Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Helping to re-engineer your business processes, reducing TCO, improving efficiency and performance.

 

Amicon offers cost effective Open Source ERP Solutions to re-engineer your business processes and aims at reducing TCO and, improving efficiency and performance. Amicon provides a wide variety of enterprise resource planning services, including: turnkey solutions, ERP implementation, customizations and extensions, maintenance, upgrades and version migration.

 

Amicon hones unparalleled expertise in Open Source ERP softwares like Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) and Opentaps which offers all the features we have come to expect from a modern ERP system and happily stands in direct comparison to commercial alternatives such as the SAP Netweaver platform. OFBiz and Opentaps is packed with powerful ERP features, is extremely easy to implement and use, comprehensive in its scope, modular and flexible, fully customizable, totally secure and incredibly robust. In addition, the web user interface of OFBiz/Opentaps improves productivity, accelerates user adoption and expands accessibility.

 

OFBiz and Opentaps provides a 360-degree view of your business, from customer service, fulfillment and warehouse management through manufacturing, purchasing and accounting. These frameworks are based upon several open source projects, including Apache Geronimo, Tomcat for the transaction framework; Pentaho and JasperReports for business intelligence; Funambol for mobile device and Outlook integration.

 

    


OFBiz / Opentaps offers a huge application suite covering:

  • Advanced e-commerce, catalog management, and merchandising.

    Product Stores
    • »Multiple product stores capability
    • »Select which stores will handle which catalogs, categories and products
    • »Multi Lingual and Multi Currencies Functionality
    Product Catalogs
    • »Create multiple catalogs and populate products by categories.
    • »Variant matrix and configurable products setup ability.
    • »Maintain product price, features, inventory, price rules, promotions, subscriptions, reviews, and more.
    Product search
    • »Supports any combination of constraints per search, including keyword, category, feature, and other constraints.
    Your Customer's Online Shopping Experience
    • »Customer Accounts at Your E-commerce Store
    • »Shopping Cart Functionality
    • »Check-out/One Page Check-out Functionality
    • »Secure Payment - Broaden available payment gateways to all the popular and secure processors: credit cards, e-gold, e-check, and PayPal (there are many more, depending on your base of operations)
    • »Checking of Order Status, Order History
    • »Reordering and Online Cancellation Option
    • »Customer Notification Emails
    • »Customer Returns
    • »Newsletters
    Marketing Functionality in the Online Web-Site Store
    • »Featured Products
    • »Product Details Page
    • »Customer Returns
    • »Promotions and Discounting Rules
    • »Up Selling and Cross Selling
    • »Shopping Lists, Quick Add List, and Shopping Cart Persistence
    • »Quotes and Requests
    • »Surveys, Blogs, and Forums
    • »Loyalty Points
    • »Tell a friend Functionality
    • »Wish List Functionality
    • »Tracking Web-Site Statistics
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  • Order management (sales & purchase)
    • »Search for existing orders
    • »Manage the order queue and re-prioritize your orders
    • »View and edit existing orders
    • »Back-end Order Entry for Sales Orders and Purchase Orders
    • »Dropship capability
    • »Purchase Order Receipt Scheduling
    • »Back Orders: includes customer notification, delivery estimates, partial CC settlements, CC refunds, etc
    • »Returns and Refunds: based on order items, track reasons, put refunds on CC, billing account, mail a check, store credit, etc; assisted creation of replacement order
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  • Customer management (part of general party management)

    Note: A Party can be either a Person, or a group of Parties. A Party Group could be a company, an organization within the company, a supplier, a customer, and so forth. Information that describes Parties or is directly related to Parties is contained in these entities.

    • »Party Types: Persons and Groups
    • »Finding Parties
    • »Party Data Maintenance
    • »Security and Permission Groups
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  • Warehouse, Inventory, Manufacturing and Purchasing management
    • »Manage inventory better with inventory thresholds and inventory transfers between all your warehouses and distribution facilities
    • »Track serialized, non-serialized, and lot level inventory and trace inventory usages
    • »Host third-party or "virtual" inventory
    • »Plan and automate purchasing and manufacturing with Material Resources Planning
    • »Manage the manufacturing process with bills of materials, production runs, marketing packages, and reverse assemblies
    • »Automate production and purchasing calendar with Material Resources Planning (MRP)
    • »Fulfill orders efficiently with picking lists, web-based packing station, and shipment scheduling
    • »Integration with UPS, FedEx, and DHL including printing of shipping labels and scheduling shipments
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  • CRM Features
    • »Automate sales process from lead gathering to conversion
    • »Manage sales opportunities
    • »Create sales visibility with forecasts
    • »Share calendar and tasks with the entire team
    • »Share and manage documents
    • »Browser-based email with integration to email server
    • »Customer services and case management
    • »Quotes, order entry, and order prioritization
    • »Manage marketing campaigns, including outbound emails and call management
    • »Voice Over IP (VOIP) Integration
    • »Tracking code reporting and management
    • »Address lookup and correction via USPS
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  • Financial Management and Accounting Features
    • »Industry standard double entry general ledger
    • »Supports multiple organizations with unlimited hierarchy of accounts
    • »Manage accounts receivables (AR) and accounts payables (AP), including invoices, payments, statements, aging
    • »Produce financial and tax statements
    • »Fully integrated with orders, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing out-of-the-box
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  • Content Manager
    • »Underlying CMS capability that can be customized to manage product and website content, blogs, surveys, and more.
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  • Marketing Manager
    • »Maintaining mailing lists, manage online marketing campaigns that are fully integrated with e-commerce.
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  • Webtools Application
    • »Track site traffic and related performance metrics.
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  • WorkEffort Manager
    • »Events, calendar, project management, and more ready to be customized to meet your specific needs.
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  • Point of Sale(POS) and Web POS
    • » Fully integrated online and Point of Sales (POS) stores out-of-the-box

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