Alpha SCM Software = "Push-button" production, inventory, distribution payments!

Embrace SCM - The science of better, faster, cheaper, ... the power of getting the right things to the right places at the right times, for more profits...

One of the most important strategic aspects of any business enterprise is supply chain management (SCM).

Decisions must be made about how to coordinate the production of goods and services, how and where to store inventory, whom to buy materials from, and how to distribute them in the most cost-effective, timely manner.

Take for example; the production cost of a product is say $1.00. But by the time it reaches the customer, it could be $4.00 or $5.00! While it is difficult to reduce $0.05 from production cost, it is easily possible to save $1 or more by properly managing the supply chain with SCM system.

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Supply chain basically consists of four components:

• Production: where businesses focus on what to produce, how much to produce, where to produce, and what suppliers to use.
• Inventory: where businesses decide how much to stock and where to store their products.
• Distribution: where businesses decide how their products should be stored and moved.
• Payments: where businesses look for the best ways to get paid by customers and pay suppliers.

SCM Software benefits Production

With Alpha SCM, you can examine production growth with sales growth volatility at the customer end of the supply chain and compare it in real time. Rather than making forecast based on what corporate managers think they will sell, you can now forecast based on real-time point-of-sales data through supply chain management (SCM).

SCM Software benefits Inventory

In any business, unsold inventory is a burdensome cost: warehouse and production line storage cost, holding cost, cost due to obsolescence and spoilage, bank interest and insurance cost.

However, to keep production flowing as smoothly as possible, and to meet demand, sufficient inventory must be maintained. All businesses must streamline their operations to hold fewer inventories. Alpha SCM will enable your organization to replace inventory with information and then use that information more productively.

America’s Dell Computer was established merely ten years, but it has not only become a global computer industry overlord, moreover " FORBES " in the weekly global star enterprise rank announcement, Dell Computer surged to top ten in USA (in 1998).

Many people believe that Dell Company’s success was because of its direct sale, and few people know that Dell’s success is actually the result of their use of digital management, and how it embraces SCM.

Indeed, by saying that it will not make anything until it receives an order from a customer, Dell has turned traditional manufacturing thinking on its head. In 1996, Dell held 31 days of inventory - today they hold 4 days of inventory! That' the power of supply chain management (SCM) software solution.

SCM software benefits Distribution

Before being available to the consumers, almost everything that is produced from the resources of the earth need to be processed and go through many transportation steps. Today, the transportation and distribution of goods often involves greater distances and better coordination. Inventory carrying costs have declined by more than 65 percent while transportation costs have declined by nearly 25 percent.

As third-party providers increasingly implement supply chain management (SCM) and other specialized or customized logistics solutions, which are more efficient, logistics costs have declined primarily because inventories are managed more efficiently. Risks have been minimized while warehousing expenses have been reduced.

SCM Software benefits Payment

Today more companies are adopting digital management, eliminating paper transactions and human contact as electronic connections between companies increase, and technology costs have fallen. With SCM, automatic billing, order placement, and payment can all be triggered and performed by a computer without requiring human intervention and a trail of paperwork.

And to streamline payments and create a sense of community for communicating with suppliers, Alpha ERP SCM software has built-in B2B e-commerce functionalities - faster payment and fewer losses.

If you would like to be more successful, embrace supply chain management. Your organization will benefit from reduced production volatility, less expensive logistics, lower inventory levels and streamlined payments systems. Do take advantage of IT but don't think of supply chain management (SCM) as a pure software.

Think of it as must to exploit essential business intelligence to the fullest, if you want your consumers to benefit from lower prices, higher quality products, and a greater variety and selection of goods, while your organization will be more competitive and more profitable.

SCM Software isn't just designed to help manufacturers of physical goods, but also service businesses, including those that require great creativity, imagination, and specialized knowledge. Digital products where there are no inventory to stock, no out-of-stock situation, no time-to-manufacture delays can be delivered in seconds at virtually no cost at all. There is a world of opportunities there opening up to you, and we are most eager to discuss your requirement with you.