How IEM systems made ERP outdated

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    Import, export and multi-currency accounting.

    Import, export and multi-currency accounting.

    The number of currencies is not limited. The exchange rates differences are always correct. Right calculation of total cost of imported goods with different variants of the expenses allocation. IEM helps to make unexpected discoveries of real marginality of product categories.

    Mass production by individual orders

    Mass production by individual orders

    IEM system automates the whole process from accepting an online order to informing the client of the order being ready,including transportation of spareparts and finished orders between the warehouses and assembling halls. Both mass and one-off production will do.

    The Cruel Cashier 'Makes Money Together with You'®

    The Cruel Cashier 'Makes Money Together with You'®

    The fewer, the better cheer. No more need for cashiers.

    Employee Task Management

    Employee Task Management

    The IEM system manages the employees’ tasks as linked to accounting entities (documents, counterparties, warehouses, etc.). No old-fashioned tools (‘CRM systems’, etc.) are needed any longer.

    A remarkably swift implementation.

    A remarkably swift implementation.

    Tens of days are a rael time frame for completing the implementation of IEM systems on the platform of Ultimate Solid.

    ROI 150%

    ROI 150%

    Belaya Mebel Co.’s return on investment in Ultimate IEM system is 150 % per year.

    Delivery to Regional Wholesalers. Accounting for Pieces of Cargo and Contents

    Delivery to Regional Wholesalers. Accounting for Pieces of Cargo and Contents

    Transport companies handle ‘pieces of cargo’, i.e. packed boxes. Ordinary accounting systems use goods item lines in the waybills. This is how we put them together and organize end-to-end accounting and convenient processing in logistics.

    Call Centre Automation: Generates Profit and Satisfied Customers

    Call Centre Automation: Generates Profit and Satisfied Customers

    The call centre is fully integrated with the IEM system. When receiving a call, the system generates an extract from the client’s file online and forwards the call to the most suitable operator, taking the into account the client’s probable reason to call. Instead of being the forward defence line against empty talk and customer frustration, the operators become your cross-selling agents.

    Highest System Productivity

    Highest System Productivity

    More than 4000 concurrent active users and 17 million lines of active documents a day in real life. More than 18,000 users and ~100m lines of documents a day during independent development testing that emulated real load. Ultimate IEM systems are the world’s No.1 performers in terms of productivity.

    Sponger Detector

    Sponger Detector

    It is ridiculous when all business is about a strictest accounting and control, and accounting control, and control oversight, and oversight checks, and check reviews, and review audit, and audit monitoring.

    Order Routing with no managers at all.

    Order Routing with no managers at all.

    You need no CRM. The unified IEM system does it all. You no longer need logisticians or sales girls. Your clients and onsite engineers are as happy as a clam.

    Motivation for Procurers. Automatic Calculation and Indicators Control.

    Motivation for Procurers. Automatic Calculation and Indicators Control.

    How to make your procurers work, i.e. pack the warehouse with what really sells? And not cite lame excuses like ‘our suppliers have none’, ‘they want a high price, soon I’ll bring it cheaper’. ‘I know my merchandise better’ and so on.

    Marketing budget utilization.

    Marketing budget utilization.

    The processing of your vendors’ marketing budgets: receiving, utilization, cash settlement, and profit taking - is transparently recorded in the IEM system. Thus the profit from using the marketing budgets goes to the business owners rather than their especially shrewd employees.

    Quotation Request: Thousands of Lines in the file for a few second. No people needed.

    Quotation Request: Thousands of Lines in the file for a few second. No people needed.

    Customers’ requests for goods quotations containing up to several thousand lines are automatically processed by the IEM system.If the item wanted is missing, the system will suggest similar ones. The requests are processed instantly and error-free, the customers are happy, and no ‘managers’ are needed

    The Heizunka of Toyota Co. in Logistics

    The Heizunka of Toyota Co. in Logistics

    Warehouse personnel's productivity as high as 70% as a result of using united enterprise managing system to optimize warehouse processes.

    Old Bones’ death: rotting away with no gold to save.

    Old Bones’ death: rotting away with no gold to save.

    Tale of sense, if not of truth! An innovative anti-villain strike: a self-counting casket to effectively explode All Bones. Food for thought to honest youth/businessmen.

    Inventory Management

    Inventory Management

    Lean production implemented in the enterprise management system returns millions, previously frozen in unfinished goods, into your working assets.

    Automatic Cash Receivers for Internal Needs

    Automatic Cash Receivers for Internal Needs

    An internal terminal for receiving cash, connected to the unified IEM system. Accountable money is delivered to the enterprise’s cash office without queues or cashiers, and complex mutual settlements are closed correctly.

