Clear Enterprise Product Information

• Complete business management solution
• E-Commerce enabled
• Integrated Telephony
• Scalable, fault-tolerant architecture
• Straight-forward Implementation

Business Management

• High level of integration between modules
• Debtors
• Creditors (Suppliers and Payables)
• Contact management
• Inventory and Manufacturing
• Reporting
• Workflow and Quality Management
• General Ledger

 

Contact Management

• Company names and addresses are available from the main customer/supplier screen
• Each company has five phone numbers
• Integrated support for E-Mail addresses
• Regular call cycles and last-call dates are maintained for each company in the database
• Open calls can be assigned to staff members
• Call history and follow-up calls are supported
• Time and products can be billed to a customer’s account directly from the Call screen
• Customer service agreements can be maintained, with regular billing cycles
• Call responses can be indexed and added to a searchable Knowledge Base for help-desk or internal support requirements.

 

Electronic Commerce

Clear Enterprise has integrated support for electronic commerce:

• Web integration allows customers and staff to access the system from the Internet
• EDI and XML provide automated supply chain management to suppliers and customers
• Web integration is built into the standard product. Features include:
  Customer Account Authentication
  Product Enquiries
  Account Status and Statement Generation
  "Shopping Cart" on-line order entry
  …and many others
• EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is essential for companies wishing to automate supply chain management.
• Clear Enterprise supports both ANSI X.12 and EDIFACT protocols
• Document templates can be created and customised within the system
• XML (Extended Markup Language) is an emerging standard that is largely replacing EDI, using the Internet as the backbone.
• Clear Enterprise provides a complete set of XML creation, parsing and translation tools for utilising this powerful medium.
• By combining a customer-oriented front end (the Web and HTML) with an EDI or XML back-end, a company can significantly improve performance and achieve lower cost-of-sale.
• Lower cost-of-sale = higher profits
• Better performance = happy customers

 

General Ledger

• The General Ledger supports multiple companies, divisions, departments and currencies.
• The Chart of Accounts is highly configurable and supports batch posting, departments and multiple trading statements. Each postable account has a Journal screen where individual transactions can be viewed (also with "drill-down")
• Multiple Budgets
• Auto-intercompanyaccount posting
• Full Account history for any year
• Integrated with other modules
• Up-to-the-minute financial reports
• Foreign Currency
• A complete Audit Trail is kept for all transactions showing the debits and credits making up the entry.

 

Integration

• The modules in Clear Enterprise are part of a single application and are highly integrated.
• Links are automatically maintained between related customers, suppliers, products, documents and transactions.
• Clear Enterprise can use Microsoft Excel for detailed financial analysis and dynamic data updating
• ODBC and OLE Automation support allows Clear Enterprise data to be used within other database systems such as Microsoft Access

 

Inventory

• Clear Enterprise is a complete Product Inventory Control system
• Products can be tracked by Serial Number, Warehouse Bin Location and Lot Number
• Stock-on-hand, Reserved stock, quarantine, consignment and work-in-progress quantities can be tracked by the system.
• Multiple warehouse locations, stock transfers and adjustments are supported
• Stocktake data and count cycles are maintained within the system
• Detailed analyses of sales, receipts and returns are available for individual products or entire groups
• A multilevel Bill-of-Materials is standard
• Work-order notifications can be generated automatically
• Bundled sets of products can be created with special pricing for each component
• A "configurator" presents multiple-choice decisions to the operator during customer order entry for on-the-fly bundle creation
• Flexible pricing structures can be created for each product.
• There are eight sell prices, a "list" price and "minimum sell" price for each product
• Special prices can be stored and applied automatically
• Flexible tax structures (including GST) are fully supported
• Audit trails are kept for every modification made to a product
• Related products can be linked together

 

Manufacturing

• Multi-level bill-of-materials
• Planning BOMs
• Work/Routing Control
• Budget/Actual Cost Comparison
• Work-in-progress reports
• Lot/Batch tracking for finished products
• Serial Number support
• Production Performance monitoring
• Multiple locations for different processes
• Master production schedule
• Material requirements planning reports
• Auto purchase order generation
• Just-In-Time processing

 

Point of Sale

• Cash drawer Control
• History or cash Drawer openings
• Cancel/Refund
• Layby support
• Multiple cash drawers per department
• Bar Codes and scanning
• Customisable screens
• Fail Safe Recovery

 

Quality Management

• Complaints Register
• Non-conformance entry and reporting
• Document Library
• Batch/Lot tracking for products
• Vendor control
• Change control
• Links to drawings/blueprint
• Workflow Management
• Forms Management

 

Reporting

• There are two types of report in Clear Enterprise
• Financial Analysis reports produce standard company reports such as Profit & Loss, Aged Debtors and Trial Balance.
• The Report Writer allows the user to create their own reports based on any table in the database
• Reports can be written so that they send output to:
• Screen, Printer, Fax
• Text File (Tab or comma separated)
• Another Application (eg Excel)

 

Telephony

• Clear Enterprise provides CTI (computer telephony integration) using the Microsoft TAPI API.
• This means that it is compatible with the majority of equipment available today.
• The Telephony interface allows the user to make a phone call from within Clear Enterprise...
• Directly from a customer or supplier
• With full call logging automatically
• Caller ID makes it possible for incoming calls to be linked to customers or suppliers
• With automatic call logging

 

Workflow Management

• Clear Enterprise contains a Workflow Manager that allows business processes to be managed by the system
• A process is divided into a set of tasks and decisions
• Each Job is displayed on-screen as a document, and multiple processes can be assigned to a single job
• If a task corresponds to a function within the accounting system it can be performed automatically by Clear Enterprise.
• Typical tasks include:
• Invoices Credit Notes
• Purchase Orders Stock Adjustments
• Bill-of-Materials