Picas Add-ons refer to the additional features we offer our Picas customers outside of the core modules. These add-ons are entirely optional and are designed to enhance your productivity, performance, and processes. Please ask for a demonstration if you are interested in viewing live functionality of a particular feature.

• OFFICE AUTOMATION

  PICAS DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT (IMAGING)

  Reduce the amount of paperwork handled within various Picas modules (listed below). Electronically scan in and manage documents.

  • Order Entry: Manage customer documents pertaining to Order Entry and attach them to customer orders.
  • Purchasing: Manage incoming documents pertaining to purchasing. (Purchase Orders and Receivers) Increase the speed and accuracy in which documents are retrieved. Reduce the amount of space needed to store hard documents.
  • Accounts Payable: Manage incoming documents pertaining to Accounts Payable. (Checks and Invoices)
  • Accounts Receivable: Manage incoming documents pertaining to Accounts Receivable. (Checks, CR/DB memos, customer statements)
  • Labor Tracking: Similar to Order Entry, yet allows you to create images of all employee information, 401K, and certificates.
  • Crop Management: Imaging for sowing, transplants, germ rates, and physical counts.

  VSI FAX

  VSI Fax and Picas connect directly with the outside world by fax-enabling desktops and fax- automating processes that normally require printing, manual faxing, and postage. Picas and VSI Fax together are now able to auto-send and receive Order Entry Invoices, Purchase Orders, Acknowledgements (ACK’s), Advance Shipping Notices (ASN’s), and Backorders. *This add-on is HIGHLY recommended for all Picas customers.*

  LOFTWARE LABEL PRINTING

  The Loftware Print Server is a server-based software solution for managing and processing production label print requests directly from Picas to various printers. *This add-on is HIGHLY recommended for all Picas customers.*

  BAR CODE ENTRY

  This feature gives the user the option to enter orders into the system by means of a barcode wand scanner.

  PICAS SEED LOT TRACKING

  This allows the tracking of seed lots beginning when the seed is received through the sowing verification process. This feature will not only allow you to know what seed lots were used when, but will also give you the tools to keep a more accurate inventory of your seed. You will be able to see seed/cell variances and the dollars associated with these variances.

  PICAS REPLENISHMENT WITH CLARITY

  Big Box Retail Replenishment Analysis can be a difficult task. Clarity brings together all of the data you need to make intelligent replenishment decisions. No more shuffling spreadsheets or duplication of data entry as Clarity integrates your order and shipment data, your retail customer sales data, and weather forecasts to help you make intelligent replenishment decisions. Your replenishment decisions and order adjustments are integrated back into Picas or another Order Entry System to update existing orders and/or create new orders. Clarity currently works with Wal-Mart Retail Link, but other retailer versions will be available soon. Link to Clarity Site

• SHIPPING AND DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION

  TRIP BUILDER

  Trip Builder is a full-featured load building and routing application that offers seamless integration with Picas Software, multi-drop logic, and quick refresh to get new orders or changes without cumbersome file transfers. Trip Builder also provides easy point and click customer information look up, auto un-stacking of drop points, custom ship-via identifiers and enables viewing by customer requested delivery dates.

  STANDARD TRUCK ROUTING

  Our Standard Routing feature has been designed to give Picas users the ability to route orders based on a standard route. In this scenario, a standard route is taken for a given region no matter which customers have placed orders (for that week) from that region. To accomplish this, each shipping location is assigned a sequence number. The order of the sequence numbers develops the route/loop that will be taken within each shipping region.

  SMALL PACKAGE CARRIER INTEGRATION WORKSPACE

  Take your shipping to the next level. We have created a seamless integration with several carriers to allow you to print shipping labels, produce tracking numbers, receive pricing information, track packages, and run reports, all within Picas. We currently integrate with FedEx, UPS, and OnTrac.

  RACK TRACKING

  Use hand held data collection units to scan your racks in and out while shipping. Quickly identify which one of your customers has your racks. Recover five racks and you will pay for this feature.

