To properly illustrate the features we have categorized the functions that most concern the management of any organization. They are Money, Material, Manufacturing and Manpower. The features are further illustrated in the form of question and answer that may be in the mind of a reader.

1. The first step in any Industry is its infrastructure. Does your ERP help me in tracking the Capital Investment details?

• Depreciation Tracking & Reports
• Financial Summary Reports

CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides you with a complete capital asset management providing you with complete depreciation calculation through any of the three methods viz. SLM, WDV or salvage. You can also avail regular reports evaluating the total capital value that you have on hand.

This depreciation and capital asset valuation can be grouped as you may desire and also gets reflected in to the year-end financial reports as well.

2. What kinds of facilities are provided with accounting package in the ERP?

• Cash Transactions

All kind of cash transactions are availed with the system like cash receipt, cash payment etc. A complete track of all these transaction along with their relevant document details are linked and stored in the system.

• Bank Transactions

Just as in case of cash transactions all the relevant bank transaction like bank payment, bank receipt etc. are taken care of along with relevant documents and check management facility.

• Summary Reports

The entire relevant year end/ month end summary financial reports can be availed with CORPORATE MUNIM™ and the same can be printed and/or generated in any kind of user-defined style by CORPORATE MUNIM™ unique document designer.

• Order Tracking Facility
• Stage wise Document Tracking
• Sales Category wise Bifurcation & Analysis

CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides you with the state-of-the-art SCM facility wherein you can track down your orders in pipeline and the associated documents likewise. You can also avail the sales bifurcation and analyze the different categories of sales therein.


4. We have most of our sales as export. What export related facilities does CORPORATE MUNIM™ provide?

• Stage wise Export Document Tracking
• Shipment & Transport tracking
• Currency Utilization Track (booked up foreign with bank and non-booked reserves).
• Management of government levies at your finger tips

With all the above facilities you can be assured of a completely standardized export procedure follow up with all the relevant details.


5. We have different terms & conditions with every client. Does CORPORATE MUNIM™ provide Individual Consignment Management?

• Interest Calculation & Margin Analysis

You can avail the information regarding the interest analysis on each and every payment received and thus get a real scenario of the actual profit margin gained in a transaction.

• Consumer Credit Limits

You can set up customer's credentials by defining the credit limits availed to the customer while entering the information for the same.

• Dynamic Consumer History

You can avail a complete consumer history while processing a sales order or any transaction.

• Inward-outward Communication Management
• Complaint Management
• Reminders & Alerts
• Company wide Calendar
• Tasks/Appointments/Reminders
• Link Multiple Tasks
• Intra Company Mail
• Customer/Vendor History Calendar
• Document History Calendar
• User Groups/Access Rights
• Enterprise Wide Event Log

1. What kind of material procurement planning aid does CORPORATE MUNIM™ provide as an ERP?

CORPORATE MUNIM™ incorporates Business Intelligence modules like MRP-I (Material Requisition planning) to aid the managerial function of Planning. MRP I in CORPORATE MUNIM™ is mainly bifurcated into two portions

• Material Requirement Analysis

The material that may be needed for the organization is base on the total sales orders and the regular consumption of materials that may be needed during the production. The combinatorial trend analysis of these two factors provides the material requirement for the corporate. Thus material requirement analysis provides you with a complete picture of you requirements throughout the year or a specific manufacturing cycle.

• Material Requisition Slip

Again after the system analysis the material requisition slip provides you with all the required action to be taken for the procurement of the same. A MRS (Material Requisition Slip) is provided to aid the process of indenting the requirement that system has analyzed.

Once the MRS has been authorized auto-indenting option can be utilized which is based on bill of materials.


2. Does CORPORATE MUNIM™ help me with selection of vendors for procurement of materials with complete analysis?

CORPORATE MUNIM™ defines stock movement analysis along with its stock ledger specifying the original procurement and it’s relative movement with respect to any or all of the following documents like

Goods Receipt Note, Purchase Bill, Delivery Memo, Sales Invoice, Stock Issue (General), Stock Issue (Branch), Stock Receipt (General), Stock Receipt (Branch), Stock Dispense, Process Issue, Process Receipt, Process Receipt (Returned), Purchase Return, Sales Return, Stock Transfer, Processed Returned.

