Order to cash is a business process covering the entirety of the customer order processing system right from receiving the Sales Order until the payment is made and an entry is logged in your accounting books.
The Sales Management module provides tremendous versatility, control, and power over sales and order entry policies. Aiming at superior customer service and a more straightforward Order to cash cycle, eChain facilitates quick order creation, instant picking, packing and shipment, contract definition, pricing, and discounts to quantity, Customer and Customer Class wise, etc.
Available to Promise (ATP) is a crucial element in supply chain management. It forecasts quantity drives the production on or before a scheduled date to deliver the Order on-time to the customer.
Price Lists help manage different prices for different zones (based on product cost, overheads, and shipping costs), foreign currencies, etc. An Item can have multiple prices based on customer, currency, region, shipping cost, etc., which can be stored as different rate plans.
The process of creating the documents in ERP to transfer the products to the customers and reduce the respective stock location.
Inventory management is the practice of managing inventory to keep the supply chains running smoothly. Inventory Management includes the management of raw materials, components, consumables, and finished products and warehousing and processing of such items / products.
Accounts receivable (AR) is the balance of money due to a firm for goods/services delivered yet paid by customers. Accounts receivables are listed on the balance sheet as a current asset. AR is any amount of money owed by customers for purchases made on credit.
The electronic customer provides an avenue for interactions between a business, its customers, and its employees through Cloud computing.
The procure to pay eChain system is a fully integrated solution designed to support an end to end process that begins with goods or services requisitioning and ends with ready-to-play files for integration into an accounts payable system. The solutions offer purchase-order-to-invoice matching and processing for invoices.
Procurement is a purchasing process that controls quantity, quality, sourcing, and timing to ensure the best possible total cost of ownership.
Goods receiving is the function of checking items delivered to the business, either coming in as new stock or supplies. The receipt process includes inspecting the quality, condition, and quantity of any incoming goods and allocating them to the warehouse space. All items purchased by the business serve a specific function, whether they are supplies to be used internally or stock to be on-hold to customers. Keeping track of all items coming into the warehouse ensures that the right products are received and promptly stored appropriately.
Inventory management is the practice of managing inventory to keep the supply chains running smoothly. This includes the management of raw materials, components, consumables, and finished products. Inventory management provides advanced warehouse processing of such items / products.
Statutory reports cover the government-initiated requirement of data and report format like TDS, GST, etc. It is all generated from the eChain ERP System and submitted on-time during the upcoming months.
Accounts payable is any sum of money owed by a business to its suppliers shown as a liability on a company's balance sheet. In simple words, when you buy goods or services with an arrangement to pay at a later date, such amount till it is spent is referred to as accounts payable. Accounts payable is also called bills payable. The total amount is liable to pay shown as liability under the head' sundry creditor' in the balance sheet.
Cost management is the process of estimating, allocating, and controlling the costs in a product or service. It allows a business to predict future expenses to reduce the chances of it going over budget
The eChain application provides its login to the application and make the transaction on-demand based on RFQ and shipments or invoicing.
The eChain Supply chain management manages the flow of goods and services and includes all processes that transform raw materials into final products. It involves the active streamlining of a business's supply-side activities to maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. SCM represents an effort by suppliers to develop and implement supply chains that are as efficient and economical as possible. Supply chains cover everything from production to product development to the information systems needed to direct these undertakings.
Forecasting is a technique that uses historical data as inputs to make informed estimates that are predictive in determining the direction of future productivity. Businesses utilize forecasting to determine how to allocate their budgets or plan for anticipated expenses for upcoming periods. Forecasting is typically based on the projected demand for the goods and services offered and demand for weeks and months in advance.
A bill of materials (BOM) is a centralized source of information used to manufacture a product. It is a list of the items needed to create a product and how to assemble that product. Manufacturers that build products start the assembly process by creating a BOM. Creating an accurate bill of materials is vital because it ensures that parts are available when needed and ensures that the assembly process is as efficient as possible. Items included in a BOM are the item name, item description, quantity, unit of measurement, assembly references, and additional notes.
Shop floor management is concerned with preplanning, Planning, resource allocation, directing, monitoring, and controlling activities that enhance shop efficiency and analysis. Production / operations activity signifies the transformation of raw materials into the desired final Product, Co-Product, or Services. Production constitutes a series of sequential operations to complete the product.
