Icicle ERP Features

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Maintain a visual on product stock levels throughout your facilities with flexible inventory dashboards.

View the history of individual items and compare the sales performance of new to old stock in order to inform purchasing decisions.

Set low stock thresholds and receive automatic alerts when stock decreases to that level.

Automatically adjust inventory for product bundles, kit orders, and product variations within the system.

Use barcode or radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology with specialized readers or mobile applications to track inventory assets throughout warehouse facilities.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and payment gateways with the system to link inventory records between across platforms.

Track inventory costs and costs of goods sold (COGS) with accounting software integrations.

Transfer large volumes of inventory data records into and out of the system with built-in import / export tools.

Deliver out of the box Chart of accounts that can be used across multiple companies or business units

Steam lines data entry by auto-populating recurring or predefined vendor values

Automation helps the user be more efficient by populating default customer data and setting up regular payments from clients.

Auto-populate based on previously entered information, uplaode journal entries and schedule future entries.

Ability to tag all transaction in the general ledger with customizable dimensions, classes, categories, etc.

Match payments and invoices and perform bank reconciliation in multiple currencies

Payments can be processed by batch without manual intervention

Ability to schedule payments at predefined dates and times

Clearing of electronic payments to transfer funds from customers to suppliers

Support multiple payment methods such as Automated Clearing House (ACH), credit and debit card, and wire transfers

Streamlines data entry by auto populating recurring or predefined vendor information and invoice details

Ability to populate default customer data, set up payments from clients and automatically match customer receipts to outstanding transactions.

Automated, chronological tracking of activities that have affected a specific operation, procedure, event or record

Create and revise an unlimited number of budget, plan and forecast scenarios.

The system automates the dunning process to help drive collections

General reporting offered covers all of the standard financial statements and meets the basic needs of the business

The layout of the invoice template is fully customizable and allows users to add or remove fields and create new templates.

Create journal entries based on previously entered information, schedule future entries, and allow Journal Entries to be uploaded from an external source.

Ability to track cash positions across all accounts, banks, business units, and countries

Multi-ledger and multi-entity architecture, with automated consolidations, inter-entity transactions and eliminations

Ability to manage, track and report on numerous payment types. Customize and automate complex purchase to pay work flow.

Automate recognition of revenue and expenses by defining recognition templates.

Transactions are imported from source systems and automated matching reconciles majority of transactions using flexible, user defined matching and grouping rules.

Ability to tag all transaction in the general ledger with customizable dimensions, classes, categories, etc., which can also be used for reporting purposes.

Ability to schedule payments at predefined dates and times

Payments can be processed by batch without manual intervention

Clearing of electronic payments to transfer funds from customers to suppliers

Support multiple payment methods such as Automated Clearing House (ACH), credit and debit card, and wire transfers

Real-time inventory tracking. Maintains accurate "On Hand" information by matching reserved inventory requested on purchase and sales orders.

Ability to establish costing methods such as Average, LIFO, FIFO, and Specific Unit.

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and accounting with the system to link inventory records across platforms.

Manage the time length for which ingredients may be used and finished products stored and sold

Ability to trace ingredients from supplier to warehouseing and production, and finally to the customer

Identify hazardous materials and provide features for special storage and manipulation instructions

Identify demand based on different types of sales orders and forecasting data.

Software supports purchase orders and provides the visibility needed to streamline the procure to pay process

Track products and raw materials shipped by suppliers, from origin to destination

Match the products received with the corresponding purchase orders and add them to inventory

Manages customer information including multiple ship-to and bill-to locations

Available to promise provides information on future availability of products that are either planned for production or purchased but not received

Track order history, from quotes to sales orders, invoices, and returns, as well as canceled orders and back orders

Manage return merchandise authorizations (RMS) approval processes and match with the original invoices

Define and monitor credit limits by individual customer or categories of customers, including the option to put customers on hold

Manage various types of pricing and discounts associated with product categories and customer types

Determine what raw materials are required for production, based on demand, production capacity, and inventory availability

Define the structure of finished products to identify which raw materials, operations, and labor are needed to produce them

Create and implement master production plans for multiple production lines and locations

Assign equipment and monitor shop floor activities during various production stages

Track work in process (WIP) across multiple production lines and manufacturing locations

Manage work orders for different types of activities such as production, rework, or maintenance

Track products manufactured along with a standard product (co-products) and secondary products (by-products)

Production batches can be resized up and down to include new sales orders and to reprioritize production orders

Define and implement workflows for inspections, including rules for escalations and notifications

