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Novoally on-demand business addresses the needs of your entire organization, is adaptable and allows you to react quickly whenever your business needs change. In addition, it is personalized to improve productivity with a role-based user experience, built-in learning and support environment, analytics and collaboration. You can manage operations for your business with a single, integrated solution that puts you - and your employees - at the center of every process and allows you to realize the full potential of your business.
Explore Novoally On-Demand product view below to see how it can help you meet your business goals.
Product & Inventory
Manage and create product mix fulfillment strategies to meet customer requirements. It also offers the flexibly to view the extended supply chain network, from supplier to customer, as well as an internal locations such as a warehouse or production site, with reference to your product movement, storage, stock and aging. Below is the quick scope.
- Categorize and group products to track and manage their stock, demand and supply across your supply chain network.
- Calculate demand forecasts for products or product groups.
- Support for demand-plan handling and forecasting enables you to group products with similar demand patterns into demand plans and define the related parameters
- Manage products by minimum and maximum stock value along with reorder points.
- You can create forecasts manually or you can let novosales calculate a forecast using one of several statistical forecasting models and your historical data as reference.
- Check product availability and confirm delivery dates by checking customer requirements against the stock on hand and the product supply.
- Stock adjustment for physical inventory discrepancies.
- Stock Taking process for month end/quarter end counting
- Stock Movement Log to track product batch and serial numbers.
- Unrestricted stock transfers across warehouses
- Different costing methods supported: Standard cost; FIFO/LIFO; Weighted Average and Standard cost revaluation.
- Product Cost, Last buying price and WAP automatically updated based on goods receipt.
- Product Association like KIT, Cross references, Single and multiple replacement.
- Option to define different name for the same product for your customer or supplier.
- Stock Analysis on single view: Stock Summary and Batch details across branch network; Product monthly supply and demand; Purchase and Sales history with item details.
- You can define price lists and establish flexible pricing policies, so that prices and discounts are calculated automatically and applied to quotes, orders and invoices.
- Special pricing for a customer and prices in different currencies for the same product also allowed on each product with a validity period.
- You can configure multiple level of discounts and schemes, including periodic targets setup on similar products or a product group by zones, order type, period and even customer type.
- Minimum margin configuration to prevent selling below cost price. Option to configure automated pricing based on your cost, buying price or WAP.
Sales Order Management
Its provides you comprehensive access to customer-related information and related information like opportunities, quotes, orders and invoices. Your employees can use data system to verify product availability, deliver and satisfy customer needs, perform accurate forecasting, predict future sales and identify cross-selling and up-selling opportunities. Below is the quick scope.
- You can carry out an order confirmation check, which allows you to check if ordered items are in stock and you can confirm the sales order or you would like to do fresh sourcing in form of direct purchase or production.
- Manage your sales orders and the related sales quotes and opportunities.
- Record orders from one Time / regular customers with schedule deliveries.
- Product rates, tax, discount based on captured customer setting, but option to override at order level also.
- Advance payment details at the time of sales order and payment receipt print. Automatic adjustments at time of invoicing.
- Stock Availability check in Order and automatic Back Order creation. Create incremental Picking Slips for order as per avialbility of stock.
- Create invoices individually, collectively as part of automatic invoice runs.
- Create invoices for order OR for delivered items. You can also create invoice for single order or group of orders for a customer.
- You can add additional discounts and charges in all sales process. You can record shipment charges separately to third party and absorb the same as sales cost or include it in customer invoice as shipping charges.
- Standard working documents templates to configure and print different type of sales and service in different format.
- You can create invoice documents based on the delivery of products and services – and skip the complete order delivery. Remaining item can be shipped on later date or cancelled and recorded as lost sales for future analysis.
- Create credit memos for returns received from your customers or partners – even without reference to a sales or service order.
- Quotation and sales order linked to sales person for commission purpose. Commission rules again can be configured in multiple ways to be paid on complete order specific items or on certain minimum sales.
- Clear separation in active/pending and closed documents at various level from creation to delivery to invoice creation to payment received.
- Automatic targets and schemes based credit notes creation and option to make payment manually or automated adjustments on next invoice.
- Order management in different formats: Direct order, Scheduled order, Contract Order, Delivery against advance order, Order against advance bulk payment, consignment sales, export order and sample sales (zero value sales).
