FOR CONTROL OF YOUR INVENTORY, ORDERS, AND BILLING

Items and raw materials

• Item code up to 30 characters with possible version management extension with additional coding up to 15 characters. The lengths applicable per segment can be customized via system settings. Version management is not mandatory.
• French and English description of the item up to 120 characters in the “Item” file and up to 120 characters in the “Version” file. Possibility of generating a combined description in the presence of version and warehouse management when inserting the item into a document.
• Items are classified according to four types: Raw material, Finished product, Semi-finished product (assembled), and Other. These four types modulate the behavior of certain software options available from the “Item” tab. For example, the “Material list” option is only available for finished and semi-finished products.
• Each item can be associated with an item category. The list of available categories is customizable and unlimited. In addition to being used for statistical and analytical purposes, item categories are frequently used in the management of specific taxes on specific products.
• Each item can be assigned a physical location (BIN) for quick retrieval in the warehouse. This physical location is also used by the physical inventory feature to structure the process on the shop floor.
  
• Serial number management can be activated per item as needed. The rigor of this feature, combined with the transactional accuracy of the software, enables the implementation of precise traceability of finished products. For example, it allows you to find out which product was delivered to which customer on what date and at what location. When integrated with CTRL/Clinic in a healthcare context, this precision inventory management supports and integrates the medical concept of “DIN” so that you can quickly find and list which patients may have consumed a specific batch of a given medication.
• A reference selling price, or base price, can be defined per item, as well as the applicable currency. However, a price configurator allows the final price to be adjusted according to a wide variety of contexts. This advanced configurator can operate on a specific item basis or according to customized combinations of several dimensions: customer, supplier, item category, warehouse, territory, catalog, day of the week, application period, amount and quantity range (transaction volume), etc. It offers virtually unlimited flexibility while operating within a rigorous, standardized, and automated framework.
• Each item has a base inventory unit, sales unit, and purchase unit proposed according to the nature of the operation and transaction. Multi-unit management is complemented by dynamic conversion between the units involved in a transaction. For example, you store and manage by the dozen (DOZ), but you purchase by the pallet (PAL) of four dozen, so when the pallet is received, the software applies the conversion and adds four dozen to stock.
• Definition of purchasing characteristics by supplier per item. No limit on the number of possible suppliers per product. This option allows you to manage coding equivalencies between a product's internal coding and its external equivalencies, reciprocal to each of the possible suppliers. These equivalents are directly used when creating purchase orders in order to use the specific coding of the selected supplier. When there are different suppliers for the same product, a “Priority” field allows you to identify the supplier to be used as a priority. The feature also provides a link to the manufacturer's part numbers.
• Possible definition of an economic quantity of purchases (raw materials) or manufacturing (finished and semi-finished products) per item. This information is retrieved by the buyer or production manager to determine the optimal purchase or manufacturing quantity in terms of cost amortization, e.g., transportation or associated with the complexity of the manufacturing process (“Setup/Release Time”).
• The last cost and average cost of an item, as well as their respective associated currencies, are managed in real time and can be viewed in the “Item” file at any time. The last cost information, which is linked to the last purchase or production of the item, is supplemented with the date on which the information was updated.
• Each item has an activity status, which is used in the various documents managed. The software comes with the standard statuses “Active,” “Pending,” and ‘Inactive’ (archived). However, this list is fully customizable and unlimited. For example, the “Inactive” status will be frequently used for obsolete or discontinued items. With CTRL/Smigg's information security, it is possible to configure each user's work environment to give them access only to the statuses they need to access for their job.
• The “Reference” tab in the “Item,” “Version,” and ‘Warehouse’ files offers 15 additional reference fields for customized information management that can be used to manage special needs. The label associated with each “Reference” field can be customized according to the company's needs through CTRL/Smigg.
• Each “Item” record offers a “Comment” field allowing for 99 pages of text (8.5 x 11) with the availability of the standard RTF editor from CTRL/Smigg. The CTRL application platform also allows the insertion of timestamps for rigorous tracking of each annotation made per item.
• Real-time consultation of quantities in stock, on order (purchase), minimum quantity, reserved quantity (sale/manufacturing), and net available quantity directly on the “Item” file.
• Inventory value and cost of goods sold managed according to the “average cost” approach. The latter is constantly adjusted according to all transactions made daily on an item. The interactive adjustment of the average cost of items is entirely controlled by the transaction code and can be enabled or disabled depending on the nature of the transaction through configuration settings. Flexible management is possible, as explained in the “Open transactional and document architecture” section.
  
