The term includes a large variety of applications ranging from accounting and office automation software to the enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources (GRH), and supply chain management (SCM), …etc.
Types
There are various types of business management software. The choice of the best software for your company is not always easy and will depend on some factors :
• Size of your company (example : ERP OnyxPro for the large enterprises, and El Motakamel for small and medium-sized enterprises SME) ;
• Special needs of your company ;
• The tasks which must be automated.
The usual functionalities which constitute a common choice of business management software are :
• Word processing programs.
• Invoicing programs.
• Payroll software.
• Data base software.
• Asset and human resources management (HRM) software.
• Desktop publishing programs.
They are generally in the form of tailor-made products or off-the-shelf software.
Advantages and disadvantages of the bespoke software
It is possible to write bespoke software with the needs of your company.
To have the software conceived by a supplier or a specialized company, and with the assistance of specialists, that is to say you should obtain the functionalities which you need. However, the price may be high, and you would be dependent on your supplier for maintenance and eventual adjustments or modifications in the future.
To build a bespoke software can take much time and your staff will need to step in the development process. For most small companies, the bespoke software may not be the best choice, hence the importance of integrated software packages.
Advantages of the software packages
A software package is application software generic and general, having multiple configurable functionalities (modules) ; this kind of software is intended to be used by several persons at the same time in an organized and synchronized way.
Any addition to the company working process that can help increasing efficiency and the productivity is strongly welcomed. Every business nowadays, regardless of its type, size (small business or big business) or even activity can tremendously benefit from the use of an adequate intelligent solution.
So, why particularly does your business need ONYX COMM commercial management software ?
1. A Complete Powerful System
ONYX COMM ERP solution is built with ORACLE technology and platform. It covers all necessary departments in the commercial management process.
- Financial operations tracking OnyxFin ERP
- Purchase operations OnyxAppro ERP
- Stock & inventory Onyx StockERP
- Sales and clients OnyxVente ERP
2. Save time and increase your profit.
The automated operations included in the system offers a variety of tools to help your team save valuable time and get more jobs done. All operations carried inside your sales department, warehouse and purchase are integrated into the system.
Your employees will have all information and operations at their hands for faster work achievement. All their work is then synchronized and everybody completes their job while building on others work.
3. Have an exact report and stats about your business
When the reporting features are used properly, it can help you greatly to know what you did right and what you did wrong.
for example, using the reporting features in the system, you notice that all of your customers on the West of Algeria (Oran, Mostaganem, Tlemcen, Bel Abbes, Tiaret, Chlef …etc.) decreased their purchases of product x last month compared to other states (Algiers, Tizi ouzou, Bejaia, Setif, Constantine), you can start searching for the reason that can be a new competitor with lower price and, in turn, you need to have a special reaction to fix the issue.
At the same time, you can compare the prices of your suppliers and go with the lowest best quality providers which will help increase the profit directly.
ERP solutions proposed by SII- Algeria are classified in two (2) categories, according to the company’s size wishing to integrate ERP system in process of its global management :
• ERP solutions for the small and medium-sized enterprises.
• ERP solutions for the large enterprises.
The integration of an ERP (PGI) is a complex project in the management system of the medium-sized and large enterprises and can be divided into two phases :
The phase of evaluation : during which the selection of the main functionalities which will be integrated in ERP software is strongly dependent on the individual needs of the company in question ;
Phase of implementation : the implementation of the software is generally subjected to the authority of the company beneficiary of the project, but it is often carried out practically by the company provider or the service partner of the supplier.
List of ERP software of company’s commercial management :
ERP systems for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) :
ERP systems for the large enterprises :
The companies use supply chain and stock management software to avoid overstock or lack of products ; it is an effective tool for the organization of data inventory which before were generally stored in the form of paper copies or in spreadsheets.
Currently, with the prevalence of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), the function stock management constitutes a simple module pre-integrated in the whole of modules of a business software package called ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or PGI (Progiciel de Gestion Intégré) in french. At present, the enterprises resort more to ERP rather than bespoke business software.
Characteristics
A stock management software is made up of several key elements, which work together to create a coherent inventory for the systems of many organizations. These characteristics include :
Order management
If the inventory reaches a specific threshold, the stock management system of the company can be programmed to alert the managers in order to intervene. That helps the companies to avoid the deficit or the excess in quantity of a product.
Assets tracking
When a product is in a warehouse or a store, it can be tracked via its bar code and/or other follow-up criteria, such as the serial number, the batch number, or the revision number. Today, the stock management software often uses bar code, the identification by radio frequency (RFID), and/or wireless tracking technologies.
Services management
The companies whose main activity is based on the services use stock management software to track cost of the materials which they use to provide their services, such as the cleaning products for hygiene services … etc. In this way, they can fix the prices of their services which reflect total cost for carrying them out.
