LILAC Inventory Software
Product Codes
Products are identified in the Inventory ledger by a Product Code comprising up to 16 alphanumeric characters. Any character from the printable ASCII character set including spaces, may be used in Product Codes. In general avoiding the use of excessive punctuation characters promotes keyboard efficiency.
Each Product Code has an associated Stock Account record which records full details, prices, description, units, sizes etc about the individual product.
The Product Code is the primary key used in sales, purchasing and many other processes which reference products for trade, manufacturing, estimating or a multiplicity of applications.
Ledger Account
A fully detailed transaction history of debits and credits is maintained for each and every Product Code where a debit represents an increase in the stock level and value, and a credit represents a decrease in the stock level and value at cost.
This history is maintained for an indefinite time, and in practice most customers retain two or more years of full detail in their LILAC Inventory ledger to permit historical analysis of stock movements, purchasing and sales.
Stock Take
Strong support is provided for "perpetual" stock take procedures using a Stock Take Zone concept which facilitates progressive revolving stock take based on geographic criteria.
Multiple Warehouses
Any number of distinct stock locations may be managed with facilities in the software for transfers and transshipments. Enquiries and reports allow stock levels at multiple locations to be quickly interrogated and cross-referenced.
Integrated CAD
LILAC includes a fully integrated Windows GUI based Computer Aided Design & Drafting facility which is enabled in the Stock Account document to provide the ability to create 2D sketches complete with dimensioning, and/or Constructive Geometry 3D models where appropriate.
eCommerce
The LILAC Inventory Ledger may be connected to Lennox Computer's Active Server HTML generator and web-site hosting software to implement an automatic on-line catalog presentation on the public Internet plus a fully featured "Shopping Basket" based eCommerce function.
Stock Account
Stock Take