• Global or item-by-item transaction history that allows you to analyze all transactions made on the item according to various criteria, including using the “Filter” function in CTRL/Smigg. It is very easy and quick to find, for example, the owner of a specific item using only the serial number.
• Item/Version record import utility. This function allows, for example, the import of a product catalog on CD from a supplier.
• Utility for importing transactions from an external system with integrity validation and exception and error reporting. For example, a weighing system.
• Numerical and alphabetical list of items offering interactive drill-down by version.
• List of items by category offering interactive drill-down by version.
• List of items by warehouse and list by item category by warehouse offering interactive drill-down by version.
• List of items by supplier, including selection criteria based on the supplier (distributor) part number, manufacturer code, and manufacturer part number. These criteria allow for more detailed searches as needed.
• Inventory evaluation reports allowing inventory to be evaluated on a specific date, which may be prior to the current date. This recursive accounting feature eliminates the constraints and limitations frequently encountered at the end of the fiscal year. Three presentation and analysis groupings are available: by warehouse, by item category, and by transaction code. These reports offer interactive drill-down capabilities that allow you to interactively view the details of the summary value displayed for a more in-depth analysis of the information.
• Several reports analyzing inventory transactions from different angles: by date, transaction code, item, item category, warehouse, stakeholder (customer/supplier), document, project, etc.
• Reports to support periodic physical inventory, structured by warehouse and location (BIN), if these inventories are done on paper and not by using a barcode reader and direct integration with the central database.
• Several comparative usage statistics reports for “year, month, period”: by item, by item category, by company, by stakeholder, etc. By combining the appropriate criteria, several common inventory management questions can be answered: Which items are we no longer selling and should be disposed of quickly? What is the overall sales volume or sales volume of a given item generated by a customer during the year? What is our overall purchase volume or purchase volume of a given item from a supplier for the year, on average per month or for a specific period, etc.?

 
Finished products, semi-finished products, and MATERIALS LIST

• Management of multi-level material lists for “Finished Product” and “Semi-finished” items.
  
• Configurable automatic explosion for direct insertion into a document when entering the item or when generating a secondary document (e.g., sales order that is directly converted into a production order).

 
Multi-warehouse management

• Complete and transparent multi-warehouse management including, among other things: the definition of an unlimited number of warehouses using distinctive coding of up to 6 characters.
• The same item can be associated with a different “BIN” code per warehouse as needed. Each warehouse can therefore be subdivided into several physical locations.
• Warehouse transfer functionality to support rapid item transfer management, for example, from a central warehouse to distribution branches, each branch being a warehouse in itself.
  
• Inventory valuation by warehouse at any time.

 
Physical inventory taking

• Physical inventory taking function with a work interface for use with wireless mobile barcode readers.
• List of items to be inventoried by warehouse, by selection of “BIN” code intervals or by item category to suit the approach recommended on the shop floor.
• Interactive validation of location anomalies to allow, if necessary, the replacement of misplaced items. The system detects, for example, the redundant entry of an item or the presence of the same product in two different locations.
• Possibility of ad hoc grouping of items during inventory taking, for example, to isolate certain exceptional items to be reviewed at the end of the process.
• Interactive or deferred transactional inventory adjustment with full accounting integration.
• The use of mobile Wi-Fi readers combined with interactive transactional adjustment mode allows for the implementation of a permanent inventory process.