Thus you get an in detail information of the material procurement along with all the vendor details etc.


3. What kind of inventorial functionality and controls does CORPORATE MUNIM™ define?

CORPORATE MUNIM™ recognizes all the different kind of lot size inventories that you may be implementing at your organizations with/without consideration of shortage viz.

• Lot size inventory with uniform replenishment (Production)
• Lot size inventory with Instantaneous Replenishment (External Procurement)
• Unstructured Inventorial Model (Ad-Hoc)

All these inventorial models are subject to the below listed crucial issues and CORPORATE MUNIM™ addresses them as described in the respective heads. Stock Analysis:

Stock analysis provides you with a complete picture of the current status of the material. A material at any given point in time may be any one of the following stages: Material Issued, Material Quarantined, Material In transit, Material In process, Material Processed, Material Allotted.

The status of material at any of these stages can be available to you at any point in time.

Reorder level, Lead-time and EOQ

All the inventorial controls that are needed at managerial functional level like reorder level setting in correspondence with item wise lead-time and the Economic Order Quantity are defined and provided with the product. Thus inventorial functionalities provide a complete peace of mind to the managerial cadre with CORPORATE MUNIM™.


4. How does CORPORATE MUNIM™ address marketing & sales issues?

1. Prospective Clients Analysis:

CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides you with a state of the art prospect analysis wherein you can analyze the prospective clientele list location wise, order wise, history wise etc. Here you have a total insight into the client prospects and decide your business focus on the market segment that may want to capture.

2. Inquiry and Quotation analysis:

After you have analyzed the prospects the next step that you may take is that of inquiry and quotation analysis from the prospects. This gives you a pinpoint focus on the near future business track and assists you in the managerial function of decision-making and corporate expansion into the new areas.

3. Promotional Schemes & Discount Structures:

User Defined Multi-level Promotional Scheme (PS) is applicable on any of the following as per the Organizational Strategy and Market Demand.

• Individual Standalone Product,
• Predefined Product Group,
• Ad Hoc PS Group

Again whenever the sales order is registered dynamic auto-application of scheme is enabled and relieves you of any mistake or omission in the process.

PS extension to any level like say for particular branch, group of Branches or to a specific client etc. is possible in the system.

4. Dual level Pentagonal Discount Structure

The dual levels for discount structures are at Invoice Amount and the discount structure can be applied from three different angles as per the requirement, viz. additional flat, additional deductive.

5. Optional Transaction Type:

You can map a transaction type against any discount and this may be on item basis or on the whole invoice amount or for a particular period (time based)

1A. Our Production cycle is very complex and in it at any time we need a complete track of processes to be followed along with the material status at any stage. How can CORPORATE MUNIM™ cope up with this complexity?

1B. The first step of manufacturing is quality assurance before issuing any material for production. Again there are various stages of production during which production check is required and the material may need to be reprocessed or rejected. Does CORPORATE MUNIM™ handle Quality assurance in all it’s complexity?

CORPORATE MUNIM™ presents you with a complete track of materials by integrated WOMS (Work Order Management System). Here you can define any number of processes over an item and track the material work order wise (In-house or Outside) as,

• Material in process,
• Material quarantined,
• Unprocessed return,
• Process gain/ loss etc.

and thus track the material at any given point in time. Again during all the processes whether your production process is “Continuous Process Flow” or “Distinguished into discrete stages”, you can define and control the QAP (Quality Assurance Procedures) related with any stage of production.

Thus material status in production at any stage along with any type of QC practices can be controlled with CORPORATE MUNIM™ at your side.

2. The Management wants complete track of costing at each and every stage in production. Can CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides complete costing of our production cycle?

You can define the consumption of materials for each and every item and track the items consumed in each process. Material Requisition Slip can do tracing of “Additional purchase”. Thus you get a complete track of material cost during any process.