    Automation of Purchases via Supplier Exchange

    Automation of Purchases via Supplier Exchange

    Goods requirement calculation, requesting and processing suppliers’ quotations, rating and choice of the best proposal are all automatic. Guaranteed absence of theft.

    Optimal Goods Distribution Across the Sales Network

    Optimal Goods Distribution Across the Sales Network

    The IEM system distributes tens and hundreds of thousands of goods items among hundreds and thousands of outlets. Humans should only determine the rules and priorities.

    Pricing Policy. Automatic Pricing

    Pricing Policy. Automatic Pricing

    The pricing policy is formulated as a system of rules like " something average between our main rivals, but we’ll raise the price if the item is scarce’ and loaded into the enterprise management system. Then its robot will guarantee that your prices are fresh and adequate.

    Automatic Control of Accounts Receivable

    Automatic Control of Accounts Receivable

    The receivables logic (money, timing) is formalized in the IEM system and then controlled in a fully automatic mode: warning, penalty assessment, and escalation of problems. At the output end we do away with arrears, cash gaps, and waste of time as sales personnel wrangle with the customers.

    Warranty claims online

    Warranty claims online

    The troublesome warranty processing is largely offloaded onto the customers. The latter are happy with it, and the profitless load on your front office employees decreases by one-third.

    Perfect Financial Accounting.No Beans Counters.

    Perfect Financial Accounting.No Beans Counters.

    Total automation of the enterprise’s financial block: from automatic import, recognition and application of payments from the client bank to auto-generation of the profit and loss statement and balance sheet. The budgeting process, treasuries, etc. – all are inside the single business management system. The payment processing girls, budget controllers and other financial managers are not needed any longer.

    Shelf-warmers at the warehouse.How to control, prevent and push tough sells sales automatically

    Shelf-warmers at the warehouse.How to control, prevent and push tough sells sales automatically

    An unpleasant discovery each CEO or owner will inevitably face when analyzing the stock is that some goods have become a tough sell. Wasted money: how IEM helps to keep losses within boundaries.

    Job Assignments. Auto Routing

    Job Assignments. Auto Routing

    The IEM system routes job assignments automatically. Strict queuing, no faults, re-grading or other everyday fun for a manufacturer.

    Pricing Policy. Automatic Pricing

    Pricing Policy. Automatic Pricing

    Something a little more complicated than Newton's binomial if done the clever way.

    Procurement Automation: Procurer’s Control Panel and Other Tools

    Procurement Automation: Procurer’s Control Panel and Other Tools

    All the payments pass automatically, with guaranteed checks for budgetary limitations and sufficient cash coverage, and with lower priority payments postponed to a later date if needed. And with all the beauty of machinery order and control to which your human treasurers pay lip service only.

    Separate Branch Balance Sheets in a Single System

    Separate Branch Balance Sheets in a Single System

    Tools to control access to information in the IEM system. No-compromise reliable control.

    1C Accounting Integrated into Ultimate

    1C Accounting Integrated into Ultimate

    The data needed for the accounting office are downloaded from the IEM system into 1C Accounting. And then your accountants will fudge them on their own - without risk of damaging data in the central system.

    Production Cost, Online Calculation

    Production Cost, Online Calculation

    The cost of end products usually becomes known once in a quarter or even a year but not for the current for the past period only. And this is how you can calculate it in real time by clicking one button and be free to interfere proactively.

    No queues at the warehouse due to business processes standartization.

    No queues at the warehouse due to business processes standartization.

    Get rid of lines in the Dispatch zone at the warehouse and increase the employees' efficiency through standartization on all the warehouse business processes controlled by IEM system.

    Onsite service. Automated distribution of orders.

    Onsite service. Automated distribution of orders.

    The intellectual system distributes orders among your service personnel according to their competences, how busy they are, and their own wishes. All the orders will be snapped up voluntarily in a matter of minutes, and all human administrators will be excluded from the process.

    Financial Statements Constructor

    Financial Statements Constructor

    P&L and balance sheet items are composed and grouped in the visual editor exactly as the shareholders want to see them. And then the IEM t system generates all the statements automatically. Don’t find it too difficult to press the button once a month/quarter/year. You can schedule the robot to do this, though.

    Mixed up goods worth 200 000 rubles at a 2 bln ruble warehouse

    Mixed up goods worth 200 000 rubles at a 2 bln ruble warehouse

    Ulmart detects at its hub near Moscow in an average month. The personnel accountable for the assets are held responsible for them. Accounting, control and loss prevention are built into the Ultimate business processes.

