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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Slow but strengthen (and centered on the needs) can gain the race of SCM

International economic systems (IBS) (XSSE IBS B) is a total supplier Sweden-based of the solutions of software suitable for the industry of the management of chain of provisioning of planning (ERP) and of entrepreneurial resource (SCM) and other services of embracing accompaniment for companies of technologies IBM-based. Since the beginning of the Nineties, IBS carried out a certain success in transitioning mainly to be a supplier Scandinavia-based of solutions to a player on broader European, the North-American Pacific Asia, and markets. It now has a global area network in more than twenty country.

IBS remains mainly a company of performances of service led by the sales of its booklet expanding of application of software of company. IBS concentrated a long time on selling the strong functionality of distribution approximately supplemented by finances and manufacturing the functionality, including the hearth on logistics, the treatment of sale order (SOP) and storage. It also provides general financial management, accountancy, and a certain functionality centered on the manufacture of light products. Its market is technologically made up of the preserving companies and of intermediate size which seek the counter clerk a-stop-make shopping solutions of a simple supplier. This market segment is currently without apparent chief, and one of the reasons only that some suppliers chose to address this low-end of the market of distribution is probable because it proved to be a less advantageous market segment (less thefriendly one).

Nowadays, IBS provides three principal types of services: software, services professional, and hardware. The company the software of S covers the fields of the sales and supply of collaboration, service to the customers, management of order, manufacture centered on the needs, inventory control, measures execution of businesses (BOM), and orders financial. It also provided solutions of software for the specific markets distribution-intensives, including of and the motor vehicle motor vehicles left the distributors, the durable consumer goods, the electric products, the electronics components, food, of the industrial provisioning, tools and industrial plant, equipment and of the medical provisioning, paper and material of packing, the medicinal products and health care, of the independent wholesalers, and distributors (B2B) of company to company. This vertical strategy was sales and marketing-related, and appeared in IBS day order of development of product.

IBS 'services professional are composed of the analyses of the processes of businesses and potential of improvement, support to the customers, development of the complementary systems to measure, the follow-ups of the projects and the results carried out, execution, strategy of technology information (IT) and design of system, modification and development, execution and maintenance, management of the projects, and formation. Its products of material are based on the material of iSeries of IBM (formerly AS/400) and include the computers and the equipment of network which contribute towards solutions of SCM such as the adaptive solution of chain of provisioning of IBS Pharma for the pharmaceutical distribution.

Recently, IBS refined its total strategic direction which long business transactions focused on the average and large companies, and the subsidiary companies of the important groups. The strategy is based on the following angular stones:

* A hearth on the principal sectors of the market in which IBS can maintain a principal position, provide to customers raised values, and carry out this way a noise level of profitability;

* a emphase on the solutions of industry of sector which include the pharmaceutical distribution, industrial electronics components, provisioning, food, publishing and of the durable consumer goods;

* a situation of market closes by the acquisition of the companies with complementary user bases and competence;

* a presence of the global market in order to be able to serve the international groups, such as decision 2004 at the offices open to Tokyo and Changha;

* total solutions of offer based on professional services (with the advisers experienced with the knowledge of suitable industries), of the waiters and the solutions of network as well as financing, all to guarantee for long-term relationship with customers (at least ten years); and

* profitability in the development of product, marketing and the sales, execution and support, to offer the solutions integrated at a competitive price.

IBS believes that the value for its customers should come from his capacity to

* provide the vertical solutions and the processes to multilevel for organizations of collaboration;

* apply the projects of customer with mainly own resources;

* work mainly with its own software, in combination with some solutions of software adapted to the customer requirements;

* embrace the specific hearth on the distribution, manufacture, and the companies of performances of service; and

* carry out a market-principal position by concentrating its efforts, passion and expertise on the companies and industries mentioned above.

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