Collaboration allows business partners to interact via the web using XML and Portal Technology and accessing real-time information through the web, reports, graphs and synchronizing supply chain activities. The eXtend collaborative framework enables distributor business systems to integrate with the OEM back end systems using existing tools for connectivity, driving automated business process management and collaborative activities between OEM's and distributor businesses.

The information presented allows your sales force to keep track of on-hand inventory, units sold, units on order and associated cost per unit. This information is presented in real-time mode reflecting the inventory status of Equipment on Sale. Major Features in the Sales and Inventory Management module of eXtend include:

• Pricing and Inventory lookups for equipment and spare parts
• Automated Price Updates and Margin Analysis
• Cost Tracking and Reporting on individual equipment units
• Hard Allocation of product based on priorities
• Over the counter-ordering
• Direct Deliveries from vendor to your customers
• Streamlined material picking and shipping procedures using bar-codes and data collection features
• Real-time and batch invoicing
• Sales Statistic Reporting and Analysis using key elements like line of business, Regional Areas, Product Lines, Sales Groups and many more
• Inventory Planning and Control
• Location and Lot Tracking Capabilities
• Cycle Counting and Inventory Analysis

All these above functions and features come with real-time integration to the eXtend Finance Module, for immediate financial reporting and Analysis.

The inventory management functions are further streamlined by the implementation of our integrate value added business apps which include bar-coding, data-collection and automated features for data capture and faster operational processing.

Some examples include:

• Top sales by line of business.
• Revenue by Region.
• Forecasted v/s booked revenue.
• Cost & Margin Analysis.
• Financial Reporting.
• Sales Management Reporting.
• Sales Analysis and Statistical Reporting by Region.

Keeping track of Key Profitability Indices will help the management to keep track of the business performance. The Dashboard help the management to ensure the business objectives are being met by taking corrective action quickly.

eXtend Service provides comprehensive functionality for planning, execution and management of the service line of business. Service Orders can be easily generated for work to be performed on equipment with tools that allow you to track material and labor components and actual costs incurred on service orders. Allows for effective planning and management of resources in the service department.

e-Service Remote, provides the service department with tools and technology components to drive work order scheduling of service calls, preventive maintenance calls and field-service related activity. Some of the key features of eXtend service module include:

• Tracking of Warranties and extended contracts.
• Preventive Maintenance Planning.
• Service Order Planning and Scheduling.
• Job Costing.
• Parts Ordering by Field Technicians.
• Integration with OEM systems for Warranty tracking and effective management of warranty claims.
• Service Analysis by technician.
• Tracking and management of Tools and in-transit inventory.
• Call Management and Help-Desk features.

extend finance provides complete real-time integration with sales, procurement and inventory management functions to provide real-time view of business operations from a financial standpoint. Centralized integration Mapping Schemes provide for easy integration of transactional data to various general ledger accounts for easy analysis and management reporting.

eXtend features implementation of dimension codes for tracking and drill-down of the different revenue and cost components. The data can be captured through definition of standard dimension codes. Capturing of revenue and costs into five dimension categories is possible.
eXtend Provides complete support for mutli-site financial capabilities and financial data consolidations by branch and/or location. It is possible to compare financial data across branches and consolidate information across branches using standardized financial procedures.The eXtend Finance Module includes support for the following accounting functions:

• General Ledger.
• Accounts Payable.
• Accounts Receivable.
• Cash Forecasting.
• Customer Credit Management.
• Credit Analysis and Control.
• Fixed Asset Management.
• Three-way match and approval for A/P.
• Automated vendor payments from inventory receipts.
• Budgeting and financial statements.
• Integration with crystal reports for management and financial reporting.
• Cash flow, P&L, Balance Sheet and Departmental Expense Reporting.
• Budget v/s Variance Reporting.
• Electronic Banking and Automated Payment Procedures.
  

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.

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. eDC 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 eData Collect to help distributors design Labels with ease.

Processes can be defined in a distributed fashion with components of different applications seamlessly linked into a single process. Roles can be associated to users to perform specific tasks or maintain user defined processes. The EPM framework also provides among other features, a set of configurable, extendable and programmable set of connectors that can used to interface with a very diverse set of applications.

EPM has been proved to achieve an uptime of almost 100% by virtue of a relocation manager and synchronization component which moves the entire running instance of one EPM instance from one physical server to another one in case of a failure. The relocation process is completely transparent to the enterprise application.
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