ERP Software to manage the unique requirements for buying wild seafood direct from fishing vessels.
The solution you need, fit for how you want to do business.
Looking for a single, industry-specific system to manage your business?
If you’re currently doing fisherman accounting on spreadsheets that requires you to do double data entry to get the accounting into your ERP system, we have good news: You don’t need to manage half your business in Excel and the other half in your accounting system. We have all the functionality you need in a complete system.
Looking for a fisherman accounting system to supplement your current systems?
If you need fisherman accounting for multiple plants but don’t want to overhaul your entire ERP system, we have good news: We have standalone functionality that can integrate with your accounting system.
Built for off loaders &
first receivers.
NorthScope’s Fisherman Accounting functionality is specifically for off loaders and first receivers. Some features include:
Automated Fish/Trip Ticket Taxes & Premiums
Easily configure all fish ticket taxes and company accruals. Configure premiums to be auto or manually assigned to tickets.
Built In Reporting & Analysis
Built in reports and inquiries that provide easy access to all your data in formats that allow you to quickly analyze all your fishing transactions.
Correct & Re-Price Fish/Trip Tickets
Easily correct posted tickets or re-price tickets in bulk to create new ticket versions. New versions calculate any differences and post them to the fishermen accounts.
eLandings Integration
Import your fishermen, permits, vessels, and items for a quick implementation. Import tickets by ticket, day, landing, or tender batch.
Fisherman Loans
Robust features to manage loans that include the ability to charge interest, apply payments, transfer ticket balances to loans, and print Loan Statements.
Fisherman Settlements
Process settlements against a single ticket or by any combination of transactions and time. Settle to a single fisher or split settlements across multiple payees.
Mobile Application for Tickets & Sales
NorthScope mobile allows users to record fish/trip tickets and sales to fishers directly from the dock using a mobile device.
Regulatory Reporting
Tickets capture all the relevant data to ensure easy reporting compliance with regulatory agencies.
Save Staff Time
An easy-to-use interface designed with seasonal staff in mind that gives you access to your system from anywhere.
Transactions Specific to the Fishing Industry
Fish/Trip tickets, sales to fishers, payment receipts, distribute AP charges directly to fisher accounts, and balance transfers between fisher accounts.
Generic business software doesn’t understand your seafood business, NorthScope was built for it.
Supply Chain Management for Seafood Companies
Real-Time Inventory
- On Hand balances by Site, Item, and Lot
- Available balances by Site, Item, and Lot
- Drill thru to inbound inventory
- Drill thru to commited inventory
- Inventory Holds
- Variable and fixed weight items
- Unit of measure conversions
Production
- Create & schedule Production Orders
- Record Production against Production Orders
- Record miscellaneous production
- Yield Reporting
- Bill of Materials
- Integrated with costing
Integrated Accounting
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank Reconciliation
- Aging
- Simple year end close
Costing
- Actual, Standard, and Market Costs for each Lot
- Update costs monthly to add storage
- Real time or delayed
- Cost formulas
Traceability
- Full item history
- Complete Lot tracing
- Trace from source to customer
- Certification management
- Expiration Date Management
Sales
- Automated Brokerage & Rebates
- Freight Management
- Price Management
- EDI Orders
- Variable and fixed weight items
- Fast / easy order entry
- Workflow Management
- Attach documents to transactions
Business Analysis
- Base reporting package
- Download to Excel, Word, or PDF
- Power BI (add-on)
- Simple user interface
- Personalize by user
Purchasing
- Create Purchase Orders
- Vendor pricing
- Vendor item management
- Receive directly into Inventory
- Unit of measure conversions
- Three way matching
- Variable and fixed weight items
- Attach documents to transactions
Fisherman Accounting
- Fish/Trip Tickets
- Fish/Trip Ticket Repricing
- Fisherman Settlements
- Crew Payments
- Fisherman Loans
- Attach documents to transactions
Happy Seafood Companies
Heartland Catfish Improves Data Entry by 80% & Continues to Scale with the help of NorthScope & its Customer-Centric Development
With NorthScope, Heartland has been able to enter and audit more sales transactions with less staff than they could before, and they were able to build an integration with their shop floor system and fish ticket delivery scale system which has saved them 80% of their data entry time and saves them from bringing on new staff when their business increases.
Arctic Fisheries Switches to NorthScope from Microsoft Dynamics Nav to Streamline Operations
Arctic was on the hunt for an intuitive, industry-specific ERP solution to meet their business requirements and consolidate their current system and customizations.
Silver Bay Seafoods Implements NorthScope as Seafood ERP Solution in Two Months
NLP was able to help improve the uniformity of Silver Bay’s chart of accounts and to make the setup of each company as similar as possible while also leveraging some of the NorthScope integrations to upload data into the system from custom templates built for SBS and also pulling a lot of data from eLandings to speed up data entry.