Introduction and significance ERP Software

ebizframe is a web-enabled ERP and can be deployed on extranets as well as on intranets. It is a multilingual, multicurrency and multi company software based on Oracle 10g and Developer 2000. In addition to Windows, it also runs on Red Hat Linux. It offers you the best of functionality at the costs comparable to mid-range ERPs. It works with equal dexterity and robustness across manufacturing, distribution, trading and retail environments. ebizframe ERP is specially targeted at the Mid-Market segment and over the years has become the most successful ERP in India in this segment. During its last 10 years of existence, ebizframe has come up with many flavours for different industry verticals. Major segments apart from engineering, chemicals and pharma [4][5] being retail[6] dairy, food processing agro-industries like Sugar, Breweries and Distilleries, Paper & Packaging [7], Jewelry [8], Retail Textiles & Apparel etc. ebizframe is running currently in 26 countries in different industry segments ebizframe was launched commercially in 1998, bringing together 3 years of dedicated effort by highly skilled technical and functional resources across Industries. Globally the Product is implemented and supported by ESS. ebizframe - Features Based on state of the art technologies
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Web enabled Can be accessed by any PC with just a Browser and Internet connection Be in command even while on move Can give access to customers, vendors, shareholders, employees at any location Can be deployed on the intranet and internet

About the company which develops the software

Eastern Software Systems (ESS), one of the leading software services company in Delhi, was incorporated in 1990. ESS's flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product "Makess" was commercially launched in 1998, with possibility of extending it to customers and vendors. Makess was subsequently redesigned and renamed as ebizframe in the year 2000. ESS was the first Indian company to get into highly competitive branded ERP market and it has been mentioned as one of the successful Indian softwareproducts by various independent agencies. At the fundamental level ESS was focused on Indian SME market but gradually made its way into internationalarena in the year 2002-2003 through variegated business alliances. ESS now has a wide presence in more than 25 different countries across the globe and is a leading player in ERP space.

ESS was the first company in India to offer a web enabled ERP

Our Area of Operations

1. 2. 3. Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP) with Vertical solutions for about 20 verticals Application Development and Maintenance Services (ADM) IT Outsourcing Services

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ESS has a focus on ERP and e-commerce for more than a decade
Rated amongst the top 10 ERP companies in India by Express Computers and Frost & Sullivan Featured on the NASSCOMs site as Indian products making a name for themselves in the Global market Featured among Channels Asias 50 most dynamic companies of Asia Pacific Chosen the best ERP company by the Computer society of Nairobi Head Office and development centre in Delhi, India Presence in major cities in India Overseas presence in Africa, Mauritius, Gulf, SE Asia and Central America ESS ventured into Product when the software industry was thinking of services Surprised everyone with a low cost ERP Changed the concept From ERP for the classes to ERP for the masses Market leaders in ERP in India in SME segment

Technology leaders

First to web enable the ERP First to launch ERP on ASP model

ESS has proved that world class products can also be made in India as opposed to made by Indians Customers

Auto Components Light Engineering Heavy Engineering Chemicals Retail Pharma FMCG Trading Apparel Textiles Electronics & Telecom Jute Services Dairy Food processing Hire Purchase Satisfied customers in India, Africa, Gulf and Mauritius Industries covered include: ESS has the biggest installed base in the SME segment India

ESS prefers Business Partnership model outside India and is represented by well known IT companies in various countries. ESS also provides marketing support by providing training to the partners marketing team, and where required, deputes trained personnel to help the partners in marketing the software.

About the contents (modules) its features, applicability, uniqueness, advantages, to the end-user ( 5 Pages)
management research has proved that sharing of information and collaboration among employees significantly improves the productivity and bottom line. ebizframe, a internet based ERP software, can help you share information between various departments/functions and let them collaborate better and help all of them move towards the common organizational goals. Sharing does not mean that everyone has access to all the information in the organization. Information in ebizframe, a web based ERP software is controlled by restrictions and access rights. So you can decide on "who-sees-what" and "who-does-what"

Business functions /core functionality CRM, Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, Licensed (subcontracted mfg.), Finance, Asset maintenance, Statutory Compliance, Customer Service, Administration.

