2) Sales System displayed on the dealer management system portal

Quotation, Order Acceptance, Development Order (First Order of Customer), Sales Invoice, Sales Register, Strike Rate

The dealer management module has provisions to register customer enquiries and sales department can generate part wise detailed quotation.

Customer purchase orders are registered against the quotation submitted defining various terms like, credit period, delivery schedule, payment details

Before sending material to client, the system provides Proforma Invoice Indicating Prices and stock availability as per order placed.

3) Marketing Centre displayed on the dealer management system portal

A searchable database of marketing material, primarily pdf’s, images and zip files that allow End Users to access/download the marketing material. Each item uploaded will allow the "year", "Make" and "Model" fields to be added and used for searching in the dealer management system. For images and pdf's, need to have a thumbnail view so people can see this before they click to download some high resolution files. Admin Panel for control of uploading and downloading of images and content to be changed or updated in the dealer management system.

4) Information Centre displayed on the dealer management system portal

This would be a searchable database of information, documents, mostly support related. The documents here will be:

Service Bulletins

Owner's Manuals

Service Manuals

Any other support docs

Material Requisition, Purchase Order, Supplier Analysis, Goods Receipt Report, Labor Billing, GRR and GRN are separately tracked for RMA and valuation. Material received is in warded in to stock against quantities checks like short receipt, damage parts and 2-3 more parameters. A typical dealer management system will manage to purchase different from the traditional systems taking into consideration the spread and the scope of the material and its involved movement.

5) Inventory System displayed on the dealer management system portal

Material Receipt, Material Issue, Goods Return, Stock Ledger, Stock Analysis, Slow Moving stock, Dead Stock Analysis & Relevant Reports. Complete Inventory management, including DMSR, WIP, Third party stock monitoring, Stock Valuation and Inventory turnover ratio management. Order Booking on Principal is registered as order acceptance. This is either calculating by Net weight or average weight method in a typical dealer management environment.

6) Service displayed on the dealer management system portal

Every dealer management has to have a service CRM since the CRM of service series as a backbone of the dealership in place, Material Consumption against Job Card, Subcontracting Purchase Order Management, Warehouse Stock Management, Third Party Stock Monitoring, First Past Field, Engineer wise engine allocation, Call registration and feedback, CFSR Entry, AMC, Visit scheduling, Analysis

7) Job Cards

Material Consumption against Job Card, Material requested by service center is consumed against Job card by way of material requisition notes. Subcontracting Purchase Order Management, Warehouse Stock Management, Third Party Stock Monitoring

Materials against various job cards are stock to identify WIP charts (Work in process)

Materials forwarded to third party (TP‘s also cover the Sister DBU’s – Divisional Business Units) are monitored to track the probable job completion.

8) SMS and Mailing Solutions

Basic system to generate automated SMS, e-mailers for change management, reporting of non function execution via hierarchical SMS and mailers.

9) Additional Requirements

Claim Registration – This will be an online application that can be accessed by the end user as well as the back office of the dealer.

VOR Registration – Vehicle off the Road Condition registration treated with utmost

Priorities resulting in immediate and flash alerts

DMS Integration – Document Management System will be integrated with the dealer management application for uploading as well as searching the relative documents for claim raising and processing.

History – This will maintain the history of that particular VIN, its claims for that particular dealership, past records in the dealership.

Alert Management - Email and SMS integration for a feedback for the claims received and under process for the client and alerts for the Claims officer in the dealership that the claim has been reached.

Authorization and Claim Processing – Inspection of failed parts, Vehicle Status (In Warranty/Out of Warranty), Authorization, Replacement Ordering, Stock Checking, Regular to Warranty Transfer and Replacement of parts in relation to VIN/Model/Client, etc. Back Order – Auto Generation of PRN (Requisition) according to relative Stock level present, Claim processing at Back Office and order placement on the OEM and status in relation with the Purchase from OEM.

Feedback— Client feedback for warranty processing.

CMS and Library – Content Management System for uploading of pictures of vehicles, new arrivals, spare parts, News, Catalogues, Technical releases, Specification sheets, Marketing kits etc.

E-Commerce Integration – Integration with third party CRM for payment gateways.

Accounts and Finance Integration – Excel Output for all transactionas date as well as sale purchase –RMA (Return Material Authorization) vouchers.

User Logs – Tracking of IP’s and User names for user activity on the application.

Error Logs -- Tracking of Errors for user activity on application.

System Control – 8 Level access control system for access – Create, View, Modify, Lock,Upload, Download, Approvals, Super admin.