Supply Chain Management
Streamlining the flow of business has become a global pursuit. Those with the best supply chain and the most efficient means to execute their business gain a significant advantage. MXP, a state-of-the-art supply chain management software developed specifically for the cruise industry, provides you with this advantage.
MXP bridges supply chain management requirements across the entire organization.
MXP is a powerful tool that, for the first time, bridges supply chain management requirements across the entire organization. Its capabilities represent a fundamental shift in the way cruise operator supply chains can perform. It is the only software of its kind to provide all traditional supply chain management processes including e-commerce, combined with itineraries, port costs, order schedules, storing ports and recipe and menu cycle management in one completely integrated company-wide package.
Purchasing, Requisitions, Inventories, Approving and Invoicing are complex tasks for all parties involved. MXP makes it easy to calculate your orders, handles a large number of inventories and cost centers and is ideally suited for installations with many food and beverage outlets.
The MXP Supply Chain software module gives a complete set of tools to replace inefficient and error prone manual processes.
- To provide maximum flexibility in organizing the item master list, the MXP item master structure has up to 5 levels, displayed as a navigational tree.
- MXP automates procurement processes with document creation rules. Those rules tie into the ships itineraries, purchase contracts and the specifications of replenishment sources. In combination with the quote analysis wizard, purchase contracts and MXS e-commerce portal, requisition turn-around times and document processing costs are lowered substantially.
- A unique requisition processing screen facilitates easy request for quotation, quotation, purchase orders and external transfers and provides a complete overview on the status of every requisition line item.
- Invoices are created from purchase orders using a wizard. The same wizard facilities the 3-way matches and categorizes delivery discrepancies. Invoices can be scanned on board or in the office. All invoice data, including scanned images, are automatically forwarded by the daily merge replication to the office for further processing and for upload to A/P.
- User access and approval level/limits are fully configurable. Documents are routed electronically for approval and processing. Budget integration assists with the approval process. Document creation, modifications and approvals have a complete audit trail.
- MXP integrates seamlessly into the MarineXchange e-commerce portal for sending and receiving requests for quotes, quotes and purchase orders.
- Vendors can update all quoted specifications fields online. If a contract is created from a quote, a wizard allows adding new specifications to the item master in batch mode, simplifying maintenance.
- The MXP demand planning wizard greatly simplifies the complex task of making accurate requisitions for ships on world wide itineraries.
- Forecasts are based on historical data. Because MXP can purchase and inventory the same item with different specifications and measurements, consumption history is kept in base units, separately for guests and crew.
- Requisitions are created manually or from a predefined storing schedule record. The integrated storing schedule assists the ships and the office to keep track of all requisitions and provides automatic approval, routing and document creation.
- MXP has a complete perpetual inventory module with various document types. Items can be received into inventory from invoices, purchase orders and positive inventory adjustments.
- The integrated storing schedule in MXP replaces the traditionally used equivalent in spreadsheet format. When provision masters/storekeepers create new requisitions based on the storing schedule, MXP will automatically populate all requisition details, select the items and flag the order as being in progress.
- MXP makes it easy to plan provision replenishments, since the storing schedule management includes the itineraries and storing port specific information like the height of piers at low and high tide, the suitability of piers for storing, custom requirements, need for forklifts etc.
- Should the itinerary change, MXP automatically alerts all stakeholders of a required change to the storing schedule. Storing schedule records can then be moved to alternate ports.
- MXP tracks costs, credits and revenues through the entire supply chain cycle. For budget comparison, MXP calculates expenditures from consumption, directly expensed items, and spot-check variances.
- Costs are tracked by cruise, accounting period and fiscal year. Because all data is merge replicated from the ships to the office daily, all reports can be produced by the office as well. Since no data is ever deleted, all historical data is available for inquiries, analyses and statistics.