SALES ORDERS

• Seamless, integrated management of business quotes and sales orders. The quote becomes a sales order simply by changing the status of the document after customer approval. Items on the order are then automatically reserved in inventory.
• Sales order and invoicing of standard or special products, with the option of inserting a comment line.
• Possibility of implementing approval levels before releasing a sales order for delivery or production.
• Pricing configurator for defining pricing rules according to a combination of different criteria: item category, version, warehouse, customer territory, customer and project category. Pricing can be configured according to a quantity interval, a date interval and a particular day to facilitate management of special sales contexts: special promotion during a fixed period, automatic discount for customers in a particular category, volume discount, % discount on a given item category, etc.
• Possibility of attaching external digital documents complementary to the sales order (e.g. plans, drawings, specifications, etc.) with integrated digital document viewer for immediate consultation and browsing of the list of attached documents. The viewer is also integrated into Windows® Explorer, so you can quickly open and edit an attached document in its native editor (e.g. MS-Word®, MS-Excel®, Adobe® PDF, etc.).
• Option to quickly update historical order prices to the latest current prices.
• Full integration with CTRL/Project for automatic WIP and revenue allocation by project. Fully supported project-based holdback management.
• In the presence of CTRL/Project, the management of progress and customer deliverables according to progress is rigorously managed by command line.
• The "Bill of Materials" functionality supports a "Sales Kit" mode, enabling the definition of an unlimited number of sales assemblies. This feature speeds up the creation of complex sales orders, by requiring only the "Kit" code to trigger order insertion and completion. Combined with the option of converting a sales order into a purchase order, the use of the "Sales Kit" concept makes it possible to manage "made-to-order" manufacturing. The function offers two modes: multiplication of "Kit" retail quantities according to the quantity of the main product entered, or without multiplication.
• Communication language definable per sales order. The default language is initialized by the language of the customer file associated with the order. Document production for the customer then takes advantage of his communication preference.
• Salesperson identification by sales order. In addition to being used for sales statistics, the "Salesperson" field can also be used to apply a specific work window configuration per salesperson via CTRL/Smigg. The sales rep then sees only his files.
• Territory identification by sales order. Useful for territorial distribution statistics of potential and actual sales. Also facilitates reseller network management by allowing efforts to be directed to a given territory as required. Territory is a key piece of information when setting up a centralized sales management system for an international company. The work windows of each branch associated with a country can be optimized to present only their specific sales files.
• Carrier identification by sales order. This function allows you to quickly consolidate the delivery of orders deliverable by carrier to the shipping dock.
• Ability to specify delivery address and billing address per sales order. These addresses are initialized by default with the address of the customer linked to the order.
• Delivery date can be defined per order line. This feature makes it possible to manage future deliveries with precision, and adds nuance to the suspense management analysis.
• Standardized order forms (global) or customized by customer as required. Any customized form can be designed and adjusted via the CTRL/Smigg "Report and Form Generator" module.
• Listing and analysis of pending sales orders, offering multiple selection criteria for analysis from different management angles.