Modules

Ebizframe ERP software is delivered in modules, each module catering to specific department. Key modules of ebizframe ERP software are as follows: 1. Sales Helps to automate your complete sales cycle. It manage your sales, invoicing, order processing, order scheduling, production advice etc. Know more. 2. Procurement : Purchase department aims at making available the required materials of the right quality, in the right quantity and at the right price, for the smooth functioning of

the organization. Purchase department interacts with different departments of the organization, suppliers, sub-contractors and service providers. Know more. 3. Inventory: Helps an organization to manage the material in stores and track all the transactions related to it. It also helps in optimize inventory and manage the reorder, maximum and minimum levels of raw materials in the inventory. Inventory management streamlined with procurement cuts down the inventory and the working capital requirements. Companies have recorded a significant improvements in profitability with reduced inventory. Know more 4. Finance: Helps you manage your finance and accounts. Helps in creating all Financial and statutory compliance reports necessary for financial health of the organization. Know more 5. Manufacturing: With ebizframe Manufacturing, organizations can plan out production with optimum utilization of all the available resources like raw material, workforce, machines, etc. Know more... 6. HRIS(Human Resource Information System): Helps in Salary Processing, Statutory compliance and also helps you manage your HR processes. Know more 7. XLenz: Its a Reporting Tool designed by ESS which helps you generate Reports in Excel. Besides the report templates available, you can also design your own reports in Excel. Know more 8. Management Dashboards: Graphical Analytics tool typically meant for the top and the senior management. Helps you see and analyze the company's key performance parameters Know more 9. Industry Specific Modules : ebizframe also have some industry specific ready made modules like Milk Procurement/Cattle Feed for Co-operative Dairies, Transportation and Vehicle management for Big Plants and Corporates, Agriculture/Harvesting/Plantation management for Sugar industry, POS for Retail industry etc. Know more.

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Key Features of ebizframe ERP

1. Robust Technology and Continual Upgrades: ebizframe ERP Software is powered by Oracle technologies. Oracle is world leader in enterprise applications. This means you get best of the breed technology to run your software. ebizframe is continuously improved and upgraded to newer technologies making it an economical ERP software in India, Africa and other countries. 2. Internet Based ERP Software: ebizframe uses a 3-tier architecture. It can be deployed on Intranet or extranet(using any form of connectivity including basic internet connection) This means your employees can work from anywhere using the ERP software and you can also give defined and password controlled access to your customers and suppliers. 3. Customizable to your needs : ebizframe has inbuilt world class Business Practices. You can even get them customized for your organization easily. The Customizations of ERP software help increase adaptability of the ERP amongst the Users making it economical for the company. 4. User Friendly and Easy to Use: ebizframe ERP Software is highly user-friendly and requires little navigation skills. Its intuitive design ensures that your employees get used to it within a few days. 5. Large number of standard and Vertical specific modules: ebizframe ERP Software has a number of standard integrated modules which can be customized to your Business practices in India, Africa or any other country. Then there are Vertical Specific modules as well which help easy implementation as per your Vertical segment. You can start with a few essential ERP Software modules and then add more functions as need arises. This reduces your dependence on multiple applications and brings consistency in information sharing across the organization. 6. Comprehensive Features Per Module: ebizframe has comprehensive features in every module, which means most of your business requirements can be easily fulfilled by standard ebizframe. This reduces the amount of time and effort required for customization making it most economical ERP software in India, Africa, and other countries. 7. Multi-company, Multi-location, Multi-currency and Multi-lingual : ebizframe ERP Software can help you consolidate your businesses across multiple locations and geographies, thus making it economical for your business. 8. Automated Workflows: ebizframe has automated workflows which can be customized according to your business needs. 9. Integrated with Third-Party Applications: ebizframe is easy to integrate with a large number of 3rd party applications. If required, your existing applications/hardware can be made to communicate with ERP Software.

