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The flagship software suite of Sweden-based International Business Systems (IBS) (XSSE IBS B), called Application Software or ASW, espouses supply chain management (SCM), customer service, demand-driven manufacturing, financial control and business intelligence (BI) functionality. This global provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) solutions also offers IBS Virtual Enterprise software, a collaborative commerce solution with the additional abilities of enterprise application integration (EAI) software, which is further enhanced through its utilization of business logic for coordinating cross-application business models. Cramo, Europe's third largest equipment rental company, reportedly selected IBS Virtual Enterprise to minimize total procurement costs, optimize logistics, simplify routines, improve functional efficiency, and build long-term supplier relationships. Investing in a collaborative procurement solution with EAI capabilities and equipped with business logic was reportedly vital to remain competitive.
Part Two of the IBS � Slow but Steady (and Demand-Driven) May Win the SCM Race series.
From a functionality point of view, ASW covers a broad range of functionality, but its functionality is not evenly deep across the entire extended-ERP scope. Historically, the professional services orientation of IBS has tended to favor much more in terms of modifications and customizations for each customer rather than providing deep, off-the-shelf product functionality development for the entire application suite. Rather, specific functional extensions, enhancements, and partnerships tended to be done on a one-off basis that would infrequently be applied to the entire product in different parts of the world.
This custom development for each customer approach of the past is drastically changing as IBS works to move away from the modifications business and towards a software development model. As a result, new customers using ASW in midsize sales order handling operations are increasingly finding that the functionality of ASW is ample and does not require heavy modifications as it did in the past.
Much of the issue of functional fit has also been reflected with more discipline in the sales process of IBS. I In the past the vendor was not as strict in its sales lead qualifications and marketing focus; however, now, the new approach being adopted by the organization should help to reduce the number of situations where customers will find themselves doing one-off development to the product. Accordingly, more notable additions in functionality in the late 1990s included support for telesales (which is one of the distinguishing functional areas of the product relative to its competition), enhanced executive information systems (EIS), and on-line analytical processing tools, and integration with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.
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The flagship software suite of Sweden-based International Business Systems (IBS) (XSSE IBS B), called Application Software or ASW, espouses supply chain management (SCM), customer service, demand-driven manufacturing, financial control and business intelligence (BI) functionality. This global provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) solutions also offers IBS Virtual Enterprise software, a collaborative commerce solution with the additional abilities of enterprise application integration (EAI) software, which is further enhanced through its utilization of business logic for coordinating cross-application business models. Cramo, Europe's third largest equipment rental company, reportedly selected IBS Virtual Enterprise to minimize total procurement costs, optimize logistics, simplify routines, improve functional efficiency, and build long-term supplier relationships. Investing in a collaborative procurement solution with EAI capabilities and equipped with business logic was reportedly vital to remain competitive.
Part Two of the IBS � Slow but Steady (and Demand-Driven) May Win the SCM Race series.
From a functionality point of view, ASW covers a broad range of functionality, but its functionality is not evenly deep across the entire extended-ERP scope. Historically, the professional services orientation of IBS has tended to favor much more in terms of modifications and customizations for each customer rather than providing deep, off-the-shelf product functionality development for the entire application suite. Rather, specific functional extensions, enhancements, and partnerships tended to be done on a one-off basis that would infrequently be applied to the entire product in different parts of the world.
This custom development for each customer approach of the past is drastically changing as IBS works to move away from the modifications business and towards a software development model. As a result, new customers using ASW in midsize sales order handling operations are increasingly finding that the functionality of ASW is ample and does not require heavy modifications as it did in the past.
Much of the issue of functional fit has also been reflected with more discipline in the sales process of IBS. I In the past the vendor was not as strict in its sales lead qualifications and marketing focus; however, now, the new approach being adopted by the organization should help to reduce the number of situations where customers will find themselves doing one-off development to the product. Accordingly, more notable additions in functionality in the late 1990s included support for telesales (which is one of the distinguishing functional areas of the product relative to its competition), enhanced executive information systems (EIS), and on-line analytical processing tools, and integration with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.
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