Identify rejected products and decide either they can be repaired or discarded

Track production waste such as scrap, as well as returns that cannot be repaired

Monitor product defects, identify causes and provide corrective actions to improve quality

Define procedures to be implemented during recalls to limit their negative impact on the company and its customers

Ensure compliance with regulations and standards for production, storage, packaging, and transportation

Manage customer specific quality standards and requirements

Define and implement optimal procedures to pick and pack products for shipping

Create packing options that are specific to one or more customers and can be modified for new clients

Create labels that are compliant with governmental standards and with customer requirements

Plan deliveries based on inventory availability, transportation costs, and order priority

Track shipments from warehouse to the destination, including drop shipments and multilocation shipping

Payroll module or integration to an external payroll provider which automates the recording of payroll

Manage personnel availability and allocate human resources to production and inventory operations

Track the time spent by employees performing various tasks related to production or inventory management

Use criteria to add or remove suppliers to/from approved lists.

Manage communications with suppliers on multiple channels such as phone or email.

Capture and maintain documents related to suppliers and their products or services.

Use criteria to add or remove suppliers to/from approved lists.

Manage communications with suppliers on multiple channels such as phone or email.

Capture and maintain documents related to suppliers and their products or services.

Compare goods received with purchase orders and document variations

Allows users to evaluate supplier performance using standard and custom KPIs.

Provide features to compare suppliers and choose the best option for various activities.

Identify potential issues and how they may impact relationships with suppliers.

Create and manage supplier profiles that include contact and pricing information.

Identify the services and products provided by suppliers, as well as certifications.

Track history of all interactions and business transactions with suppliers.

Create and manage supplier profiles that include contact and pricing information.

Identify the services and products provided by suppliers, as well as certifications.

Track history of all interactions and business transactions with suppliers.

Resources can be allocated and reallocated across multiple projects and portfolios.

Create a list of all the assets owed by a company.

Include lean project management features and best practices.

Track maintenance operations for the products sold, such as calibration or preventive maintenance

Organizes employees in an org structure that can be used throughout the application for reporting, permissions, etc.

Payroll module or integration to an external payroll provider which automates the recording of payroll

Create the optimal mix of portfolios to achieve operational and financial goals.

Software supports purchase orders and provides purchasing personnel and accounts payable with visibility needed to streamline the procure to pay process

Define requisition rules for various types of procurement.

Plan employee work shifts according to availability and provide notifications to employees when they are scheduled.

Identify and assess suppliers for different products and services.

Monitor the status of multiple types of assets.

Let employees track the hours they have worked through integrations with time tracking products or built in time tracking features.

Maintain information on warranties for the products delivered and for their components

Available to promise provides information on future availability of products that are either planned for production or purchased but not received.

Includes features that optimize user check out experience such as Shopping carts and Single Click Checkout, order summaries, receipts.

Rules ensure that users select only compatible options and that all required items are included

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Allows fully customizable portal for customer to enter tickets, provide feedback and communicate with service agents

Allows clients to book jobs through the desktop page or within the app.

Notifies field service workers of their upcoming assignments.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them and allow users to use this information when creating quotes and sales orders.

Allows users to search, filter, sort and select items to be added to quote

Contains features that allow administrators to set up promotions on site, provide time based discounts, and enter coupon codes.

Allows users to create a quote that contain information on products, prices and associated discounts, which can be converted to sales orders.

Functionality to allow users to process returns/refunds either via self service or contacting customer service.

Provides standard templates with an easy to use tool set to customize the templates to showcase the stores brand and optimize the users experience

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Creates and assigns support tickets, scheduling them in a timely manner.

Images can be displayed of options to enable users to visualize product options as it is being configured

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

Provide integration with accounting and financial management software

Integrate with payment gateways and enterprise payments software

Deliver integrations with accounting modules of ERP systems

Allow integration with procurement software, such as Procure To Pay, RFP and Spend Management

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Track products and raw materials shipped by suppliers, from origin to destination.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Ability to establish multiple price levels and choose between multiple costing methods such as Average, LIFO, FIFO and Specific Unit.

Customizable reporting allows insight into usage of inventory and services.

Real time inventory tracking. Maintains accurate "On Hand" infomation by matching reserved inventory requested on purchase and sales orders.

Support multiple picking methods such as batch, wave, or zone picking.

Create schedules for picking activities based on inventory availability.

Match the products received with the corresponding purchase orders and add them to inventory.

Functionality that allows users to select shipping options based on price and delivery time. May integrate to 3rd Party shipping/fulfillment companies.

Manages the transfer of products between incoming and outgoing shipments

Provides features to automate and simplify recieving such as tracking lot numbers

Helps users pick products from multiple locations and prepare them for packing

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique process. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Delivers APIs and standard integrations with other software systems.