    How to sell much and expensively or individual approach in mass production

    How to sell much and expensively or individual approach in mass production

    Pricing is universal for everybody,but it is worth while making concessions even in retail. How IEM implements individual approach humanlessly.

    Bin Location Warehousing

    Bin Location Warehousing

    The intricacies of bin location warehousing as applicable to the custom needs of different companies’ working process. Ulmart and PartsDirect.ru: bin location warehousing for transshipping boxes and handling small and delicate but expensive odds and ends, respectively

    B2B/B2C Web-portal: 61 days and a little something

    B2B/B2C Web-portal: 61 days and a little something

    It is pure truth that Ultimate Implementation takes tens of days in sharp contrast to the ordeals with the products of the famous ERP majors.

    Automated Delivery. Tens of Thousands of Deliveries a Month, Just in Time

    Automated Delivery. Tens of Thousands of Deliveries a Month, Just in Time

    Automated delivery management makes logisticians and supervisors redundant. This only adds to service quality, speed, and reliability.

    CRM in Manufacturing

    CRM in Manufacturing

    Using the IEM system at the manufacturing company to build customer relations. No more daily surprises; even your life itself is not as thrilling as usual.

    Automation: Procurer Control Panel and Other Tools

    Automation: Procurer Control Panel and Other Tools

    Visual control of the enterprises’ inventory: what is where, what sells too quickly or too slowly. Who brings in what goods, what is of interest to the customers, and what assortment gaps there are. Truthful information in real time in a couple of clicks.

    Auto-Generated Assortment Matrix

    Auto-Generated Assortment Matrix

    The sales enterprise’s assortment matrix is generated by an automatic robot of the IEM system that scans the consumer interests of millions of users through Yandex services. Everything that will sell and nothing that might get out of demand. Full recalculation several times a day for hundreds of goods groups and tens of thousands of items, without errors or corruption in the Procurement Department.

    Loyalty Programme. Automatic and Efficient.

    Loyalty Programme. Automatic and Efficient.

    A bonus-based loyalty programme with multi-level marketing (MLM). Bonus assessment, use, and transfer. Processing of vendors’ marketing actions, rebates and gifts to customers. Intellectual logic for bonus-based stimulation of sales of slow goods, and vice versa. Automatically and people-free. Theft-free as well, by the way.

    Hundreds of thousands of documents per day

    Hundreds of thousands of documents per day

    are created in Ultimate by Ulmart personnel. There are no speed or system reliability problems. Why the Ultimate Solid platform works fast with large databases.

    Production Outsourcing

    Production Outsourcing

    Communications with subcontractor manufacturers are streamlined and automated. Accounting, control, transparency, no faults, and saved nerves.

    Franchising network automated for peanuts

    Franchising network automated for peanuts

    A franchising network is automated using franchisee' web interface, which is quick, reliable, inexpensive and extremely fool-proof.

    Acceptance at the warehouse. Levelling

    Acceptance at the warehouse. Levelling

    All unevenness in acceptance at the warehouse is eliminated by stop limits introduced into the IEM system business logic. The results are zero processing costs, faster turnover and profit growth.

    Composite Goods at the warehouse

    Composite Goods at the warehouse

    When a SKU consists of a number of items and each can sell individually, like a set of furniture or a tracksuit, which consists of a top and a bottom. The IEM system keeps a warehouse with composite goods in order with no re-grading.

    Creating descriptions for millions of goods

    Creating descriptions for millions of goods

    Complete and truthful descriptions and studio quality photos: good sales at an Internet shop are impossible without them. How to make thousands of descriptions and photos a day?

    It-zoo in the production company. The end of the nightmare.

    It-zoo in the production company. The end of the nightmare.

    The unified IEM system encompasses all the company’s business processes, includes all your employees, and incorporates all functionality. All the useless and non-working trash from the IT-zoo like CRM, WMS, Excel, Managed Entities and other ‘solutions’ and ‘modules’ - goes onto the scrap heap of history.

    City distribution 2.0.

    City distribution 2.0.

    The intellectual component of the IEM system routes hundreds of deliveries automatically within 10 minutes (including the preparation of documents) taking into account: cargo weight and dimensions, vehicles’ loading status, and resource saving principle. NO logisticians are required.

    Automated Suggestions&Complaints System within PDCA cycle.

    Automated Suggestions&Complaints System within PDCA cycle.

    Automated processing of complaints and suggestions integrated in IEM system is a reliable tool to keep the level of the clients' loyalty the highest possible. Getting closer to the operational excellence of your company is free.

