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Manufacturers understand the competitive environment for products in the marketplace. To gain and keep customers, your business must exceed their expectations and offer a quick, reliable and easy ordering process for your quality products. Custom software can automate your business process, reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.

Manufacturing Industry Challenges

Manufacturing companies have many unique challenges when buying manufacturing applications or building custom manufacturing software. Some of these challenges include:

• Complex part assemblies
• Material take-offs
• Inventory tracking
• Part compatibilities
• Manufacturing process management
• Connecting suppliers, parts and customers

Entrance Software can help manufacturing businesses address these challenges with custom software solutions.

Custom Manufacturing Software Solutions

Entrance Software created a Business Process Automation Tool to create project summaries reporting on:

• Estimated product completion date
• Processing costs
• Manufacturing progress and revised budget

Our Product Design Application is a unique program that allows customers and sales representatives to:

• Specify product customizations
• Create finished product models
• Estimate product cost
• A Purchase Order Database can help your business:
• Maintain centralized data storage of purchase order information
• Edit and approve purchase orders
• Audit database information

Custom Manufacturing Software Case Studies

Manufacturing Design
Project Summary: Business Process Automation

Many life sciences organizations are faced with the promise of great discoveries and the challenges of market fluctuations and increasing regulation. For pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical products, and technology and device companies, the life sciences industry is changing at an unprecedented rate.

These organizations face a host of issues:

Manufacturing companies have many unique challenges when buying manufacturing applications or building custom manufacturing software. Some of these challenges include:

• The impact of managed care, new therapeutic discoveries, revolution in research and development and drug discovery, securing patents and intellectual property protection, evolution of the biotech sector,
• Emergence of the specialty and generic sectors,
• Access to capital, royalty and revenue recovery, mergers and acquisitions, shifting markets and sources,
• Worldwide efforts to control health care costs
• An evolving regulatory and compliance environment with extensive domain knowledge and thorough technical expertise, complete answers are ensured to every customer’s needs.

Aglasor Technologies approach is to offer solutions that are comprehensive, integrated and future-proofed and provide you with the capabilities for sales and operations planning, quality management, recipe and batch management, and supply chain operations. As well as support profit reporting along with integrated services that let you unify process control systems and monitor production execution. We continually incorporate and build upon industry best practices, where we will with a proven method implement and deliver support services for an enterprise resource planning solution – perfect for midsize companies and large enterprises with subsidiaries. With the industry best practices for Pharmaceuticals you benefit from:

• Electronic signature and audit trails.
• Electronic batch recording.
• Unit management and recipe management.
• A process operations cockpit for monitoring production execution.
• Automated process for master data approval

Providing Competitive Advantage and Accelerating New Product Launches
Life Sciences executives are realizing that supply-chain improvement can not only lead to significant increases in shareholder

Two Key Strategies

Aglasor Technologies works with clients to develop client-specific supply-chain opportunities spanning management consulting through systems integration. Our supply-chain solution focuses on two industry-leading strategies:

Internal Efficiency through Operations Excellence

Manufacturing and Quality (M&Q) organizations within global life sciences companies must become excellent at what they do. Our Operations Excellence solution focuses on the improvement of M&Q operations by aligning organizations/departments with business processes, pulled by customer demand. We have consistently achieved benefits for our life sciences clients in risk reduction, cycle time reduction, waste elimination and document handling.

External Effectiveness through Commercial Transformation

Pharmaceutical manufacturers must tackle their order-to-cash processes to maximize their revenue and minimize the cost of fulfilling demand. Aglasor Technologies commercial transformation methodology has been developed specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, to increase the value of the margin between cost-of-goods and selling price to the patient, and to develop trade relationships and transform the supply chain.

A Full Spectrum of Solutions
In addition, we offer general supply-chain solutions to support clients in the full spectrum of their supply-chain issues including:

• Transportation and logistics.
• Demand planning.
• Price revenue optimization.
• Contract management.

Are you faced by multiple challenges of:

• Stagnant sales?
• Fickle customer demand?
• Daunting competition?
• Increasingly complex supply chains?

The Retail Market is in a state of exponential growth. One needs to see the mushrooming of malls and shopping complexes in the metros and small towns in India to grasp the enormity of this growth. For many years the retail industry in India has been disorganized and consisted mostly of single- store outlets, a few retail chains and a large number of the friendly-neighborhood “Kirana” shops. These outlets had pre-historic supply chains, inefficient inventory management; very few were customer focused and most were in the small to medium category. The sudden spurt in demand and a greater awareness amongst buyers for quality products and services, created a vacuum that could only be met by an organized retail sector, with fine-tuned supply chains, efficient inventory management and a totally customer focused view that was alien to India.

One of the key factors in achieving an organized and efficient retail operation is the use of technology as an enabler. IT is the key enabler to improving customer satisfaction, operational efficiencies and by extension profitability.

For retailers operating a single store or small chain, DVS provides, integrated, easy-to-use and customized solutions for point-of-sale and store management. DVS plays a pivotal role in assisting companies that want to grow and remain competitive in the current fierce market play. Our solutions are a fundamental backbone of making cost effective decisions and strategies for the business in real time. Hence, thereby deliver differentiated product offerings and superior customer service, even as they lower their costs to stay profitable.

For mid-size retailers operating in centralized environments, we offer solutions that support warehouse management, distribution, payroll, and CRM. And it’s all integrated on an easy-to-use Microsoft Windows-based platform.

Our experienced community of DVS partners adds value to these integrated solutions with specialized retail features. Thousands of retail operations use LS Retail and other add on solutions: Peocon, Handpoint and AGR applications tailored to their specific needs.

With LS Retail Suite of solutions, localized for the country, one can reduce the total cost of ownership & inventory, improve profitability, recognize current consumer trends and prepare one for changes in both, business and customer behavior.

For Retail businesses wanting to grow at rapid speeds, the scalability of the solution is unique and its user friendliness is heightened due to the solution being based on Microsoft technology, with the same look and feel as the MS software. LS Retail provides the ability to make up-to-the minute decisions with fewer mistakes.

 Technology coupled with retail dynamics is definitely a win-win situation for retailers. With the coming of international retail players, it has become imperative for SMEs to take a step towards technology adoption to reap optimum benefits from their business.

Our solutions are applicable to several semi verticals within the retail industry:

• Fashion and Apparel
• Pharmacy
• Agro retail
• Processing costs
• Office Supplies
• Optical Stores
• Footwear
• Home Furnishing
• Food and Grocery
• Food and Beverage
• Jewelery
• Consumer Durables
• Electronics Stationary
• Stationary

An internationally proven retail software solution like LS Retail can provide all micro verticals stated above with:

• Increased store efficiency
• Improved Data Integrity
• Streamlined inventory control
• Reduced shrinkage, pilferage and losses
• Comprehensive business analytics
• Reduced paperwork
• POS for Multi-tier Retail
• Complete integration with backend systems

IT Transformation is a key factor in achieving high performance for consumer goods and services companies. Aglasor Technologies can help you streamline information technology to enhance overall performance. Today’s consumer goods and services industries need to transform their IT capabilities to give them the ability to:

• Aggregate and analyze customer data to enhance differentiation,
• Increase a company’s ability to respond to a rapidly changing market place through enhanced flexibility and speed.
• Operate effectively as global a organization, which includes the need to deal with global business partners.

Consumer goods and services companies face specific IT management challenges, including:

Our Key Service Offerings:

Systems Integration: Effective, high-powered, IT-enabled retailers are the ones that will succeed in a volatile marketplace. IT investments informed by solutions-orientated applications will thrive in the global marketplace—provided local focus is not sacrificed.

Global Data Synchronization:

Enabled by radio frequency identification/electronic product coding, the entire supply chain is becoming more intelligent. This creates what Intellilink Technologies calls silent commerce, and it raises possibilities for new business models and opportunities.

E-procurement:

As e-procurement becomes widely used, consumer goods and services companies need to develop systems to support it. Information technology infrastructure needs to support business processes and develop core business transactions systems.

Item and price synchronization solution from Aglasor Technologies Inaccurate invoices and orders. Returned products. Misunderstandings about a product’s placement or distinguishing features. We can help Consumer Products companies and retailers solve these problems by developing and leveraging a shared definition of the most basic element of the trading relationship—the product.

Master data management solution from Aglasor Technologies Consumer products are an information-based industry, but data is rarely treated as a strategic asset. The master data management solution from Aglasor Technologies helps solve this problem by ensuring master data from multiple applications becomes a central, application- and process-neutral resource.

• Retail Banking solutions and services.
• Credit cards
• Internet Banking.
• Mortgages practice.
• Multi-Channel Integration.
• Business Rule Engine.
• Customer Relationship Management.
• ATM Solutions and services

• On-line, real time processing and cost saving thru Multi channel Transactions. I
• Relationship banking enabled through extensive mining of all customer transactions.
• Rapid time-to-market with new product and service offerings.
• Rapid Customer Acquisition. Multi-currency and multi-language support so as to ensure geographic reach across continents.
• Multi-layer security, monitoring and reporting. Seamless integration with advanced delivery systems including teller and branch automated teller machine (ATM), point-of-sale (POS), interactive voice response, corporate and home banking
• Modular interfaces to other systems with a Plug-in approach.

Insurance providers today are faced with the ever-increasing pressure to offer innovative products and services, drive down costs, improve their services to their many constituents and leverage the benefits available from ongoing IT advances. They must focus on how to efficiently accelerate their time-to-market and provide innovations to their products and services, while meeting increasing regulatory requirements at the same time. This poses significant challenges to all carriers, whose systems are typically outdated and fragmented after years of growth and acquisition. This complex IT environment also creates significant challenges to information management, software currency and effective software quality assurance (SQA).

Aglasor Technologies has deep experience helping leading insurance companies Conceive, Transform and Optimize their software platforms to meet their business imperatives. We leverage our Strategic Enterprise IT Roadmap (STEIR), Productization, and SQA methodologies to enable insurance clients to conceive the right IT platform, transform their existing systems into high value assets and optimize their applications through ongoing application outsourcing using our global delivery model.

Our Insurance Service offerings include:

• Application Suite Platforming. We partner with clients to conceive effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to transform application suites into reusable, flexible, and extensible software platforms that are real business assets and then optimize those assets to provide a strong return on investment.
• SQA. We leverage our deep SQA experience to bring innovative process improvements to client project teams and operational support areas, and we help our clients transform and optimize their software quality processes. We focus on helping our clients dramatically reduce the cost of projects by delivering the right SQA rigor at the right time.
• Application Suite Modernization. We offer a full set of services tailored to the large body of legacy applications that insurance companies typically employ. First, we help our clients assess their current portfolio of applications and conceive the right strategy and architecture to update them. Next, we help transform those applications by executing projects to upgrade and/or if needed, port them to the operating systems that best meets the needs of the enterprise, using as needed Open Source software and internet technology. Finally, we optimize those applications over time through application maintenance and outsourcing using our global delivery model and a focus on Productization

Additionally Aglasor Technologies provides solutions to many Fortune 1000 enterprises that are applicable to the insurance industry. These include:

• Agency / Customer Self Service: We help our clients increase customer / agency retention by improving the agency / customer experience, enabling multiple self-service channels and at the same time driving down costs.
• Account Opening (Member Enrollment): We increase the efficiency of our clients’ account opening systems and processes, reducing enrollment time and cost, and enabling straight through processing.