Product identification
The bar code is often the mean by which products and orders data are entered in stock management software. A bar code reader is used to read the bar codes and to search information on the products which it represents. The identification by radio frequency (RFID) and wireless are also methods of products identification which become more and more popular.
OnyxPro ERP By SII-Algeria is ERP management solutions designed specially to manage the business activity of the large companies in various industrial and economic sectors.
ERP is an acronym which means Enterprise Resource Planning (in french PGI Progiciel de Gestion Intégré), it is computer systems of management which integrate and manage most production and distribution transactions of company’s goods or services.
Enterprise resource planning refers to the logistic task, which is based on principals and technical means to support resources including capital, employees, equipment, information and communication technologies ; this within a time limit and according to needs, for an effective company process and a control constantly optimized.
ERP System
A ERP system is a complex or a plurality of software intercommunications of application and computer systems, which are used to support the planning of the whole company’s resources. Complex ERP systems are often (modules of application) divided into subsystems which can be combined according to the necessity.
Distinction
ERP systems differ mainly :
• according to the economic activity and the respective industry for which they were especially conceived (manufacturing industry : steel industry, automotive industry, chemical
industry, services : trade, insurance, bank, health care,…),
• according to the evolution potential of the company and its size (human resources),
• according to the range of functions/proposed services and/or taken in charge (production, materials management, sales,…),
• according to technologies used (databases, programming languages, layered architecture, operating systems,…).
ERP solution and company size
A large company should possess a ERP solution which can also represent its internal structures, possibly its directly connected subsidiaries (multi-tenancy), and which must have vast variety of functionalities, and take in charge complex handlings. So, it is necessary to envisage technical strategies of configuration adaptation of the company in question and its subsidiaries.
2 ERP systems by S2I Algeria for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
El Motakamel plus 2 is one of the few examples of pure SaaS ERP for SMEs. El Motakamel offers ERP modules for finance, accounting, purchasing, payroll, inventory management, material resource planning (MRP), production planning, inventory management and procurement and management employees.
El Motakamel plus 2 is the ideal ERP system for medium enterprises especially with a staff ranging from 100-500 employees but also for small business growing rapidly. However, average companies tend to expand beyond the middle market should carefully consider whether this ERP can handle the most complex needs,S2I Algeria offers OnyxPRO ERP solution for large enterprises.
This ERP system is designed specifically for small businesses with a reduced number ranging from 1-30 employees. This software manages the manufacturing and wholesale, contract, retail. They may also be interested companies in the non-profit sectors. Ultimate Motakamel offers integrated inventory management applications that deal with the most common and simple financial services.
Conclusion
It was some of the most popular examples of ERP systems offered in the product range of S2I Algeria for small and medium enterprises
Because of the impact it can have on your business, it is important to study the ERP system you choose to ensure that it properly fits your business environment and allow you to implement the best practices for improving the quality of your services.
The companies often resort to two systems for helping business processes to function effectively - a
customer relationship management (CRM) and a
[Enterprise Resource Planning] system (ERP).
OnyxPro,
El Motakamel offer : Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM and ERP for the companies of all sizes.
A CRM system processes frontend data - the management of the customer data through the interactions with marketing and the service dedicated to the customers. That helps the companies to improve their position with reference to the customers’ requirements, to manage the relations and the sales pipelines, UpSells and the products of additional sale.
A ERP system manages the critical background information - the total management of the information related to the customers which are necessary once the orders were placed. That can include the purchase history, the invoicing and the delivery details, countable information, financial data, and the details of the supply chain management.
The two systems of customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning offer independently substantial advantages to the companies. Employing a powerful integration system allows for connectivity between the two systems, and offers even more advantages for the companies.
The challenge of ERP CRM integration :
In general, the systems ERP and CRM tend to remain separated and their architectures contrasted, so it is difficult to rationalize the integration. Those who try to create a transparent connectivity between the two systems often opt for the process of point-to-point integration. This method is fragile, costly and difficult to maintain. With point-to-point connections, the developer needs, for managing connectivity, to implement changes. Moreover, the changes influence the whole system, and make way for errors. These point-to-point integrations provide a short-term solution, but become too complicated as the companies develop.
Another method which the companies could resort to called "swivel chair". This method consists of the manual recovery of data from a system and to enter them in another.
Like the other branches of YemenSoft around the world, S2I-Algeria participated in Gitex trade show of Dubaï which took place from October 16th to October 20th, 2016.
This event was the opportunity to exhibit latest products of the integrated solutions of the company, such as the complete resources management system OnyxPro, Motakamel Plus, and the electronic archiving system Docuware
Thus new systems of this integrated package were revealed with their Mobile applications…
This participation is the last one of its three consecutive participations in the most important trade show of information and communication technologies on the international scale, among the few Algerian companies present at this kind of international forum on technologies.
