A way to enter what customers want to purchase. Designed to look like a paper order form, it contains information about the company or person making the order, the business terms for the transaction and the specifics of what items are being ordered. These can be loaded from the EDI module, an eCommerce site, the B2B module, the Quotes module or the Bulk Orders module in Paragon to avoid data entry. Orders can always be entered manually by your customer service team.

A document that is generated and sent to the customer authorizing them to send goods back. The ID on the document is what allows you to track what is coming back and from whom, as well as to connect it to the initial order the customer used to purchase the goods. It contains information about the returner of the goods and the specifics of the goods being returned.

A document that operates like a reverse invoice. It reduces what a customer owes you. This can be related to the return of goods or be generated by rebate. The details can be loaded directly from an RMA.

A mechanism for keeping track of everything you want to know about your customers. It is laid out in a simple manner showing the most frequently used information up front with more detail easily available. The module uses an attribute model which means that there is no limit to the different types of information you can store. It also acts as a gateway to any transaction related to a customer by compiling a clickable list of orders, invoices, credits, etc.

A snapshot of activity including overdue invoices, credit notes and debits applied to the customer account. These statements can be printed for mailing or automatically be emailed to customers.

This is the repository for any and all information about your products. Everything from design specifications to stock quantities available for sale. The module uses an attribute model which means that there is no limit to the different types of information you can store. It also acts as a gateway to any transaction related to a product by compiling a clickable list of orders, invoices, credits, etc.

A tool for keeping track of all communication and notes related to a customer. Paragon integrates with a variety of industry leading tools.

Estimated times of arrival and links to carriers like FedEx, UPS and Purolator are available here. Information in this module is used in other areas like Material Requirements Planning and Critical Path Management.

Goods can be reserved for a specific order or customer to guarantee timelines or availability for important orders. Stock can also be reserved for different reasons that can be easily configured such as a marketing promotion.

Containing all the posted financial entries for a company. The general ledger in Paragon will operate with all currencies and is structured to work hierarchically with a chart of accounts containing an infinite possible number of nested sub-levels.

The ability to make manual adjustments to your financial records. This function is rigorously controlled with security authorization and data validation rules. Journal entries can be recurring or as of a date in the past or future with the correct authorization.

Paragon will prepare a variety of government documents and reports for submission for you including but not limited to: T4, ROE, W2, duty relief reports.

Paragon can automatically output a variety of financial reports like Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Trial Balances based on different accounting methods. These reports can also be viewed in an expandable mode so that auditors can easily view underlying numbers, if desired, and quickly link to the supporting documentation.

Using your choice of a variety of integrated payroll providers, generate pay for your employees and automatically calculate payroll deductions including benefits and taxes. Print paychecks or process through automatic deposit into a variety of financial institutions.

Make payroll payments directly into your employee’s bank accounts in a variety of financial institutions, using a variety of integrated tools.

Invoices to customers are generated and tracked as money owed with optional automatic posting to the general ledger. Partial and full payments are accounted for. Late payments can have penalties attached automatically. Payments can be attached to multiple invoices.

A snapshot of activity including overdue invoices, credit notes and debits applied to the customer account. These statements can be printed for mailing or automatically be emailed to customers.

Vendor invoices can be inputted manually or received through EDI. They can be posted directly to the general ledger and have checks or electronic payments processed. Payments can be attached to multiple invoices.

Fixed assets such as equipment can be tracked with asset tags and put on service schedules, automatically depreciated and have their initial and expensed values posted to the general ledger.

When licensed brands are sold, royalties to the licensor can be calculated based on complex contract terms and royalty statements can be generated and automatically generate vendor invoices and payments that get posted to the general ledger and paid.

When letters of credit are opened with the bank, usually for the payment of foreign vendors, Paragon can track their depletion connected to purchase orders and received goods.

Keep track of stock of goods, materials and tools in multiple warehouse locations and have monetary values associated with them including depreciation formulae. Asset and expense values can be posted automatically to the general ledger.

Projected values can be entered for each fiscal period in each account in the general ledger. The budget reports in Paragon will show projections or a mix of actuals where they exist and budget numbers before they do.

