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Enterprise Resource Planning Solution
An Overview
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
covers the techniques and concepts employed for the integrated management
of businesses as a whole, from the viewpoint of the effective use of company
resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Southtech’s
ERP solution is an integrated system with core modules like Accounting,
Inventory, Invoicing, Purchase, Manufacturing, Support-Service and Fixed
Asset Management. Each of these modules in turn has various sub modules
as well. The ERP ensures that the departments
no longer work in isolation pursuing their own independent goals. Each
subsystem knows what the others are doing, why they are doing it and what
should be done to move the company towards the common goal. The ERP system
helps to accomplish this task by integrating the information systems,
enabling smooth and seamless flow of information across departmental barriers,
automating business process and functions and thus, helping the organization
to work and move forward as a single entity.
Benefits
Installing an ERP system has many advantages-both direct and indirect.
The direct advantages include improved efficiency, information integration
for better decision-making, faster response time to customer queries,
etc. The indirect benefits include better corporate image, improved customer
goodwill, customer satisfaction, and so on. Some of the benefits provided
by the ERP are:
Reduction of Lead- Time
The elapsed time between placing an order and receiving
it is known as the lead-time. It plays a significant role in purchasing
and inventory control. Most purchasing departments urge the managers
to anticipate material demands well ahead of actual need.
In order to reduce the lead-times, The ERP provides an
efficient inventory management system, which is integrated with the
purchasing, production planning and production departments. In this
era of just-in-time manufacturing, the knowledge of the exact lead-times
for each and every item is of paramount importance for uninterrupted
production. For a company dealing with hundreds and thousands of raw
materials and components, keeping track of the lead-times for each and
every individual item manually, is practically an impossible task.
Reduction in Cycle Time
Cycle time is the time between receipt of the order and
delivery of the product. At one end of the manufacturing spectrum is
the make-to-order operation, where the cycle time and cost of production
are high. This is because in a make-to-order situation the manufacturer
starts making the product or designing the product only after receiving
the order. He will procure the materials and components required for
production only after getting the order. On the other end of the manufacturing
operations is the make-to-stock approach, where the products are manufactured
and kept in the finished goods inventory before the order is placed.
Improved Resource Utilization
As manufacturing processes become more sophisticated and
as the philosophies of elimination of waste and constraint management
achieve broader acceptance, manufacturers place increased emphasis upon
planning and controlling capacity. The creation of an accurate, achievable
production schedule requires the availability of both material and capacity.
It is useless, and indeed wasteful, to have financial resources tied
up in material, if the capacity is insufficient or improperly planned.
Waste not only raises costs, it also affects customer service levels
and customer good will.
Better Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction means meeting or exceeding customers’
requirements for a product or service. The ERP provides features so
that following measures of customer satisfaction can be met satisfactorily:
Whether the product or service includes the features
that are requested by the customer
Whether the company can respond to the customers’
demands in a timely manner, a criterion that is especially important
for custom products and services
Whether the product or service is free of defects and
performs as expected.
Improved Supplier Performance
The quality of the raw materials or components and the
capability of the vendor to deliver them on time, are of critical importance
for the success of any organization. So, an organization needs to choose
its suppliers or vendors very carefully and monitor their activities
closely, so that problems can be corrected before it can disrupt the
functioning of the company. To realize these benefits, corporations
rely heavily on supplier management and control systems to help plan,
manage, and control the complex processes associated with global supplier
partnerships.
The ERP keeps track of various activities of an enterprise
with its supplier and reflect their performance to in the system so
the user can choose appropriate supplier based on their performance.
Brief overview of core modules
Accounting
Module
Project wise accounting: An enterprise can open various
projects with different Chart of Accounts. The module allows viewing
both separate and consolidated forms of financial reports.
The module receives automated entries from other modules.
Activities in other modules like purchasing of inventory, sales, invoicing
etc will automatically pass required voucher entries in the accounting
module saving valuable time of accounting department. Moreover the module
list out auto accounting entries separately for easy reconciliation
with MIS reports.
Users of this module are able to customize their report
format in various ways. Various formats of Income Statement and Balance
Sheet are possible from same Chart of Account to suite different level
of users. For say, user can setup summarized or detailed versions of
balance sheet.
