The whole process of selling complex machines, services or plants, which require a long negotiation and a great flexibility in dealings, is treated in a unique integrated application system. This application is structured in several modules, which allow to manage in a completely integrated manner the following items:

Customers

The archive of customers and prospects is fed by every salesman or manager. It contains different types of classifications to allow marketing analysis. Every reference may have several addresses and contacts. Customer may have pre-defined sales conditions to speed up the generation of offers.

Negotiations

Negotiations are monitored on a success probability basis. The competition, present in every Negotiation is monitored too. Evolutions of Offers and Orders automatically reflect on Negotiations. The Budget module takes its data from Negotiations for building Budget and Rolling Forecast and for instantaneous reporting.

Activities and Notes

Different types of scheduled activities or notes can be created in front of any customer or negotiation. Activities may be notified to other users in form of invitation or simple information. Alerts can be set by any user with a personalized time advance. Activities and Notes can be defined private or public.

Product Configuration

The Configurator simplest to use for the selling force. Its use is the closest to a catalog, free paging, using pictures and drawings to drive the user. The Configurator designer has the most powerful tools in solving configuration problems, but it’s user friendly to design and maintain.

Offers and Orders

Offer and Order Management is flexible, because it’s structure is easily adapted to every specific request by a parametric definition of commercial terms. This module works integrated with the product Configurator.

Sales Budget & Rolling Forecast

Sales Budget is generated from Negotiations in function of their success probability. In the same way a Rolling Forecast is generated periodically. Reporting can be obtained at any moment on screen or on printouts.

Marketing Analysis

It’s possible to create a free number of queries for marketing analysis. The result is displayed in form of charts. The shape of charts desired is selected for every query. The result of the query and the related chart is exportable into MSExcel®.

Stand off and International Features

The system can be installed on portable notebooks or in remote Company sites. A proprietary synchronization procedure keeps aligned the detached installations. All screen labels and data descriptions can be shown in any language. Different date and decimal notations are supported. Exchange rate may be local or centralized.