About the history of corporate systems 03.03.05
The Corporate Systems like ?Axapta? or ?Sap? were developed in the late 70-ties and 80-ties when there was no Internet at all, there were no special programming languages (like Oracle), nor cheap and fat servers. Your clients and shops could at best FAX their orders and applications (and other information) to you. Then dozens of “gals” had to type them (with a great number of mistakes and too slowly) into your corporate system format and upload them to a very expensive and a very weak server (as compared with the current ones) that was in your head office.
Surely, in that case the best solution was to MAXIMALLY CONCENTRATE all your “brains” in your head office; and SALES ANALYSIS was the only and the best tool (for that time) to “account the ending inventories” and to “restock”. It was a very rough instrument. It had a lot of drawbacks. Particularly it could not account for sales of unmarketable inventories (and you had to procure them again). Moreover, it could not show your demand for TODAY (in real time) but just an “AVERAGED” demand (FORECAST) for SOME MONTHS AHEAD. It meant that you had to stuff your warehouses for some months ahead and get the MAXIMUM of all potential RISKS (terrorist attacks, weather, local commercial conditions, etc.)
Then, of course if you let ALL your shops SUBMIT VERY SIMPLE PRODUCT ORDERS and EDIT THEM AT ANY TIME (and in a very simple way too) subject to changing REGIONAL, weather or other commercial conditions, it will be your MOST EXACT REAL-TIME demand (for today, tomorrow, next month, next year, etc.). It will be much more accurate than any “sales analysis”. Because none but your shops know what things are “UNMARKETABLE AND DISPOSABLE” and they will not enter them in their orders.
However in 1970-1980-ties, the actual technical capabilities (unavailability of Internet, servers, etc.) could not ensure prompt collection and processing of “orders” from shops and clients and that time the optimal (and easy-to-implement) restocking tool was just the “sales analysis”. It was CRUDE and HAZARDOUS but the only available (that time).
Unfortunately even by now, the systems like ?Sap? and ?Axapta? actually could not modify their “brains” and offer companies the products based only on the sales analysis. In the Russian market, this mode of operation is very “crude” and “hazardous” (plus terroristic threat occurred).
But now, when THERE IS INTERNET, plus cheap and fat servers, plus special and fast languages (Oracle, etc.) why then all these things are unavailable for the shops and clients to submit and edit their PRODUCT ORDERS in real time and thus to update the warehouse?
My corporate system already operates (and very fast) based on the product orders from your shops and clients. This is the only way to get the ACTUAL and THE MOST EXACT DEMAND from your shops and clients (today, tomorrow, next month, next year, etc.) And this is the only way to MINIMIZE all your RISKS. I use “sales analysis” as an additional protection (a basic order that can be edited by your branches and clients in real time).
I worked a year in Tekhnosila Company and that was just the time they tried to launch ?Axapta? for themselves. NEVER ROB A BLIND!!! I mean, the smartest management got absolutely blind (what concerns software and virtual issues). They hired the most incapable administration (including real swindlers like O. Barinov) that “used to program something” and agreed to hold the bag for a while but buzzed away in time. Their “corporate system” somehow turned very inconvenient and off-speed. ?Axapta? sent their (very proficient) specialists that should have improved that but evidently used to never do anything like that. Thank God, Tekhnosila management failed to clearly express what they wanted and therefore, these guys are still improving that (Axapta). Of course, it was the fault of Tekhnosila that provided a bungling “specification”.
I mean, that Tekhnosila management (through its incompetence) wanted to launch something FAST for any money and further IMPROVE that principally ? and that was the thing Columbus Company (Axapta) promised to them. However, they forgot to mention that no principal changes (like adding new orders from the shops) can be made to ?Axapta? or ?Sap?: everything will buzz. Any programmer can confirm it and TO CREATE A NEW SYSTEM WILL BE MUCH SIMPLER (and that is what I did).
?Sap? system does not differ fundamentally from ?Axapta?: the same “sales analysis” plus “incomprehensible and complicated interface”. “It was improved by so many and so different guys that now none can remember where exactly it was improved. To train a regional dealer to work with that is impossible (a feedback from a former ?Eldorado? employee).
Unfortunately, a great deal of managers from large Russian companies does remain BLIND (in software & virtual issues) and has to make the same mistake. Unfortunately there is no any independent and professional company to consult them.
My system is designed to maintain operations of your (and other) wholesale and retail branches in real time. It can cover up to thousand (1000) branches and the product range can include one million items (and more). Each branch and client gets its own ?price list? and ?product order? that they can edit in a real-time mode (its format is very simple and comprehensible). There is a unique system to ensure a prompt real-time analysis of price lists and orders for both your office and your branches (warehouse analysis). There is a unique system to ensure a prompt ITEMIZED comparison of your price lists and orders. There is a unique search engine to ensure a prompt filtering of the most useful information for your office, branches and clients (including analysis of your competitors’ price lists), there is a virus-free internal mail, etc. I created that specifically for businessmen and used the language they understand. I mean that I developed a fully complete commercial “internet state” (corporate system). Programmers are just translators, they cannot create a system. To develop a similar system requires a great experience, education and God’s blessing (I guess I got it). Of course, I have brilliant programmers (Oracle, etc.). The site contains hundreds of instructions I wrote specifically for businessmen. Neither ?Columbus? (Axapta) nor ?Sap? have specialists that can develop a similar system.
ALL businessmen, managers and programmers that saw my system were delighted (80 working pages with unique opportunities stated in a format simple and understandable by the businessmen).
With best regards,
Pavel Karpov
General Director and Developer of www.technobazar.ru
Phone +7 985 766 67 87