SARA ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
SARA ERP helps to create an integrated information ecosystem across the enterprise that helps in enhancing sales, minimizing inventory, reducing waste, reducing energy consumption, streamlining purchases, balancing material, minimizing errors, supplying material as per customer specifications, etc. SARA ERP has been implemented in Discrete Manufacturing as well as Process Industries in many countries.
Key Features of SARA ERP:
- Only authorized persons can view/update a particular transaction.
- Financial limits for authorized persons to approve transactions like Purchase Order, Sales Order, and Invoices.
- Purchase Order can be made against Purchase Requisitions.
- Credit limits for customer.
- Limits for cash purchase can be fixed.
- GRN can be made for ordered quantity only.
- Computer calculates Purchase bills as per accepted quantity in GRN and rate as per PO.
- Duplicate bill can not be entered in to the system.
- Payments more than due can not be made.
- Computer selects material as per customer specifications.
- Employee expense budget VS actual.
- Employees can not be paid more than their budget expense head wise.
- Expense analysis e.g. Car expenses can be analyses in to Petrol, toll repair.
- Sales Realization available Invoice wise.
- On-line view of stock in Primary Store, General Store, Spares Surplus items, and Obsolete items.
- On line view of Customer/Item, Vendor/Item, Sales Statistics.
Modules of SARA ERP:
- Production Related Modules
- Master Production Schedule
- Master Production Schedule
- Capacity Requirement Planning
- Material Requirement Planning
- Shop floor control and Work in Process
- Utilities Consumption and Control
- Scrap Accounting and Control
- Purchase/Stores Related Modules
- Purchase Management
- Purchase Management
- Subcontracting
- Stores and Inventory Control
- Accounts Related Modules
- Accounts Receivables
- Accounts Payable
- General Ledger
- Costing
- Fixed Assets
- Fixed Deposit Accounting
- Foreign Exchange Buying/Selling
- Sales Related Modules
- Finished Goods Production
- Sales Order Processing
- Dispatching and Invoicing
- Distribution Resource Planning
- Technical Modules
- Laboratory and SQC
- Plant Maintenance
- Project Management
- Human Resource Management
- Payroll
- Human Resource Development
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer's Profile
- Competitor's Profile
- Electronic Data Interface
- Customer Complaints/Feedback
- After Sales Service
Why SARA ERP?
- Functionality equivalent to well known ERP packages
- Future taxes can be handled very easily without changing programs
- Very user friendly and easy to implement
- Developers are the implementers
- Implementation time and costs are much lower
- Built on popular platforms like Power Builder, MS-SQL Server & Window NT
- Easy availability of trained manpower for implementation/maintenance
- System software and hardware cost is much lower (it runs on a PC)
- Possible to supply a few modules as per client requirement
- Big reports can be printed on dot matrix printer in a fast mode
- Future enhancements/new modules will be available
- Source code available under conditions
SARA's applications have been successfully implemented in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.