Automatic calculation of performance based commissions for sales representatives based on contract terms. Reports are generated for transmission to the individual representatives.

Freezing inventory values can be done at a specific point for asset value evaluation and as a starting point for starting stock balances.

Authorized users can be allowed to make journal entries as of a previous or future date.

Pick tickets are issued to tell warehouse workers or third party logistics groups what goods to take off the shelves. Picking can be executed manually, or with the correct equipment, using scanning tools to recognize barcodes or RFID tags.

Packing slips indicate what the contents of a product pack are, whether a box or bag. Packers can either manually indicate what is in a pack or using the correct equipment scan to recognize barcodes or RFID tags.

Prepare a pack for shipment, contacting the carrier, generating, printing and sending the appropriate shipping documentation.

Generate box labels, including EDI MH10, UCC128, GS-128 and documentation for customs and carriers.

Keep track of estimated times of arrival, progress of shipments, estimated and actual costs.

Paragon helps you get goods over the border with tools like HS Code assignment assistance, bills of lading, commercial invoices, duty relief program reports, and broker documentation.

The boxing function takes the goods being shipped and calculates, based on item information, how many of each type of good should go in each box, how many total boxes are in the shipment, and generates the information for the labels and documents like a Bill of Lading.

Combine packs for shipment into pallets.

A Bill of Lading is the official legal document detailing all the goods in a particular shipment and conferring title to those goods. It can be automatically generated in Paragon from an invoice, a sales order, a pick ticket or a packing slip and then modified as desired. The BOL will usually travel as a physical document with the goods in transit.

Instructions to the manufacturing team detailing what goods must be produced with any customizations outlined. Work orders can reserve inventory, tools and people for their completion based on a schedule. Paragon can generate them automatically from sales orders.

Taking all the work orders, based on rules and availability of resources, and scheduling and assigning them to the factory. Order priorities can be taken into account.

Tracking the individual operations within the production process for operator statistics, costing and capacity. Bundle or piecework tickets are generated for each operation and travel with the work in process so progress on a work order can be monitored.

A system-managed choke point for when goods come either from outside vendors or from the factory floor. It is a configurable option allowing everything from tracking quality levels of goods to preventing damaged goods from getting into inventory to allowing for serialized product recall.

An analytical tool for determining how much your infrastructure can hold or produce at a given time. In the case of warehouses, it will calculate how many units of different product mixes will fit at once. In the case of manufacturing it will calculate how much your production line can produce based on material and tool availability.

Managing the specification, user documentation, which staff members are trained to use it, warranty, service and usage information on any piece of equipment. This can then be linked for financial depreciation within the G/L and used in any other form of reporting.

A theoretically infinite number of independent warehouse facilities can be managed with totally independent inventory lists and processes. The inventory quantities can also be combined for reporting purposes. Purchases from specific vendors and shipments to specific customers can automatically be allocated to different warehouses.

Virtual, static and dynamic bin locations can be used to track where goods are in a warehouse as well as indicating when they are on trolleys or in totes while they are in motion.

Barcode images can be automatically generated based on values like UPCs or SKUs and then printed onto labels. RFID tags can also be printed with the appropriate equipment. These can then be scanned for easier product identification.

Functions to do cycle counts and full physical inventory are available within the system. They include tools to freeze inventory as a whole or in sections. Material, Tool and Product inventories can be counted and maintained independently.

Goods can be reserved for a specific order or customer to guarantee timelines or availability for important orders. Stock can also be reserved for different reasons that can be easily configured such as a marketing promotion.

Goods can be received from external or internal sources. This can include purchased goods that are arriving, returned goods from customers and internally manufactured or finished goods. Materials and tool receiving can also be tracked. Whole purchase orders, bills of lading or individual line items can be received independently.

Customizable forms that can be filled in upon receipt of goods or during random inventory inspection. Values from the forms can be recorded and actions can be determined automatically from there.

The ability to remove goods, materials or tools from stock and have them flagged as ‘Damaged’. These goods could be sold as ‘Seconds’ or allocated to be discarded.