Complies with security and privacy regulations and standards.

Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.

Facilitates software configuration without the need for technical experise.

Captures food quality incidents and reports them to supplier for reimbursement. Also supports internal auditing reports for food safety or quality incidents.

Integrates with food ERP systems or foodservice distribution platforms to support distribution operations.

Stores recipes for prepared food items, with all nutritional and food safety information readily accessible.

Receive email and/or text alerts to manage overdue tasks, verify approvals, and access priority tasks.

Allows users easy access to centralize documents and records.

Provides real-time visibility into the financial state of the business.

Allows users to monitor compliance in once place by creating dashboards.

Generates standard and custom reports for a number of uses, including: audit documentation, recall reports, revenue, safety reports, and inventory trends.

Integrates with food ERP systems or foodservice distribution platforms to support distribution operations.

Includes interactive food safety checlist where saefety information is readily accessible.

Define the structure of finished products to identify which raw materials, operations, and labor are needed to produce them.

Monitor product defects, identify causes and provide corrective actions to improve quality.

Calculate demand by consolidating data from multiple sources.

Define and implement workflows for inspections, including rules for escalations and notifications.

Track resource availability for raw materials and production capacity.

Create and implement master production plans for multiple production lines and locations.

Determine what raw materials are required for production, based on demand, production capacity, and inventory availability.

Generate production plans based on demand and resource availability.

Identify rejected products and decide either they can be repaired or discarded.

Assign equipment and monitor shop floor activities during various production stages.

Track production waste such as scrap, as well as returns that cannot be repaired.

Track work in process (WIP) across multiple production lines and manufacturing locations.

Reports created by the user to cater to specific requirements. If you can build it in Excel, you can build it in the custom report writer

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Provide integration with analytics and business intelligence software, or specialized products such as Corporate performance management solutions.

Allows users to create warehouse-to-warehouse transfers knowing the exact stock levels for both locations when sending and receiving

Allows users to sync inventory across multiple stores, marketplaces, and warehouses

Allows users to connect sales channels to specific warehouses.

Allows users to manage all thier clients on one system

Allows users to connect marketplaces for each client

Allows inventory tracking for specific customer required attributes such as lot, serial, style/color/size

Real-time inventory tracking. Maintains accurate "On Hand" information by matching reserved inventory requested on purchase and sales orders.

Ability to establish costing methods such as Average, LIFO, FIFO, and Specific Unit.

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and accounting with the system to link inventory records across platforms.

Provides customers with a web portal in which they can view invoices as well as batch levels and changes in inventory

Provides users with features to verify item locations and quantities

Provides users with automated reports and dashboards on all demand plans, and forecast KPIs

Allows users to perform ABC and XYZ analyses and assess forecastability with rules adjustable by business users.

Allows users to forecast the demand impact of events such as new product launches product up-gradation, pricing, rebates, marketing activities, product discontinuation

Allows users to create simulation scenarios with factors such as changed pricing

Allows users to pull historical data in order to more accurately predict future demand

Improve visibility into procurement activities across the company.

Monitor the performance of procurement operations

Analyze procurement spending and identify future trends.

Track invoices based on due dates to identify overdue payments

Monitor KPIs such as time to process an invoice or erroneous payments

Allows users track worker performance over a set period of time

Allows users to track any track incidents such as receiving discrepancies, incorrect shipments and inventory errors

Allows users to track and use WMS data to determine vendor costs and quality

Allows users to integrate their demand planning software with ERP and SCM software

Allows multiple users to simultaneously input thier data online, offline or remotely

Allows multiple stakeholders into planning data for increased visibility

Allows users to have multi-tier visibility into current stock and purchase orders

Provides users with a planning dahsboard for real-time data

Allows users to ensure production capacity meets demand

Allows users to conduct demand planning for seasonal and intermittent demand

Allows users to tailor demand planning by business function including sales and marketing

Allows users to customize demand planning that take all data on particular goals into consideration.

The system automatically accounts for data related to consumer demand and any planned network changes.

Allows users to automate routine steps for demand planning or data preparation

Manage workflows and business processes for procurement.

Provide standard procurement contracts that can be customized.

Maintain a repository of content such as catalogs and other documents.

Define requisition rules for various types of procurement

Provide features to capture and record invoices, such as import or scanning

Allow suppliers to submit invoices using an online portal

Deliver a central repository of AP documents, such as POs and invoices

Allows users to evaluate supplier performance using standard and custom KPIs.

Provide features to compare suppliers and choose the best option for various activities.

