Corporate Offices
	Manufacturing plants
	Sales offices
	Branch offices
	Warehouses
	Dealers / distributors
	Sales men

OPEN SESAME caters to medium and large businesses (55 million Euro and above) in diverse industry segments like:

	Fast moving consumer goods
	Consumer durables
	Pharmaceuticals
	Automobiles and Automobile spare parts
	Ready made garments and Textiles
	Paints
	Engineering goods
	Electrical goods
	Construction materials
	Fertilizers
	Cement
	Paper and Paperboards
	Any other industry with widely spread geographical sales operations

Functional Reports present in OPEN SESAME:

	Product Catalogue Report
	Geographic Units report
	Price Master
	Tax structure
	Reason Master Report
	Sales promotion schemes

Transaction Reports in OPEN SESAME:

	Purchase Orders/Indents
	Dispatch Advice
	Goods received Notes
	Sales Invoices
	Receipts
	Credit & Debit Notes

Business Intelligence Reports in OPEN SESAME:

All the following Business Intelligence Reports are derived in both tabular and graphical form:

	Finished Goods Inventory reports with manufacturing plants, distributors and dealers across regions / territories
	Order book positions across regions / territories
	Order cancellation reports across regions / territories
	Sales Reports across regions / territories / distributors or dealers
	Sales budget reports across regions / territories / distributors or dealers
	Sales budgeting based on time period, quantity, value, product categories, region / territories
	Sales Performance Vs budget
	Comparison of sales data with corresponding period for earlier years
	Credit realization reports across regions / territories
	Dealer / Distributors account statement reports across regions / territories
	Ageing analysis of finished goods inventory
	Ageing analysis of receivables
	Identification of Fast moving, Slow moving & dead stocks across regions / territories

OPEN SESAME sales force automation module

This module automates the activities of the entire sales force of business. OPEN SESAME sales force automation module provides:

	Advance schedules of field sales force itinerary
	Instant information on field sales force activity across regions/territories
	Monitors performance of field sales force
	Daily Sales & expense statements of the field sales force across regions / territories

OPEN SESAME Financial Accounting Module

OPEN SESAME financial Accounting module can handle financial accounting operations for very large businesses, which are globally spread. Operating units can maintain individual accounts and at the same time accounts for the entire business can be consolidated at any point of time.

Benefits of OPEN SESAME

	Significant reduction in working capital requirements / cost
	Reduces sales cycle period significantly
	Reduces significantly finished goods inventory across the distribution chain comprising of manufacturing plants, warehouses, distributors and dealers and thus reduces working capital requirement significantly
	Instantaneous reports on finished goods stock position across distribution chain
	Identifies slow moving stocks and avoids piling up of stocks
	Instantaneous order book position across various region / territories
	Instantaneous receivables positions across regions / territories
	Monitoring of sales force performance and activity online

OPEN SESAME - User Friendly Platform

OPEN SESAME has extremely user-friendly interfaces. This user-friendly interface design enables any category of users to be trained within 2 weeks on any sub-module of OPEN SESAME.

Training

Acumen offers customer support in the form of training to users of customer companies where OPEN SESAME has been implemented. On site training is imparted to the users by either Acumen or implementation partners of Acumen. Acumen offers training manuals for OPEN SESAME.

Translation tools

Depending on the language selected by the user, interfaces and reports are displayed in that language. Business documents created in one language can be viewed in another language depending on the language chosen by the user.

