Managing Automation - January 2008 - (Page 45) DESCARTES SYSTEMS GROUP SALES AND MERCHANDISER MANAGEMENT escartes Systems Group’s new Sales and Merchandiser Management module, part of the company’s software-as-aservice Delivery Management suite, is designed to allow manufacturers and distributors to route, track in real time, and report on the performance of its product merchandisers and sales representatives. Product features include weekly activity planning, stop sequencing, product delivery synchronization, schedule and in-store activity communication via GPS-enabled phones, real-time tracking of product deliveries, actual miles driven and in-store time calculation, and consolidated performance reporting for management and the merchandiser and sales representatives. www.managingautomation.com/Descartes D workers to receive all the information they need to perform a work order. New features in Mobile Command Center 2.0 include real-time, exception-based optimized scheduling for planned and reactive scheduling, dispatch, and intraday handling. The release also supports work order lifecycle management and service-level agreements. And the system gives users real-time visibility into all of the assets involved in field service, such as workers, vehicles, and service equipment. Combined with Dexterra’s Field Service application, Mobile Command Center 2.0 allows field workers to receive, review, and complete asset and service-based work orders, confirm jobs, and execute on work orders. www.managingautomation.com/Dexterra force.com’s AppExchange platform. The partnership allows users of GSInnovate, which features 38 business applications, to integrate those applications with their Salesforce.com contact data and sales leads. Users of GSInnovate for AppExchange can interact with a single user interface that seamlessly integrates application functions between Glovia’s ERP and Salesforce.com’s CRM. Through the combined applications, manufacturing and sales data automatically populates the Salesforce information screens. Likewise, customer and lead information stored in Salesforce is readily available in the GSInnovate environment. www.managingautomation.com/Glovia DASSAULT SYSTEMES GLOVIA SERVICES INC. ERP-SALESFORCE INTEGRATION n a nod to the growing popularity of Salesforce.com’s customer-relationship management software, Glovia Services Inc., one of the pioneers of on-demand ERP for manufacturers, has announced that its GSInnovate on-demand offering will be offered on Sales- PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT UPGRADE CONSONA MANUFACTURINGSPECIFIC ERP I D F resh off its recent Intuitive acquisition, Consona has released version 8.1 of the Intuitive ERP application. Version 8.1 was originally scheduled for release more than a year ago, officials said, but Consona delayed the rollout to add more functionality improvements to the point release. Two main areas of improvements involve the capacity planning and capable-to-promise features of Intuitive 8.1. Users now have better access to information on materials and work center scheduling, which can hone a manufacturer’s ability to discern what product is available to promise. The 8.1 release also includes an infinite and finite capacity planning capability that provides more visibility into the status of work centers, including automatic rescheduling of upstream or downstream operations through drag-anddrop scheduling. assault Systemes has upgraded its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite with features that, among other things, extend the functional modeling capabilities of the company’s 3D design software and add business process management to its product lifecycle information collabo- Streamline the Product Selection Process Use the Product Comparison Tool at ManagingAutomation.com to evaluate and compare software packages and automation tools. Start by pointing your browser to www.ManagingAutomation.com/comparisontool. To view listings by category, mouse over your category of choice within the white box. Follow the subcategories to the right to narrow the field of listings. From the product listings returned, select the ones you’d like to compare side by side. To request more information from a product’s manufacturer, click the icon below the vendor’s name, add comments if needed, and submit. The company will then contact you with additional details. If you prefer to search by specifying the features/functions you need, simply click “Start your custom specification” below the yellow box to get started. www.managingautomation.com/Consona DEXTERRA INC. FIELD SERVICE APPLICATION D exterra Inc. has upgraded its Mobile Command Center application for provisioning, scheduling, and dispatching mobile field service technicians. The new release of the Mobile Command Center, version 2.0, enables call agents to generate complex work orders and mobile field 45 January 2008 http://Salesforce.com http://Salesforce.com http://www.managingautomation.com/Glovia http://www.managingautomation.com/Dexterra http://www.managingautomation.com/Descartes http://ManagingAutomation.com http://www.ManagingAutomation.com/comparisontool http://www.managingautomation.com/Consona
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