Advantages: Improve Productivity and Quality By using ebizframe web based ERP software you will be able to achieve integration of different business processes across various Business functions in your organization. This helps improve

the speed and accuracy of business transactions. Speed helps keep your customers happy while accuracy improves quality and reduces re-work. ebizframe ERP can help you ensure that your employees are involved in productive work rather than doing duplicate data entries, reworking on the rejections or correcting the wrong entries or reconciling data entered by different departments. Manage multiple locations from single location ebizframe follows a 3-tier architecture system which means it runs from a Central Server(s). The web based ERP software is not required to be deployed on teh individual User's machines. This helps internet based ERP software to be accessed over internet or any other form of connectivity from multiple locations even with a low-bandwidth connectivity. Once installed on your servers ebizframe, internet based ERP software, can easily be accessed using basic broadband or a USB Data-card from your multiple locations.

Consolidate or Drill down information

Using web based erp software you can run your multiple businesses on the same software. You can consolidate results of your multiple entities and at the same time you can achieve drill down to the transaction level from a Consolidated figure. This makes it easy for the Group level senior management to view the results of individual companies as well as the Group as a whole. ebizframe also offers a unique "Selective Consolidation" feature using which you can consolidate results of only selected entities as well.

Take Decisions Based on Facts

Decision making plays key role in business management. At the end of the day, your business is what decisions you take at the beginning of the day. ebizframe, an Internet based ERP software, helps provide you useful analysis based on actual data entered into the system. The Analytics have evolved over years and can give you useful insight into your businesses helping you manage them efficiently and effectively. Management Dashboards help the Senior and Top management with useful graphical and top level analytics giving them useful information to run the operations.

Maintain Statutory Compliance

As business matures, the processes become complex and companies have to maintain compliance with rules and regulations of the land. These compliances can be related to taxes(VAT, Tax Deduction at Source etc) or Human

resource compliance(Provident fund, Social Security etc) or Compliance to Quality standards(in food and pharma industry) or compliance to social obligations(child labor). ebizframe ERP has built in returns which are generated directly from the Transactions ensuring that your Statutory compliance documents are met. Any vendor offering ERP solution for dairy industry has to bear in mind that it should have easily adaptable business practices and at the same time should have the flexibility of changing Business Practices to the specific needs of Dairies.

1. Why ebizframe?
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Proven application Exhaustive usage by large number of clients spread across verticals and geographical boundaries

Highly versatile Used in diverse industries - auto ancillaries, light engineering, steel, pharma, chemicals, garments, retail, textiles, dairies, oil drilling, software, FMCG

Globally acclaimed Satisfied users in India, Africa, Mauritius, Gulf and S.E Asia. List is expanding all the time

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Surprisingly affordable Highest value for your money Future proof Incorporates the latest technologies and is completely internet enabled.

ebizframe offers the lowest of TCOs amongst good companies with stable product 2. Why ebizframe?
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Customized to your needs

Enables users to easily generate business-specific reports. The net edge When you implement ebizframe on the internet, your business boundaries become virtually limitless. Customers, Suppliers and Remote employees can carry out transactions over the internet.

Better Management control by info based decisions Brings operational efficiency by reducing effort for repetitive tasks, and enables error free routine operations. Helps managers in controlling all aspects of the organization and taking informed decisions by providing meaningful reports with assured data integrity

3-tier technology - Web enabled Easy to implement, deploy, maintain and upgrade Easy scalability Can be deployed on Internet and Intranet

ERP for Dairy Industry increases efficiencies, reduces costs, and ensures compliance with food regulations
- By Nishant Joshi India is one of the largest producer of milk, and is now preparing to become the largest food factory in the world. But in its course of journey to zenith, the Indian dairy industry faces a multitude of challenges and opportunities in procurement of raw milk and processing it into products such as consumer milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, condensed milk, dried milk (milk powder), ice cream etc., using varied processes such as chilling, pasteurization, and homogenization et all. There is a clear demand supply gap in the domestic milk scenario. There is also the compulsion to provide the lower prices to retailers because of their increasing negotiating power that has created margin pressures. The industry is struggling with the production planning and processing due to the variations in quantity and quality of the non-standardized and perishable raw material. Recent developments in production technologies can meet the demand for foods with lower carbohydrates or for products with an extended shelf life but, the main concern is to have efficient product innovation processes to provide the advantages associated with speed to market. The focus of Dairies on increasing efficiencies, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance with food regulations over