Service Order Management
It allows you to offer service that differentiates you from the competition and increases customer satisfaction. With a comprehensive view of customers at their fingertips, your employees can deliver excellent service and make sure that all commitments to your customers are met. Below is the quick scope.
- Prioritize and organize employee workloads and determine the resources that are required, including the estimated time to complete the service, the required spare parts and the availability of those spare parts
- If a task – such as responding to a customer request for repair – is falling behind schedule, an escalation mechanism can be triggered to alert the responsible employee.
- You can create service confirmations and view detailed information on the incident category, time taken to complete the service order and spare parts used.
- You can track call resolution rates, order volumes and backlogs, associated costs and revenues, daily service delivery averages, rates of compliance with service level agreements, open versus completed service orders and the closure rates of outstanding orders.
- Employees can track the progress of customer inquiries from creation to resolution and attach electronic documents to a customer’s service record or account.
- Within the knowledge management repository, you can store, maintain and search for information, such as procedures, frequently asked questions, repair tips and articles about previous solutions.
- You can specify performance objectives service levels, for service delivery, such as the maximum processing time for resolving or completing a customer incident.
- Register and track individual warranty entitlements against serialized products.
- You first define your warranty offerings, including duration, coverage and service and spare parts limitations. You can then apply the warranties automatically when carrying out your service processes.
Purchase Order and Supply Chain Management
Automatically create purchase orders, verifying invoices and identifying duplicates and variances in invoices. Plan and consolidate procurement requirements, determine and confirm realistic delivery dates. The solution offers automated planning functions with interactive planning and can allows you to map supply planning process to actual and anticipated demands. Below is the quick scope.
- Create requisitions or purchase requests based on demand forecasts for products or product groups.
- Release demand forecast to supply planning where it forms the basis for current and future production and procurement until you receive sales orders.
- Novosales consider different demand types – including sales orders, service orders, demand forecasts and dependant demand – and determine how these are combined to form current planned demand in form of demand requisitions.
- You can process incoming purchase quotes automatically or enter information manually; with support for intelligent quote comparison you can compare quotes to identify the most suitable proposals.
- Support for exceptions control enables you to monitor and react to exceptions that occur in your supply planning processes, such as stock shortages or violations of safety-stock values or minimum days of supply.
- To make the process of supply control more efficient, you can merge several requisition requests into one purchase order, before their release, based on product and supplier criteria.
- Single or multiple receipts for a purchase order.
- You can also purchase services as well as materials that are not put in stock and later assign the related costs to a cost center or to a project.
- Direct receipt without a purchase order. No mandatory check of price at time of receipt; Excise, VAT, sales tax computation in order; Partial receipt for order line no; Warehouse specification for each order line no.
- Payment made on basis of supplier invoice and receipt matching after goods are received.
- Automatically compares supplier invoices with their corresponding purchase orders, goods and services receipts and allows posting of invoices that match completely. If any inconsistencies are detected, such as a price variance or a duplicate invoice, exceptions are raised, which can be handled manually, depending on your preference.
- Supplier Return document for excess or bad quality stock.
- Multi currency processing – order in one currency and invoice in a different currency.
- Additional costs/discounts in all process.
- Payment batch having multiple suppliers / invoices.
- Automated discount / penalty computation information during payment.
Production & Planning
It supports a unique production model that takes into account both planning and execution, in order to give you end-to-end business process transparency. You can view, create and change production models and all their related data via a production bill of material and a bill of operations. Below is the quick scope
- You can assign input products from a production bill of material to activities in production runs.
- Once a production plan has been created, you can release it to supply planning and production execution so employees are using a consistent version of the production plan.
- You can also define the components that make up a product – including descriptions, quantities and units of measure – in a bill of material.
- You can dynamically create and measure cost of batch creation, make amendments to components costing parameters and arrive at new costs. Helpful in arriving dynamic costs for each product at new raw material rates.
- You can link the bill of material and bill of operations needed to manufacture an assembly or finished product and you can view stock levels for intermediate parts during execution.
- You can even define several product variants within one bill of material.
- You can also define how a product should be produced, down to the operations and activities needed to manufacture a product.
- Supports discrete, repetitive process and mixed-mode environment & continuous as well as batch process manufacturing.
- Supports co-product and by-product manufacturing.
- You can check component availability and even perform substitute for the items.
- Linking of demand management allows you to identify different demand types and assign them to different fulfillment strategies, such as make to stock and assemble to order.
- Plan and consolidate procurement requirements, creating feasible production plans along with determining and confirming realistic delivery dates.
