Helm Purchasing Manager™

As a purchasing agent for a marine transportation company you have a unique set of challenges unseen in other industries. You have an onshore warehouse, but each vessel in your fleet is another floating warehouse with its own inventory and lists of purchase requests. You need to be able to consolidate requests from multiple vessels into bulk orders while still keeping track of individual vessel inventory, including engine part inventory, which can differ from vessel to vessel. What’s more, you need an accurate database that can track inventory costs, so you can negotiate variable costs and manage your annual budget.

Helm Purchasing Manager™ was developed as a centralized system to organize all purchasing and inventory activity in one place. It allows you to reduce costs by automatically calculating minimum inventory levels and economic order quantities based on usage and lead-time requirements. You can track historical purchasing by part, by vendor, by vessel, and display preferred vendors to purchasing staff, so you can control spending, anticipate costs and forecast accurately. Helm Purchasing Manager™ will also track ETAs on all purchase orders as well as provide a documented paper trail to assist with any audits. And when integrated with Helm Maintenance Manager™ and Helm Onboard™ you can receive requests from crew on vessels and from maintenance staff automatically just like an email inbox. If you’re looking to make your purchasing & inventory department more efficient, Helm is a system you can really put stock in.

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