Using product specifications to match possible shelving locations based on availability, frequency of need or simple size requirements.

The instruction given to remove goods from the shelves or racks so they can be used in production or shipped out. Partial picks, scanning gun integration, multi-location dispatch and inventory adjustment are all included. A pick can be generated and prepopulated from a sales order.

The ability to set attributes by warehousing, bin location and item means that setting minimum levels can be used to trigger automatic ordering or prompting the user for actions. The maximum level can be used to limit capital exposure and cash flow risk.

A request from a company to one of its vendors indicating what goods they are agreeing to purchase under what conditions. Paragon can automatically generate draft purchase orders based on calculated requirements generated by sales orders.

Based on the terms and conditions of agreements with vendors, this module tracks what money is owed based on the sum of vendor invoices. The information is classified by date due allowing for cash management analysis. The information is connected to vendors and can be connected to customer orders so costs can be tracked as a line item through the whole supply chain right to the customer deliverable.

Combining information from purchase orders, quality inspection and receiving reports, Paragon provides a series of analytical tools for comparison and tracking of how well vendors fulfill their obligations. Notifications of when price lists expire and the ability to import their catalogs are also available.

A function to calculate what materials will be required to be purchased based on the pipeline of sales orders. It takes into account existing un-reserved stock and minimum values to let you know what needs to be ordered from vendors or how you will be short. It can be used to generate draft purchase orders to fill all the shortfalls for approval and issuance to vendors.

Keep track of stock of goods, materials and tools in multiple warehouse locations and have monetary values associated with them including depreciation formulae. Asset and expense values can be posted automatically to the general ledge

When licensed brands are sold, royalties to the licensor can be calculated based on complex contract terms and royalty statements can be generated and automatically generate vendor invoices and payments that get posted to the general ledger and paid.

(Specifications, material, labor, certificates)

Detailed infinite level Bill of Material that can be viewed in a hierarchical tree view that can be grouped or expanded. The BOM interface allows for the management of materials, operations, tools, instructions and any attached documents like tech packs or specifications. The more information entered in this module, the more automation and reporting can be generated.

Tracking inventory and requirement for re-order of non-inventory material. Packing tape, peanuts, foam, boxes and the like are often not counted. This feature allows for their management.

A document used to transmit the specifications of designed products to external stakeholders like contractors, vendors and customers. The source information is stored in ParagonERP and a variety of templates can be used to generate a tech pack for transmission. It can be generated in PDF format so others cannot change it or in Excel format for collaboration purposes.

Estimated costs based on material in the BOM as well as specific processes like dyeing or curing can be incorporated. When a sales order, purchase order or even a work order are created they draw on the default costs of the product to help establish cost estimates. When products are actually shipped actual costs can replace the estimated ones.

Product tests can be conducted and Paragon can provide either online or offline forms to fill in, keeping track of the results to determine risk and improve product quality.

Illustrations and photographs can be attached to a product and displayed within the Paragon interface.

Multiple designs and Bills of Materials kept in sequential versions can be stored in Paragon. The ability to look back and forward along a product’s lifecycle is enabled.

Estimated costs based on material in the BOM as well as specific processes like dyeing or curing can be incorporated. When a sales order, purchase order or even a work order are created they draw on the default costs of the product to help establish cost estimates. When products are actually shipped actual costs can replace the estimated ones

Products can be grouped into catalogs for managements. The same product can be in multiple catalogs simultaneously.

Margins and markups for products can be entered or calculated. Price and margin analysis are tools that can be used to determine what pricing of product should be to meet margins.

Analytical tool for the top level view of a product from its planning, through its design, manufacture, distribution, end of life and then disposal.

The extension of products into a product line. The ability to connect multiple products together as part of a line. Includes a tool to extend a single product into multiple variations based on a selected number of common characteristics.

A tool that uses a methodological approach to forecasting sales. A number of the best-practice models are included along with the ability to adapt or use your own.

The ability to either have multiple divisions within a company or handle completely segregated divisions. Reporting can be done in a silo or across divisions simultaneously based on access.