the whole supply chain are hampered by a number of non integrated processes and system which is affecting the effeciency as well as overall growth of the organization. To overcome these road blocks there is a need to standardize all the scattered processes and information on a single platform. The growth of milk dairy business since Operation Flood or White Revolution led by Dr. Kurien through the highly innovative co-operative model has created a unique model for the milk industry. This model is not just unique to India but also to the world. Now, even private dairies try and follow a similar model for milk collection from villages and offer related services. Thus, the smallest of farmer or cattle owner owns a share of the business and gets the benefit from its growth. As this is a unique Indian model, no standard management solutions or IT solutions can fit it readily. Due to its unique business model and the back ground of stake holders, the working style of the members in this ecosystem is different. Apart from professional managers handling the operations, the workers and operations people are simple village people with limited literacy and computer literacy who have joined the dairies as members of cooperative societies. Any vendor offering ERP solution for dairy industry has to bear in mind that it should have easily adaptable business practices and at the same time should have the flexibility of changing Business Practices to the specific needs of Dairies. The people running these dairies and the processes also need a different approach to train the manpower and have to be sensitive to their issues. Most Dairy organizations have well defined systems under ISO certification. Some people in this vast network of Dairy industry are already using IT in a major way in Societies and plants for milk procurement and billing system and accounts. Some dairies or unions have partial automation with islands of computerization along with manual systems. However very few Dairies are using an ERP to automate their entire set of operations. Features of an ERP for Dairy Industry:

For Milk procurement which is the most complicated function in a dairy, one needs to define Co-operative Societies (Suppliers) attached to a particular district or regions Unions Dairy and details such as Address, Route, Collection time and society information like date of registration, Membership, directors, Bank Accounts etc.

Routes can be defined on factors like Societies covered, Distances, Truck arrival time, type of milk, Transporter and contract details. Details of Transporter including the details of vehicle, the route which they cover, contact information etc. Daily Milk Receipt quantity needs to be captured automatically from the Milk Weighing machine with details like Fat and SNF contents etc. Many Unions have Chilling plants in remote locations if distances are higher and milk has chances of getting spoilt in the bargain. These chilling plants need to capture similar data and work on-line or offer data upload at any given interval that can be automated or done manually.

Quality Control Set of quality parameters can be defined for milk with basic information like Cow milk, Buffalo milk or mixed milk, capture auality of milk from individual societies for all parameters like Fat content and SNF. The data may be entered manually or can be captured from the instruments directly if milk analyzer provides interface files. Raw milk procurement rates are linked to quality parameters of milk for billing purpose.

Society-wise Billing cycle can be 3 times in a month or fortnightly or weekly etc. This billing has to take into account other deductions or bonus etc. for supplies done to the society while preparing these bills, apart from quality based billing etc.

Billing cycle is fully integrated with Finance, general stores and cattle feed plant to capture details of supplies done to societies. This can also be linked to veterinary services module if it is operational within the ERP so that medical services can also be debited to society account.

Cattle feed manufacturing, procurement for its raw material and distribution/sales is a separate business process that is created and integrated with the ERP. Procurement cycle needs to cover the concept of broker/adatiya for sauda, advances, weigh-bridge integration, quality based rate variance for billing purposes and its linkage to society accounts for supplies done to them.

Veterinary services are an important service offered by the Unions to their members to take care of their cattle stock. ERP should be able to plan and monitor field visits, medicines supplied, vehicle management and their spares, expenses monitoring operations. It can provide information about prevalence of diseases, their seasonal effect, spread across villages and Doctors performance. It needs to be linked to stores, finance and HR.

Being a perishable commodity and low margin activity due to nature of business, the system would need to keep track on wastages due to spoilt milk or other products that may turn sour due to limitations of expiry, returned goods. These critical issues can provide or take away hidden margins not generally visible in normal operational data.

Packing material consumption, its rejection due to quality issues, spares consumption that could indicated problems with any plant machinery also form an integral part of ERP. At macro-level an ERP for dairies would need to keep an eye on expected production from given quantities of procurement, variance from the norms, thus provide indicators about the health of operations at procurement and manufacturing levels, losses due to returns, tracking sources of such losses and cost escalation can provide the right kind of controls required in dairy industry. Thus to manage the supply chain, logistics, milk procurement, payments, cattle feed, veterinary and operation to cost controlling and corporate services, an Integrated solution like ERP for dairy industry can provide a single integrated platform. The ERP for dairy industry can greatly help improve operational efficiencies specifically in the areas of milk procurement, distribution, transactions with Co-operative societies and Manufacturing.

