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Supply Chain Management Experience Overview

02Supply Chain Management Experience Overview

Supply Chain Management Experience

Services across the supply chain

E-procurement automation product suite goes On-demand

The Product

Solutions Provided

E-procurement automation vendor with a suite of products to streamline the entire üprocurement process of finding catalogs, comparing products, requisitioning and

processing of ordered productsLite

Solution comprises of individual product modules that can be deployed together or üseparately: Spend Director - Order Manager – Settlement Manager - Sourcing Manager - Requisition

Manager - Contract Manager - Supplies Manager

Developed an on-demand version of their solution with characteristicsü

Multi-tenancy: Allows each tenant to customize workflows as per business needswConfigurability: Application designed to be flexible in terms of customizationwSecurity: Website interaction over Secure Socket Layer (SSL), use of Public Key wInfrastructure (PKI), encrypted date storage, role-based user authorizationCustom Workflows: Each tenant can define a specific business process flow wInternationalization: Implemented using the same principle of “attributes” w3rd party applications integration: Interfacing with disparate applications for various wdata-exchange scenarios

Fact: Application has a transaction volume/hour figure of 15.4 millionü



Upgrading an Online Fleet Tracking and Reporting Solution

Product development, advancement and sustenance - SCM solution for the organic foods industry

The Product

Solutions Provided

The Requirement

Solutions Provided

SaaS delivered fleet tracking solution provides visibility of mobile workforce activity and üenables businesses to identify, measure and target specific areas that impact operational costs and business productivity

Contains features like 24 hr vehicle location identity, live and dynamic timesheets, üpowerful search, integration with back office service etc.

Reengineering: Re-engineered the Report Management module from ASP to .Net ü

Added business critical reports to the product feature catalogue like Driver wperformance Reports, Location Report, Fuel Usage Report, etc.Enhanced module with better configurability and usability and designed to be more wstructured and scalable

News Management: Developed solution to manage the inflow of news for the ücompanies/products for each customer

Personalization: Developed a new UI personalization utility using .NET to configure all üthe skin related settings for each customer

Globalization and Localization: Modules optimized to support multiple languages for üend-users from across the world

An e-Commerce portal solution that would allow suppliers and buyers to coordinate übetter towards satisfying demand for organic foods

Act as gateway to buy natural and organic products through buying clubs and handle all üorders, payments and other administration requirements of the portal

Development of the solution from scratch to its existing third version, supporting 1000 übuying clubs and more than 60000 users

Scalable SCM solution allows multiple suppliers and buying clubs to be part of the üproduct ecosystem

Product allows co-op system of selling by selling to geographically proximate groups of üconsumers who are members of buying clubs; thereby increasing efficiency of the supply chain

Built on N-Tier architecture designed with extensive use of OOAD concepts üWeb Farm integrated with the architecture to allow for data growth and increase in user üvolume

High performance ensured with well-formatted pages, advanced caching facilities usage üof XMLHTTP and AJAX, and usage of wrapper classes for database querying

Securely built with comprehensive role-based access control with SSL certification and üauthentication services

Supply Chain Planning and Optimization software built with Java and C++ consisting of üadvanced technology and planning for better management of inventory investments

Development of additional modulesüDesign, testing and integration of the inventory optimization productü

Modules designed to support 32 different forecast modelswModules include Features Demand Planning/Forecasting , wInventory/Stocking/Sourcing Policy Optimization, Replenishment Optimization, Supplier Collaboration and Portals etc.

Product development, advancement and sustenance - SCM solution for the organic foods industry

Inventory Chain Optimization System enhancement

The Product

Solutions Provided





Integrated Platform for managing enterprise content using SharePoint

Customization of product requirements as part of implementations for end-users.üMultiple projects executed simultaneously towards effective resource utilization and üparallel code reviews done with development

Partner for Infrastructure Management and Application SupportüCustomer: Global communications technology leader that specializes in the distribution üof wireless devices and in providing customized logistics services to the wireless industry.

