ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning

Integrated Enterprise Management

Today's business scenarios require companies to endeavor in a never-ending

quest for quality and profitability. While trying to achieve these goals,

companies are facing several difficulties, such as miscommunication and

diverging information generated by non-integrated systems that lead to

errors, rework and low productivity.

To allow companies to grow steadily, CIGAM provides integrated

management tools that automate and streamline business processes and

controls, enabling better planning by generating reliable and accurate

information for decision makers.

With solutions targeted for manufacturing, retail and services, CIGAM

manages the workload through workflow and alerts that direct actions and

report via on-screen, e-mail or SMS messages, simplifying day-to-day

operations and speeding up accounting and management consolidation,

eliminating further revisions and adjustments.

CIGAM ERP was developed to make your life easier.

“ERP CIGAM: plans your company's resources to make your life easier”.

CIGAM Partner Value Network

The complete Solution to increase productivity

Created in 1986, CIGAM is Partner Value Network is composed of more than

370 professionals in 28 locations, offering 52 different modules in a complete and

affordable enterprise management system. CIGAM ERP software suite has won

several awards and certifications, and it is installed in more than 2.400 companies

in Brazil, featuring one of the largest installed customer bases in the country.

As Market competition grows and companies are required to achieve higher

productivity levels with lesser resources, CIGAM´s processes are constantly

evolving to deliver higher productivity to customers in a complete solution,

automating all business details and eliminating parallel controls, thus increasing

operational efficiency.

As new features are developed, they are made available to all customers. This way

CIGAM becomes more complete and up-to-date with businesses' best practices,

delivering quality improvement and reducing total cost of ownership.

Strategic and Managerial Information

Modern technology and high productivity

CIGAM's Business Intelligence features provide managers easy access to

corporate information, allowing several user-defined analysis scenarios for

cost, pricing, breakeven point analysis, future scenarios, profit and margins by

product lines, customers, sales personnel and regions.

Cost composition and pricing strategies employ modern costing techniques

that allow detailed reporting of commodity chain information and

profitability evaluation for different markets and economies of scale, using

customer-defined business rules shared with other modules.

CIGAM´s Software development methodology (known as MDC) follows

certified, worldwide acknowledged integrated maturity and capacity models

for software development, employing high productivity business application

development tools and modern technologies such as SOA (Service Oriented

Architecture) and BPM (Business process management), providing seamless

process integration and automation. CIGAM´s user interface is intuitive and

easy-to-use, allowing customers to generate their own reports based on

user-defined queries and filters and export the results to third-party business

applications such as spreadsheets and text editors.

CIGAM´s advanced features allow customers to create customized rules that

determine, limit and report specific functions according to business requirements.

Some features are:

Accounting

Human Resources

Production

Services Management

Quality Assurance

Cost and Controlling

Business Intelligence

Tax, financial and management accounting; pro-rating; economic indicators; financial

statements; retentions; electronic file generation; assets management; tax incidence

assessment; electronic bookkeeping.

Payroll; access control; environmental, health and safety policies and procedures for risk

assessment, training and supervision; Work security and health records; salary

management; professional development tracking; recruitment, selection and hiring;

employee benefits management.

Product engineering; master production plan; scheduling and control system;

manufacturing orders and demand management; machine load planning; automated

manufacturing order fulfillment; Productive efficiency.

Service order planning, scheduling and follow-up; Maintenance, parts and warranty

management; help desk and customer service center; service orders distribution and

team productivity reporting.

Documentation and change control; non-conforming items; internal audits and

management reviews; training information; improvement projects and action plans.

Budgetary planning with cash flow forecast; cost accounting management (standard, cost-

volume-profit, activity-based); cost scenarios; financial engineering; pricing strategy.

Cost and profit analysis for each line of business; breakeven point; financial statements;

business performance indicators; balanced scorecard; on-line analytical processing

(OLAP); profit ranking reports by product, customer and other options.

And more: solutions for vertical markets: retail; gas stations and logistics/freight carriers.

Financial

Customer Relationship Management

Sales and Distribution

Purchasing and supplies

Inventory

Accounts payable and receivable; treasury and cash management; multiple

currencies; forecasting; provisioning; retentions; advances; check and credit card

control; banking integration and reconciliation; cash flow; management summaries;

planned X actual reporting; business performance indicators etc.

Negotiation management and follow-up; prospects, accounts and contact

management; workflow; quota attainment; sales margin monitoring; customized

quotes; telemarketing; e-mail marketing; customer satisfaction research and

statistics.

Customer order fulfillment and tracking; electronic data interchange with

customers; account balance control; price lists; commissions; margins; credit

approval; delivery estimates; control of third-party beneficiation processes;

returns, reports and inspections; routes and maps.

Material purchase planning; request for proposals and quotes; quotes approval;

budget limits; electronic data interchange with suppliers; goods receiving,

inspection and return processes; account balance control.

Inventory management (quantity, value and movement); requirements planning;

product configuration; batch, grid and serial number controls; Distribution centers;

third-party inventory control; product availability.

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Budgetary Planning

Budgeting

Financial Management

Accounting

Bookkeeping

Inventory Management

Warehouse, Transportation and Logistics Management

Systems

Engineering

Materials Requirements

Planning

Master Production Schedule

(MPS)

Machine Loading plan

Production Control System

Banks

Income Taxes

Supplier EDI

Structural Cost

Client EDI

Purchasing and Procurement

Purchase order and Invoicing

Exporting

Product Configuration Management

Real Cost

Pricing Strategy

Business Intelligence

Assets Control

Services Management

Balanced Scorecard Human

Resources Management

Personnel Management

Health Care and Safety

CRM/Sales

Importing Logistics and Distribution

WMS TMS LMS

Inventory Control

Fleet Management

Services Management

(web)Industrial

Maintenance

Web Orders

Virtual Store

Store Management

Gas Station Management

Activity-Based Cost

Quality Management

Travel Management

Environmental Management

Media and Publicity

Media Library

Sales

Business Process Management

Contracts

CIGAM Deployment Methodology

1. Follow-up

2. Scope Analysis

3. Kickoff Meeting

4. Scheduling

5. Project Objectives

6. Project plan

7. Coaching

8. Final adjustments

9. Deploy to Production

10. Operations follow-up

CIGAM's application deployment processes are based on IT´s best practices and have been

successfully used in thousands of cases. Application consultants participate in process definition and

mapping, configuring systems parameters to ensure adherence to company´s business processes,

resulting in productivity increase and providing precise information for a more efficient management.

Each step was developed to ensure that the implementation projects are delivered according to

scope, schedule and budget. They are:

Adherence analysis of customer processes with CIGAM built-in processes;

Drill-down of specific line-of-business requirements;

CIGAM´s architecture overview and awareness of required efforts to achieve a successful

implementation;

Priorities, deadlines and accountability definitions each area;

Process mapping and detailing, priorities and information requirements;

Configuration of operating parameters, operations testing and validation.

Training, testing and process validation of implemented functions.

Process approval and data validation by key users.

Initiation of system operations in production environment, with on-site support from CIGAM´s

consulting team.

Evaluation of possible enhancements and action plans.

Technology and expertise

generating productivity

Complete solution; ease of use; fully configurable; queries and reports;

Productivity; agility on analyzing and detailing Information to

management.

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