INVOICING

• Partial and progressive invoicing of orders, with rigorous tracking of backordered items (B.O.).
• Invoicing and payment methods integrated into the billing process, allowing the user to select the applicable method (account, cash, cheque, visa, etc.) according to the customer's situation. A default mode can be defined in the CTRL/Finance customer file.
• Over-the-counter billing functionality with the option of using barcode scanners to speed up the process. This function can be supported by the company's existing Retail Distribution component, while remaining fully integrated into a project management context if required. For example, a company offering both specialized professional services and the sale of spare parts for repair. The function is also fully integrated with sales orders, making it possible to create an order upstream and process it later from counter invoicing. This latter feature enables an order to be taken over the phone and invoiced when the customer visits the counter to take delivery.
• Possibility of managing repeat invoicing via a definable frequency per sales order, with the flexibility of distinguishing a start amount, a repeat amount and an end amount (balance). The function can also be used to limit recurring invoicing to a given period. This feature makes it possible to manage "monthly rental" type invoicing, whether for equipment rentals or building rents.
• Tax configuration tool for managing different tax scenarios within a single order. The configuration tool allows you to manage both differences related to product type and specific features related to the tax jurisdiction of the sale's delivery location.
• Invoicing summary window for adjusting accounting parameters such as invoice due date.
• Invoices can be reproduced (reprinted) at any time.
• Full integration with CTRL/Finance (sales journal, accounts receivable and cost of goods sold). The concept of "accounting distribution" enables you to operate transparently in both complex and very simple accounting contexts. The software operates from the individual to the global, with twelve potential criteria for defining the accounting assignment of a transaction.
• Invoice forms can be standardized (global) or customized by customer as required. Any customized form can be designed and adjusted using CTRL/Smigg's Report and Form Generator module.
• In the presence of CTRL/File, all native and stakeholder-related contacts are presented for e-mailing orders or invoices.

PRICE REQUESTS AND PURCHASE ORDERS

• Definition of purchasing characteristics by supplier per item. No limit on the number of suppliers per product. This option enables you to manage coding equivalents between a product's internal coding and its external equivalents, reciprocal to each of the possible suppliers. These equivalents are directly exploited when creating purchase orders, in order to use the specific coding of the selected supplier. In the case of different suppliers for the same product, a "Priority" field identifies the supplier to be used first.
• Definition of an economic purchasing quantity (raw materials) or manufacturing quantity (finished and semi-finished products) per item. This information is retrieved by the buyer or production manager to establish the optimum purchase or manufacturing quantity in terms of cost amortization, e.g., transport or associated with the complexity of the manufacturing process ("Setup / Release Time").
• Management of purchase and receiving orders for standard or special products, with the option of inserting a comment line.
• Communication language definable per purchase order. The default language is initialized by the language of the supplier file associated with the order.
• Possibility of specifying a different purchase and delivery address for each purchase order.
• Global delivery date per order, definable per order line if required. This feature makes it possible to manage future deliveries with precision, and also enhances the suspense management analysis.
• Buyer identification per purchase order. If you have a team of several buyers, this "Buyer" field can be used to separate and distribute purchases by purchasing specialty, or simply to distribute the workload. This approach is implemented via a specific configuration of work windows for each buyer, using CTRL/Smigg. Each buyer then only sees the RFQs and purchase orders assigned to them.
• Management of price requests to suppliers from the purchase order. The software enables you to send a request for quotation simultaneously to several targeted suppliers by e-mail from the same purchase order. Once the final supplier has been selected, the pending purchase order is adjusted and converted into a formal, active purchase order simply by modifying its status. The "On order" indicator for items on the purchase order is then increased.
• Price configurator for defining purchase pricing rules according to a combination of different criteria: item category, version category, warehouse, customer territory, supplier category and project category. Pricing can be configured according to a quantity interval, a date interval and a particular day, to facilitate the management of special agreements with a given supplier. The configurator's interactive application enables the buyer to quickly issue a purchase order without having to worry about the prices to be entered, as these are automatically proposed by the software according to the selected supplier.
• Blanket order management simplified and facilitated via the price configurator within a pre-negotiated price framework (e.g.: open order) with a supplier. A "Stakeholder Price Configurator" option directly at the header of the RFQ and purchase order enables you to consult the negotiated price agreement with a supplier at any time.
• Possibility of attaching external digital documents complementary to the sales order (e.g. plans, drawings, specifications, etc.) with integrated digital document viewer for immediate consultation and browsing of the list of attached documents. The viewer is also integrated into Windows® Explorer, so you can quickly open and edit an attached document in its native editor (e.g. MS-Word®, MS-Excel®, Adobe® PDF, etc.).
• Option to generate a purchase order directly from a sales order. This feature is very useful when the company operates by special order for each customer. Through automation, this option eliminates the need to manually create a purchase order identical to the sales order.
• Charge Configurator for managing different charges within a single order. The configurator can be used to manage both product type and tax territory differences.
• In the presence of CTRL/Project and project management, purchase order management validates the budgetary parameters of each project, notifying the creator of a purchase order if it exceeds the planned budget. Validation flexibility includes displaying a message only, blocking the order completely, and defining a tolerance percentage for possible overruns. In addition, this type of validation can be defined and specified by "Project-Activity-Extra".
• When CTRL/Project is selected, the entire program is modulated according to the notion of project, and all available analyses can be carried out for a given project. For example, it is possible to find out about outstanding purchase orders (commitments) linked to a specific project.
• Integration with CTRL/Project's "Purchasing and Subcontracting Tracking" module enables profitability to be analyzed by project, by integrating the project's open orders. Management of commitments and de-commitments is automatic and transparent, with full integration of CTRL/Product and CTRL/Project.
• Analysis of items to be ordered. Produced and analyzed at any time, the software can suggest a list of items to order based on the net quantity available in inventory: In stock + On order - Reserved - Minimum Qty. This analysis also offers a recommendation based on the economic quantity of purchases.
• A list of pending purchase orders offering several selection criteria for analysis from different management angles.
• Basic forms (global) or customized by purchase order supplier. Possibility of different forms by type of purchasing document (RFQ, final order, etc.). Reprinting of purchase orders and receiving slips possible at any time. Any personal form can be designed using the CTRL/Smigg "Report and Form Generator" module.