The convenience of outsourcing manufacturing work for products and services. This method of contracting with a material processing service center is known as toll processing. The process can map in the eChain product and make the tolling order to the vendors.
A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, the target solution, and there are multiple phases with the target time.
A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, thQuality management includes customer-driven quality, top management leadership, commitment, continuous improvement, and fast response to all a quality management culture. The quality master provides the quality parameter and collects the actual data to compare the specification and take the report.e target solution, and there are multiple phases with the target time.
Reliable finance and accounting management is the lifeline of any business. From estimating the budget to managing Cash flows, complex financial data can be kept up-to-date to ensure organizations make efficient mission-critical business decisions. Tracking and analyzing incoming and outgoing funds is essential for driving business profits and growth. The eChain ERP helps to improve the finance solution of an organization.
The supply chain transaction is automated to integrate to the finance journals and show the report for analyzing the business needs. Vendor invoice / Customer's Invoice integrated automatically when completed the transactions and cost account the transactions
Accounts payable will manage all of the fund's company owes to vendors and other creditors. An accounts payable feature integrates the payable data with the concerned purchasing system to take control of cash flows. Automating accounts payable will save money and time on resource hours as well as avoid human errors. The eChain ERP application will quickly process large amounts of invoices and other financial transactions between the company and vendors. The eChain ERP application offer document attachment.
Accounts receivable managing the customer credit outstanding between billing and collection. The customer would pay their invoices on time and in full, subject to the sale's terms and conditions. Even then, companies would need to track open balances and project cash receipts and cash flow as part of diligent financial management. The eChain offers a portal for customers where they can access invoices. The user can send account statements and generate recurring invoices to customers.
Fixed Assets are assets which are purchased for long-term use and are not likely to be converted quickly into cash, such as land, buildings, and equipment. Fixed assets are classified as either intangible or tangible. Intangible fixed assets are non-physical properties such as a patent, copyright, and goodwill.
The eChain Cash management provides information relating to the organization's cash flow by processing and analyzing all cash and bank transactions arising out of payment of supplier's invoices, receipt from sales invoices, stand-alone payment, and Misc payment/receipts. The cash management module also allows for analyzing financial transactions for a given period. It provides information regarding sources of funds and the use of funds to ensure liquidity to meet the organization's payment obligations
Trading Application supports clients who handle only supply chain management and finance activities. Trading organizations do not manufacture goods. eChain offers end to end solution for Trading Organizations who need an integrated ERP application.
Inventory management is the practice of managing inventory to keep the supply chains running smoothly. This includes managing raw materials, components, consumables, and finished products and warehousing and processing such items / products.
Procurement is a purchasing process that controls quantity, quality, sourcing, and timing to ensure the best possible total cost of ownership.
Accounts payable will manage all of the fund's company owes to vendors and other creditors. An accounts payable feature integrates the payable data with the concerned purchasing system to take control of cash flows. Automating accounts payable will save money and time on resource hours as well as avoid human errors. The eChain Cloud ERP application will quickly process large amounts of invoices and other financial transactions between the company and vendors. The eChain Cloud ERP application offer document attachment.
Accounts receivable managing the customer credit outstanding between billing and collection. The customer would pay their invoices on time and in full, subject to the sale's terms and conditions. Even then, companies would need to track open balances and project cash receipts and cash flow as part of diligent financial management. The eChain Cloud ERP offers a portal for customers where they can access invoices. The user can send account statements and generate recurring invoices.
The eChain General Ledger (GL) is the primary accounting record for a business. It tracks all financial transactions and generates the company's financial statements, including the Income Statement and Balance Sheet. The GL summarizes the organization's various financial accounts and transactions, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, and inventory.
Purchase planning for a wholesale distribution operation in the trading solution. Since purchasing is linked directly to stocking levels and sales, it can mean the difference between profit and loss. In wholesale distribution, the stock is sold at a unit cost very close to the purchase price, so overstocking will immediately hurt profits.
Transaction automation modules helps with automating repetitive tasks. Bar-code integrations are available to perform any warehouse management transactions. Bar-code label printing and simple mobile application can handle all warehousing needs.
Bar code scanner/device integrated with eChain ERP Warehousing System to moving forward the fastest transaction of inventory and POS modules.
