Ultra Electronics (Ultima ERP)

Owners of Ultra Electronics well realized that accurately working and it is total the automated logistics allows to increase pace of the company smaller costs. The system of intellectual routing of orders to the addresses considering remoteness of points and load of cars is implemented.

In the peaks, such as new year and other natural catalysts of demand debugged and the automated logistic processes more than 1500 deliveries a day allowed to execute the companies! At the same time all process was controlled only three managers.

The company owned own huge park numbering more than 200 vehicles of a different tonnazhnost. At all park the run, depreciation, an insurance, regulations of passing of maintenance, naturally, fuel were considered, complete account of repair work was also kept.

In addition to edged transport and warehouse logistics, it was applied, at that time know-how, unique for the Russian business: the exchange for suppliers. Suppliers had the truncated access to an information system and could see speeds of expenditure of the goods and in time offer deliveries, at the optimal prices. The optimality of offers (lots) was defined by purchasers. As a result the scheme of work for the purchaser was provided to the principle of an anti-auction. The purchaser watched offers from suppliers, and could accept in real time them. The fact of adoption of the order generated to the supplier the order in its inventory codes that considerably simplified to the supplier his postprocessing, the balance of the supplier was automatically refilled for the amount corresponding to the order, loading of a warehouse was predicted, the statuses of the expected goods receipt on the website were automatically updated.

Over activity of purchasing managers the automated control revealing anomalies in decision making to exclude transactions, harmful to the company, but profitable to purchasers, was conducted.

It is necessary to notice that even for the current time (2010), any Russian company has no anything similar though in the developed markets such practice in the nature of things.

The functionality of the exchange of suppliers perfectly would fit into specifics of work of retail retail chain stores. But instead of the market-based approach to purchases, the management of networks "purchaser supplier" with a human factor with all that it implies corruption, and not only corruption, effects prefers to allocate relationship.