- You can define production processes including standard or specific quality checks in the production plan; You can determine capacity utilization and plan resources during production runs for the plans.
- Identify bottleneck resources and carry out rescheduling functions accordingly, such as load leveling and adjustments to supplies on all levels
- In addition, you can evaluate the cost for utilizing resources within financials and actual costs of each production run with wastages, scraps and by products costs.
Customer Relationship Management
It helps you exploit the right opportunities and maximize customer satisfaction and revenue. Get comprehensive, flexible support for customer relationship management processes that span marketing, sales and service activities. Below is the quick scope.
- Manage interactions with prospects and customers, whether by e-mail, phone call visit and maintain a history of interaction activities with your customers.
- Maintain information about customers and other business partners, such as company and main contact details as well as partner status.
- Customer categorizations are based on criteria such as a customer’s current contribution to your company’s revenue (high, medium low) and the customer’s potential revenue contribution.
- Information gathered about prospects during lead generation is available during marketing, sales and service activities.
- Your employees can enter and track data such as contact information, product interest and qualification level for each prospects.
- You can create and change sales quotes and also run available-to-promise checks in real-time for the requested delivery date. Using analytics, you can analyze the number of leads and opportunities, sales volume and the opportunity pipeline.
- You can use the solution to plan sales revenue targets at different levels, for example, by salesperson, product, product category customer.
- Record sales person daily activity, assigned tasks status, expenses per activity and even daily time sheet.
- Record and track customer complains and feedbacks and follow up on each sales or service delivered.
- Track lost sales and non visiting customer for a time period. Retain your best customers and recall your old customers with new products and offerings as per their purchase pattern or industry types.
- In case of retail environment create Customer Loyalty program and allot loyalty points on each sales and each new referred customer.
- Configure customer payment terms, credit limit and cash discounts as per their payment and business status. Control and approve for complete business network from single location.
- You can use selection criteria to create a specific target group for your marketing and campaign activities; for example, all customers within a specific zip code range.
- A central marketing and sales data repository, allows you to enter, track market and competitors information such as company profiles, sales strategy papers, market research notes and news.
Supplier Relationship Management
It helps you strengthen your relationships with suppliers and improve your procurement processes to reduce costs and turn suppliers into a competitive advantage. Below is the quick scope.
- Manage the supplier life cycle - right down to authorizing suppliers for certain product categories, such as office supplies - and assigning dates that specify the effective period for purchasing the product category from that supplier.
- The solution allows you to store supplier information in a single location, facilitating access to information about your suppliers across your network and allows you to compare quotes with other bidders.
- You can prioritize your suppliers and sources of supply and quota arrangements can be created to efficiently distribute purchases across two or more suppliers or to set fixed sources of supply if you have only one supplier per product.
- You can maintain information about service agents, such as independent contractors as well as temporary, leased, contract and on-call workers in your supplier base.
- In addition, the software makes it easy to add, activate remove suppliers from your supply chain even after you have made purchases.
Accounting & Financial Management
Every business process in novosales is integrated with financials. It allows you to gain control over your cash inflow and outflow and to forecast and analyze the liquidity and profitability of your business. Below is the quick scope.
- Control your payables, receivables and cash flows.
- Create invoice and payment disputes and track their closure.
- You can centrally manage payments, such as cash, checks and bills of exchange.
- You can valuate payables and receivables.
- Open items in foreign currency can be converted automatically into your company currency on dates that you specify.
- Monitor cash positions in real time.
- Automated payment process to take advantage of early payment discounts offered by your suppliers.
- Payments can be processed in multiple currencies.
- Manage banking transactions, reconciliations, charges and bad cheques.
- Product tax returns and withholding tax returns is presented to you on a transaction basis
- Automatic tax posting to different tax accounts depending on each country’s legislation.
- Monitor travel expenses and other employee expenditures.
- Expense claim process allows employees to submit reports online and managers to approve them online.
- Reimburse approved expenses to employees, quickly and efficiently.
- Track how money is spent within budget.
- Create new cost-saving measures, by creating budgets limits on expenses and centrally manage them.
- Cost Planning & Control : Flexible cost centers creation & comparison of budgets with actual / previous budgets
- Configurable Balance Sheet and Profit loss statement for each month, year or quarterly
- Accurate, up-to-date picture of current earnings/profit-loss statement without closing periods.
- Manage multiple companies within same business or business division within same company.