    Make contextual advertising really profitable

    Make contextual advertising really profitable

    The unified IEM system contains full information about the ongoing advertising campaigns, number of visitors, and actual purchases. Even if an order is booked half a year after the customer clicked on the contextual ad, we know that we owe the order to that ad. Any further orders from the client who was first attracted by the campaign also represent the delayed effect of the investment in advertising. The IEM system gives you what Yandex.Metrics will never be able to calculate. In one click.

    Goods Ordered Automatically from Suppliers’ Warehouses

    Goods Ordered Automatically from Suppliers’ Warehouses

    "How to extract money from a combination of air, Ultimate e-Trade and well-oiled business processes. 'What awaits each person in heaven is eternal bliss, divine rest, and $10,000 cash.' © Eric Cartman, South Park,
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    Cash Revenue Processing in Onsite Service

    Cash Revenue Processing in Onsite Service

    No risky tricks. Modern cash handling technology: your couriers DO NOT take the dreary risk of carrying batches of cash to your cash office.

    Comparative profitability of business lines. Automatic, and with unexpected results

    Comparative profitability of business lines. Automatic, and with unexpected results

    Honest analysis of various goods groups cost-effectiveness, with all the overhead costs included in the calculation, is an arduous task, something next to impossible. On the other hand, without such an analysis, the manager’s idea of what the company gains from and what it loses on will have little to do with reality: they have to use intuition, guess, interpret their dreams, and poll corporate experts like Joe Schmoe. Ultimate IEM system provides you with such an analysis in a matter of seconds in one click.

    Total Automation of Corporate Sales via b2b

    Total Automation of Corporate Sales via b2b

    Processing customer’s requests, signing contracts, billing, document generation and mailing, reconciliation of mutual settlements, balance sheets and the like things, for which hordes of ‘corporate managers’ and accountants are usually employed, are done automatically by the IEM system. Most of the previously employed people are laid off, and the remaining ones engage in active sales rather than paper-pushing.

    Automatic Contract Management, Thousands of various contractual obligations

    Automatic Contract Management, Thousands of various contractual obligations

    The IEM system efficiently automates the management of infinitely diverse contractual relations whose number runs into thousands in a big company. Payment requests routing, and control of timely payments and budgetary limitations, expensing, contract duration control and extension are all done automatically.

    Financial Incentives for Personnel. An Automatic System

    Financial Incentives for Personnel. An Automatic System

    The IEM system calculates all the KPIs in the background. The raw data is taken from its own depths. You only have to determine the salary calculation formula for each position once. The automatic system will do the rest – free, on time, and without mistakes. Significant productivity growth and cost reduction are attached.

    World-Wide Historic Importance

    World-Wide Historic Importance

    Just start working well. Don't be foolish. And the rest will follow unto you.

    CRM. Call Centre Automation and Integration into the Unified System

    CRM. Call Centre Automation and Integration into the Unified System

    A well-organized call centre. Calls are routed automatically. The operator only fills in the request template fields with the customer’s oral information and presses OK. The customer’s request is then processed by the intellectual enterprise management system, which particularly chooses the most suitable employee providing the shortest expected time of execution. Free of charge and error-free.

    Warranty service. Automatization, transparency and return on current assests.

    Warranty service. Automatization, transparency and return on current assests.

    Warranty service tends to be the most neglected business process in any company. Very low control , transparency and manageability are somewhat next to nothing.

    VAT: Optimize it.

    VAT: Optimize it.

    Pay less in the bounds of decency. In the previous episodes: Old Bones’ death

    The Tractor Iron Horse Comes to Replace the Old Crock, or Full StockTaking at a Giant Warehouse in Less than 24 Hours

    The Tractor Iron Horse Comes to Replace the Old Crock, or Full StockTaking at a Giant Warehouse in Less than 24 Hours

    Rapid stocktaking of huge warehouses with granted correctness. No need to stop work.

    Jidoka in the business processes of the maintenance shop

    Jidoka in the business processes of the maintenance shop

    The nIEM system implements the jidoka methodology. This is how it is used in business and what results are achieved.

    Millions of orders online without human assistance

    Millions of orders online without human assistance

    The Ulmart Internet store based on Ultimate e-Trade automatically processes online orders from customers who numbered more than five million in 2013.

    Ultimate Solutions

    Price and Implementation Timing

    Components for solutions

    Ultimate eStore

    A platform (“engine” in colloquial — “just add some design”) for large e-stores to process huge retail flows.

    Ultimate b2b

    A platform, aka “engine”, to create high-end B2B-portals. For wholesale distributors and those dealing with corporate sales channels.

    Ultimate eStore@mobile

    Ultimate eStore functionality implemented in mobile apps for iOS and Android.

    Ultimate b2b@mobile

    Ultimate b2b functionality implemented in mobile apps for iOS and Android.

    Ultimate Door-to-Door

    Makes it possible to link to a system of specialized mobile clients for business travelers (sales representatives, delivery drivers, Kirby sales force, field service engineers) — generally speaking, an on-site business tool.

    Ultimate WMS

    Warehouse management system (WMS) to manage logistic systems as complex as you might need based on Wi-Fi networks of mobile computers\barcode readers for warehouse keepers.

    Ultimate CRM/ContactCentre

    Integrated smart call-center — an operator calls (or takes calls) in an IEM-system directly. For repeated requests the system automatically generates an online profile based on his/her phone number.

    Ultimate CRM/Task Manager

    Total automation of customer-requested service business processes. Taking requests with smart distribution, work time logging, customer and provider billing, automatic document generation and mailing, payment tracking and two more pages of useful and demanded doodads.

    Ultimate MobileView

    Your phone/tablet apps (iOS and Android) to stay tuned all the times.

    Ultimate MoneyTaker

    Similar to cash-accepting machine — but it is NOT for fiscal purposes, and amounts in volume differ — it accepts cash in bundles.

    Ultimate AutoCashier

    Automatic retail cash-point replacing checkout cashier. Accepting cash and cards. A change can be utilized with a self-service terminal functions — payment for your mobile phone, Internet or utility bills, etc.

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    Patchwork automation. Synergy of a tun of poison and a tun of wine.Patchwork automation usually results in failure. Here are some reasons why the restive steed and timid deer must ne'er be harnessed to one cart.

    Implementing integrated automation system. How to make things work properly.The implementation project consists of several stages. The only guarantee of successful implementation (at the same time the major skill of a responsible implementer) is merciless cutting off any dubious ideas at any stage with no fear of losing the client. For It is better to sit with a wise man in prison than with a fool is paradise.

    CRM-system. Firstly it will be of no help, secondly it is gibberish all-in-all.At best you will get a computer software able to keep track of clients' requests and employees' tasks. What is the real practical use of it? Imagine, that everything in your business is a mess except the reception, which is doing a good job. The picture described is the most optimistic picture possible.

    Very functionality-rich or regifting unwanted presents.When focusing on unbelievable rich functional of ERP-systems, the sellers of the latter mostly take advantage of the clients' blind confidence. In fact it's useless for only a tiny part can be used in practice.Moreover it's harmful for it will prevent from implementing the functionality you really need.

    Amazing ERP-systems opportunities are more like mirrors and beads for barbariansIf instead of talking about major things (e.g profit) a prospective supplier keeps talking around , we assume he has nothing to say. Get ready to be cheated.

    How to choose ERP-systems. No admins, please You are not likely to ask your cleaner to choose a house to move, once she is an expert in houses, are you? Surely not. Follow the same logic when choosing a business processes automation system no cleaners admins in charge.

    The client is NOT always right. What kind of clients we don’t wantWe prefer to work with sensible clients knowing their business, able to listen and understand, the ones who are motivated and results-orientated. P.S. It is worthwhile being like this for the business.

    Cross-Platform ERP Systems: An Unobtainium Pill for Your Housemaid Knee Cross-platforming is a beautiful term. Sadly it is of zero effectiveness when it comes to business automation solutions.

    ERP-systems functionality. How to get everything you want but not to litter the system.In fact you don't need a powerful functionality. You need the one to perfectly match your business, pure and simple. All extra functions will make the support more expensive and complicated, reliability lower and any development harder.

    Presentation of an ERP-system or Why you are going to be cheated anyway.Check everything yourself: ask for a tour to any company using the system of interest. Do not hesitate to take line personnel opinion poll. Enquire about the operating results "before" and "after". Doubt the truth of everything for any vague statements with no proofs are always more or less disguised lies. The less the more famous the brand name is.

    ERP-systems in-house support.A cheapskate always pays twice. How you are likely to lose millions while trying to save 30 cents.

    A ballistic log worth 300 million dollarsIt is hard to believe but dilettantish ideas of SAP products as super powerful and advanced cannot be proved practically. Inspired by "The Emperor's new suit" by G.H Andersen.

    In-house ERP. Do you feel like playing Russian Roulette?To be honest it will take somewhat from 3 to 4 years. But which is more likely the project is not to be completed. The Solution is going to be scanty and shaddy. In the end you will have to align the living business with the absurd demands of unprofessionally designed and badly implemented system. As a free bonus you will become a slave of your IT department for ever and ever.

    Modular ERP systems: what you will learn only after the implementation project’s failureAncient modular ERP-systems can't meet the needs of a highly-competitive modern business. The prospects for a credulous client range from banal implementation failure to years of agony.