ROSS ERP

Financials Management

Financials Management applications enable you to efficiently manage and optimize your business operations across multiple companies, divisions and sites throughout your supply chain. Whether your users are down the hall, around the globe, or both, the solutions are easily tailored to address your specific needs. They span international markets and support local languages, currencies, accounting and regulatory requirements enabling you to conduct business anywhere in the world.

Solutions include financial budgeting, accounting and reporting to provide a complete project tracking and accounting system with multidimensional visual reporting and drill-down capabilities for managers at every level. With these applications, you ll have the control and visibility needed to optimize your financial performance.

Manufacturing Operations

Manufacturing Operations applications help you make informed, real-time manufacturing decisions, ensure quality, increase plant throughput, contain costs and improve delivery performance. With applications designed to address recipe- and formula-based manufacturing operations, you can consistently produce and deliver quality products. Integrated with Financial Management applications, you have the added benefits of comprehensive management of your order-to-cash, manufacturing planning-to-execution and procure-to-pay processes.

Solutions include recipe & formula management, work orders, product costing, maintenance, materials planning and production.

Quality Control

Because ROSS applications are designed with quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) as in integral parts of the process, quality can be planned and managed just like any other process. You have precise control over all materials and products (co-products, by-products and end-products). Throughout your entire process, from formulation to production and distribution, you can be more diligent in batch scaling, date code tracking, shelf-life expiration dating, lot tracing and yield optimization.

Additionally, you can define and measure customer quality specifications at critical steps in the process. You can maintain the quality of your processes and products within strict tolerances to minimize delays and associated costs, and ultimately satisfy the expectations of your customers. Shelf-life planning capabilities enable you to optimize production scheduling and inventory usage to reduce the expiration of materials and finished goods and maximize the shelf-life of shipped products.

Logistics

Logistics management applications help you effectively plan and cost freight for inbound deliveries from suppliers, outbound shipments to customers and transfer orders to other warehouses or distribution centers. You have the flexibility to ship complete orders, individual items or a minimum percentage of an order among other configurations.

Logistics applications include routing & rating, load planning, costing and invoicing.

Supplier Management

Supplier Management applications are designed to optimize buying and service decisions, and exchanges with your suppliers. You can support requirements of both multi-site, multi-national corporations and single site domestic operations in either a centralized or decentralized mode. In addition, you can manage all purchase orders (POs), requisitions, receiving and vouchering of invoices for raw materials, materials requirements planning (MRP) purchases, maintenance, repairs and overhaul (MRO) purchases and one-time purchases. Vendor performance can be monitored and managed with visibility to received goods characteristics including raw material variability, quality, actual vs. scheduled delivery times and costs.

Customer Management

Customer Management applications empower you to manage interactions throughout the customer lifecycle. This integrated set of applications help you manage relationships with existing customers to anticipate their needs and efficiently address their demands. You can ensure that each customer receives the unique tailored services they value most while you maintain proactive 360? visibility to all activities that impact their experience (i.e. sales, marketing, support). Customer Management applications help you differentiate your company from the competition to build the loyalty of existing customers and make it easier to attract new ones.

Customer Management applications include customer care, fulfillment, credit management and customer self-service and deals & promotions.

Regulatory Management

Integrated Regulatory Management capabilities help you streamline your compliance efforts in today s environment of increasingly stringent local, national and international standards. ROSS helps to streamline compliance with the regulations from organizations such as the International Standards Organization (ISO), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others. Specific capabilities are included to address requirements related to Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), 21 CFR Part 11, FDA Validation, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HAACP), SOP Modeling, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) and others. From regulatory planning, to execution and documentation of results, Regulatory Management solutions automate critical functions minimizing of risks of non-compliance while balancing operational costs and margins.