Human Resource Management
It efficient and effective HR operations maximize the potential of your employees. Employees get personalized business view tailored to their job functions and self-service features to streamline execution of daily tasks. The system allows you to adapt your HR services to the changing needs of the business by adding, enhancing and automating processes, including workloads, personnel, payroll and timesheets. Below is the quick scope.
- Set up your organizational structure so that the system suggests employee access privileges, which are then routed to the appropriate manager for approval.
- Define responsibilities and duties of organizational units and employees, create and edit job descriptions, assign employees and contractors to organizational units.
- As business needs change, you can quickly change user responsibilities, application access and reporting lines.
- You can also enter and maintain information about service agents who perform services on behalf of your company, such as independent contractors and temporary workers.
- You can empower employees to update their records, such as home addresses and contact information and make common requests online – without contacting HR or other departmental personnel directly.
- Employees can record their business-related expenses electronically and submit them for reimbursement.
- Employees can record their time sheets in any of the 3 forms, summary time sheet, project based time sheet daily in and out time sheet. The timesheet can then directly link to payroll for calculation of variable salaries.
- Using automated, employee-related functionality, your employees can create and track leave requests and record working time.
- You can manage issues related to compensation, such as payment method, bank information and voluntary deductions, such as membership fees for clubs or other expense like house rents and company car.
- You can create and configure various level of compensation structure, tax deductions and regulatory deductions.
- You can manage appraisals, objectives for each employee for a year or for a period as per your company policies.
Work Management & Collaboration
Manage your work and information across your departments and projects, while getting an overall view of company productivity and efficiency. Work management allows you to create small work groups and projects. Support for resource management makes it easier for project managers to staff projects, assign tasks and track working times and task execution. The software supports collaboration among team members via shared document centers, automated workflows and diverse communication channels like online chat , calendar sharing, internal mails and tasks allotments, IP telephony and common documents repository to share documents and project-related information. Throughout the project execution process, managers can monitor and verify project-related expenses submitted by team members. They can analyze the progress of projects and track deviations from the initial project plan in terms of cost, time and schedule. When required, they can make changes to project baselines.
Reporting, Analysis & Approvals
Now the Questions you are thinking !
How quickly can my business benefit from Novosales.com On-Demand Business System?
Your company can start benefiting from novoally on-demand within first 30 days due to quick implementation times. It eliminates the complexities of managing the business system thereby allowing you focus on growing your business from the very first day of the implementation.
How affordable is Novosales.com On-Demand Business System?
Novosales.com On-Demand comes without infrastructure costs, technical resource costs, and other hidden costs. You will only have to pay a nominal subscription for availing the service. Hence, Novosales.com On-Demand system provides high predictability and is very affordable.
Can Novosales.com On-Demand Business System be customized?
Yes, Novoally On-Demand Business System is a fully customizable system according to the business. The system comprises of all the features required to run an organization and can be customized according to specific business need in a very short period.
Is Novosales.com Business System version specific?
No, Novoally On Demand system is not version specific. Whenever new features are released or added it is immediately updated into the existing system and made available to all the clients. Novoally continuously innovate and update the products without you even thinking about upgrades.
What do I need to get started with Novosales.com?
All you need to have is a PC with internet browser and an internet connection.
How safe is my data when I use Novosales.com On-Demand Business Solution?
Your data is extremely safe at the Novoally Data Center. Novoally follows the international standard for data management and security. In addition, no one can access any of customer data within novoally company itself. We have a very detailed offshore storage process and a sophisticated disaster recovery system.
How safe and reliable is the communication backbone?
Noted service providers, who also service the likes of standard core banking solutions of other software, support our communication backbone. With the main service and a hot back up (like Leased Line and ISDN), it is extremely safe and reliable.
What are the benefits of having the server at Novoally Data Centre?
The benefits of having the server at Novoally are:
- No IT setup required
- No IT Maintenance Costs (AMCs)
- Free software and hardware upgrade
- Technical resources not required
- Always Up-to-date on the latest technology
- Availability and accessibility
Novosales On Demand has got a defined methodology and a set of guidelines that enable smooth and quicker implementation. The vast experience of the implementation follows a customer centric approach of implementation.
What is the support mechanism?
We have a 24x7 support system which will resolve all your issues. The voice and chat support is available 24X7X365 days. The onsite support is available in the working hours and days. The issue resolving time is 1 hours to 2 days.
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