RIM service - IT Infrastructure support - Level 1 & Level 2ü

Level 1: Incident Management Process involving detection, investigation, resolution wand closing of incidents which hinder quality of a service. Level 2: User creation/removal process in Active directory, Handling Mailboxes in wExchange account, VPN Backups on servers, Monitoring activities and troubleshooting VPN issues, Printer issues and any other desktop applications.

Application Support:ü

Problem analysis and solution for the customers Edi4all and WMS applicationswSolving configuration issuesw

Replace existing public-facing corporate site which was created using old web ütechnologies like ASP

Envisioned the site to be a single platform to manage intranet and internet applications üacross the enterprise

Customer: E-distributor of fine, specialty and semi-commodity chemicalsü

Developed new corporate website using SharePoint 2007 (MOSS); simplifying design üchanges and content management of the site

RIM and Application Development support for a global communication leader

The Requirement

Solutions Provided

The Requirement

Solutions Provided



Content management features used for moderator review and approvalw

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 used to provide Interoperability with internal LOB systems, üallowing users to aggregate and consume information from different data sources and

application platforms

Provided enterprise search from databases and back-end server applications.üBuilt on powerful ASP .NET technology features in SharePoint for catalogingüBizTalk 2006 used for integration with other internal systemsü

Integrate various functional area systems like Onyx for CRM, Great Plains for ERP and üYantra for BPM

Synchronizing of data between different systems, reducing redundancy and overheads üdue to continuously changing business needs required


Short-term service: ü

Current integration between the various functions maintained without disturbing the wexisting business processes with an XML based solution using Microsoft BizTalk Server

Integrated Platform for managing enterprise content using SharePoint

Professional Services - Enterprise Product Integration using Biztalk Server

The Requirement

Solutions Provided

Integration with LoB Systems



BizTalk Server 2004 used to for easy communication, integration and secure wdecoupling (plug-n-play)For those companies still using EDI, BizTalk Server took care of XML-to-EDI conversionw

Long-term service: ü

Replaced the disparate systems with Microsoft suite of products like BizTalk Server, wMS Great Plains and MS CRM for seamless integration and scalability

Upgrading from Dynamics GP v8 to v10 to benefit from inherent advantages like:ü

Workflow functionality that leverages role-based security of GP v10w.NET development that allows for extension of GP functionality outside of using wDexterity


Upgradation carried out in two stages:: ü

Used existing tables common to both GP v8 and v10, without recreating the w

Professional Services - Enterprise Product Integration using Biztalk Server

MS Dynamics - Upgradation of GP from v8 to v10

The Requirement

Solutions Provided



For new tables, Aspire identified the common roles and tasks and created them wmanually

Migration from class-based security of GP v8 to role-based security of GP v10üIntegration of upgraded GP v10 with the customers' best-of-breed products like Onyx, üYantra, SSE, and Interworld

Conversion of Dexterity code to .NET code for some of the functionalityü

Interaction between various systems like Interworld, Onyx, Great Plains, and Yantra and üthe workflow followed to be documented clearly

Documentation necessary for training new development resources and for analysis and üdecision-making by the business team


Documentation covered system activities like search and ordering, delivery and billing, üand provided clarity to stakeholders about the customer’s entire e-distribution system

Information collection from SMEs and template creationüDe-jargoning the technical languages and jargon by involving all stakeholders for periodic üfine-tuning

Product documentation support for an E-distributor

The Requirement

Solutions Provided

ABOUT ASPIRE SYSTEMSAspire Systems provides end-to-end software development services to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)/packaged software providers, Software-Enabled Businesses and Innovative Enterprises. We are passionate about Producteering™ – our approach to creating software better and faster. It helps us deliver tangible business results for our customers through technology. Our key strengths are in the areas of SaaS, Cloud Computing, Web 2.0/RIA, Mobile, Test Automation, Agile/Scrum, and in the Healthcare domain.



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