Slingshot Enterprise Suite

Slingshot Softwareýs Enterprise Suite has been designed with the unique challenges of your business in mind. Three technical generations and almost 30 years of experience have gone into ensuring that these products will meet your complex requirements. The Slingshot Enterprise Suite is a multi-currency, multi-lingual enterprise control solution, specializing in:

• Sales Order Management
• Procurement & Requisition Management
• Inventory & Supply Chain Management
• Advanced Financial Management

Slingshot’s approach to software development ensures your systems can be easily:

• Changed by you; update your own data structures, system logic as well as screen content and layout, without programming
• Upgraded by you, automatically preserving your custom changes when new versions are released
• Implemented with lower risk and shorter timeframes than previously possible
• Used by your team and trading partners alike
• Integrated with the other systems you rely on to run your business

Using eTools and this proprietary application editor, you will be able to collaborate with your trading partners and enjoy real time feedback on your businesses’ performance through any number of configurable indicators. Slingshot supports its products with full business consulting services and a service organization characterized by a single point of accountability.

The Slingshot Enterprise Suite has a low purchase price and ongoing cost of ownership. This fact provides rapid return on investment for growing businesses (typically with 100+ team members) looking to achieve the next level of efficiency and profitability by taking ownership of the functionality and performance of their business systems.

Features

Here are the main features of Slingshot Enterprise Suite:

• Accounts Receivable
• Accounts Payable
• General Ledger
• Fixed Asset Management

Operating Environment:

Client software:

• None required and works with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome

On-Premise or Hosted Solution:

• Server Software: Microsoft Windows Server
• Database Software: Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle SaaS Solution:
• No server or database required and runs on Microsoft Azure, application managed by Slingshot

Additional applications include:

Inventory and Warehouse Management

Slingshot’s Inventory and Warehouse Management application forms an integral part of the inventory management and planning capabilities of the Enterprise Suite and offers all the functionality you would expect in a leading edge application. Access to enterprise suite applications is provided via a user configurable dashboard. The dashboard supports Alerts, Favorites Links, Key Performance Graphs, Workflow Tracking and a Message Board.

Slingshot’s Inventory and Warehouse Management system provides the functionality to efficiently manage and monitor your inventory and its costs for all types of products in all types of facilities.

Support is provided for both serialized and lot controlled items. Inventory descriptors can be added to these items (e.g. potency %, QA result). The descriptors themselves are user defined by type of product.

Processing needs often vary by facility. In a small stock room it may be efficient to store products in one or more fixed locations and confirm transactions from paper based lists. In large warehouses, flexible stock locators, system directed tasks and radio frequency capabilities are often essential.

This warehousing software allows you to manage inventory control and optimize efficiency by defining operational requirements at the facility level. This includes rules for inbound (receive, inspect and put away), outbound (pick, pack, ship) and in-warehouse (count, location replenishment, assembly work order) processes.

Purchase Order Management

Purchase Order Management application forms an integral part of the procurement and requisition management capabilities of the Enterprise Suite and offers all functionality you would expect in a leading edge application. Access to enterprise suite applications is provided via a user configurable dashboard. The dashboard supports Alerts, Favorites Links, Key Performance Graphs, Workflow Tracking and a Message Board.

Slingshot’s purchase order management software uses the Internet to dramatically improve purchasing efficiency. Enter aggregated purchase orders and track their fulfillment through online collaboration with your suppliers. Eliminate inefficiencies. Reduce costs. Increase margins.

Purchase Order Management is the heartbeat of Slingshot’s complete procurement solution. Requisitions that have been raised and approved on-line automatically invoke purchasing requests. Procurements and payments can be made in any currency. No paperwork, maximum efficiency.

Our Web-based purchase orders make for a much shorter procurement cycle. Supplier registration, RFI’s, contract management and so on are all addressed. Online collaboration with suppliers also shortens the acquisition process, improves communications and reduces costs.

Requisition Management

Requisition Management application forms an integral part of the procurement and requisition management capabilities of the Enterprise Suite and offers all the functionality you would expect in a leading edge application. Access to enterprise suite applications is provided via a user configurable dashboard. The dashboard supports Alerts, Favorites Links, Key Performance Graphs, Workflow Tracking and a Message Board.

Through online collaboration, Slingshot’s requisitioning system starts the process that your purchasing team (ideally powered by Slingshot’s Purchase Order Management application) will finish, knowing that they’re dealing with an approved and aggregated requisition for goods or services.

Your employees can begin entering requisitions with little or no training. Self service requests are created by using a familiar internet convention - the shopping cart. This is done by browsing catalogs, ordering from a shopping list by copying an earlier request, or by utilizing Slingshot Marketplace to Punch Out to your major supplier’s web sites. One-time product purchases, kits and kit components can be both purchased and inventoried items.

Online integration between requestor, purchaser and supplier mean that all requisitions are efficiently expedited, and can be reported on in real time. Any employee can enter, review and update open requisitions from any internet browser. Automated e-mail notifications keep everyone informed of approvals and when the goods have been issued from stock. The supplier and promised delivery date can also be viewed for each item.

Sales Order Management

Slingshot’s Sales Order Management application forms an integral part of the sales order and CRM capabilities of the Enterprise Suite and offers all functionality required in today’s marketplace. Access to enterprise suite applications is provided via a user configurable dashboard. The dashboard supports Alerts, Favorites Links, Key Performance Graphs, Workflow Tracking and a Message Board.

The Sales Order Management application provides you with a level of flexibility that allows you to record and address each customerýs specific preferences. The features that provide you with this control include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Role based security lets you configure the experience of every single user, defining functional and data restrictions as needed
• User defined order types determine the approval and order entry processing path of all sales orders automatically
• Determine a product’s future availability instantly with Available To Promise logic (based on scheduled purchase order receipts and future sales order demand)
• Multiple line types (per order entry) enable you to receive/ship against the same order and enter credit/debit adjustments per line item
• A hierarchical product catalogue with pictures, unlimited descriptors and rich search functionality help your CRM team pinpoint products quickly
• Support for a wide variety of pricing schemes and currencies provides the ability to tailor a better customer experience through intelligent promotion design across all of your sales channels
• Billing and credit checking for the customer are both automatic and configurable
• Substitute or sell off superseded items in an instant
• Electronic order entry and transmittal of status documentation for each order to the customer every step of the way
• Integrate the sales and procurement processes with buy-sell order types
• Integrated demand tracking allows you to understand your demand patterns - scrutinize by period, promotion, season, product and market.

Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Planning application forms an integral part of the inventory management and planning capabilities of the Enterprise Suite and offers all the functionality you would expect in a leading edge application. Access to enterprise suite applications is provided via a user configurable dashboard. The dashboard supports Alerts, Favorites Links, Key Performance Graphs, Workflow Tracking and a Message Board.

Slingshot Software’s supply chain planning system gives you unparalleled control over your supply chain. Continuously synchronize your supply chain by observing the capabilities of your trading partners via the Internet. By enabling this level of information sharing, your supply chain will always be optimized.

Slingshot’s forecasting module uses 6 algorithms as standard - plus others you wish to define - to accurately define demand and support preparation of your forecasts.

High level features of Slingshot’s Supply Chain Management and Forecasting include:

• Weekly or monthly forecasts
• Separate forecasts for key customers
• Capture true demand
• Track promotional demand
• Drill back to order lines
• Flag extraordinary demand
• Easily understood focus forecasting technique
• Automatic model selection (best fit)
• Manual model selection
• Override system forecast
• Forecast review and approval process
• Forecast consumption logic