The ERP Value Proposition
Globalization has made the world business much more competitive. Improving operational efficiencies,quality is imperative to stay in front. The perpetual business pressure to outperform, do not vary much with company size, location or line of business.
Traditional management practices are either relying on manual systems or some piecemeal software modules that are often poorly integrated. Collection of data from these outmoded practices inherited from ancestors – no longer support a company’s changing needs. Information gaps, business process breakdowns and old data inhibit business owner’s ability to control operations forcing them into devising time consuming workarounds just to get the job done. Inefficient information gathering and delayed decision making results in missed market opportunities, wasted effort and cost over-runs. The same pressures are intensified due to globalization. Companies failing to adapt to new industry demands are bound to experience serious consequences.
Achieving shortest time to market is an absolute must to stay one step ahead of competitors. To be responsive and competitive companies need to adopt value added IT solutions to:
- Improve management of core business processes
- Increase employee productivity
- Boost operational efficiencies and reducing costs
- Provide on-line access to vital business/financial information
- Achieve shortest time to market
- All of these core functionalities are embodied in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Application.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions have been around for several decades, helping companies of all shapes and sizes to maximize operational efficiency, cut overhead costs, and compete more effectively. An ERP package can be particularly beneficial to transform a company into a “well-oiled machine” by streamlining and linking core processes across multiple departments and business units to facilitate company-wide collaboration and information sharing thereby optimize all business functions. With an ERP system, a company attains the power to significantly improve its end-to-end operations – from planning through execution, by better management and control.
HoneycombERP® – Not A ‘One Size Fits All’!!
Despite being a wide ranging solution, HoneycombERP® is not a “One Size Fits All”. Rather it is a customizable product which can be tailored to suit your specific organizational requirements. Having more than sixty (60) modules, with thousands of features, numerous in-built processes, varying rights, privileges and flows; it can be customized according to your organizational needs, procedures and user requirements to provide optimum organizational efficiency, enterprise wide visibility and precise management controls.
The HoneycombERP® – General Features
- HoneycombERP® is platform independent and not bound to specified operating hardware or operating system.
- HoneycombERP® can be installed on premise via local area networks as well as can be launched or accessed through private cloud networks.
- HoneycombERP® is built on JAVA Enterprise Framework at frontend however it is container independent and can be operated with any SQL engine at the backend. The freeware Postgress SQL engine if opted, may rid the customers from annual licensing fees and will offer an exceptionally viable return on technology investment.
- The application has been developed using n-tier architecture where each layer has been treated separately for ease in constant enhancements and modifications keeping in view varying clients’ needs and requirements.
- Central Data base schema is protected and secured against unauthorized access.
- It is designed to simultaneously cater for the needs of different levels of users varying levels of skills and knowledge such as the clerical staff, supervisors, managers, and the executives.
For harmonized and orchestrated administration, well defined sets of roles, rights and authorizations to various users.
Honeycomb®ERP – Delivering Comprehensive Value and Results
As a manufacturer, your needs have grown more complex and increasingly urgent. You must manage a rapidly growing customized product base. You must respond to customer demands quickly and accurately. You must gain visibility into all your operations, synchronize your supply chain and analyze your business performance — just to keep pace. You must also provide immaculate service. Of course, you must do all this while cutting costs.
HoneycombERP® can help you accomplish all these goals and more.
With HoneycombERP®, you can improve your speed of operations and increase responsiveness with great flexibility and enhanced visibility. Our solution scales to meet the enterprise-wide needs to provide a cost-effective platform for managing multiple divisions or an individual factory.
HoneycombERP® is a proven, comprehensive, integrated, and flexible solution that world class manufacturers use to manage their operations — from product design, sales and procurement, production, order management and post-sale service, to human resource, payroll and corporate accounts and financials.
Honeycomb®ERP – Business Benefits
Data Integrity
HoneycombERP® maintains and assures accuracy and consistency of data over its entire life-cycle. The system stores, retrieves, and processes data from a single source of truth across the entire enterprise. This avoids repetitive tasks and work overload and also enables error detection and rectification, thereby improving overall efficiency of enterprise operations while providing accurate and timely reports to the decision makers.
Enterprise-Wide Visibility
HoneycombERP® gives you complete transparency as it eliminates information silos, integrates systems and business processes, links all users and maintains departmental integrity and security. On a simple click, this management system will provide integrated and centralized information to authorized personnel from any quarter.
Unmatched Flexibility
HoneycombERP® is your investment in the future. It is flexible and adjusts to your business processes and environment, without forcing you to change; it adapts and changes as you grow. It easily takes your existing staff on board, without the need of specialized hiring or excessive training. It defines the roles, rights,
responsibilities, limitations, abilities and restrictions of every user independently within your organizational framework.
