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- The BRAVO! SFA mobile solution
- -advantages and benefits-
- The BRAVO! SFA application is a solution that works for mobile equipments (- handheld/ smart phones-) developed by the BRAVO! trade mark.
- For companies promoting their products or distributing them through sales agents, BRAVO! SFA represents the automation solution of this especially important department. With the help of BRAVO! SFA, information concerning commercialized products, current promotion campaigns, product unit prices, discounts that can be offered, existing stocks, information concerning the client and client history concerning the commercial part, as well as other useful information gathered in the field by the sales agents can be accessed in a short period of time.
- Thus, the company image may change due to the efficient response that the agent gives to his clients’ demands: everything is performed quickly and correctly.
- Using the mobile solution BRAVO! SFA, the cyclic times, as well as the storage and distribution stocks are reduced on one hand\, and on the other hand the productivity, the profitability and the delivery performances are improved, because:
- The distribution agents are offered access to a larger data volume in a very short time, even in the situation when they are in the field, thus improving their efficiency and increasing their productivity;
- The distribution costs are reduced by eliminating the order forms;
- One can follow the itineraries of the agents because a journey report is automatically made up;
- Human mistakes are almost completely eliminated (by using selection lists) , thus reducing situations such as returns of goods wrongfully delivered;
- There is the possibility to deliver the goods ordered by the clients form several warehouses. There also is the possibility to associate a certain (main) warehouse to each client, determining a secondary warehouse as well for emergency cases.
- One can estimate the optimum quantities of products to be ordered by the client (based on invoices and preceding orders as well as based o the conversion factor);
- The risk of taking orders that exceed the amount of goods in stock is eliminated (out of stock);
- Within the products commercialized by the company, one can make groups of products for certain customers (restricted lists);
- One can follow the correct use of discounts, promotions and company procedures;
- clients with non-paid invoices or non-collected goods can be traced;
- A form of pre-order/an invoice may be submitted (in case of van-sale);
- The invoices and the receipts may be printed directly from the vehicle of the sales agent (in case of van-sale) , thus allowing the cashing of the order (totally or partially) at the same time with the delivery of gods;
- One may fill in the form of goods return , thus providing the company a clearer explanation concerning the motives causing this situation;
- The commercial agents can be quickly checked in order to establish if they have reached the specific and value targets for the day;
- Useful information is provided for estimating requests connected to stock-taking, product changing, cooperation with suppliers and reduction of freight expenses;
- Total expenses are lower, because the maintenance expenses for the BRAVO! SFA application are reduced;
- It leads to an increase in sales ad profitability by maintaining and improving the relationship supplier – company – client, which may turn circumstantial client into a permanent one or even into an promoter of the company products;
- It is compatible with the intern organisational system of the company (the client’s company);
- It is easy to access and customize (parameterize) irrespective of the way of approaching the sales process (pre-sales or van-sales);
- This solution may be extended in time, granting remote access for agents: using a mobile phone that allows data transfer and handheld equipment, all information may be transferred from/to the handheld to/from the head office;
- The research department is working on a solution of locating/monitoring agents via modern technologies: GPS, triangulation – for mobile telephony based solutions.
- The features of the BRAVO! SFA application are easy to notice:
- 1. Access to complete and accurate information which is updated every day;
- 2. Compatibility to any management/ accountancy program with support for data import/export;
- 3. It eliminates almost completely human errors – readability, forms;
- 4. Permanent control leading to improvements in decision taking;
- 5. Mobility / speed / economy of time ;
- 6. Improved relationship with the customers;
- 7. Possibility of an accurate estimation of the income;
- 8. Reduction and even elimination of blocks that might occur during the process of order takig – order processing – delivery;
- 9. Reduction of total expenses because the maintenance expenses of the BRAVO! SFA application are reduced;
- 10. Quick depreciation of the investment;
- 11. It enables data transfer security (optional).
- As well as the other solutions developed by the BRAVO! trade mark, BRAVO! SFA has been created based on the client/server concept, which has proved its efficiency in time by maintaining control over the agents from the head office.
- The minimum hardware requests in order to use the BRAVO! SFA application are:
- - a portable handheld type terminal Acer, AsusTek, Audiovox, Casio, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Garmin, Handera, Handspring, HHP, Hitachi, HP/IPAQ, IBM, Intermec, Kyocera, Medion, Microsoft SPV smart phone, Mitac, NEC, O2, PalmOne, Q-Tek, Samsung, Siemens, Socket, Sony Clie, Symbol, T-Mobile, Toshiba, Viewsonic, Yakumo, Zircon, Sony Ericsson PDA phones, Nokia PDA phones with a RAM memory of minimum 8 MB
- The operating system of the handheld equipment which must run the BRAVO! SFA application may be: Palm OS, Pocket PC/ Windows Mobile, Symbian; our company has the expertise to work with all those operating systems.
- The data transfer from/to PDA to/from PC may be made by : USB port, serial port (RS232), LAN/WAN – TCP/IP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Infrared, dial-up modem or data transfer based on the infrastructure of mobile telephony.
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