AlpsEMMS - Easy Materials Management System (EMMS) - A real-time fleet-wide inventory and consumables management system available both at an individual shipboard level and at a cruise line’s headquarters, across a fleet of vessels, enabling complete and constant central control of all consumables.
Easy Materials Management System, provides minute-by-minute tracking of sales and stocks and offers significant opportunities to raise procurement efficiency. Purchasing staff and their managers ashore now have complete and constant information through Easy Materials Management software.

EMMS features include:
Real-time inventory tracking across warehouses The Article Manager is the system by which every item in warehouse is identified, coded and described in terms of weight, number, cost price and sales price. It is easy to set up, multi-lingual, multi-currency and convertible into all relevant units. Codes are assigned by a user or by the system itself.
Material management is a scientific technique, concerned with Planning, Organizing &Control of flow of materials, from their initial purchase to destination. Material management is an important management tool which will be very useful in getting the right quality & right quantity of supplies at right time, having good inventory control & adopting sound methods of condemnation & disposal will improve the efficiency of the organization & also make the working atmosphere healthy any type of organization, whether it is Private, Government,Small organization, Big organization and Household.
Even a common man must know the basics of material management so that he can get the best of the available resources and make it a habit to adopt the principles of material management in all our daily activities