| Overview |
AutoSol is an ERP solution for chain of multi brand, multi location as well as independent automotive dealership. It provides out of box functionality for automotive domain specific business processes, analytics and planning. The solution builds a Knowledge Management System which helps to provide customer centric business process with effective inventory management and tighter financial control using seamlessly integrated CRM, Sales, Procurement, Inventory, Service, Account, HRM and Payroll modules.
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| Objective |
This white paper addresses the role of automation and availability in helping organizations address many of the requirements for business resiliency. AutoSol defines business resilience as the ability of an organization to ensure the continuous delivery of business services in the face of both planned and unplanned events.
The focus of this paper is on the technology, application and data, process and people layers within Lanka Ashok Leyland organization. More specifically, it explores how automation can help to reduce the dependency on the people and processes that are integral to protecting an organization’s business services and thereby adapting to new regulations, reducing costs, managing capacity and inventory of their business. It also addresses how an organization can partner with AutoSol to develop end-to-end, complete solutions for business.
To identify essential requirements within automotive domain for Lanka Ashok Leyland
Lanka Ashok Leyland Importers and Progressive Assemblers are known around the world for the quality of its Commercial Vehicles with island wide parts & service coverage and in-house workshop facilities situated in Sri-Lanka. Better product quality and ease of doing business helps Lanka Ashok Leyland to continually enhance its business relationships with its fleet customers and more than 300 dealers.
To improve customer and dealer satisfaction Lanka Ashok Leyland believed that enhancing the transaction system would help maximize both vehicle sales and parts sales, as well as increase the revenue to—and, thus, the satisfaction of its dealers, who were equally dependent on that business.
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| Challenges for LAL |
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Compatibility of multicurrency accounting with functional currency accounting system. |
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Solution that can be placed in dealer premises and would augment to provide B2B integration. |
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Create, transform & manage Business Documents for achieving transparent operations. |
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Solution integrating quotations and proposals with order entry, purchasing and stock control with the advanced features of the data collection. |
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A system to manage Complex taxation & commerce rules for nationwide operations. |
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Tools for global accounting-standard compliance. |
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A powerful instrument for the processing of all movements on bank accounts and the keeping of cash books. |
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360-degree view of history of the customer’s service interactions across channels. |
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Functionality to configure specialized reports, entry screens and reports that are specific. |
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To set complex pricing rules based on individual customers, item variations, volume and more. |
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Real time reports and analysis of each and every processes. |
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A solution to hold the record open if the network is congested and a record in transit is not fully received. |
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Completely customized and secured, web based software.
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| Solutions |
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Highly reliable, robust and integrated series of applications covering all areas of Multi-currency transactions with definition of conversion ratios. (Lanka Leyland imports Vehicle & Parts in Dollars and sells it in Lankan market in LKR) |
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AutoSol is a web based smart client solution giving windows experience on web. It also has an option of working online/offline or in Dual mode operations from different Marketing units. |
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Inbuilt letter of Credit for Imports from India so that all statutory documents required are generated from Application. |
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AutoSol operates as a Backend ERP and DMS both with modules like CRM, Sales, Procurement, Service, Inventory and Financials tightly integrated with other modules. |
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AutoSol has facility to define taxes and formulas at each global level & local level giving it flexibility to manage any tax for any location. |
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AutoSol has a full financial accounting module for multiple companies comprising of General Ledger, Account Payable, Account Receivable etc. |
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AutoSol facilitates Petty cash management for different Locations/Cost Centers to enable easy cash flow across the business. |
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Being centralized system the entire Customer Database is available centrally & it can be viewed depending upon the authorization. |
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AutoSol has features like Form Designer, Report Designer & Print Layout Designers which allows easy creation of documents, reports and location wise print layouts to quickly and effectively adapt and make changes as per requirements. |
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AutoSol facilitates the Body building process integrated with Sales & Service module. |
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AutoSol has a fine grained comprehensive security, which can be configured as per requirement. A user can only access the system as per his profile, the role designated to his profile & tasks assigned to the role. |
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Multi Tiered Discounting and Pricing on item group and customer group with applicability based on date and time slabs. |
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Built-in reports and analytics to view the data territory wise, region wise, and city wise on the basis of the reporting structure configuration. |
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Ability to work in regular broadband and even in dial up connection mode due to low bandwidth requirement of the solution.
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| Summary |
| AutoSol helps Lanka Ashok Leyland to enable OEMs and suppliers to accelerate time to market, optimize their demand-driven supply chains, and deliver superior customer experiences. AutoSol experience offers Lanka Ashok Leyland with advanced analytic capabilities which provide real-time insight into customer specifications, production schedules, on-hand inventory, quality, and sales and service information. We do this by providing accurate, actionable information, fully integrated between your back-office and manufacturing and sales and distribution operations. |
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