The SMS integration in e.Chain ERP Software is effective communication between Vendors / Customer and Company. It provides many benefits to fast communication too and gives vital information
Behind the Mobile app, integration provides innovative ways to work effectively and utilizes complete infrastructure from eChain ERP applications. It has a robust and convenient service framework and easy to use end-user interface.
XML Exchange server the data integration to in between modules offline model. Data have to consolidate the XML file and post the next level transactions without end user inputs during the transactions. The system has eliminated the if found the error records. Users can ensure the XML date and post the next transactions.
CRM helps businesses manage customer relationships. These modules gather data from customer touchpoints and encounters where customers exchange information, such as product requirements and company surveys, and display it on a single form. A company can search for a customer's account and discover their contact details, purchase history, and previous interactions with customer representatives. This information lets businesses make important decisions and build customer relationships.
The Contact Management System is to initiate contact with individuals interested in purchasing products or services from the organization. There could be stored data for Concern name, Contact Person, and their information and development or a service requirement with the respective status. Contact information can get through enquire, quotation, email, phone calls, and other social networks /applications.
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The cash book is used to record receipts and payments of cash. It works as a book of original entry as well as a ledger account. The entries related to receipt and payment of money are first recorded in the cash book and then posted to the relevant ledger accounts. Moreover, a cash book is a substitute for a cash account in the ledger
The asset register can maintain and manage the asset list. An organization needs to keep accurate asset details to provide knowledge, get the information from the asset details.
Electronic approvals refer to taking permission online, enabling individuals and organizations to authorize and approve documents for the transactions quickly. Electronic Approvals represent considerable time and cost savings over traditional paper-intensive methods.
eChain General Ledger (GL) is the primary accounting record for a business. It tracks all financial transactions and generates the company's financial statements, including the Income Statement and Balance Sheet. The GL summarizes the organization's various financial accounts and transactions, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, and inventory.
The module's integrated structure enables the planned and actual figures to be kept up to date, and the companies can be managed in real-time. Budget categories can be set up in different hierarchies for different business areas such as Purchase budget, Cash Budget, Financial Budgets.
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Sales analysis is mining data to evaluate the performance of the sales team against its goals. Regular sales data analysis provides an understanding of the products that customers are buying and dissects why they are behaving in a certain way.
Dashboards are helpful pages for managers in eChain ERP systems. By gathering vital information in a single place and presenting it to the manager in an easy-to-understand format, a dashboard helps the manager stay on top of what is happening with the business.
AppBI is a pre-built Business Intelligence for eChain ERP consisting of ready to use dashboards, data cubes, and data pumps. Pre-defined executive and management dashboard.
Determining the financial status of the business depends on several aspects. One of them is ratio analysis, which draws an exact comparison of line items in the financial statements. Ratio analysis is a powerful statement for economic analysis. The report indicates the status of the business using the defined formula. The higher / lower ratio indicates the good /poor liquidity position of the company
Financial reporting uses financial statements to disclose financial data indicating the company's financial status over a specific period. The information is vital for management to make decisions about the company's future and provides information to capital providers like creditors and investors about the company's profitability and financial stability.
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Inventory planning refers to the organization's process to determine the optimal quantity and timing, aligning such plans with the organization's capacity to produce and make sales. The product stock can maintain either a min-max or demand schedule basis.
Forecasting is essentially a process of analyzing the past and present business movements and trends to obtain some idea or clues regarding future trends and business movements. Businesses utilize forecasting to determine how to allocate their budgets or plan for anticipated expenses for an upcoming period.
Distribution Resource Planning refers to a planning process that allows defining inventory control parameters like safety stock and calculating inventory requirements lead time-based on sales forecasts and orders.
The production schedule is derived from the production plan. It is a plan that authorized the operations function to produce a certain quantity of an item within a specified time frame.
ChainSys approaches Supply chain planning and ERP Cloud Application needs with high focus on Simplicity and Robustness. eChain is one of the very few complete Supply chain planning and ERP solutions available for Small and Mid size organizations in the market. The eChain ERP Cloud platform stays on top of the race with its ready to use industry templates for over 10 major industries where the configurations and Best practices are prebuilt. The eChain ERP Cloud platform involves no coding for customizations and creating additional bolt-on applications. eChain can seamlessly integrate with any other applications both on-premise and cloud which are getting used for some other areas. All it needs is simple configurations to get started with the ERP journey. “eChain is a Complete Supply Chain Planning feast.
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