We offer full-fledged pre-sales support for any organization desirous of installing Open Sesame, customized to their requirements. This typically involves the following phases:

•	Initial tracking of our client’s business requirements
•	Visit to the client’s place by our functional & technical consultants to study the organization’s work flow and technology/integration scenarios
•	Gap Analysis and offering a feasible solution in tune with our client’s requirements
•	Review and finalization of the requirements at the client’s end
•	Configuring Open Sesame at the Client’s place, customized to their business requirements.

Apart from that, our partners, who are experts in their respective functional areas are authorized to render assistance for our prospective clients right from technical evaluation to the final installation of Open Sesame.

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Value Proposition Of Open Sesame
Any software system when implemented should result in business efficiency, cost savings, cutting down on lead-time in business transactions thus enhancing the overall productivity. Apart from that, system should also result in instant availability of critical business information to all layers of management, as it happens across the length and breadth of the business.

OPEN SESAME when implemented very precisely fulfils these above requirements of an efficient software system. The following operations, which are otherwise done manually, are now executed online on the Internet.

•	Placing of Order/Indent by any constituent in the sales and distribution chain, which is normally done through conventional methods like faxing, courier or through long distance telephone is now done online through OPEN SESAME. Hence cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction. Duplication of work is avoided when this activity is done through OPEN SESAME, whereas in the conventional system the order data is again entered into ERP system.
•	Whenever orders are downsized or cancelled this information is sent through fax or courier in the conventional system. Whereas in OPEN SESAME the same is sent online, resulting in the cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction.
•	Dispatch advices along with packing list are usually sent through or faxed in the conventional system, whereas in OPEN SESAME the same is sent online, resulting in cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction.
•	Goods received notes are dispatched through couriers or send through faxes in the conventional system, whereas in OPEN SESAME the same is sent online, resulting in the cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction.
•	Invoices are sent through courier or fax in the conventional system whereas in OPEN SESAME the same is sent online, thus cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction.
•	Running account ledgers are dispatched through courier or fax in the conventional system, whereas in OPEN SESAME the same is sent online, thus cutting down on the lead-time for this transaction.
•	Various reports on finished goods inventory positions and sales figures from across regions / territories of the business are sent usually through courier or fax in the conventional system whereas in OPEN SESAME this information is available online. This enables the management to take instant decisions based on the information.

It can thus be seen that OPEN SESAME reduces lead-time significantly in all major transactions with the constituents of the sales and distribution chain.

This vastly improves the business efficiency and productivity of the system and reduces costs of operation significantly. Constant monitoring of the finished goods inventory position across the distribution chain comprising of warehouses, dealers and retailers is possible through OPEN SESAME. This enables to maintain optimum finished goods inventory positions across all positions of the distribution chain, thus reducing excess stocks where not required and ensuring stocks at points where required. Hence, working capital costs can be reduced significantly.

Open Sesame™ As A Powerful Mis Tool For All Levels Of Management
OPEN SESAME solutions are very powerful MIS tools. OPEN SESAME solutions provide critical information to all layers of management as it happens across the length and breadth of business.
Production Planning Based On Open Sesame Mis Reports
Production planning and scheduling can be done based on the order book positions, which can be consolidated as per respective territories and regions. Reports about pending unexecuted orders across the distribution chain comprising of warehouses, distributors and dealers can also be displayed. Reports on unexecuted orders consolidated for the entire business or territories and regions can be had in the OPEN SESAME reporting section. These reports help plan production at the manufacturing plant level. Hence, this type of production planning is called planning production against demand.

Tracking Order Cancellation Patterns
OPEN SESAME reports throw up order cancellation patterns. Orders that have been placed by dealers or distributors are usually cancelled or downsized for various reasons. These reports provide adequate information pertaining to the reasons for canceling or downsizing the orders. This helps the management in taking corrective actions to address and remedy the reasons for order cancellations.

Usually it happens that orders gets cancelled or downsized because of failure in processing them on time, price increases and stiff competition due to availability of better products or several other reasons. This information may not be readily available and by the time it is realized the damage has been done and sales lost. OPEN SESAME provides instant reports on this activity and therefore timely action can be taken to remedy the situation.
Managing Finished Goods Inventory
OPEN SESAME’s MIS reports helps in maintaining finished goods inventory positions very optimally. Usually a situation might arise, wherein at some points in the distribution chain where stocks are required, the stocks may be short in supply and at some points the stocks might be in excess than required. To a large extent stocks are pushed into the distribution chain based on past off take of goods by each of the point in the distribution chain. This method is not accurate and usually creates imbalances. It is assumed that since some products are fast moving in a certain region/ territory, more stocks of the products need to be maintained here. Also since in some places some products are slow moving, less stock of those products can be maintained here. So the entire decision-making is based on past and historic data, but patterns change very quickly and products that have been popular for some time in a region can all of a sudden lose demand for various reasons and products that have been moving sluggishly starts moving fast. There is no instant data available on day-to-day movement of stocks across all points in a distribution chain in a conventional ERP in this kind of scenario. OPEN SESAME provides MIS reports where day-to-day movement of stock can be determined to track dynamically on a day-to-day basis. This way stocks can be pushed from those areas where they are in excess to those areas where they are in shortage thus maintaining optimum stocks and ensuring efficient management of finished goods inventory. This method of managing inventory frees locked up inventory and cuts down working capital.
Managing Stock Based On Shelf Life
Lots of products like foodstuffs and beverages, medicines and certain other categories of products have a shelf life or expiry date before which they have to be sold. OPEN SESAME’s MIS reports monitor finished goods inventory based on batch numbers and expiry dates and enables management of finished goods inventory in a way where batches of finished goods with earlier expiry dates can be pushed out first. This pattern of activity can be deployed across all points in a distribution chain.

Managing Credit Realizations
OPEN SESAME’s MIS reports enable efficient management of receivables and credit realizations across territories / regions. Ageing analysis reports of outstanding dues / receivables for various dealers, distributors and various territories/ regions are available in OPEN SESAME’s MIS reports. The responsible managers can monitor credit realizations on day-to-day basis
The Present Competitive Market Scenario
The global market place has become very competitive. The present market is a buyers market for any category of product or service, worldwide. Competition results in pressure on both revenues and profits. Ever increasing budgets for Research and Development has become a must. Spiralling cost of inputs like raw materials, labour and cost of capital hasn’t helped things either. There is immense pressure on bottom lines due to these factors. Businesses need to improve productivity and business efficiency to remain competitive and profitable. Cost of operations needs to be brought down by business process re-engineering, which predominantly entails software systems being deployed and to improve productivity. With more and more businesses adopting practices like business process re-engineering it’s becoming imperative for those who have still not embraced these business practices to adopt them at the earliest to survive in the competitive world of business and to enable them to have a level playing field.

CB Analysis Study And Its Scope
Cost-Benefit analysis study is conducted to establish the cost of implementation of OPEN SESAME vis-à-vis the benefits of implementing OPEN SESAME. In this study, the total cost of implementation of OPEN SESAME, which includes cost of licenses, implementation and infrastructure is worked out.

A study is conducted to ascertain the cost heads affected by OPEN SESAME implementation. Implementation of OPEN SESAME reduces sales overheads; results in working capital costs coming down significantly and other related overheads are reduced significantly. These cost savings are quantified on an annual basis and it is established how soon the cost of implementation of OPEN SESAME is recovered by these savings.
Collaborative Commerce Software System And Its Importance
Most of the competitive businesses surviving today’s global market place have adopted ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software systems that automate all the functional activities of their business. Thus they have created a level playing field in terms of the improvement in business efficiencies and productivity that have resulted by the way of implementation of these systems.

The key to competitiveness now lies in being able to efficiently manage the sales, distribution and finished goods inventory management, which is one of the most critical and important functional activities of any business and where scope for vast improvement in business efficiency and productivity lies. All the constituents of the sales and distribution chain like warehouses, distributors, dealers and retailers lie very much outside the purview of the ERP systems of the company and hence critical business information from these constituents is not available as it happens in the ERP system.