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Functional Features & value proposition

•	Highly flexible and can be configured to suit any business model, workflow and any vertical industry segment.
•	Provides seamless integration with wireless based mobile commerce solutions, thus enabling working on pocket PCs and PDAs
•	Provides integration with existing applications like Mango’e’ desktop-based point of sale solutions and other accounting products offered by Acumen.
•	A truly any-time-any-where solution integrating the customer chain with the ERP systems, leveraging on the information and market happenings.
•	Manages the sales, distribution & logistics, finished goods inventory & receivables functions by leveraging on the web-based technologies, thereby improving business efficiencies and productivity at reduced costs.
•	Automates the field Sales force, which is one of the important functional activities of the Sales Department of any business.
•	Provides information on Order Book, Shipments, Inventory and Sales & Receivables at the touch of a button up to the minute across the length and breadth of the business.
•	Efficiency in Order Processing system as time standards can be set & deviations reported.
•	Identification of all fast moving inventories and subsequent storage in nearby locations in a Warehouse, thus cutting down the service time
•	Reduction of the loss of obsolescence to zero as goods can be shipped on First-in-First-Out basis.
•	Improvement in top lines as it helps in • • Avoiding Stock-Out situations Tracking order cancellation & sales return patterns which enables to remedy the situation.
•	Improvement in Bottom lines as it helps in • Avoiding locking up of working capital in Slow Moving & Dead Inventories.
•	Rationalization of inventories across the Distribution Chain viz. Depots, Distributors, etc.
•	Sustenance of delivery service levels, thus ensuring prompt and timely delivery through Distribution chain and maintaining100% product availability across the chain while reducing Inventory.
•	Promptness in customer service by the sales force, as they can access complete information regarding stock positions at Warehouses on their PDAs/from the Customer’s desktop.
•	Reduction in transportation costs through effective Truck Management.
•	Provision of stabilized plans to Mfg plants, suppliers & customers.
•	Prioritisation of shipment orders based on the lead period for supplies, helping in timely deliveries to customers.
•	Production need not be on estimates anymore, as the Supplies required are known well in advance and thus planning can be need-based. This helps in avoiding inventory pile-up.
•	Sales performance analysis on multiple parameters or combination thereof like time period, product-wise, geographical-wise and unit-wise. Performance can be bench marked against sales targets with variances reported.
•	Value Creation by enabling businesses to reduce costs, increase revenue; service customers better and reduce chances of sale revenue losses.
•	Conducting on the Internet Sales, distribution, finished goods inventory and receivables management, removing a lot of inefficiencies in the system.
•	Proper production planning based on the availability of real time information on order book positions.
•	Drastic cut in finished goods inventory management with ready availability of pending orders information.
•	Reduction in sales/marketing overheads by cutting all costly methods of communication like couriers and long distance telephony.
•	Better customer service
•	Making available all stocks and goods at all stocking points at the optimum levels which implies goods availability to customers whenever they require and thus serving customers better.
•	Availability of stocks and goods at all stocking points whenever the customer requires thus reducing chances of sale revenue losses.

General Benefits

•	Improvement in the efficiency of warehouses and transporters
•	Reduction in loss of sales due to stock-out situation
•	Reduction in carrying cost of excessive inventory at warehouses
•	Reduction in the incidence of carrying old stocks.
•	Identification of old stock, enabling it to be sold first.
•	Reduction in cost of communication related to sales and receivables.
•	Increase in productive hours of sales personnel due to reduction in time spent on Administrative work.
•	Reduction in the error factors in managing the activity and situations going out of control on the mere excuse of lack of information. For example: A dealer has been given supplies more than their credit limit or their poor credit realization coming to the light of management at a very later stage. A sales person who has done 95% of budget and missing the targets with narrow margin, due to lack of information.
•	Reduction in the sales personnel’s paper work, while increasing their time spent on sales calls.
•	Increased time spent in manageability of issues for managers rather than doing analysis about problems that occurred.
•	Reduction in the sales cycle (from order placement to delivery of goods and invoice) period considerably.