ABOUT NEW CORPORATE SYSTEM (SUMMARY) 29.06.2004
We?d like to present the brand-new Commercial Corporate System, which possesses the truly unique opportunities. It was developed based on software “Oracle” and is intended for a wide range of consumers. It could be large- or mid-size companies, which are either the wholesale or retail ones (including the brand manufacturers). It also could be the companies with the various assortments of goods and a large number of branches and/or wholesale clients (up to 1000) located in any city or even town of Russia.
About ?old? available Corporate Systems
There are different corporate systems available such as those offered by Microsoft Corporation (?Axapta? or ?SAP”), which take into account only companies with narrow assortment. Their main problem is that they allow only ?manual and by model language of the contacts? among the consumers. That is, if any of your branches wants to test the availability of 100 positions needed, it has to select each model separately (”manually and by model”) at your basic warehouse where there are over 10,000 positions available. Thus many hours are spent and hundreds of unnecessary clicks are done. At the same time, the concept of real time is lost; the assortment of a warehouse is changing every minute. And if you have hundred of clients than your system will be always overloaded.
Besides, it is necessary to take into account that these Corporate Systems are written by the programmers who don?t understand the peculiar properties of your market, your commerce, and your goods. That?s why it is very difficult for businessmen to work with such programs without a help of ?programmer-interpreter?. Therefore such systems are limited by the work of “central office”, and it is almost impossible to teach your clients or your branches how to work with the old Corporate Systems. It is true especially for Russia where management and businessmen communication exists on the very basic level of emails.
These systems are very rough and usually don?t take into account the real needs of your clients and/or branches. For example, if one of your branches doesn?t have a particular product right now that doesn?t mean it really needs that product. Only your branch/client itself can give you demand for the particular product adjusted for local features and in real time. The available Corporate Systems don?t possess such resources, and update of an assortment occurs only taking into account some “basic price-list” despite the fact that there is no need for some products included in that price-list. Such incomplete system leads to the situation in which there are no goods available that are popular for the particular city or town whereas there are thousands of non-popular products left in stock.
About our ?new? Corporate System
Our new corporate system provides for assortment language of communication between the users. That is, your client can place ?an order for goods? (for example, 1,000 positions) on the price-list of your ?basic warehouse? (for example, 10,000 positions) by making one click and spending only about 0.1 seconds (the one tenth of a second). Or your client can place an order on the price-lists of 10 of your warehouses, which were selected by your client (or your branch) itself, each of them are composed of 10,000 positions. That is, for 0.1 seconds (and with one click) the client will receive the required assortment that is selected from your different warehouses in the best way (1000 positions if they are in stock at the moment). This is the only way an idea of “working in real time” takes place. Your client/branch can hereupon order (and pay for) selected goods. Of course there is a concept of arrival date of goods in our system. Client can order (and pay for) not only ?real? but also ?expected” goods if the arrival date and the corresponding price are acceptable (for ?expected? goods the discounts are applicable). So there is a convenient way for you to work only with prepaid order.
Unlike “Axapta” and “SAP”, the new corporate system was created with a direct participation and under a permanent control of “leading businessmen”. That is, the whole interface of the new corporate system is written in a very simple businessmen language. It is easy-to-use program especially for people with no Internet skills except for usage of email accounts. Just imagine that every single client and/or businessman (with no exceptions or excuses) can easily use this system in any city/town of Russia in real time. And there is no need for an additional ?programmer-interpreter?, the most harmful person, who most of the time aggravate a situation by misinterpretation.
In our new system we lay the foundation of maximum of “commercial brains” and also a lot of helpful tips. Therefore even a businessman-beginner (or your distant client) could easily work with it and pretty soon would become a professional. That is, we minimized your dependence on human factor, which is very important issue, especially for the large companies.
The system allows you minimize the commercial risks because it takes into account real needs of your clients and branches. And by the way, the concept of date when goods are required is also considered. You can actually plan and optimize the delivery of the goods to your clients.
Due to a momentary assortment comparison, particularly between your price-lists and the price-lists of your competitors, you can optimize the prices and regulate the delivery of goods (only applicable for Moscow and Russia regions).
In the new system there are many other important features available. For example, we have an internal email service, which works pretty fast and have virus protection. Our system allows the brand manufacturers fully supervise and control price wars between the clients from central office, etc.
To show the ability of our new Corporate System, about 4 to 5 hours are required. Everyone who saw the system including the large-size companies and the brand manufactures have estimated its huge potential. We need about 3 to 10 month to revise and adjust the system for a particular electronics company.
At present time the system is written for household appliances and electronics market. Basically, it could be modified for any other product such as foodstuffs, drugs; cosmetics, etc (allow 3-12 months for an alteration).
The system can be joined with any accounting or commercial system. In general, it isn?t difficult to build in our system any accounts department.
Our new Commercial Corporate System was tested on 1,000 clients and branches with the overall assortment of one million positions. P-4 server with two processors was used for testing (total cost of $10,000). But it is surely possible to increase capacity of the system by the addition of servers and by other improvements.
The system (database) was written using Oracle. It is possible, though, to rewrite it using any other program language (for example, using a language that is in competition
with Oracle). Under my supervision, it would take approximately 4 months. At the same time, it would retain all its unique opportunities, the external and internal interfaces which are simple and clear for businessmen, all the manuals and instructions. It is also possible to rewrite the design of the system using any language available at this time.
Sincerely yours,
Pavel Karpov (General Director and Developer)
cell phone +7-(985)-766-6787
website www.technobazar.ru