  TAG INTEGRATIONS

  These drop-ship programs help to reduce the costs of inventory and labor in the tagging process by allowing Picas to send your information and letting MasterTag or John Henry do all the work.

  SHIPPING LINE

  Shipping Line (Sorting): Take product from a master list and sort product to order. This is a software driven system and requires minimal hardware setup. Shipping Line – Sequence Labels Only: This is a subset of the Picas Shipping Line functions that was designed to help you break down bulk pulled product into customer orders. The sequence labels allow you to do this using a number system that everyone can understand. Shipping Line (Packing/Verify): Verify order integrity before you ship the order. Print shipping labels and paperwork. Shipping Line (Tags): Sort product tags based on a sequence number. Reduce packing errors.

  GROWER TRACKING

  This tracking system predominately functions as a record keeping system and was designed to help growers to know what has been done to crops, as well as what needs to be done (based on current conditions of the crop). Some of the capabilities of this record keeping system include tracking of chemical applications (what, when, and who), storing of digital images of crop at desired or problem stages, entering and viewing comments about the status of a crop, what activity needs to be (or has been) done, and printing functions for crop labels to be used on finished products. Grower tracking has full integration with Picas activities, giving the grower the ability to create and attach generic records. Enhancements to this system include the ability to print Worker Protection Forms, create chemical application reports to inform customers of what has been done to their crops, application inquiry that allows viewing, customization, and expanding of what has been done to a crop (by crop/week or by customer order), cemical costing analysis reports, and bug testing options.

  SOWING LINE

  This Picas feature incorporates the multiple operations that are needed to prepare for and perform the sowing process in one simple workspace. These functions include printing and sowing reports and container labels, allocating and verifying seed lots, and verification of the trays sown without data collection equipment.

  ePICAS

  Availability/Order Inquiry: ePicas allows for the display of real time information on your web site. This ship to query will allow your customers to check orders and get shipping information (FedEx tracking numbers, Airbill numbers, etc.) via an internet browser. Order Entry: ePicas allows for the display of real time information on your web site. The ship to order entry will allow customers to review your availability and place orders.

  EDI

  Electronic transfer of documents such as Invoices, PO Acknowledgments, Purchase Orders, Advanced Shipping Notifications, and Functional Acknowledgments to and from Picas with your preferred trading partners. We currently have connections with ACE Hardware, Do It Best Hardware, Cimarron Lumber, Home Depot, Lowes, Wal-Mart, True Value Hardware, Shaw’s Wholesale Grocers, C&S Whole Sale Grocers, K-Mart, Altman’s and Armstrong. If there is a partner you would like us to connect with who is not listed, please let us know!

• BROKER AND VENDOR INTEGRATIONS

  BROKER INTEGRATIONS

  ISS works hand in hand with Brokers to provide business automation that can revolutionize the way you do business. We built an electronic bridge that sends information back and forth from the broker system to Picas. The trading documents we currently offer include Purchase Orders, Acknowledgments, Availability, Change Orders, and Invoicing. We currently have integrations with Ball, Express, Gloeckner, Griffin, JVK, McHutchison, Michell’s, and Syngenta. If there is a broker you would like us to work with that is not listed, please let us know!
  
  BROKERS

  • Ball Seed
  • Express
  • Gloeckner
  • Griffin
  • JVK
  • McHutchison
  • Michells
  • Syngenta
  • Picas to Picas

  
  

  VENDOR INTEGRATIONS

  ISS also works hand in hand with Vendors to provide business automation that can revolutionize the way you do business. We built an electronic bridge that sends information back and forth from the vendor system to Picas. The trading documents we currently offer include Purchase Orders, Acknowledgements, and Availability. We currently have integrations with Ball Selecta, and Syngenta Flower. If there is a vendor you would like us to work with that is not listed, please let us know!
  
  VENDORS

  • Ball Selecta
  • Syngenta Flower