This system will be able to generate real time Balance
Sheet. The system is fully integrated with other modules and reflect
real time picture of an enterprise covering heterogeneous activities
going in every corner of various departments.
Purchase
Module
Every purchase is work order based. The module automatically
passes related voucher entry. The status of work order is also automatically
updated and flagged ‘completed’ if all items received. The
module provides flexibility to amend work order under proper control.
There is also approval process so that only approved work orders gets
executed.
The module keeps detailed supplier information including
what sorts of items they deal with. This makes work order generation
enormously easy task and minimize the possibilities of placing work
order to wrong supplier.
Every work order may be related to customer’s
work order so that enterprise knows which inventory is for which specific
customer. It reduces lots of complexities about inventory information.
Inventory
Module
The module provides flexibility to maintain Inventory
items in Serialize and Non Serialize way. Serialize items contains unique
serial number associated with each piece of item. In contrast Non-serialize
items are with any specific serial numbers associated with them. In
addition module also provides support for composite items i.e. items
composed of other items.
Inventory movement automatically pass required auto
entries thus keeping Accounting module fully aware what is going in
inventory module on real time basis.
Reorder Level is maintained for all inventory items.
Thus module generate emails automatically to predefined users if any
item goes below reorder level. In addition the items below reorder level
are automatically available in work order preparation with suitable
suppliers.
The module provides support for Actual and Average
costing.
Inventory items are kept in specific warehouses and
racks. So location of every item is easily traceable.
Manufacturing
Module
The module allows issue of items only to authorized
persons. The issue is based on password of issuer and receiver of items.
The issuer cannot modify the transaction without the availability of
receiver’s password.
The automatic voucher entries update accounts of engineers
with the inventory cost they are holding. So the management always knows
about current status inventory with each engineer.
Engineers can use individual items and process them
to complete finished products. Engineers can prepare report about items
consumption and this will automatically update the status of individual
items in their hand and finished goods they have produced.
Quality check is done on every finished product on
its completion.
Every return of items or finished product is again
controlled by dual password of receiver and giver. Again automatic voucher
entries will update accounts of the engineer.
Invoicing
Module
Invoices can be prepared for inventory items and services
rendered to customers. Inventory items based invoices are based on delivery
challans and associated with customer’s work order.
The module provides cost price of delivered items during
invoice preparation making the task easy for accounting people.
The associated voucher entries automatically get passed
and get reflected in Accounting module.
Support Service
module
The module efficiently keeps track of every service requested
by customer along with personnel who is handling the request.
The module keeps track of customer’s items come for servicing
and during issue to customer provides facility to generate invoices
if any charge includes.
Fixed Asset Management
Module
Category and Sub Category wise organization of items.
Fixed Asset items can be organize based on category (Furniture &
Fixture, Land & Building etc) and sub category wise (Table, Chair,
Building etc)
Administrative and Physical based location setup. Location
can be setup for easy tracking of fixed assets for units such as Country,
City, Building, Floor, Room etc
Acquisition of Fixed Asset items. Items can be acquired
based on Purchase, Transfer, Lease and others
Addition to Fixed Asset. Addition can be made to existing
fixed asset items.
Lease Management. Multiple Fixed Asset items can be
managed by single lease. In addition lease payment can be made from
this system based on pre generated schedule
Insurance Management. Multiple Fixed Asset items can
be managed by single Insurance. In addition insurance payment can be
made from this system
Maintenance. Maintenance of fixed assets can be done
based on schedule and unscheduled basis along with making payments
Partial Disposal. Some portion of Fixed Asset Item can
be disposed
Disposal. Disposal of fixed asset can be made for sale, damage, transfer
etc
Depreciation Method. The module supports both Straight
Line and Reducing Line Methods.
Technology
The ERP is based on a client/server architecture. It has a centralized
database to support all of its users. The system is scalable to support
data warehousing and data mining that facilitate decision support system.
The system supports both Oracle and SQL Server databases. It is built
on Java and .Net Framework. The system runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux,
and Unix platforms.
For further information,
please contact
one of our Partner Engagement Managers at +(88-02) 891 9905 or send an
e-mail to: enquiries@southtechlimited.com
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