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Business Performance Management

Business Intelligence

Shortening time-to-market. Reducing costs. Achieving zerodefects. Improving customer service. These forces have created a new level of urgency for clear understanding of your company’s performance. Vantage Business Intelligence (VBI)—powered by the CorVu ™ business intelligence engine—emphasizes the active use of the right information at the right time for the right person, to proactively guide and adjust the course of the business, rather than passively measure its progress.

VBI can transform your data into actionable information. Quickly access and analyze your company’s data. Disseminate critical information in easy to read formats. Isolate pertinent information from a sea of data. Review data analysis from several perspectives (e.g., financial, production, internal, external). Create indicators to measure progress against strategic goals.

• Slice-and-dice data
• Real-time or warehoused
• Company consolidation
• Balanced scorecard
• Forecasting
• Predefined business views
• Web viewer
• Executive alerts
• Reporting
• Scheduling
• Graphs

Workflow Management

Vantage takes into account the real-life circumstances that define your complex and dynamic manufacturing environment, both during planning and the actual process. Embedded within Vantage is a comprehensive and flexible workflow solution that gives you the tools you need to respond quickly to critical business requirements. The workflow facilities available within Vantage enable you to quickly begin managing and automating even the most complex business processes, including working toward ISO certification.

VANTAGE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT IS COMPRISED OF FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS:

• Task Management

  Systematically automate and execute routine processes using a set of tools provided by Vantage. The inherent systematic nature of processing tasks via these tools contributes to the speed, consistency, accuracy, and ability to document procedures for regulatory compliance.

  • Multi- and single-tiered task management
  • Task definition
  • Electronic sign-offs
  • Streamline
  • Task lists
  • Message log
  • Automatic assignment and routing of work
  • Staying up-to-date
  • Send alert
  • Carry out processes
    
• Workbench Views

  Vantage provides a series of role based workbenches to streamline and expedite workflows throughout your company. Workbenches provide a focused, paperless, single entry point from which internal and external users can automate and execute routine processes. Vantage comes with many predefined workbenches including buyers, planning, engineering, inspection, service, sales, credit manager, and plant workbenches.

• Business Activity Manager

  Vantage extends Workflow Management with the business activity manager. The BAM enables you to build simple proactive business rules into any of your system transactions and has four major components:

  • Change log
  • Alerts
  • Execute processes
  • Manage exceptions
    
• Business Activity Monitor

  The business activity monitor is a tactical form of business intelligence that delivers user-defined, real-time views of all areas of your business. Information is viewed via a dashboard, where you can show multiple queries and Web parts simultaneously.

  • Create your own views
  • Dynamic data
  • Detailed information

Product Lifecycle Management

Vantage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) serves as a central knowledge repository for process and product history, and promotes integration and data exchange among all enterprise users who interact with the product. Key features of the Vantage PLM application include full integration with more than 12 computer aided design (CAD) systems. Vantage PLM manages all documentation associated with a product throughout its entire product lifecycle. Additionally, the application offers sophisticated document management, critical for those organizations that need excellent audit tracking and control of all documents across the enterprise. Vantage PLM is powered by PROCAD PRO.FILE and uses SQL Server technology.

• Document relationship
• Change log
• Microsoft office integration
• Document security
• Check-in/check-out
• Electronic vault
• Search capabilities
• Document viewing
• Customization
• Vantage plm and cad integration
• Sub-document management
• Bom push from cad
• Updating title blocks
• Revision management
• Automatic generation of bom
• Drawing copies
• Cad integration

Vantage Dashboard

The Dashboard ™ encompasses multiple different capabilities such as inquiries, ad-hoc reports, workbenches, graphical analysis, tactical business intelligence, alerts and business monitoring in a single entity. It is a robust one-stop interface that replaces traditional menu systems with personalized roleor context-based views and links into core transactions of the system. In addition, it puts the visual indicators and functions you use the most right at your fingertips. Tooled with unique flexibility, the Dashboard enables users to develop their own workbenches using a series of online views of information such as a tracker. From a tracker, “open with” technology is deployed to drill into any part of the system, whether it is to enter a new order, modify an existing one, or update a customer record. The power of the Dashboard is in how it enables users to specify how they work and tailor their workspace to fit their needs.

The power of the Dashboard is in its ability to act much like the instrument cluster of your car. The Dashboard is used to provide real-time exception-driven indicator flags which alert you to possible problems in your business. From these business activity indicators, you will be able to easily drill down to appropriate parts of the system to see more information.

Through integration with the Internet, the Dashboard is also fully customized to help drive your daily activities. From monitoring your employee intranet site to live access to industry-related Web sites, the Dashboard contains the information you and your employees need to more proactively run your business. Optionally replacing traditional menu systems, the Dashboard is quick and easy-to-use. In fact, you can use the Dashboard as your default view to your daily workflow. By integrating access to all of your favorite functions, third-party applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel, and online help topics, the Dashboard puts tremendous power in the hands of users and makes your Vantage solution one of the easiest applications to use.

• Exception-driven philosophy
• Real-time access to up-to-date information
• Workbenches
• Trackers
• Personalized components
• Custom components
• Personalized to fit the needs of users
• Open to related functionality
• Web interface
• Web deployable
• Predefined dashboards

For further information, please contact us at (852) 2581 9373 or email at salesenquiry@polyasia.com

For the product details, please refer to the official web page of Epicor Software Corporation at http://www.epicor.com