Tracking pre-sales opportunities for addition to the sales pipeline including total size and likelihood of closing.

A way to enter what customers want to purchase. Designed to look like a paper order form, it contains information about the company or person making the order, the business terms for the transaction and the specifics of what items are being ordered. These can be loaded from the EDI module, an eCommerce site, the B2B module, the Quotes module or the Bulk Orders module in Paragon to avoid data entry. Orders can always be entered manually by your customer service team.

A tool for tracking the accumulated amount owed to a company over specific periods of time. This feature includes tools for tracking what is owed against due dates, payment terms and overdue amounts. Notifications can be set for reminders on collections and reports can show values such as the average number of days it takes a customer to pay. Activities can automatically be linked to the G/L.

This is the repository for any and all information about your products. Everything from design specifications to stock quantities available for sale. The module uses an attribute model which means that there is no limit to the different types of information you can store. It also acts as a gateway to any transaction related to a product by compiling a clickable list of orders, invoices, credits, etc.

A mechanism for keeping track of everything you want to know about your customers. It is laid out in a simple manner showing the most frequently used information up front with more detail easily available. The module uses an attribute model which means that there is no limit to the different types of information you can store. It also acts as a gateway to any transaction related to a customer by compiling a clickable list of orders, invoices, credits, etc.

Keeping track of estimated times of arrival, progress of shipments, estimated and actual costs.

Sometimes referred to as a pre-season order which acts as a general commitment of what is going to be purchased by a large customer. It is later reduced by regular sales orders in order to keep track of order progress towards commitments.

The ability to charge something other than the standard price for a product. This can be as simple as 50% off or a little more complex like buy 3 get 2 more at 25% off. It can also be customer-specific price lists or even handle total relationship volume discounting by month or year. Paragon can handle any of these scenarios with no customization, including promotion based accounting linked to the G/L.

Creating a list of products that can be linked to a particular line, sales distribution or customer. This list can display region or customer specific pricing. It can be transmitted as data for third party catalog maintenance or published in a formatted document for sending, such as pdf.

Automatic calculation of performance-based commissions for sales representatives based on contract terms. Reports are generated for transmission to the individual representatives.

Tracking groups of styles for performance tracking, distribution, substitution or association for tied selling. Line management allows a user to associate any number of SKUs together for monitoring any metric such as design cost to end of life.

Incorporating a number of accepted best-practice mathematical forecasting algorithms or allowing users to manually input projections, this tool facilitates tracking sales against a target.

All the information stored in the system about an employee. Resumes, doctor’s notes, certifications can all be attached. Capabilities can be recorded in attributes to limit tasks they can be assigned. What division they work for can be connected to their system security access without the need to manage a separate interface. Results of reviews and last salary adjustment can all be easily stored for future reference and access to the information can be controlled granularly with security settings.

Using your choice of a variety of integrated payroll providers, generate pay for your employees and automatically calculate payroll deductions including benefits and taxes. Print paychecks or process through automatic deposit into a variety of financial institutions.

Tied to the employee file is a calendar of absences and the reasons for them. Documents can be attached for future reference. Employee requested leave can be managed through this application as well.

Automatic calculation of performance based commissions for sales representatives based on contract terms. Reports are generated for transmission to the individual representatives.

Tied to the employee file, this can be used to keep track of what employees have been certified on including Health & Safety requirements for a CPR trained employee or the ability to use a particular factory machine so they can be assigned to a work order. Both the ability certified with a date of expiry and an attached document as proof can be managed with this feature.

Tied to the employee file, multiple versions of an employee or candidate’s resume.

Have incoming resumes automatically turned into candidate files which can be sorted, automatically responded to and connected to a calendar for interview scheduling.

Dashboards, audit trails, system logs, everything a manager needs for visibility into their business is built-in to Paragon with access limited by user security.

Working with partners, Paragon includes at no additional charge a full-suite report and BI module. Customizable forms such as invoices are available out of the box, along with a whole host of sales journals and inventory reports. New reports on the data can be created by partners or users.

The report builder resembles a Microsoft Excel interface in many respects which is so familiar to many users. This means that even writing formulas for calculations on reports does not take much getting used to.

The output of reports can be generated in PDF, raw data, XML or Excel format which can easily be deployed to websites.

The BI engine that Paragon uses allows for variables, pivot tables, rapid searches, custom dimensions, custom expressions and far more. It has access to the entirety of the Paragon data set.

Using both numerical and graphical tools to chart progress through critical path management. Teamed with the What-If Analysis capabilities of the Paragon BI tool, users can make real-time decisions while evaluating all the various scenarios based on whatever may happen in the real world.

Things like common shipping destinations plotted for more delivery efficiency, visually indicating most densely covered markets, where the next geographic opportunities are or even helping determine whether to setup new drop-ship hub. Any and all geographic information from Paragon can be plotted on interactive maps.

Using customizable variables to modify planning models in order to be able to compare different scenarios.

Incorporating a number of accepted best-practice mathematical forecasting algorithms or allowing users to manually input projections, this tool facilitates tracking sales against a target.

Predictive analytics to tell controllers and purchasers exactly how much cash will be necessary not this week, but in two months’ time as well as how much material will be needed to meet orders expected next quarter

The ability to either have multiple divisions within a company or handle completely segregated divisions. Reporting can be done in a silo or across divisions simultaneously based on access.

Making sales is all well and good, but if you aren’t keeping an eye on your connected costs, you could be losing money. Margin analysis lets your include or exclude different costs and revenues over a time series so you can make sure you are not just selling, but actually making money.

Most systems spend very little time on the interface and experience of System Administrators. When we made Paragon we understood that if the information being configured in the backend was incorrect, the rest of the user experience could be a nightmare. So when we went back to the drawing board to redesign the system, the administration interface was on the table as well.

Paragon works on an infinite attribute model which allows the configuration of what values a user can enter. As many of these “codes” can be setup as the administrator chooses.

The Rules Engine is a unique feature to Paragon that allows an administrator to configure the workflow behavior of almost any aspect of the system without getting or paying for a custom modification. This means that those little things that users ask “can it do that”, the answer is almost always “yes”.

Paragon covers security from a variety of different angles. All traffic is encrypted with a 512k SSL encrypted security certificate. Within the organization, user roles can be limited by feature, actual data field, or data itself. For example, a user can have modify, read-only or no access to the invoicing module.

Automatic transmission of Purchase Orders (850), Purchase Order Changes (860), Advance Ship Notifications (856), Functional Acknowledgements (997), Invoices (810) and more.

Jonar and its partners have pre-mapped thousands of trading partners, customers or hubs.

Pre-tested integration into the published catalogs buyers use like GXS.

A salesrep, dealer or business web portal to manage order entry, inventory, back orders, customer statements and invoicing. It is fully synchronized with Paragon and can be easily integrated with custom eCommerce sites and standard suppliers like Shopify.

Paragon does not come with POS functionality but does however allow for the integration with any of the industry leading systems and easy connection to new ones.

Through partnerships Paragon can allow you to take credit card purchases from your customers with an pre-built integration so that the entire transaction is automatically tracked in the system.

Paragon does not come with eCommerce functionality but does however allow for the integration with any of the industry leading systems and easy connection to new ones.

Paragon is I18N friendly meaning all the system labels are stored in a database. This allows users who speak different languages to use Paragon in whatever language they want. If one of the provided languages is not sufficient, new ones can be added realtively easily.

Paragon leverages the Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft has invested more than $16B in making sure servers in this environment are the most secure, robust and redundant in the world. They can be scaled up for better performance or located in hosting facillities almost anywhere to reduce network latency.

One of the things that makes the apparel industry unique is the grouping of SKUs by size and scale. Jonar’s origins are in the apparel industry and as a result, Paragon comes out of the box with fully sizing and scaling functionality.

For reasons from costing to production recalls, sometimes goods needs to be identified and managed differently. Paragon can manage individual units of items with serial numbers or product lots. Combined with a barcoding or RFID option, full traceability can be ensured.

All Qlik printable forms like invoices and quotes are entirely customizable and can be changed  or altered to reflect  the fields and information you need it to.