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FORUM
 How many times have you faced the ire of your distributor or exclusive retail outlet over stockpiles or the other extreme of shortage of stock during peak demand? This problem of inventory management and lack of information directly affects profitability. Your army manning the frontlines can help you anticipate market trends, provide sales trends, deploy media campaigns and give critical competitor feedback in real time enabling you to be proactive and take decisive action under pressure.
Sify’s Forum equips businesses with a simple yet powerful, cost-effective tool for managing the forward supply chain. It is a revolutionary, innovative solution that seamlessly integrates and connects your business to the critical components in a supply chain. Forum works as two way street where data and information is accessible to your suppliers. This helps greatly in planning, logistics, inventory management, sharing crucial market information and speed up service. In the long run, Forum can expose your suppliers to cutting edge technology, dramatically improve their skills and mould them into a highly competitive force.
How Forum can make a difference to your business:
- Forum collates stock and sales information from distributors and exclusive retail outlets
- It enables two-way communication between the organization and supply chain partners including distributors. For instance, Product or Scheme Masters can be delivered to the distributors through the internet. Or, additionally, distributor’s claims can be uploaded to the company’s ERP; Invoices can be delivered online to the distributors impacting collections timelines
- Companies can implement a continuous replenishment mechanism, reduce inventory levels, cut operations costs and make channel members more efficient, thereby increasing profits
- It will directly integrate the distributor data to your ERP like SAP, JD Edwards, and MfgPro etc. Forum, therefore, aids in integration of supply chains with minimum disruption to pre-existing IT infrastructure
- By integrating and connecting hand-held applications to the main system, it extends the supply chain and enables unprecedented reach
- Multiple versions – Regular micro ERP to manage any finished goods distributor business, Service version to manage both products and servicing, Serial number version to manage products like mobile phones
Forum is working wonders at……
Forum is being used by organizations of various sizes; from large corporations to very small businesses. Sify Forum users are spread across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China and India.
Forum fulfils important needs for organizations of all sizes. Large enterprises use Forum at their distribution points for integrating their supply chain. It has improved their bottom lines and efficiencies. It has integrated operations in their branches, automated their sales force and helped them interact with their principals more effectively; for retailers Forum is proving to be a complete business solution – The solution supports bar-code, enables Points-Of-Sale (POS) operations, automates inventory and re-ordering logic. The real impact, though, has been in the mindset of retailers. Forum has made them take to modern business practices and benefit greatly in the process. Today, a retailer can quickly deploy Forum on a PC and connect for a short time over a dial-up internet connection at the end of the day and exchange critical information with trading partners. It is boon during events, festive seasons and promos.
FMCG companies, Pharmaceuticals, Durables, Garments,, Mobile Phones, Engineering Goods, Petroleum Products, Retail and industries with complex supply chains benefit immensely when they use Forum to integrate their Forward Supply Chain. ITC Ltd, Bunge India, Glaxo SmithCline, Pidilite Industries, Chevron, Bosch, TotalFinaELf, Finolex Ltd, Palepu, TCNS are some of the marquee clients besides many others.
Minimal Hardware Requirements!
Distributors and retailers can run Forum on their Windows based Personal Computers. The recommended hardware configuration for running Forum on the PCs is:
Processor : Pentium III and Later
RAM : 256 MB (Recommended)
Hard Disk Drive : 40 GB (Recommended)
Operating System : Windows XP / Windows 2000
Monitor : Colour Monitor, 800 x 600 resolution, 16 bit colour
CD ROM Drive, modem (minimum 28.8 kbps) and internet connection (minimum dialup) are necessary.
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Forum will provide marketing and planning teams a critical edge. It will bring them closer to customers like never before.
And it will do this without asking clients to invest in expensive software licenses and without putting them to years of implementation hardships. Why, it does not even require the organization to be always connected online with hundreds of distribution points. A simple, nominal costing dial-up connection for daily or weekly updates would suffice!
Forum makes business sense anyway you look at it. It is a holistic solution that gives you an unmatchable panoramic view of your business. Not to mention the fantastic double role as a business tool for your partners who do all the legwork. Contact us for a detailed presentation and demonstration.
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