Sub Modules available in OPEN SESAME:

	Module 1: Registration This module is for creating different categories of users of OPEN SESAME.
	Module 2: Geographic units This module is for segregating the geographical business area into different territories/regions. Regions are defined first and Territories are then grouped under regions.
	Module 3: Catalogue Management This module is for building an online catalog for products comprising of any number of vertical and horizontal levels.
	Module 4: Tax structure (VAT) This module is for creating tax rates that are applicable to product groups, sub groups and individual products.
	Module 5: Price Master This module is for building/modifying price structures for products incorporating various types of trade discounts.
	Module 6: Schemes This module is for creating various types of sales promotion schemes and operating them (this is module is more relevant for fast moving consumer goods and consumer durables)
	Module 7: Reasons This module is for defining/modifying reasons for various purposes viz., order cancellation, sales return, order rejection through reason master interface.
	Module 8: Stock updating This module is for updating inventory of finished goods at various levels viz., manufacturing plant, distributor and dealers.
	Module 9: Storage Location This module is for creating new storage location names for stocking finished goods and also for modifying them.
	Module 10: Sales Ordering/Indenting This module is for placing indents/purchase orders by warehouses / distributors and dealers using the product catalog.
	Module 11: Order/Indent amendment This module is for amending the indents/purchase orders placed by the Warehouses/distributors or dealers.
	Module 12: Order / Indent Approval This module is for approving transfer of finished goods stock from manufacturing plant to the warehouse, or from the warehouse to the distributor or dealer.
	Module 13: Sales Order Processing/ Stock Transfer This module is for transferring the stock from manufacturing plant to warehouse or from the Warehouse to the distributor or dealer.
	Module 14: Invoicing This module is for creating invoices for the stocks dispatched against purchase orders.
	Module 15: Goods Received Notes This module is for acknowledging the receipt of Consignment by the consignee.
	Module 16: Sales / Stock Return This module is for returning of stocks by the distributor to the Warehouse, or the Warehouse to the manufacturing plant.
	Module 17: Credit & Debit Note This module is for issuing Credit / Debit notes for stocks returns or other adjustments on account of Commissions, brokerage, discounts, etc.

Technology-Platform

OPEN SESAME based industry solutions can be implemented and run on virtually on any Operating System. OPEN SESAME can be implemented on Windows NT, SUN Solaris, Linux and any flavor of Unix. OPEN SESAME also runs on the following databases ORACLE8i, My SQL, DB2 and Informix.

Technology-Globalization

OPEN SESAME solutions are comprehensive and global by meeting legal requirements around the world, which businesses need to adhere to. OPEN SESAME incorporates multiple languages, multiple currencies, and multiple time zones. In a scenario where the business operations of a business are spread globally over countries and business transacted in local languages depending upon the geographic location of the user, user interfaces in the local languages are displayed to the user.
Sales invoicing with multi-currency facility at the stage where Invoices are created. This feature helps companies with worldwide sales operations.

Technology-Integration

OPEN SESAME easily integrates with popular Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions (ERPs) like SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials and Legacy Systems through XML connectors. Business associates who are not on OPEN SESAME platform can also upload business data to OPEN SESAME. Data is compiled offline by using Mango'e^TM Accounting software and uploaded on to OPEN SESAME through connectors and by connecting to OPENSESAME Server through Internet.

Technology-Security

OPEN SESAMEoffers latest security technology for its e-business solutions. These include single sign on where the user can access the application only on user authentication. Role based authorization where depending upon the role given to user access is allowed only to those sections of the application for which permission is given to access for that particular role.
Central user administration where users of the system can be created and maintained only by the system administrator. OPEN SESAME deploys secure socket layer (SSL) technology for data transfer, with the help of third party security tools.

Technology-Implementation

A Data migration tools that migrate data from databases of existing applications being used by customer to the database of OPEN SESAME. Data can be migrated from any legacy database and RDBMS.
Also average implementation periods for OPEN SESAME are at least 50% lesser than other conventional solutions because of readymade modular architecture of OPEN SESAME, where implementation means customizing ready-made modules rather than developing the solution from the scratch.

Technology-Scalability

OPEN SESAMEenables businesses to grow operationally, functionally and globally. OPEN SESAME e-business platform can scale from small business solution to large business solution without any 'add ons' and any enhancements.

For more info about Open Sesame, prices, demo, etc. please contact us to this email address products@hantropos.com.