Trade Life-Cycle
The business activities of an enterprise can be considered
a course in value appreciation. This starts with purchasing
of raw materials, goes on to processing the raw materials,
and ends with the sale of products. This line of activity is
the value chain of the business.
Comparatively speaking, the activities in a trading enterprise are a special
case of the same. Trading enterprises purchase products from suppliers
then sell them to customers. The majority of them do not process materials
into saleable products. Rather, they offer special services which are the
basis for their value appreciation.
The profits of trading enterprises depend on their efficiency in conducting
these activities. Only when their costs in the course of this cycle are
lower than their expenses,do trading enterprises add value to their value
chain. So, doing their best to reduce costs is key for trading companies'
profit-making potential.
How then does one accomplish this?
Let's analyze the trading process, which generally involves:
Inquiries → quotations → orders → shipments → invoices → payments
This activity is conducted repeatedly, forming the foundation on which an enterprise thrives. A business grows by accelerating the movement along these links. This is much like the circle of life. We, therefore, have introduced the phrase " Trading Life Cycle ". Links on the " Trading Life Cycle " are connected to one another tightly. Smooth completion of each link contributes to the whole trade. Profit is produced after the completion each cycle around this chain.
To upstream enterprises, this trade circulation is to "purchase". And to the downstream enterprises, it is to "sell". Enterprises, especially trading companies, face the problem of controlling the course of purchasing and sales effectively.
Consistently monitoring the conduct of these cycles' and the constituting links results in the optimization the whole course of a trade.
BizOS® optimizes these cycles by providing a set of tools and a methodology for the manager, with which to achieve the desired results consistently.
•BizOS®provides a logical business-flow oriented solution that spans the entire enterprise.
Business Life-Cycle:
After several years' of growth, enterprises,
find that even though sales may be on the rise, profit
growth seems to stagnate or even be on the decline. This
is known as the “Flat Stage” of development
in an enterprise life-cycle.
This is the result of one or a few of such restraining
factors as:
•Growing supplier issues
•Overwhelming customer concerns
•Communication inefficiency
•Not providing the biggest incentives
to those who produce most in the organization.
•Entrepreneur's attention to
details in a continuously growing business
•Various other concerns
The information system, a business adopts, can play a
huge role in alleviating or overcoming the influence of
these factors, especially in communication efficiency.
This is why the information technology industry is growing
at such a rapid rate.
BizOS® recognizes that the success your organization experienced can be the reason it did not get the breathing time to adapt to its new size, and hence its new found issues. That is why BizOS® is offered as a tool especially to the manager of a successful business. It simply is the required tool to allow you, the successful manager, to view bigger scopes, and manage more complex structures and processes.
Core Design Objectives of BizOS®
Easy to use in operation and functionality
Ease of Use was the primary design goal
for BizOS®.
You will quickly discover the benefits of its design ideas
and functional flexibility. Ease of use ranges from its
operation to the way it covers business functions.
Because BizOS® is specifically
designed with small enterprises in mind, it knows well
that not all employees and managers in a small business
are proficiently experienced in computer operations.
BizOS® offers the intuitive
comfort of familiarity, even if the user is operating
it for the first time.
Valuable information offered in an integrated way:
BizOS® centralizes
all necessary business data, from customer history, to
supply chain to issue tracking, all to make your business
operations flow smoothly.
You can conveniently find all the information that you
need. In addition, BizOS®
integrates office automation and intelligent forecasting
tools that further enhance the efficiency in which you
manage your business.
Superior Technology
OOPSystems introduced a host of new and superior technologies to give the BizOS® operated businesses great advantages in conquering their operational complexities.
Feature Availability
A BizOS® site should never feel the necessity to glue-in ad-hoc software to fulfill some business functional requirement. BizOS® designers painstakingly researched the business landscape for what module and which features are required to efficiently and effectively operate in today's business environment.
TECHNOLOGIACL BACKGROUD OF BizOS®
ESM
ESM is short for Enterprise Sales Management, also described
as Enterprise Supply to Sales Management. While an ERP system aims
to help the enterprise with its sourcing issues, and CRM tries to
bring under control the customer side of the business, combined they
still leave a gap in the value chain, that is left un-addressed by
either. ESM® is a system that
considers the whole of the trading process, inclusive. Thus the whole
slice of your business that relates to buying and selling and whatever
is needed in between to accomplish those processes smoothly becomes
the realm of an ESM® system.
OOPSystems invented the term in 2003, and then shipped the first ESM
solution on the market place soon after.
EMF®
Enterprise Management Framework is a set of set of highly dynamic and focused engines that were designed to help create and support enterprise management software. These engines include“The Matrix” a workflow processor, an Event Manger, a Scheduling Engine, A Business Rule Processor, A Logic Processor, A mathematical processor, a statistical processor, and an analytical engine, among others. BizOS® is built on top of EMF®
Dynamic Modeling®
Software built on top of EMF® can make use of a unique and patentable technology that OOPSystems introduced to the world: Dynamic Modeling®.This technology allows the software makers to create fully dynamic software that can change as the requirements of its environment change without the need for neither extensive nor expensive reprogramming.
BIZOS® : THE OFFERING:
BizO®'s functions cover the following Business Areas:
| Sales •Pipeline* & Lead Management •Order Processing •Customer Relations Management with full Customer Interaction History |
Procurement •Supplier Qualification & Management •Order Processing •Quality and Issue Management •Supplier Interaction History |
| Product
Management •Manage Products and Bundles •Bill of Materials •Multiple Suppliers for each product each with separate product IDs and descriptions •Product Price History* |
Logistics •Warehousing •Inventory •Shipping and Receiving •Internal Goods Handling |
| Accounting •Unlimited Accounts & Ledgers •Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable •Cash Flow Management •Currency Management •Budgeting and Project Accounting |
Operations
Management •Human Resource Management •Asset & Facilities Management •Document Repository •Communications (Secure Messaging and Document Delivery) |
| Information
Management •Contacts, Notes & Calendars •Objectives & Advanced Task Lists •Private & Shared info for individuals, groups and the whole organization. |
Project
Management •Budgeting and Forecasting •Resource Management •Job, Task, Issue and Overall Tracking •Multiple Projects & Resource Balancing |
BizOS® presents the above functionality in a highly effective package making use of the following technologies:
| Flexible User Interface •Powerful List Managers •Statistical Views •Customizable Screens •User defined Shortcuts and Preferences |
Powerful Reporting •Report Template Generator •Iterative Data Laundering •Superior Patentable Technology •Historical Analysis & Trend Forecasting |
| System Administration •Powerful Security & Permissions •Enforceable Corporate Policies •System Auto-Updates •System Language Customization •Server Self Diagnosis Tool |
Dynamic Modeling •On Site reprogramming by nonprogrammers •Reports, Lists, Forms and Landing Screens all reconfigurable by nonprogrammers. •Dynamic Customizable XML-Based workflows: can be reprogrammed by business people.With Reusable nodes and externally defined nodes. |
| Global Organization Support •Multiple Sites •Concurrent Multiple Languages •Multiple Accounting Entities •Multiple Currencies |