xRM for asset management software solutions
A company's assets are its life blood, if not managed carefully they can quickly effect the business. Bespoke assets management applications are ideal for this. Examples include;
- People; dealers, vendors, employees, students, customers, partners, franchisees and contractors.
- Places; property management, distribution centres, real estate, outlets, platforms or ports
- Items; trucks, livestock, furniture, equipment, product, fleet, supplies and materials.....
4xRM are advising on a project to track activities and actions on product moving around a distribution warehouse, allowing integration with external systems for replenishment and invoicing. Using an xRM approach radically reduces the time cost and risks to a developing an asset management software solution. Because the infrastructure is already provided software development can concentrate on deciding how the customer wishes to track and manage their assets, and decide what processes need to be put in. This concentrates development on the unique business process that provides the competitive advantage rather than wasting time and resource reinventing, as would occur with a ground up development. It also gives the security that these are common Microsoft components. Therefore they are tried and tested and in effect the maintenance is coming from Microsoft.
There would be nothing stopping the customer in time using the same structure for other Line Of Business (LOB) systems such as HR management or recruitment.