Introduction

ORION Advantage is a cross-industry solution that is a functionally rich, integrated, and enterprise-wide information solution deployable across a large number of platforms. The advantages of deploying ORION Advantage in an organization are:

• High scalability, with a technologically superior system that ensures adaptability to the requirements of a burgeoning business organization
• Preconfigured application with best business practices
• Ability to integrate all areas of business
• Enhancement of operational efficiencies across the organization
• Control of costs and increased profitability
• High adaptability to enable better management of processes resulting in enhanced customer satisfaction
• Ability to cater to the requirements of diverse market segments, such as FMCG, Trading, Import/Export, Retail/Distribution, Manufacturing and Energy
• Support for multi-company, multidivisional, profit center, and multi departmental/cost center type of organizational structures
• Robust design and extensive parameterization, which provides the flexibility to adapt to changing business climates

ORION Advantage is developed in the ORACLE environment. This Advantage software is implemented on a wide range of hardware and operating systems. ORACLE is one of the leading open systems application development architectures today, and provides portability of the application across hardware platforms. This ensures long term security for an organization’s investment in time and money on ORION.

SALES AND OPERATIONS PLANNING

ORION provides complete sales order management through its Sales module, which delivers complete functionality for sales management. In addition, options are provided for profiling order execution for any customer through product profiles, delivery profiling, and the advanced pricing. The solution ensures streamlined sales, order and distribution operations in order to deliver high levels of customer service.

A “Make to Order” strategy begins with the receipt of an enquiry and followed by a quotation submission with the pricing and charge scheme specification. The process for a “Make to stock” strategy begins directly with order procurement.

ORION supports definition and handling of sales promotion schemes (discounts, gifts) attached with different order types. Some of the important features are listed below:

• Entry amendment, review of order details with full revision history
• Quotation system with conversion of quotes to orders
• Inventory update through sales orders and credit notes
• Online inventory inquiry
• Unlimited definitions for sales order types
• Standard and blanket orders
• Scheduled payments for invoices
• Credit Management
• Standard reports: Customer list, order status, sales list
• Sales analysis reports: Item, location, address and analysis codes
• User-defined reports: Quotations, orders, credit notes, invoices
• Margin analysis reports: Costs captured at the order entry
• Quotation analysis report: Quotes conversion to orders or cancellation reasons
• Performance reports: Deliveries, quantities and pricing

ORION allows the user to analyze at any time, whether the organization is performing, as planned; quickly establish where future demand or supply issues likely to arise; and, evaluate the outcome of different demand-supply balancing options in the business. It facilitates management from sales enquiry to sales invoice, and payment receipt. Managing order through third party contract and loan licensing are also possible.

PURCHASE MANAGEMENT

ORION offers the complete procure-to-pay cycle in the Purchase module, that also covers document creation and security.

ORION delivers powerful facilities to manage and simplify the purchasing process. This module provides components for purchase invoicing, purchase management, and budget and Commitment Control. In addition, options for rate contract are also available.

The solution enables the user to analyze and report on a comprehensive database of supplier information, in order to optimize the buying power. ORION supports the following activities:

• Create purchase requisition
• Create quotation
• Create purchase order
• Advise shipment
• Create different types of receipts
• Identify features of various security and access levels for documents
• Identify invoicing and payment tasks for Payables
• Match reasons for integrating payables with other applications
• Match various payables with supplies
• Amendment, review and deletion of purchase orders and returns
• Actions subject to operator permissions
• Commitment checking and budget checking
• Standard, blanket and pre-paid orders
• Direct invoice entry
• Match multiple and part orders to single invoice