Catch Weight Management

How does catch weight management work?

Let’s say we sell fish.

Our client wants 20 freshwater stream rainbow trout. We know each trout normally weighs about 48 ounces, which is also called the average or nominal weight.

Obviously, we don’t know the weight of each individual fish that will be delivered to the customer at the time of the order, so we use the nominal weight to quote the order, which means our estimated order is for 960 ounces of trout (20 trout multiplied by the average of 48 ounces each).

We enter the sales order using the nominal weight and note on the order that this is a variable weight order, which will allow the order to be adjusted to the actual weight when it is filled.

When the 20 trout are selected, the actual or catch weight of the trout is captured, entered, and the customer is billed for the actual amount.

Who uses catch weight management?

Catch weight management is more often used in the food manufacturing and distribution industry but, is also used in other businesses that have a requirement to convert an original unit of measure to a different one at the time of order fulfillment and adjust the price at that time based on the actual weight.

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Acctivate inventory software with catch weight management user, A&D Sales and Marketing

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Acctivate inventory software with catch weight management user, A&D Sales and Marketing

“It’s nice that Acctivate will show if it’s a catch weight so when our customer service people look at the order, they’ll know that the weight entered is not going to be the exact weight because it’s a catch weight box and that they need to be looking for weight documents for that order.”

Jim Stockland

President

Benefits of catch weight management with Acctivate

Acctivate’s catch weight management capabilities are flexible and easy to use with:

• Support for products that vary in weight from piece to piece
• Sell by piece, but price by weight
• Weight may be entered by the piece, the case or in total for the invoice line and printed on the invoice in the same detail

In addition to catch weight management, Acctivate has lot number traceability, direct store delivery & route accounting, landed cost, flexible pricing capabilities, and batch process manufacturing and hundreds of inventory, purchasing, sales, order fulfillment, customer service features and Acctivate seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks.