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1104/12/2304/12/23 © Copyright 2006 Acumen© Copyright 2006 Acumen
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Open Sesame™Open Sesame™ A Gateway for 3PL Visibility
that addresses end-to-end requirements in
Supply Chain, Distribution Chain & Secondary Sales Tracking
Mr.PVSR Murthy, Head (3PL Domain) Open Sesame™ 3PL Center of Excellence, India
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ACUMENPartners & Support
Acumen is supported in terms of infrastructure, hardware & software by the Acumen is supported in terms of infrastructure, hardware & software by the
Industry. Industry.
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operates in 3PL space where it operates in 3PL space where it
provides one platform for provides one platform for
Manufacturing Plants, 3PL Service Manufacturing Plants, 3PL Service
Providers, Sales Offices, Shipping & Providers, Sales Offices, Shipping &
Commission Agents and most crucially Commission Agents and most crucially
the Customer Chain viz. Distributors, the Customer Chain viz. Distributors,
Wholesalers, OEM Buyers, etc. that Wholesalers, OEM Buyers, etc. that
are geographically spread all over the are geographically spread all over the
Country or World. Country or World.
H.O.OEM BUYERS
H.O.
PLANT I
FIELD FORCE
DISTRIBUTORS
SALES OFFICES
PLANT II
3PL SERVICEOPEN SESAME
One Platform for Multiple User Groups
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Supply Chain
Distribution Chain
Secondary Sales
Corporate Messaging & Mailing
Data Warehousing & Mining
Functionality
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Mfg Plant 1
Freight Forwarder
Mfg Plant 2Road Carrier Air Carrier3
Freight Forwarder
4 4
Supplier
2
3
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2. Supplier Orders Components
73PL
Carrier B
6
1.Customer Places Product Order
3.Final Product Delivered To Customer
1
Buyer
2
3PL Business Process
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ACUMEN Seamless integration with SAP R/3, Oracle Financials, BaaN, J D Edwards & other legacy systems.
Enables mobile commerce by providing seamless integration with Mobile Phones, PDAs & Pocket PCs. Automates Field Sales Force.
SMS Alerts on Mobile Phones for various business events & corporate messages.
RFID Enabled
A truly any-time-any-where solution integrating the supply & customer chain with the Manufacturer’s ERP systems leveraging on the information & market happenings.
Works in Multiple Currencies & languages simultaneously.
Extremely simple and easy-to-operate.
Transaction Documents & MIS Reports customizable through User Interface.
Technical features
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Acumen capabilities include Acumen capabilities include deploying RFID technologies.deploying RFID technologies.
Electronic Product Catalog (EPC) Electronic Product Catalog (EPC) tags used by the Mfg Plants are tags used by the Mfg Plants are identified by the Readers to track identified by the Readers to track & trace the Physical location of the & trace the Physical location of the shipment.shipment.
RFID transmits information about RFID transmits information about the EPC tags through Radio the EPC tags through Radio Frequency signals.Frequency signals.
Tags store EPC data.Tags store EPC data.
Reader captures the Serial Reader captures the Serial Shipping Container Code and Shipping Container Code and decodes the EPCdecodes the EPC
Mfg Plant 1 Mfg Plant 2
Freight Forwarder
Supplier
Customer
Carrier 1 Carrier 2
3PL Service
Carrier 3
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
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Data flow in RFID Scenario
Manufacturer1
FreightForwarder
1
2
Manufacturer2
Supplier 3PL ServiceProvider
Buyer
Carrier Carrier
Carrier Carrier
3
4
1
2
3
43
EventRegistry
EVENT DATA
EPC V (SSCC Encoded)Location & Time Stamp
RFID Reader EPC Tag
Manufacturer 1
Shipment Ready
Event
(Location) (Container)
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e-mail Notifications / SMS Alerts
Manufacturer 1 Manufacturer 2
FreightForwarder
Carrier Carrier
Supplier 3PL Service Provider
Carrier Carrier
Customer
Event Registry
5 5
1
2
3
4
Real Time Data storage at EPC Global
Auto-SendingOf Event Data
What Info
How Often
Send to whom
Medium
#?
Event
Auto-sending of event data to authorized partners via e-mails & SMS.Business Associates determine exactly what information is needed , when and how.
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ACUMENFeatures
Effective Truck Management System ensures Prompt deliveries, optimisation of truck carrying capacity on a shortest route.
Enables dispatch of Inventories on First-in-First Out basis
Enables Shelf-Life Expiry Management.
Identification of all fast moving inventories and subsequent storage in nearby locations in a Warehouse, thus cutting down the Picking time.
Provides for Storage Location Address of Inventory.
Identifies vacant Storage locations and permits blocking of space upon Inventory arrival.
Prioritisation of orders shipment based on the lead period for supplies, helping in timely deliveries to customers.
Enables Shipments through multi-mode transport with Shipping Agents being given access to update shipping information.
Inventory transfer across multiple units of 3PL Service Providers.
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ACUMENFeatures (contd..)
Automatic Indenting/Ordering upon Inventory reaching threshold limits ensures ‘NO STOCK-OUT’ situations at 3PL Service Providers/Distributors.
Enables 3PL Service Providers/Buyers place Indents/Purchase Orders based on valid Bench Marks viz. Past Sales Performance, Inventory on hand, Inventory in pipe line, Sales-to-date, Orders on hand, etc.
Customer’s Purchase Order can be captured through multiple sources. For ex. Distributor’s Desktop Accounting System, Mobile Phone, PDA.
Event Escalation drives up efficiency in Order Processing system.
Implements WORK FLOW for transaction processing & enables approval of documents.
Enables Order & Goods Tracking by Customers.
Provides visibility in Inventory carried across the Supply & Distribution Chain.
Tracks Order Cancellations Patterns.
Customers/Sales Force can check for Product Availability before placing/accepting Purchase Orders.
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ACUMENFeatures (contd..)
Product Catalogue with drill down feature with search feature for latest releases.
Provides information on Order Book, Shipments, Inventory and Sales & Receivables at the touch of a button up to the minute across the length and breadth of the business.
Auto-Push Reports alleviates the plight of the not-so-tech- savvy Top Management cadres.
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Improvement in top lines as it helps in:
Avoiding Stock-Out situationsTracking LOST SALES patterns that enable to remedy the situation.
Improvement in Bottom lines as it helps in
Avoids locking up of working capital in Slow Moving & Dead Inventories.
Reduction of the loss of obsolescence to zero as goods can be shipped on First-in-First-out basis.
JUST IN TIME inventories across the Supply & Distribution Chain.
Sustenance of delivery service levels, thus ensuring prompt and timely delivery through Distribution chain and maintaining 100% product availability across the chain while reducing Inventory.
Reduction in transportation costs through effective Truck Management.
Advantages
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Provision of stabilized plans to Mfg plants, suppliers & customers.
Production need not be on estimates anymore, as the supplies required are known well in advance thereby enabling need-based production planning. This helps in avoiding Inventory pile-up.
Value Creation by enabling businesses to reduce costs, increase revenue; service customers better and reduce chances of sale revenue losses. Reduction in sales/marketing overheads by cutting all costly methods of communication like couriers and long distance telephony. · Increase in productive hours of sales personnel due to reduction in time spent on Administrative work.· Reduction in the error factors in managing business and situations going out of control on the mere excuse of lack of information.· Reduce the sales cycle period considerably.
Advantages (contd..)
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Thank YouYou can reach PVSR Murthy on
+91-98490 11148