- Increase productivity through process automation.

Overview

Improving productivity is the key driver for a profitable business enterprise. Productivity can be increased by extracting the most of the existing investments in terms of man machine material and capital and reduction of waste.

e-Data Collect is the shortest and most reliable path to increase enterprise productivity. It provides a complete framework to develop, deploy and manage mobile enterprise applications. With it's highly extensible, scalable, OS and device independent architecture it enables you to rapidly mobilize existing enterprise and legacy applications.

Business Drivers

Improving productivity is the key driver for a profitable business enterprise. Productivity can be increased by extracting the most from existing investments in terms of man, machine, material, capital and reduction of waste.
Studies have shown that a small investment on automating your key production, warehousing and shipping processes can lead to a huge increase in enterprise productivity.

Today Labor costs account for upto 30 percent of overall supply chain costs. By automating process through technologies such as bar codes, distributors can reduce costs while simultaneously improving productivity and efficiencies.

e-Data Collect is the shortest and most reliable path to increase enterprise productivity. It provides a complete framework to develop, deploy and manage mobile enterprise applications. With it's highly extensible, scalable, OS and device independent architecture it enables you to rapidly mobilize existing enterprise and legacy applications.

eXtend comes bundled with a tightly integrated bar code tracking system called e-Data Collect that is designed to work with any industry standard bar code reader. e-Data Collect comes packaged with ready to use business features including receiving, Shipping, Asset Tracking and Inventory control functions. An advanced Bar Code label designer is also included with e-Data Collect to help businesses to design Labels with ease.

e-Data Collect leverages tier one, industry standard RF hardware and the e-Emphasys Distributed Enterprise Manager (D-EPM) integration technology to provide a solution that is Standard, Cost Effective, Release Neutral and Scalable. e-Data Collect is a multi-byte compliant solution and supports practically every available language in the world.

The e-Data Collect Architecture

e-Data Collect is built on the standards of J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition), J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) and XML technology to provide the reliable path to wireless technology. The e-Data Collect architecture enables easy integration with any ERP or legacy system. It can work seamlessly with any industry standard RF device without the need for additional client side programming.

The e-Data Collect has been designed with the following strategic goals in mind:

• Extensible Integration Architecture: Easy integration with any applications should be possible since data collection process can not run in isolation.
• Platform Independence: It should run on any operating system and should generate dynamically the user interface based upon the client (web, telnet, etc.)
• Easy Accessibility: e-Data Collect as an application should be accessible from anywhere i.e. computer, palmtop, handheld, mobile phones.
• Zero Customization: It should be designed in such a way that zero or minimal customization is required at the client side.
• Multi byte compliant: Many customers have requirements for the user interface in language other then English. Hence multi-byte support is very much essential.
• Cost Effective Solution: A comprehensive, robust and technologically advanced solution that is also cost effective and affordable for every market segment.

Web Interface

e-Data Collect a user friendly web access for managing the software. All business parameters, transaction monitoring, error handling can be done using a simple web interface.

Comprehensive Audit Management and Error Recovery Mechanism

As in every business errors are bound to occur sometime or the other. A sound error recover system is an absolute must for managing such errors effectively. e-Data Collect provides a solid system of audit and error recovery. Now users do not go checking into ASCII files to track and correct errors. Errors can be tracked by users and also corrected using a simple web interface.

Comprehensive Multi-byte Support

Enterprises today are taking advantage of the manufacturing efficiencies around the world to reduce the total cost of manufacturing and thereby improve profitability. In today's global economic environment where no geographical boundaries are left untouched, Business software cannot impose any constraints in terms of language or architecture.
e-Data Collect is built on an open architecture and supports every language in the world. It is Multi-byte compatible and is being successfully used in the Asia Pacific region.

Progress Tracking

Warehouse managers and supervisors now have an easy way of tracking the progress of the warehouse transaction in real time. All business functions supported by e-Data Collect can be tracked by Warehouse, Location and operator level.

Using this unique Data Collect functionality warehouse management can monitor the Warehousing operations closely from the comfort of their desk and take remedial action if required. Warehouse Managers can now measure performance of supported e-Data Collect processes and track progress of work against planned activity. This functionality will allow them to monitor progress in their warehouse operations and compare increase / decrease in productivity in the various supported operations.

Label Designing and Printing

e-Data Collect come built-in with a comprehensive solution that includes Label designer and printing service. This solution can be used to print labels as and when required. The label designing can be done at setup time and can be changed whenever needed. Multiple labels can be designed for printing purposes. Using this Multi-byte compatible solution both one dimension and 2 dimensional barcodes can be designed and printed.

The labels can be printed in real time by fetching data from a backend application server. The Backend Manager is used for this purpose to pull data from an application server e.g. BaanERP.

By using a handy portable printer, the complete data collection and label printing can be made one single comprehensive mobile solution.

Business Functions available in e-Data Collect

Business Advantages

• Ensuring Inventory accuracy.
• Optimizing Inventory Levels.
• Simplifying the physical flow of material from raw material to finished goods in a manufacturing process.
• Improvement in operational performance from receipt to shipment of goods.
• Focus on reducing distribution lead time.
• Improving working accuracy and quality of warehousing operations.
• Real-time tracking of parts distribution and inventory.
• Establishing paperless operations in the warehouse.
• Keeping track of real-time working progress. of the enterprise.
• Continuous feedback of working result to future distribution planning.

Productivity can be greatly enhanced using e-Data Collect. Transaction times can be cut dramatically. Please refer to a sample transaction time chart listed below: