How do you stay competitive and still grow profitability at the same time?

As a small and medium size company you face many challenges in today's highly competitive world. Over a period of time, you have developed IT systems on ad-hoc basis. Many of today's systems are - "patch work that is inherently ineffective and inefficient."

Data is available over fragmented systems preventing you as decision maker to gain access to key information. For growth and business efficiency, you need to unify all business processes so they work together and can share information. Do away with fragmented systems, re-keying or uploading / downloading of data across multiple systems. You need an integrated application that gives from a single source of information a complete view of your business.

Simplify your business processes by integrating and automating them. Get Accurate Information at Right Time in the Right Format.

When your customer places and order, check his credit status, look at previous order history and offer promotions. You can check on stock levels and make accurate delivery promise. Purchasing can automatically re-order items or quickly plan for the procurements from the vendors. Your manufacturing should be able to plan production based in line with demand. This allows Finance to predict the cash flow and investments.

Make smarter business decisions, Gain competitive advantage.

ProCore  is a fully integrated suite of business solution that includes modules for financials, purchasing, inventory management, sales order management, manufacturing (including excise), quality control, distribution, human resources & payroll.

Financial Management
Financial management is a key to business operation and monitoring for growth. Ensuring accuracy & efficiency of daily transaction data ensures financial integrity and is critical to monitor to get daily financial position. Real-time financial information management and reporting gives you financial confidence - so you can regain business control, efficiently manage your cash flows, close your books faster, and centralize financial control on a single integrated system.

Improve Inventory Management
Availability of accurate inventory information is critical to manufacturing, sales and distribution. For many companies, inventory accounts for bulk of working capital. An efficient materials management is critical for better utilization of working capital. Inventory is linked to Purchase and Sales Order management. Inventory management decision making is based on facts and not projections based on probability.

Purchase Management
Traditionally, purchase process being manual and paper based has lot of inaccuracy and inefficiency and leads to many delays. There is a major scope and opportunities to streamline procurement process and save costs. With integrated process from purchase requisition to approval to procurement to payments, you can weed out many inefficiencies and inaccuracies. It also enables you to build long term relationships with your suppliers. This leads to better business deals from suppliers in terms of price and delivery timelines leading to cost savings for you.

Distribution
Your customers expect you to fulfill customer orders accurately and on time. That is the key to customer satisfaction. Hence, availability of accurate and in real-time information on orders and inventory that shall support those orders is pre-requisite for your dispatch department. Inventory together with sales order management allows you accurate and timely information on orders on hand and inventory. This provides you ability to keep customer commitment and increase their satisfaction.

Manufacturing
In today's competitive world, you need to offer products to customers at the time it is required. You need to reduce cycle time, measure and assure quality and monitor costs. For this you need to carry out proper production planning and scheduling. The integration with inventory and purchase allows you know in advance what is available and what needs to be procured. Based on the actual inputs on availability of material, you can have a realist manufacturing plan and then promise shipping with confidence.

With ProCore, you can capture the batch and lot detail etc. as may be needed.

Sales Order Management
It enables you manage the entire sales process - from start to finish - with pinpoint accuracy. You can serve top customers more effectively, monitor fulfillment and invoicing more precisely, and streamline processes to minimize shipping costs and labor.

Delight your customers and increase retention with optimized invoicing and distribution capabilities that speed inquiries and order deliveries, reduce errors, and minimize costs.

Human Resources & Payroll
Manage the history of your human capital from applicant stage to separation. It is designed to have a positive impact on any organization's working and profitability by automating all critical HR functions. Vital personnel data & documents, including compensation, benefits, leave information, time management, employee attendance on any day, contract / work histories, performance reviews, training documentation are stored in the central database and are made available to HR, managers and employees via internet or intranet. The central database greatly enhances data accuracy and management oversights, which results in reduced administrative costs.

As your business grows, your need to have system in place that allows you to share information across all departments and all departments need to use the same set of underlying data to increase efficiency and productivity; to provide better services; make smarter decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information.

Gain insights into your business to know your customers, control costs gain competitive edge and grow profitably. Reap big business benefits at a price you can afford.

Application Architecture
The application has been designed on N-tier architecture under .Net framework provided by Microsoft. The application interface has been developed using ASP.Net and MS SQL 2005 as the backend. Being browser based it provides tremendous flexibility and offers reduced total cost of ownership.