MERCHANDISE RECEPTION AND PURCHASE INVOICES

• Partial and progressive receipt of orders, with rigorous tracking of open items (O.I.).
• Purchase receipt summary window allowing you to adjust certain accounting parameters, such as the purchase invoice due date. You can set whether or not financial information is displayed in the confirmation summary window.
• Management of "Progressive" or "Final" deductions. Four possible configurations: "None", "Before tax", "After tax", "Distributed after tax" in project management contexts where there is a high volume of subcontracting. The holdback is then paid only on full receipt of the subcontractor's services and goods.
• Final closing function for uncompleted orders. This option enables you to complete, i.e. close, an order when there are still quantities to be processed and outstanding. This option can operate in batch mode (list of orders) from a random selection of orders. Partial cancellation of an order is possible in two ways: either by entering a negative quantity and amount directly on a detail line, or by using the "Reverse processed quantity" option, which reverses a selected line.
• Full integration with CTRL/Finance (purchase journal and accounts payable). The notion of accounting distribution enables you to operate transparently in both complex and very simple accounting contexts. The software operates from the individual to the global, with twelve potential criteria for defining the accounting assignment of a transaction.
• CTRL/Finance's "Supplier Batch Payment" function integrates the notion of "Invoice in Approval". These are automatically excluded from the payment batch, but the visual indicator also enables administrative staff to follow up as necessary with the internal stakeholder linked to the purchase invoice, e.g. a project manager.
• Possibility of managing purchase order and/or purchase invoice (supplier payment) approval processes by administrative or project manager (project manager). Combined with the flexibility and interactive, dynamic filtering capabilities of the CTRL/Smigg platform, each user involved in the management of a purchasing component can operate within a controlled framework. Example: Can only manage and intervene in projects for which he/she is responsible. Can only intervene on purchase orders of a given type. Can only view and intervene on purchase orders with a given status, etc. All this flexibility makes it possible to computerize any particular purchasing process in a single software solution.
• Purchase orders and invoices can be managed entirely in the digital domain, thanks to a document viewer integrated into the CTRL/Smigg platform.
• Integration with analysis reports and the CTRL/Project "Purchasing and subcontracting follow-up" module, where available. CTRL/Product dynamically feeds the notions of commitment and holdback into the project management context.
• When CTRL/File is present, all native contacts linked to the stakeholder involved are presented for sending orders or invoices by e-mail.

MANUFACTURING ORDER

• Management of finished and semi-finished products by multi-level bill of materials ("BOM") available on an item of this type. Minimum inventory level to be maintained and economic production quantity definable per finished and semi-finished product.
• Production order management with exploded or non-exploded insertion of the bill of materials into the production order, with automatic multiplication of the bill of materials according to the quantity to be manufactured. Every active production order for a finished or semi-finished product automatically increases the order quantity of the item in question. Once production has been completed, the item's stock entry is reduced to its order quantity. The current production quantity of a finished or semi-finished product is therefore always known.
• Possibility of attaching external digital documents complementary to the sales order (e.g. plans, drawings, specifications, etc.) with integrated digital document viewer for immediate consultation and browsing of the list of attached documents. The viewer is also integrated into Windows® Explorer, so you can quickly open and edit an attached document in its native editor (e.g. MS-Word®, MS-Excel®, Adobe® PDF, etc.).
• Depending on the company's optimal manufacturing approach, the production planning process can be structured into the following stages:

1. Analysis and release of manufacturing orders for finished products, which trigger the reservation (requirements) of first-level semi-finished products.
2. Analysis and release of manufacturing orders for subsequent levels of semi-finished products, which also trigger the requisition (reservation) of required raw materials.
3. Analysis and release of supplier purchase orders for additional raw materials.

• Complete control by the production manager of the release and launch of the production order on the floor. By managing the status of the production order, the manager can set up a preparatory and approval stage for potential production orders with his team, and keep the final activation of the order under his responsibility. In this type of context, the filtering capabilities of CTRL/Smigg mean that each person involved can see and act only on production orders of a given status and/or under his or her responsibility. In this way, the production manager can be the only one to see and change the status of a production order from "To be approved" to "Active" (released), if necessary.
• In context, and with CTRL/Project present, each production order can become a project for analyzing the cost of manufacturing a finished product (material and labor), thus meeting two frequent needs: detailed analysis of production costs and profitability of a made-to-order production (customer-specific), or launch of a pilot production order to validate the standard cost of a finished product in inventory on a periodic basis.
• Unique identification (ID) per batch can be used in the form of a barcode, or QR code, for traceability purposes, and to speed up production start-up and putaway via barcode scanners on the factory floor (workstation) and in the warehouse.
• Generation and association of a sequence of serial numbers for finished and semi-finished products entering inventory. The item uniqueness thus created is then exploited throughout the item's life cycle for various purposes: customer identification in the event of a product recall for a potentially dangerous aspect, return of merchandise (RMA) for repair, etc. This traceability feature is particularly relevant in a medical context, where the serial number acts as a "DIN" reference.
• Simplified management of made-to-order requirements, thanks to an automated system that quickly transforms a detailed sales order into a requisition (reservation) of the finished and semi-finished products and raw materials required for manufacturing.
• Analysis of finished and semi-finished products to be manufactured, i.e. below the recommended minimum inventory threshold.
• List of current manufacturing orders and their production status.
• Analysis of the cost price and profitability of make-to-order production.

• The Document Management module supports the management of customized documents that complement the standard basic documents delivered with CTRL/Product: sales order, purchase order, requisition and production order. Any type of customized document created and managed with the module benefits from all the functional possibilities of standard documents.
• Document coding of up to ten characters is available, with the additional possibility of defining a coding prefix by document type.
• Document type configurator to define the transactional impact according to document type, as well as the interrelationships between several documents forming part of an operational chain of nested documents. A master document then generates a secondary document, and there is no limit to the number of documents in a chain. Combined with CTRL/Smigg's flexible interface customization, CTRL/Product can therefore support any special internal process, simple or complex.
• Possibility of assigning one color per document type. This feature enhances the user's operational efficiency by enabling him to quickly identify each type of document in the various basic work windows (sales orders, purchase orders and general documents). This simplifies visual identification of priority documents for processing.
• Possibility of attaching external digital documents complementary to the sales order (e.g. plans, drawings, specifications, etc.) with integrated digital document viewer for immediate consultation and navigation through the list of attached documents. The viewer is also integrated into Windows Explorer, so you can quickly open and edit an attached document in its native editor (e.g. MS-Word, MS-Excel, Adobe PDF, etc.).
• Possibility of customizing several operational labels to make them specific to each type of document and thus better distinguish them.
• Partial or complete cancellation of a document already processed. Two possible approaches: either enter and process a negative quantity and amount directly on a detail line, or use the " Reverse processed quantity " function, which reverses the entire processed quantity, either for the entire document or for a selected line.
• Global or specific form by document type. For special documents, the CTRL/Smigg report generator is usually used to design PDF or printed forms specific to each type of document.
• A list of pending documents offering multiple selection criteria for analysis from different management angles.