Identify potential issues and how they may impact relationships with suppliers.

Identify and assess suppliers for different products and services.

Electronically create and manage purchase orders for products and services.

Include features for procurement invoicing and e-invoicing.

Ability to match AP invoices to POs, contracts, or payments

Identify incomplete or late supplier payments

Include workflows for approvals and invoice processing

Comply with local and global tax regulations for collections

Electronically submit invoices to buyers

Define and manage physical and virtual warehouse locations

Provide a visual representation of all the locations in a warehouse

Allows users to identify the most efficient location for inventory within the warehouse based on a number of product and storage characteristics

Supports various barcode symbiologies such as UPC, ISBN and ISMN

Supports advanced serilaization and sequentially numbered bar codes

Provide barcodes with precise bar width specifications and readable text formatting

Ability to print barcodes directly to a printer with various formats.

Ability to integrate with existing inventory, warehouse management, ERP and other third party software

Ability to create and save custom label formats

Ability create labels with a WYSIWYG editor

Ability to design barcodes with a full color editor

Provides users with graphic imports in different formats

Allows users to add 1D and 2D bar codes to your labels.

Allows users to encode RFID tags

Allows users to create, track and maintain accurate, auditable conformance records.

Allows users to assign tasks for corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to employees in nonconformance

Allows users to submit change requests and control plan revisions at any point in the production process and track all revisions.

Allow users to centralize and archive documents for quality management

Allows users to collaborate in real time with editing and commenting capabilities to minimize miscommunication

Allows users to collects both vendor- and customer-facing data relevant to the product development lifecycle, and generates performance and health reports

Allows users to determine potential risks that may impact employees or the environment

Allows users to estimate the impact of EHS risks on the operations of the company

Allows users to evaluate suppliers using safety and environmental criteria

Allows users to choose from templates for multiple types of inspections such as safety or quality

Provides users with workflows to assign tasks for audit and inspections

Allows users to identify corrective actions to address incidents and accidents

Provides users with regulations to follow under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

Allows users to track permits required for environmental and safety compliance

Allows users to manage certifications to comply with regulations and standards

Assists customes through all the phases of the implementation process.

Provides software users with training courses and learning content.

Delivers customer and technical support, directly or trough partners.

The vendor provides consulting services such as business process reengineering.

Stores important performance and audit data related to each food supplier for monitoring purposes.

Captures food quality incidents and reports them to supplier for reimbursement. Also supports internal auditing reports for food safety or quality incidents.

Manages all key documents for each vendor, such as food safety plans, invoices, and other business documentation.

Stores important performance and audit data related to each food supplier for monitoring purposes and manages key documents for each vendor, such as invoices.

Captures food quality incidents and reports them to supplier for reimbursement. Also supports internal auditing reports for food safety or quality incidents.

Allows users to create custom critical control points and operational triggers based on qualitiative or quantitative food supply data.

Captures traceability for all food items throughout their entire lifecycle, from grower or distributer to restaurant or retailer.

Assists food processors and distributors with creating food safety plans that satisfy all government regulations.

Displays food safety incidents in visual dashboards to track real-time food safety trends.

Displays food safety incidents in visual dashboards to track real-time food safety trends.

Allows users to manage the HACCP process through a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level.

Assists food processors and distributors with creating food safety plans that satisfy all government regulations.

Keeps data safe with encryption and multilevel security.

Integrates with RFID hardware and/or digitally tracks all food inventory.

Creates withdrawal templates to plan and automate common types of recalls and stock withdrawals.

Generates labels for food inventory that display all nutritional and food safety information.

Alerts supply chain about recalls or stock withdrawawls via text, phone, and email.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Tracks inventory levels in real-time, helping users manage inventory efficiently and reduce waste. May also support lot and warehouse management functions.

Automates processing of customer orders, including order entry, fulfillment, and tracking.

Provides a centralized database for managing beverage product details, including descriptions, pricing, and availability.

Optimizes delivery routes to ensure timely and cost-effective deliveries

Provides tools that ensure adherence to industry regulations and standards, such as food safety, quality control, and tax requirements.

Manages customer information, communication, and service history, improving customer satisfaction. Also supports lead nurturing and management for new business.

Automates billing and invoicing features to streamline financial transactions and improve cash flow management.

Offers comprehensive reporting tools that provide insights into sales performance, market trends, and profitability.

Offers a mobile app or mobile-compatible interface for sales reps and delivery drivers to access critical information on the go.

Integrates with other business systems, such as ERP, accounting software, manufacturing systems, e-commerce platforms for cohesive operations.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives