Name: NorthScope
Author: Northlake Partners

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Accessibility Testing

Automation Testing

Version Control

Development

Virtual Classroom

Education

AI Document Creation

Business Intelligence (BI)

Calendar

Collaboration

IP PBX

Knowledge Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Budgeting and Forecasting

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Financial Research

Financial Risk Management

Trust Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Job Board

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Time Tracking

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

.Net Development

Cloud Storage

Container Security

Deception Technology

Embedded Database

Event Monitoring

Fraud Detection

IT Professional Services

IT Service Providers

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Load Testing

Machine Identity Management

Network Diagnostics

Network Performance Monitoring

Office Migration and Repair

Rack Servers

Runtime Application Self-Protection

Service Desk Outsourcing

Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

User Activity Monitoring

Value Stream Management

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Community

Content Management

Digital Experience Intelligence

Email Marketing

Influencer Marketing

Market Research

Marketing Automation

Mobile Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Usability Testing

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

AI Sales Agent

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Application Security

Cloud Security Posture Management

Identity Threat Detection & Response Software

Security

Estate Planning

Geographic Information

Tour Operator

Vertical-Specific

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NorthScope is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software specifically designed for the food industry. According to the vendor, it offers a comprehensive system for managing supply chain, inventory, production, sales, and accounting for food manufacturers, distributors, importers, resellers, and seafood companies. This solution is suitable for small to mid-sized businesses in the seafood industry and fruit, nut, and vegetable industry. It caters to a wide range of professions and industries, including food manufacturers, distributors, importers, resellers, seafood companies, fruit, nut, and vegetable companies, as well as fisherman accounting professionals and grower accounting professionals.

**Key Features**

**Real-Time Inventory**: NorthScope provides real-time visibility into inventory levels and holds, allowing businesses to manage inventory across multiple locations and warehouse lots. It supports variable weight items and unit of measure conversions, providing accurate on-hand and available balances by item and lot.

**Production**: NorthScope enables businesses to record production on a single transaction, schedule production orders, and determine input availability in advance. It supports bill of materials and yield reporting, ensuring accurate cost management through integration with costing.

**Integrated Accounting**: All transactions in NorthScope update the general ledger, providing real-time financial updates. Users can view accounts individually or roll them up by cost center, division, or department for comprehensive financial management.

**Costing**: NorthScope enables cost management by item or lot, allowing businesses to track costs at the time of purchase, production, or update them later. This feature ensures accurate cost calculations and helps in making informed pricing decisions.

**Traceability**: NorthScope maintains detailed inventory history by item, lot, site, and transaction type, ensuring accurate traceability. It tracks the source and destination of products, enhancing quality control and compliance with industry regulations.

**Sales**: NorthScope simplifies order management by allowing easy entry or import of orders, updating inventory in real-time. Users gain visibility into margins and can manage freight, rebates, and brokerage expenses efficiently.

**Business Analysis**: NorthScope provides users with easy access to all data in customizable formats for quick analysis of sales, purchasing, or production. The software offers reporting options and the ability to export data to Excel, Word, or PDF for further analysis and sharing.

**Purchasing**: NorthScope streamlines the purchasing process by enabling the creation of purchase orders and providing visibility into inbound products. It helps manage discrepancies between ordered, received, and invoiced quantities, ensuring accurate inventory management.

**Catch Weight/Variable Weight Items**: NorthScope supports the management of catch weight or variable weight items, allowing for accurate tracking and pricing. This feature ensures precise inventory management and pricing calculations for businesses dealing with such items.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps to integrate and manage an organization's core business processes. It is a software system acting as a central nervous system, connecting functions like finance, human resources, supply chain, and manufacturing into a single, unified platform. ERP systems provide a single source of truth, automating workflows and offering real-time data to improve efficiency and decision-making across the enterprise. Compare ERP tools based on verified user reviews and find the best fit for your business needs.

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General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

Accounts payable

This includes the automation and tracking of payment to vendors and suppliers, with features such as payment scheduling, check printing, open purchase order alerts, document management, direct ACH bill payment, and vendor records.

Accounts receivable

This includes the management and automation of invoices and collections, with features like statements, invoices, receipts, payment reminders, customer records, auto billing, and refund checks.

Global Financial Support

Account using multiple ledgers, multiple currencies, and multiple entities

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Record and report across multiple currencies and accounting standards with primary and secondary ledgers

Journals and Reconciliations

Automate and synchronize ledgers and processes

Configurable Accounting

Configure accounting rules and segments for each chart of accounts

Standardized Processes

Centralize financial management to facilitate standardized financial processes

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

Billing Management

Access role-based billing work area, perform discrete and recurring billing

Cash and Asset Management

Manage liquidity and cash requirements, asset transfers, disposals, reclassifications, and financial adjustments

Travel & Expense Management

Enter expenses from mobile devices, integrate credit card and travel booking, configure policy enforcement

Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

Control spending at any budget level or time interval

Period Close

Sustain fast close with integrated subledgers, intuitive dashboards, embedded collaboration

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

Inventory tracking

The software syncs orders and stock to maintain a real-time picture of inventory and supports multiple methods such as LIFO and FIFO.

Automatic reordering

The software can be set up to automatically reorder a good when it falls below a certain threshold.

Location management

The software can track multiple goods across multiple locations.

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

Pricing

Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.

Order entry

Users can enter an order once, and the data flows to all the necessary units such as fulfillment and billing.

Credit card processing

The software facilitates credit card processing.

Cost of goods sold

The software calculates the direct costs attributable to a finished product, such as materials and labor, and includes roll-up pricing.

Order Orchestration

Define and execute order fulfillment processes for products as well as services on the same order.

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

Pay calculation

Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

Benefit plan administration

Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.

Direct deposit files

Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

Dashboards

Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

Standard reports

The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

Custom reports

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

API for custom integration

An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

Plug-ins

A number of third-party plug-ins are available to expand the core functionality of the software.

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

Role-based user permissions

Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

Single sign-on capability

The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.

Multi-factor authentication

User-level audit trail

Grants Management

Grants management solution for higher education, public sector, or non-profits with capabilities for managing financial awards for program and project funding

Award Lifecycle Management

Manage the life of program funding awards from initial funding to close-out

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

Establish project budgets and forecast future project financials

Project Costing

Standardize, track, and control costs at all project phases

Cost Capture

Capture costs including those for procurement, financials or time and labor, including from external systems

NorthScope

Overview

What is NorthScope?