The Protex ERP system has been developed to provide businesses with tight control and comprehensive support across financial and distribution processes with instant and real-time visibility of the business at all levels. This in turn enables business to achieve high levels of customer service and operational efficiencies.

Critical Path Management
Provides workflow management tools to ensure critical activities are met in appropriate time frames.

Product Lifecycle Management
Organises and controls all product related information to optimise the product development cycle.

Bill of Materials Management
Definition and management of BOMs down to colour and size level.

Raw Materials Management
Definition and control over the stocking and use of raw materials in the production process.

Costing
Supports effective cost control for precise product costings, cost control for raw materials and labour and accurate overhead analysis.

Sales Order Management
Provides a comprehensive suite of order entry styles to suit many business processes, from a stock holding telesales operation to a contact sales organisation selling to major retailers.

Purchase Order Management
Purchase Order Management Manages all purchasing functions from supplier and price selection, contract and purchase order generation.

Inventory Management
Optimises inventory levels and the utilisation of warehouse space for raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods. Inventory Control can be implemented simply as in a bin location system or through an optional fully automated barcoded warehouse.

Distribution
Enables delivery of products direct to customers assigned locations managing packing, invoicing and currency requirements.

Source Purchasing
Enables Source Purchase Orders to be entered, tracked and received wither into stock or for shipment directly to the end customer.

Production Management & Control
Controls the production process from the management of plants, machines and people. Tracking of work in progress through bundles with barcodes is fully supported, enabling progress of customer orders to be monitored.

Forecasting
Provides a comprehensive range of facilities for recording and processing customer demand and satisfaction enables the accurate and flexible control needed for good customer service.

Corporate Clothing Management
Deals with issues of man-packing, catalogue sales, entailment management, branch rollouts of new uniforms.

Export Manger
A powerful and versatile multi-user module that provides overall management of export business from enquiry stage to completion.

Sales Analysis
Allows the creation of user defined views of the sale order data so that sales performance can be measured at any level and trends in business identified.

Import Manager
A powerful, multi-user, fully integrated Customs Import Entry System. It has been designed to improve cash flow and to eliminate complex calculations and highly detailed administration workload that is normally associated with the import of goods.

Returns Processing
Provides full support for return goods from the customers and back to the supplier, including reasons for return and credit/debit facilities with approval.

Telesales
Telesales operatives are prompted to call customers, as they call order history, pricing information including promotions and stock availability is visible on screen. Features include: call scheduling, call lists, diaries, call history and order history.

Financials
Datel works with the leading financial application providers Chorus and CODA to offer a comprehensive integrated suite of financial accounting and business management software.

Reporting & Analysis
Provides comprehensive reporting for critical sales, purchasing, inventory and production activity.