as forecasts from Excel or specialist third-party applications, and any number of additional calculations using Maginus’ unique ‘plug-in’ technology. Maginus also enables full replenishment review control that helps users focus on exception management, problem areas and important products. The result is that your buyers can concentrate on negotiations with suppliers rather than mundane administration, adding greater value to your business.

Intelligent purchasing

Maginus gives you powerful functions to manage and automate the purchasing process so that your buyers can focus on more strategic activities, such as analysing supplier performance and controlling your product and service portfolio to maximise revenue and margins. Maginus can intelligently recommend purchase order plans based on order point calculations, demand, supplier lead-time, stock position, commitments and purchasing quantities. It also provides configurable purchase order authorisation with different capabilities and financial limits for different users.

Production scheduling

Maginus includes facilities for master production scheduling, fully integrated with the sales, purchasing and replenishment so that component supply to the assembly process forms part of your overall logistics and inventory management activities. You get full control over production planning with facilities to import details of manufactured products, set up a master production schedule, export the details and create work orders.
Maginus supports automatic and manually created work orders, integrates production planning with sales demand and replenishment, generates exception reports, supports kitting, and much more. A multi-level bill of materials covers set-up time, build time, costs, subcontractor assembly and your own production activities.

Outbound logistics

Maginus streamlines outbound logistics to improve the efficiency of delivery processes and ensure customer satisfaction in the last leg of the order to delivery process. Maginus manages delivery routes, with automatic assignment of customers to routes using postcode rules, and automatically produces labels and manifests in the format required for different carriers. You can run picking according to load plans to make best use of your vehicles, and interface directly with parcel carrier computer systems for real-time tracking and tracing of deliveries. Maginus also supports optical scanning and electronic proof of delivery.

Customer returns

Maginus lets you provide a fast, efficient returns process with total control over returning stock, RMAs and credit notes. Maginus lets you issue RMAs validated against the original sales order, despatch note or invoice, and check them against any existing customer warranties that apply. You can fax RMAs directly to customers and use Maginus to manage your own collection of returning goods. Maginus will manage disposition into a number of statuses according to its condition and generate credit notes based on the original RMA documents. Maginus also provides a complaints management module to manage customer satisfaction should things go wrong.

Find out more about Maginus' Advanced Distribution Software, powered by Microsoft Dynamics AX and how customers such as Smeg UK, IDS and Inmans Electrical benefit from Maginus Multi Channel Solutions.