Inspired Portal ERP Software Features and Capabilities


 

Inspired Portal is the ERP system developed and supported by Inspired Technology Systems. It brings inventory, warehouse activity, purchasing, customer orders, manufacturing, billing, accounting, and reporting into one system.

Each installation is configured around the operation it supports. Inventory can be tracked by item, lot, pallet, customer, warehouse location, quantity, and actual weight. Warehouse employees can use handheld scanners for receiving, putaway, picking, verification, inventory movement, production activity, and counting.

This page summarizes the capabilities available across the platform. The exact workflow and configuration depend on whether the system is being used for cold storage, food manufacturing, distribution, or another inventory-driven operation.


ERP Software by Operation

Use the configuration that matches the work being performed. Each page below explains the workflows that are specific to that type of operation.




Cold Storage and Multi-Customer Warehousing

For operations that manage customer-owned inventory, frozen or refrigerated storage, pallet movement, catch weight, lot traceability, warehouse activity billing, and customer inventory access.

Cold Storage Warehouse Software




Food Manufacturing and Processing

For operations that receive ingredients, track lots and actual weights, manage recipes and production activity, record yield, and maintain traceability through finished goods.

Food Manufacturing ERP




Distribution and Fulfillment

For operations that coordinate purchasing, inventory availability, order demand, allocation, picking, shipping, customer pricing, billing, and warehouse replenishment.

Distribution ERP Software


Inventory and Warehouse Management

 

Inspired Portal keeps inventory and warehouse activity connected to the orders, customers, purchasing, production, and billing records that depend on it.

  • Track inventory by item, lot, pallet, customer, warehouse location, quantity, and actual weight
  • Manage receiving, putaway, picking, verification, movement, restocking, and shipping
  • Maintain bins, warehouse topography, storage restrictions, and allocation exclusions
  • Record inventory adjustments, slot counts, and physical inventory
  • Track customer-owned inventory and warehouse activity used for billing
  • Review inventory aging, movement, availability, and traceability


Barcode and Handheld Scanner Workflows

 

Warehouse and production employees can record work at the point where it happens instead of waiting for information to be entered later.

  • Receiving, putaway, pull, pick, and verification queues
  • Pallet and bin lookup
  • Inventory-unit movement and adjustment
  • Restocking and slot-count verification
  • Unit-label printing and UPC/GTIN barcode support
  • Order imaging
  • Manufacturing scans and production reporting where configured


Sales and Customer Management

 

Customer, order, pricing, and service information is maintained in the same system used for inventory and fulfillment.

  • Customer and contact records
  • CRM and sales-contact activity
  • Orders, quick orders, and order demand
  • Customer-specific item and service pricing
  • Daily order routes for Delivery and Pickup
  • Customer classes for grouping like customers
  • Sales reports, including Top Sales
  • Customer pallet tracking and WMS activity billing where configured


Purchasing and Accounting

 

Purchasing, receivables, payables, and operational billing use the same transaction and inventory records.

  • Vendor records and purchase orders
  • Customer statements, invoices, credits, cash receipts, adjustments, and aging
  • Vendor invoices, payment batches, credits, purchase journals, cash disbursements, and aging
  • End-of-day and month-end processing
  • Document management for supporting records


Manufacturing and Production

 

Manufacturing configurations connect production activity to ingredients, inventory, lots, weights, finished goods, orders, and reporting.

  • Recipes and manufacture classes
  • Production start, input, leftover, and produced quantities
  • Lot and actual-weight tracking through production
  • Yield reporting
  • Inventory movement between warehouse and production locations


Equipment, Reporting, and Administration

 

The platform also includes the supporting records and reporting needed to manage daily activity.

  • Preventive-maintenance schedules and maintenance events
  • Equipment makes, models, types, and locations
  • Sales, inventory, accounts-receivable, and accounts-payable reporting
  • Warehouse, sales, and AR dashboards
  • Employee and department records
  • Messages, notifications, scheduled events, and alerts

IBM i and AS400 Services


Inspired Technology Systems also provides IBM i programming, support, modernization, monitoring, and ERP migration services. Those services are documented separately on the AS400 and IBM i Services page.


Talk With Us About Your Operation

Tell us how you receive, track, manufacture, store, pick, ship, and bill. We can determine which Inspired Portal configuration fits and where custom work would be required. Contact Inspired Technology Systems

Call IT: 631-622-5548   (631-CALL-IT-8)