A company where there are few purchase requests this is not an issue, but for bigger companies keeping track of all the vendors and their information with details of their product performance can be a pain. We need a system that is smart enough not only to record these details but also helps the purchase department in making better decisions. A system with complete details of vendors, with the recent history of their business, their product quality report, pricing etc. A system where you can easily search for a particular vendor and get all their previous information that helps you to quickly identify whether or not they will be able to deliver your requests under your terms.

And lastly it is not practical to have just a vendor management system. Instead it should be a part of the whole Material /Inventory management software and should integrate with other modules to give maximum returns.

Brainwave has its own material management information system that has many such plugins like vendor management, quality assurance, etc. You can contact us here to know more about our system and how we can help you to solve your purchase related issues.

It is with great pleasure and pride that we announce that Brainwave has been granted a patent for its innovative and path breaking work in the field of Databases on 23rd August 2011. We have just received the official intimation for the same. The patent number is US 8005866B2 and can be found at the following link.

I would like to thank and congratulate the entire team including past and present members without whom the same would not have been possible. 23rd August 2011 will be remembered as a milestone day in the history of Brainwave. Its the day when the world recognized the uniqueness and advantages of our Poseidon database architecture and the huge potential that it has.

A distributor level market visibility, that clearly reports not just the primary sale to the distributor but also secondary sales from distributor to retailer should be captured. Giving reports on distributor sales tracking. LiveSKU addresses this specific problem by integrating with your ERP or any other existing systems and also gathers data from the distributor level and gives you the complete market visibility and the much needed control.

Click Here to send us an enquiry and discover how Brainwave’s LiveSKU can help you in gaining market visibility.

Here are some of the pictures from the summit.

Abhishek discussing with a visitor

Abhishek, Murtuza and Girish in conversation with a visitor

Mr.Vinod Sahney at the stall

The whole team

Brainwave at Advantage AP

Brainwave will be at Advantage AP summit organized on 1st and 2nd March 2011 at Hyderabad. The summit is attended by national and international visionaries from IT and ITeS industry, infrastructure providers, Speakers/CIOs/CTOs from diverse sectors representing leading companies and high-level policy makers from the Government for interaction with the Industry.

We will be taking a stall at the summit, and discussing with the delegates on the products and services Brainwave has to offer. You can check the details of the event here.

Agro, FMCG, Pharma and manufacturing industries or for that matter any industry which deals in indirect or secondary sales, that is from Company to Distributors to retailer tend to focus mostly on their primary sales (Company to distributors) but for an indepth coverage of the market, to understand the sales till the retailer level you need to get data from the indirect or secondary sales (Distributor to retailer). A Secondary sales tracking system will benefit the company in getting:

• In-depth market understanding.
• Better Logistics and warehouse management.
• Real-time sales reporting.
• Helping in forecasting sales projections.

A product like LiveSKU that deals in secondary sales management helps the company to get real-time sales data from the field.

Click Here to send us an enquiry and discover how Brainwave’s LiveSKU can help you in tracking your secondary sales data.

Click here to discover how LiveSKU delivers this.

Think of it as understanding and calculating market share for each products on realtime basis. Or, if you want to measure the performance of your newly launched products and its marketing efforts, or individual sales figures of each SKU.

With SKU Tracking the possibilities are many. Contact us for your customized SKU tracking solution.

]]> http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/sales/sku-tracking-sales-per-sku/feed/ 0 http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/sales/sales-per-point-of-distribution/ http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/sales/sales-per-point-of-distribution/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:34:26 +0000 Suhail Abbas http://www.brainwavelive.com/blog/?p=55 In a distribution channel where you have huge network of distributors and resellers it is often tough to measure and get intelligence out of the supply chain that might prove very critical to beat the competition. Tracking sales per point of distribution accurately, helps the company determine the performers not only among distributors and resellers but also even SKU/Product wise.

Calculating sales per point of distribution and also per SKU wise in real-time and generating intelligent report and Dashboard for the higher management is one of key feature of LiveSKU.

Click here to know how LiveSKU handles sales per point of distribution

If you have any business requirement that is similar to tracking Sales or communicating to the field force across the market you can directly contact us here.

The free SDK is available for both Linux and windows.

Praising the whole team, Prateek Sureka, Vice President, Technologies said “I am pleased to report that the new version of Brainwave is more stable and is higher in performance than previous versions, many new features were added and significant changes were made from version 1.1. I thank all the Brainwave users for their extremely valuable feedback and suggestions without which the release could not have been possible, and the entire Brainwave team for putting their hearts and brains into the new version.”

The Poseidon Database, which is at the core of the platform, aims to be the turning point in database design. Poseidon is a schemaless database, which eliminates the data modeling process from the development life cycle completely. Giving developers the fastest “time to start”, ease of making modifications and unparalleled code maintainability, thereby reducing the applications total cost of ownership, and allowing the devs to focus on what they do best – write code, rather than worry about the minutia of managing infrastructure.

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A link was forwarded to me the other day on “A developers Bill of Rights” and is available on Spoiled techie

It set me thinking of how much we score and not surprisingly we came out pretty well (over 85%…i know it implies there is scope for improvement, but then even perfection can be improved, so am not really complaining too much right now.)

Well, here is how we stack up

1. Every Programmer shall have a quiet working environment.
Almost Always

2. Every Programmer shall have the right to listen to music.
We provide free headphones so as to not be forced to listen to someone else music!

3. Every Programmer shall have a fast PC.
3 GHZ, 2 GB RAM, with atleast dualcore/core2 duo machines, MAcbooks, Macminis, we are better than most other companies.

4. Every Programmer has their choice of both Keyboard and Mouse.
Well as no one has any objections as yet, so i feel yes.

5. Every Programmer shall have a fast Internet connection.
This is an area where we have always upgraded but can always further improve.

6. Every Programmer shall have two or more monitors.
Yes. Since the very beginning we have done this!

7. Every Programmer shall have a high back comfortable chair.
We are giving Mid-high back chairs for all devs

8. Every programmer shall have access to the right tools.
We allow people to download and use any s/w tool they want.

9. Every programmer shall have the right to have admin access on the PC.
Almost all confirmed employees have all required access.

10. Every programmer shall be allowed to attend a developers conference once a year.
Some of the devs have been able to attend, but so far mainly marketing folks. So this is an area of improvement.

So maybe we can give ourselves a small pat on the back and plan ahead!!