i@scm - features

• Monitoring and central control of procurement procedures: supporting multiple access and approval levels for the procurement department of an organization and using a common central access point, as well as a centralized system for storing procurement information that allows the suppression of paper and fax use as well as the dissemination of the needed information into the organization.

• Electronic Competition of Bids: mechanism that allow the syntax, submission, follow up and evaluation of offers as well as provide alternative business models such as RFI (Request for Information), RFP (Request for Proposal), RFQ (Request for Quotation), e-Auctions through friendly oriented user interfaces.

• Total Suppliers and Product Catalogue Management: communication electronic mechanism are provided in order to support the communication and the collection of product data from suppliers as well as for suppliers categorization according to their offers and based on their participation in competition of bids, for the evaluation of suppliers, taking into consideration their offers and finally for the total monitoring of the supplier after sales service levels.

• Automated replenishment of central warehouse and final sales points: by supporting automated order mechanisms for the internal replenishment of products among retail shops and central warehouse, for the direct orders to suppliers and finally by providing tools that enables the management of predefined and proposed by the supplier orders.

• Advanced and tested replenishment forecasting and sales models in order to monitor the stock levels: for the central warehouse as well as for the final sales points taking into consideration the forecast is based on sales data, stock levels, seasonal periods, customer preferences, historical sales data, marketing data and on many other factors and parameters that could be managed dynamically in order to support the order process through the whole supply chain.

• Monitor of product movement into the whole supply chain: that contains services for sales follow-up, product stock levels and other information related to products through the whole supply chain form central warehouse, logistics services and until the final sales points/retails shops.