Modern enterprise management requires that enterprise treat customers as the core of its business and realize the bi-directional information and data flow among manufacturers, distributors, retailer and end customers across its business cycle. It can be said that optimization of the future supply chain management will be one of the key elements for the success of manufacturers or suppliers. Enterprises can utilize new technologies like Internet to optimize distribution channels, integrate existing resources, adapting to market changes by shortest supply chain, fastest reaction and lowest distribution costs.

IDM is an Internet-based online intelligent distribution system for purchasing, inventory, finance and decision support. Target customers of IDM are those manufacturers or distribution companies with distribution network across many localities. IDM can help these companies establish eBusiness application systems for their distribution system, providing a complete and practical intelligent business solution with fast reaction capability.

IDM helps you to benefit from Internet
IDM, combining up-to-date supply chain theory and Internet technology, provides a brand new and lowest Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) solution for enterprises from management methodology, application model to technical aspects.

IDM, by improving one important aspect of the supply chain - communication between suppliers and distributors, greatly enhances the efficiency of supply chain, satisfies the requirement of customized service for enterprises and realizes the systematic management and distributed application for enterprises. It also provides capability and source power for enterprises to plan as a whole for all internal and external resources, raise customer satisfaction and meet the challenge of global competition and sustained development.

Establish and manage the whole distribution network efficiently
IDM helps to establish enterprise distribution network across many localities and support the planning and control system for supply chain. The parent company can timely, correctly and steadily obtain information about inventory,customers and finance from warehouses, distributors, subsidiary company or outlets all across the whole country.

Optimize resource allocation

By effective management of distribution network, can make reasonable use of resources of distribution network, reduce capital, human and resource occupation in distribution network, thereby optimizing the operation of material,capital and information flow

Communicate with the market in time
For many suppliers, products sale are made through distribution channels instead of facing customers directly. They usually can not communicate with market in time and make timely reaction to market changes, resulting in market opportunity loss and other unnecessary losses. After implementing IDM, suppliers can get hold of sales and inventory information for distributors and subsidiary companies, know about market information in time, establish and implement swiftly corresponding strategy to hold active positions in the ever-changing market.

Increase distributor loyalty
After implementing IDM system, the distributors and suppliers will be in a close relationship, which improve fundamentally the means of communication, product sales and service models between suppliers, agents and distributors. The distributors will be more willing to promote the products to market together with suppliers to realize the benefits of win-win, thereby greatly increase distributor loyalty.

Realize standard management

Previously, suppliers, especial those having distribution network across many areas, usually need to spend a lot of people and resources managing the distribution channels, but still find it difficult to get hold of those disorderly and unsystematic information. IDM can make real-time data and information communication between suppliers and distributors, automatically realize a series of functions such as automatic purchasing order creation,, credit check for customers, etc. These help to realize standard management for distributors and save a great lot of human efforts and resource usage.

Brief introduction of system functions
Basic information management
Manage and maintain basic information such as product information, customer records, supplier records, distributor records, user privileges.

Purchasing and replenishment management
Help buyers to control and complete whole purchasing process from automatically create purchasing orders, generate purchasing order suggestion to check arriving products, warehouse and create accounts payable.

Distribution and sales management
Include such business processes as product quotation; blank order form creation; order form acquisition, customer credit check; product distribution; warehouse consignment; accounts payable creation; sales returns,etc.

Inventory management
Help warehousemen of enterprises control and manage such operations as warehousing, consignment, inventory movement and check.

Financial information management
Manage all kinds of account receivable, account payable, cash, customer credit, other non-sales income and payment information for non-purchasing items during the course of operation. Users can efficiently manage assets and capital, take back arrearage in time and plan and control capital usage. IDM' s Decision Support module provides powerful functions for report analysis. Decision-makers from all levels may see analysis results they concern most; this helps them to make better decision to manage and control the business activities of enterprises, to expand business scope and to reduce operation risks.

IDM functional features

• Highly intelligent automatic inventory replenishment function which avoids situations of out of stock and overstock, greatly enhances order fulfillment and reduce inventory costs;

• Centralized information management which delivers product,sales and promotion information to market quickly and accurately, ensuring that communication of the whole sale channel is timely and flowing and reducing transaction costs;

• Real time query of order processing and product delivery status which can help users to spot problems in time to increase customer service level;

• Strict credit check to help users reduce bad debts cost;

• Automatic product dispatch program which increases the speed of order processing and reduces mistakes;

• Strong warehouse management which allows users to create multi-warehouses and manage warehouse position;

• User-defined warehouse structure which can divide warehouses into logical warehouses such as warehouses for quality goods, for donations, for scrappy goods and for defective goods to simplify warehouse management work and enhance warehouse management level;
  

• Strict fresh-degree management to help uses establish products sales and consignment plan and avoid unnecessary losses from outdated products
  
• Sales analysis to help users establish multi-prices and promotion strategy.
• Precise gross margin analysis for each transaction to help users in analysis
  
• Performance review for each sales representative according to detailed record for each transaction.
  
• Support warehouse allocation to ensure more reasonable resource allocation
  
• Real time analysis for sales, inventory and financial status, such as analysis for sales journal, inventory fund occupation, account age, payment status and sales performance review, to provide strong supplemental tools for decision makers.
  
  

IDM supported platforms

• Operating systems：
  Windows 2000 Server
  Various version of Unix
• Databases：
  Oracle 8i
  Microsoft SQL Server
  Sybase
  IBM DB2
• Applications servers
  ERRY EAS
  BEA Weblogic 5.1, 6.0
• Client software：
  Microsoft IE 5.0 or above