• Fully open transactional architecture enabling the creation and management of customized transaction codes and the configuration of their impact on inventory base accumulators, project management and accounting management.
• Completely open digital document architecture enabling the creation and management of customized document types to complement the standard types delivered for sales, purchasing and manufacturing. The transactional impact of each document type can be configured, either at the time of its creation and processing, via the association of applicable transaction codes in the context of the process to be managed. This document flexibility means that any special internal process can be easily managed via CTRL/Product.
• Possibility of attaching external digital documents to the sales order (e.g. plans, drawings, specifications, etc.) with integrated digital document viewer for immediate consultation and browsing of the list of attached documents. The viewer is also integrated into Windows® Explorer, so you can quickly open and edit an attached document in its native editor (e.g. MS-Word®, MS-Excel®, Adobe® PDF, etc.).
• The software supports multi-currency management through automatic conversions between the different currencies involved in a transaction. The link with CTRL/Finance via the "Accounting Distribution" concept enables rigorous accounting management of "Provision on exchange rate" and "Gain or loss on exchange rate".
• The software supports stable multi-unit management via a table of customizable unit codes, including the definition of all applicable inter-unit equivalences.
• Recursive management of theoretical mathematical division by zero in the presence of transactions temporarily carrying a quantity of inventory below zero. A typical case is the physical reception of an item which is immediately sold without having respected the reception process upstream of the computer purchase order. The software offers parameters to block this type of transaction, as well as those that bring the available quantity below zero. Furthermore, to optimize operational flexibility while ensuring adequate management of average cost, recursive mechanisms are provided to ensure the integrity and quality of financial information. A fundamental component in the presence of CTRL/Finance and CTRL/Project.
• Possibility of knowing at any time which user has carried out a particular transaction. This is an additional and complementary traceability function to that automatically performed by CTRL/Smigg via its audit trail function.
• An advanced configurator for accounting distribution of transactions generated by the software, enabling global or very precise management of accounting entries, thanks to the flexibility of combining twelve dimensions, including: nature of operation, transaction code, currency, territory, division, warehouse, invoicing or payment method, item category, etc. This configurator is the cornerstone of interactive transactional integration with CTRL/Finance and CTRL/Project.
• Fully supported "multi-company" and "inter-company" transaction management.
• Full, dynamic accounting integration with CTRL/Finance (cost of goods sold and other). The flexibility of the "Accounting Distribution Configurator" approach makes it possible to operate transparently in both complex and simple accounting contexts.
• Possibility of integrating specialized external applications (via API), for example, to retrieve transactions from a weighing system. Use of the standard CTRL API ensures that all the necessary validations are applied to guarantee the integrity and quality of the information integrated into the inventory at all times.

All CTRL software products benefit from the complementary functional capabilities of the powerful CTRL/Smigg platform, some of whose key features include:

• Design of personalized work environments (window layout) per user, with the possibility of operating multiple screens with floating windows. A user-specific work approach to optimize productivity in the role.
• Information and functional security management to meet the most stringent requirements for the protection of sensitive information.
• Customization of any report via an integrated report generator.
• API and Web interface available for integration with complementary external applications.