Real-time Responsive – Consolidation
HoneycombERP® has been designed on real-time responsiveness to support your today’s real-time business requirements. Our solution tracks activities as they happen; orders placed, materials consumed, supplies delivered, shipments sent. All this is simultaneously done by specified staff, within their own parameters and their financial impacts are concurrently recorded and consolidated at the Headquarters’ level. What you see on the screen is the happening of that moment; accurately made visible to you to take informed decisions.
Process Driven Approach Increases Efficiency
HoneycombERP® magically shifts your entire system from users dependent to process driven the moment it Goes-Live. It drives the organizational workforce according to the defined individual process parameters, thus improving the overall efficiency. This helps in increasing the work efficiency manifolds resulting in building a healthy and happy work environment.
Visibility & Control Improves Quality
HoneycombERP® totally eliminates work hassle and confusions, giving an order to the entire organization. Individual jobs are performed with more diligence without pressure of performing unproductive tasks. This improves individual focus on core areas of operations and smoothens up entire operations, thus improving your organizational quality standards.
Enhanced Information Security:
HoneycombERP® is robust and well protected. It defines and maintains information levels in any organization in order to enable and disable information access to different staff levels depending upon the sensitivity and type of information. This restricts information within authorized barriers, eliminates information vulnerability and protect against security breaches.
Internal Audit Control
HoneycombERP®includesa strong audit trail. It records each and every transaction made from the system. These records can be traced from the point of creation, amendment, recommendation and approval; giving the entire history of each and every record. Furthermore, individual rights, responsibilities, authorizations and restrictions can be altered or imposed from your centralized administrative control. Processes can be created or revoked to an extent where even cheques are prepared automatically, without any human intervention. In short, your organizational internal audit procedures are exactly mapped, to include; laws of the land, your organizational rules and management procedures. This level of accountability and centralized control puts the entire workforce on its toes, automatically improves quality standards and shifts control into the hands of higher management.
Broad Spectrum of Reconciled Operations
HoneycombERP® has been designed to support the entire spectrum of your organizational management operations; starting from Financials & Asset Management to Human Resource & Payroll and Inventory Stores & Procurement it performs all what you need while reconciling each record at the unit level and consolidates all the units at Headquarters’ Level. A special Bank Reconciliation Module automatically reconciles banks actual position with your ledgers at the unit level and Headquarters’ Level. As your system grows your needs may grow as well. HoneycombERP® is limitless, you may add on users, locations, processes and modules suiting to your satisfaction and organizational requirements.
Products & Services as the Core Foundation
HoneycombERP® has been built on Products and Services as its core foundation; instead of General Ledger. It helps you manage and improve the processes that truly impact the profitability of your business, not just record the financial outcomes. Business units need a solution that supports their core business processes: manages product & services definitions and configurations; tracks materials and inventory; coordinates Labour and resources; fulfils orders; and synchronizes operations.
Dynamic Report Widget
HoneycombERP® widget facilitates you in creating and modifying reports as per your specific needs and requirements
Monitoring and Logging
The solution also incorporates an authorized member’s activity log for trouble shooting and performance analysis. The system is able to identify and reveal which individual has modified, added or deleted any data in any part of the system. This feature generates a comprehensive log of all actions undertaken by various users. This trail ensures all information in the system is secure and will be used for accountability and proper monitoring of the system.
Effective Support Mechanism
Highly trained and experienced HoneycombERP® team is dedicated to providing round the clock support to its valued customers. The support may be provided On-Demand or On-Dedicated basis through various channels including Tele-Support, Web-Support and Onsite-Support. Support activities cover cleaning, clearing and purging of data, system backups and user guidance to ensure smooth operations.
Top Executive Drilldown Dashboards
HoneycombERP® provides brilliantly designed, highly efficient and extremely easy to use Graphical Drilldown Dashboards especially fabricated for the Top Executives. These dashboards can be accessed from anywhere without compromising security. This saves you precious time spent in digging information from complex reports. These self-adjusting dashboards require no handling or configurations, they pickup data from across the organization and build graphics automatically adjusting to the type and volume of data. While painting the entire organizational picture at macro level these dashboards have the ability to drilldown to micro level on a touch and even fetch atomic data. We claim that “Just a gaze tells the whole story!”
Extended ERP for the Competitive Enterprise
Product Management
Deliver products on time and within budget by managing your product design processes.
Customer Relationship Management
Manage and improve every customer-facing business process, from winning new customers to providing excellent post-sales service.
Supply Chain Management
Streamline your supply chain, synchronize global supply and demand, and instantly respond to changes.
Supplier Management
Manage your suppliers and control inventory levels more efficiently with end-to-end functionality.
Manufacturing Management
Control all aspects of production including manufacturing.
Planning, materials management and production execution.
Financial Management
Keep your business in the back with powerful, integrated, and flexible financial management tools.
Business Intelligence
Powerful reporting and analytic tools keep your business on the track and improve your operations continuously.
Collaboration & Integration
Integrate with your customers, suppliers and trading partners to share information and automate business processes
HoneycombERP® provides comprehensive functionality for every phase of a product’s lifecycle.