Local Sales functions as a standalone Module or it can be integrated with EMS. This Module comprises of five different activities, which are Enquiries, Quotation, Buyer Order, Invoicing and Payments.

TRANSACTIONS: -The various transactions that the system facilitates are as follows.

1. Enquiry : The system monitor’s a Buyer’s Enquiries. The Enquiry submodule contains details of the Buyer, Items, Payment Terms, Mode of Shipment, and Packing information.

2. Quotations :

• Based on a Buyer’s Enquiries, Quotations are prepared and sent to the Buyers for Negotiation. The system generates the Quotations from Enquiries. The system has the provision to club several Enquiries in a Quotation.

• Quotations can also be entered without referring to an Enquiry, i.e., Quotations are generated without Enquiry entries.

• The system maintains all prior Quotations. Before confirming an Order, a Prospect may ask for revision/s in a Quotation, hence the system has an option to revise Quotations during Negotiations. Different versions of the revisions are also maintained in the system.

• The system provides an option to print Quotations.

3. Buyer Order : The system stores the Buyer Order’s details.:

• Buyer Order’s can be created without referring to any Quotation, i.e., Order’s are generated without Quotations.

• Buyer Order’s can be created from existing Quotations in the System and there is a provision to club several Quotations in an Order.

• Scheduling of the Order is done Item-wise

• The system provides an option to print Buyer Orders.

4. Invoice : The system allows to generate Invoice based on a Buyer Order. Also multiple Invoices can be raised on a Buyer Order.The system provides an option to print an Invoice.

5. Payments : The system has the provision to accept the payment against submitted Invoice through cash / Demand Draft / Letter Of Credit / Cheque.

6. The Sales, Excise and Octroi Taxes is taken care in the Quotations, Buyer Orders and Invoice.

OTHER UTILITIES: -Apart from the various functions that the system performs as per the requirement of the warehouses it also provides some additional benefits those are as follows.

Module access: - The system provides limited access to users, i.e., it only allows user to access the information that he is dealing with, i.e., a person authorised to make only gatepasses cannot access other parts of system thus the system provides protection among users also.

Password: - The system maintains password thus allowing access to only authorised people.

Reports :- The system can print the following Management Information System Report.

Order Status Report :- It gives details about all the orders, the various invoices raised and their respective amounts.