open sesame for 3pl

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ACUMEN

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


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.


ACUMEN

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


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

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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.


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.


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.


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

[email protected]

+91-98490 11148

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