Products
Computerized Reservation System
Brief description about Computerized Reservation System (CRS):
The CRSs are systems for purely (information transfer) logistical functions. They store current information about all available service and have the infrastructure to transfer such data. This means That the system also perform additional tasks related to service distribution. They support the transport of goods by eliminating the physical distance between the producer and the sales mediator or the consumer respectively. Similar to an empty supermarket the system provides a sales area in the form of memory and communications media. The provider can then fill the empty shelves by providing their data to the CRS.
Industries Using CRS:
* Airlines Industry
* Bus Service Industry
* Film / Movie Industry
* Hotel Industry
* Cab Operators Industry
Online Shopping System / E Commerce
Brief Description
A Online Shopping System is a program specifically designed for purchasing products. Users just need to browse through the e-commerce site of manufacturers website where they want to buy. In the most common scenarios, users just need to click on an item (usually an icon) they want to purchase. In the process, the item will automatically be added to their shopping cart. Shopping System automatically calculates prices which they will pay when they check out. Products purchased will be shipped or delivered at their doorstep as per the time lines given by the manufacturer.
Advantages to Manufacturers: 24/7 service. Because websites are available all the time. Users or customers can do purchases anytime, anywhere with convenience. In addition customers can order the products and services online by doing instant payment.
It saves energy, money, and time and also cost of sales foce investment of manufacturer. Manufacturers can gat great margins as this will be direct sale from the customers. Compared to buying products from locality - wherein buyers need to hop from one store to another for product comparison- online purchasing saves time, energy, and money. There is no need to spend extra effort to roam around the manufacturer to find their discributors or stores.
True indeed that the Internet opens an effective alternative to traditional purchasing. Manufacturers should take advantage of this privilege to challenge their competetitors.
| 1. | General Ledger | |
| 2. | Accounts Payable (A/P) | |
| 3. | Accounts Receivable (A/R) | |
| 4. | Fixed Assets | |
| 5. | Cost Accounting | |
| 6. | Cash Management | |
| 7. | Budgeting | |
| 8. | Financial Reporting | |
| 9. | Project Accounting |
Human Resources Management (HRM) Module
The section dedicated to Human Resources Management (HRM) encompasses all the applications necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate managers and individual employees.
Modules will include personnel management, benefit management, payroll management, employee self service, data warehousing, and health and safety.
| 1. | Personnel Management | |
| 2. | Benefits | |
| 3. | Payroll | |
| 4. | Employee Self-Service | |
| 5. | Data Warehousing | |
| 6. | Health and Safety |
Manufacturing Management (Discrete and Process) Module
Manufacturing Management (for both discrete and process manufacturing) encompasses a group of applications for planning production, taking orders, and delivering products to the customer.
Because we want to compare ERP software systems on an apple-to-apple basis, we need to make a difference between discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing.
| Discrete ERP | Process ERP | ||||
| 1. | Product Costing | 1. | Product Costing | ||
| 2. | Shop Floor Control | 2. | Shop Floor Control | ||
| 3. | Production Planning | 3. | Production Planning | ||
| 4. | Field Service and Repairs | 4. | Formulas/Recipes | ||
| 5. | Project Management | 5. | Process Model (Formulas + Routings) | ||
| 6. | Product Data Management (PDM) | 6. | Process Batch Control and Reporting | ||
| 7. | Product/Item Configurator | 7. | Conformance Reporting | ||
| 8. | Process Manufacturing Costing | ||||
| 9. | Material Management | ||||
Inventory Management Module
Inventory management (IM) encompasses a group of applications for maintaining records of warehoused goods and processes movement of products to, through and from warehouses.
| 1. | Inventory Management On-line Requirements | |
| 2. | Processing Requirements | |
| 3. | Data Requirements | |
| 4. | Reporting and Interfacing Requirements (Inventory Management) | |
| 5. | Locations and Lot Control | |
| 6. | Forecasting | |
| 7. | Reservations and Allocations | |
| 8. | Inventory Adjustments |
Purchasing Management Module
Purchasing Management encompasses a group of applications that controls purchasing of raw materials needed to build products and that manages inventory stocks.
It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts, supplier tracking, goods receipt and payment, and regulatory compliance analysis and reporting.
| 1. | Vendor and Supplier Profile | |
| 2. | Supplier Rating and Profile | |
| 3. | Requisitions and Quotations | |
| 4. | Purchase Orders | |
| 5. | Prices and Discounts | |
| 6. | Vendor Contracts and Agreements | |
| 7. | Purchase Order Management | |
| 8. | Procurement Reporting, On-line Reporting Capability | |
| 9. | Repetitive Vendor Procurement | |
| 10. | Procurement Receipts | |
| 11. | Repetitive Vendor Procurement | |
| 12. | Reporting |
Quality Management Module
Quality management encompasses applications for operational techniques and activities used to fulfill requirements for quality control, inspection plan creation, and management, defective item control and processing and inspection procedure collection planning.
| 1. | Defective or excess material return processing must update on-hand | |
| 2. | Customer return file: awaiting disposition | |
| 3. | Damaged material—corrective action and failure analysis available to vendor on-line | |
| 4. | Inspection required indicator by supplier and by item | |
| 5. | Pre-inspection receipts registered as "inventory on hold" | |
| 6. | On-line inquiry of inspection and material review board (MRB) queue | |
| 7. | Validation against automated inspection criteria | |
| 8. | Inspection disposition with audit trail | |
| 9. | Disposition delinquency report | |
| 10. | Quantity rejected | |
| 11. | Reject reason codes |
Sales Management Module
Sales management encompasses a group of applications that automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of the status of orders.
It involves order entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. It also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking, customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
| 1. | On-line Sales Management Requirements | |
| 2. | Reporting and Interfacing requirements | |
| 3. | Available-to-Promise (ATP) | |
| 4. | Pricing and Discounting | |
| 5. | Customer Service and Returned Goods Handling | |
| 6. | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and E-commerce Requirements |
Technology Module
The technology category defines the technical architecture of the ERP system, and the technological environment in which the product can successfully run. Criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance, on the product technology category.
However, this apparently lower importance is deceptive, because the product technology category usually houses the majority of the selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which usually include server, client, protocol, and database support, application scalability and other architectural capabilities. The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of potential vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection criteria.
During the process of ERP software selection, a great deal of attention is given to the functional capabilities of the software being evaluated. While this aspect is obviously important, ignoring the technical mechanisms by which the ERP software actually operates can be fatal to the ERP software solution selection project.| 1. | Architecture | |
| 2. | User Interface | |
| 3. | Client and Server Platforms | |
| 4. | Application Tools | |
| 5. | Workflow and Document Management | |
| 6. | Reporting |