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ESS charts out aggressive plans for the dairy vertical, after success at Baroda Dairy & Sugam Dairy. grabbing Eastern Software System (ESS), India's premier ERP Company offering cutting edge technology solutions and services announced that Amul (Kaira District Milk Cooperative Union based at Anand, Gujarat) has selected its flagship ERP product ebizframe for implementation. Rated as one of the top 10 ERPs in the country by Frost & Sullivan, ebizframe is competing successfully against international majors both in terms of price and features. It also ranks amidst top 10 home-grown software product brands from India. According to Chairman & Managing Director, Eastern Software Systems, Anil Bakht, "Amul is world's largest liquid milk brand and Asia's largest dairy brand. It is, of course, a matter of immense pride for Team ESS to be associated with one of the most iconic and legendary names in the annals of Indian corporate history. This win will certainly

make us more acceptable amidst other dairy brands that we reach out to." In accordance with one of its key ph ilosophiesvalue for moneyAmul, having evaluated ERP offerings from large brands including the multinationals, chose ESS' ebizframe for an integrated IT system. It analysed the results versus spend in implementations of ESS and that of competing brands and found ESS to be the most competitive. Amul is taking an incremental path as far as solution deployment is concerned and will be implementing only certain selected modules of ebizframe in the first phase and then add other modules as and when required. Prior to the major accomplishment at Amul, ESS had triumphed at Vadodra as well with two of the leading dairies under Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)the Baroda Dairy and Sugam Dairyimplementing ebizframe as ERP solution of choice. Buoyed by the recent successes in the segment, the Company is targeting the dairy vertical aggressively. It will also leverage upon the nuances of the vertical and the resulting customizations that it tailored while imp lementing the solution at the dairies, helping it attain even greater domain expertise and specialization. Every day, Amul collects several lakh litres of milk from hundreds of farmers, converts it into packaged dairy products and delivers goods worth crores to thousands of retail outlets across the country. This calls for a massive IT environment and an ERP solution that integrates it all, that too, seamlessly. Amul does not believe in the hype that ERP bigwigs of the world generate around their offerings. Their reasons to go for ESS' ebizframe are credibleoptimum performance at minimal price. As far as its deployment is concerned, being a large organization, Amul realizes that it isn't practical to go for a big bang fit-all solution and therefore will be implementing it in a phased manner. ESS foresees an immense business potential in the dairy vertical. It is known that India's output of milk and milk products has outpaced that of the world in terms of perc entage growth. The country will account for nearly half of the expected growth and total output from Asia. This is primarily in response to the internal demand growth and is sustained by increasing productivity. Given the recent high international prices, Indian dairies have made aggressive forays into international markets and are expected to export 3,00,000 ton of dairy products.

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India is one of the largest producer of milk, and is now preparing to become the largest food factory in the world. But in its course of journey to zenith, the Indian dairy industry faces a multitude of challenges and opportunities in procurement of raw milk and processing it into products such as consumer milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, condensed milk, dried milk (milk powder), ice cream etc., using varied processes such as chilling, pasteurization, and homogenization et all. There is a clear demand supply gap in the domestic milk scenario. The focus of Dairies on increasing efficiencies, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance with food regulations over the whole supply chain are hampered by a number of non integrated processes and system which is affecting the effeciency as well as overall growth of the organization. To overcome these road blocks there is a need to standardize all the scattered processes and information on a single platform.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service,customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application. Its purpose is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders
The key objective of an ERP system is to integrate information and processes from all functional divisions of an organization and merge it for effortless access and structured workflow. The integration is typically accomplished by constructing a single database repository that communicates with multiple software applications providing different divisions of an organization with various business statistics and information. An ERP system would qualify as the best model for enterprise wide solution architecture, if it chains all the below organizational processes together with a central database repository and a fused computing platform. Mafg- HR- SCM- finance- customer relationship management- Projects.

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