Again you get to know the material cost incurred after each and every machine through defining the preventive, maintenance and breakdown records for each and every machine.

Thus what you get is a complete costing analysis of the entire production cycle of your organization.

3. Does CORPORATE MUNIM™ provide any facility for plant maintenance? If yes, how does it handle this and what information benefit does the management get from it?

Yes, CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides with a full-fledged plant maintenance facility as follows:

CORPORATE MUNIM™ allows you to define a complete management of your plant resources by providing you with a complete plant scheduler and a time- table for preventive, maintenance and breakdown. You can define your timetable with complete, alerts and messaging throughout the system to ensure a full proof follows up of all the procedures.

The management is availed with all the related information like the total costing of the resources used for maintenance, the man-hours consumed in ensuring the procedure follow ups and the time consumed for all these efforts.

5. We do not have fixed schedules of production defined but still we need schedule management kind of thing. Again we have ad hoc schedules (unplanned). Can CORPORATE MUNIM™ handle this situation? How?

MRP-II as mentioned above provides you with a complete production schedule management inclusive of unplanned schedules. Unplanned schedules are managed on time basis wherein they will be taken up into consideration and their net effect will get reflected on the regular schedules. The affected schedules will be reflected and show to the planner and the planning will be confirmed likewise.

One can plan any number of such unplanned and/or urgent schedules with MRP-II in CORPORATE MUNIM™ and a complete management of the same can be availed from the system.

1. Our staff is not computer literate. How does your ERP counter this problem?

Corporate Munim™ presents you with a completely customizable user level graphical user interface wherein you can define the menu and accessibility as per the user level. This makes the interface simple and brings about objectivity as per the user's work profile.

Again CORPORATE MUNIM™ ensures a complete training and a complete follow up ensuring total understanding of flow and logic of each and every section thus maintaining that every user whether computer literate or not they will be inculcated in the flow in a proper manner.

2. How does your ERP ensure better manpower management?

• Removal of Inter dependency

• Time based alerts and reminders ensuring no omission of work at any point of time. Say for example at the month end certain reports are to be submitted by some personnel to some internal departments as well as to government offices. With CORPORATE MUNIM™ you are ensured of time based alerts and reminders avoiding any possibilities of missing out of submission of work. Thus removal of dependencies ensures no blocks and thus betters man-hours management.

• Full proof work tracking: At any given point in time CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides you with a pin point tracking of who is doing what in the organization. This provides you with a managerial stick to ensure total control and track down and eliminate any blockage in the work pipeline

• Reduced redundancy resulting in better throughput due to one time entry in the system saving man-hours.

3. Performance Evaluation for every employee in the organization is vital. Does CORPORATE MUNIM™ provide such a facility? If yes, then how does it do that?

CORPORATE MUNIM™ provides you with performance appraisal facility wherein you can directly update the employee's performance in a appraisal format and evaluate him/her for promotion/ benefits /transfer etc. Thus the system provides you with a complete performance evaluation.

The HR department can thus also plan for training the employee once the appraisal declares a consistent performance of the employee at one stage of his/her working in the organization.

Again new trainees and interview management is also proposed in the HR module of CORPORATE MUNIM™ wherein you can have a clear picture of the training sessions and trainee up gradation report to plan future employment strategy.

4. In case of absence/leave of a user how does CORPORATE MUNIM™ handle the functions associated with that particular user?

With CORPORATE MUNIM™ you get the facility of rights transfer wherein you can ask a user to authorize a person to take over the charge in his/her absence. However this rights transfer does not involve transferring the user name or account to another user. It is just the transfer of rights and during this period of absence of the employee the person in charge of the responsibilities of the absentee will work with his/her account. This ensures no accounts right violation during the absence of the employee and maintains the track of the work done.

5. What does the end user (Operator) gain from your system?

• Reduced redundancy
• Increased Efficiency
• Easy & Quick Reporting
• Reminders & Alerts
• Simplified User-wise functionality based interface
• Validation, Verification & Authorization