IntoscapeTM In Your Business
At Total Commerce Management, we understand that the more disparate your data and business information is; the more disparate and uncontrollable your business becomes.
There are many established vendors specialising in areas such as supply chain management, procurement and content management systems, but whilst they all offer good solutions in their chosen vertical, they are not designed to work together.
After deploying these multiple solutions in your business, the challenge remains to manage ALL the resultant business information into a common and controllable environment, from which your executives can make fast accurate and confident decisions to drive and grow your business.
Intoscape has redefined the way in which businesses can manage these multiple challenges. We have constructed, from the ground up, a fully integrated suite of component applications which combine ‘best practice’ from multiple disciplines and let them work seamlessly together in a single environment.
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Learn more about the five key areas where we can improve your business below.
1. Supply Chain Management
Products that are available to resell often come from many sources. Prices and stock can change daily dependent on geography and the timely availability of the data that helps the reseller decide which products to offer and at what price.
Intoscape is the first software solution to be able to synchronise data on available inventory from multiple distribution supply sources and consolidate information into a single database scheme. This allows small niche distributors with lower cost products but smaller ranges to be compared side-by-side with broad line distributors offering wider choice but often smaller margins.
Previously; gathering and reacting to this data required human intervention and the larger the catalogue the more people it took to manage the enlarged inventory. With Intoscape huge catalogues of available inventory can be managed by one or two people, where previously 10 or 20 person product management teams may have been required.
2. Competitive Monitoring and Analysis
In the traditional reseller business, large teams of merchandisers can spend hours 'mystery shopping' their competition and using the information gathered as a benchmark of the market pricing which will drive their ultimate selling prices.
Intoscape is the first fully automated software solution which will actively search the public domain of the internet and use robot search technology to gather competitor information from an unlimited number of competitors. The software then consolidates the data gathered in to a single database scheme, so that the Intoscape enabled business can now compare current market prices with their previously gathered supply source data.
3. Automated Pricing & Content Publishing
The role of the analyst is key to the modern internet reseller. They must be able to make decisions based on buy prices and market prices to achieve the status of 'competitive' reseller, whilst ensuring that the margins achieved are sufficient to cover their commercial overheads including both external and internal costs of sale.
Intoscape is the first solution to offer fully automated analysis of price elasticity. By applying complex and specific business algorithms matched to the business needs of the Intoscape enabled business, a vastly reduced product management team can create large catalogues of available inventory and automate the prices in accordance to the needs of the business.
Intoscape will maximise margins automatically where market forces allow, and reduce margins to pre-determined minimums where market forces demand more competitive prices.
In addition to automating prices, Intoscape will also automatically build and present content to any determined point of sale, including the website and any direct sales CRM interface used by sales and customer service personnel. By providing a fully editable, but fully automated Content Management System (CMS) as part of the solution, Intoscape replaces expensive and complex third party software and reduces the number of people required to manage large numbers of products in your catalogue.
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4. Procurement Optimisation
Buyers in all sectors have a difficult task. Where is the best available inventory to meet an order request when the goods are not held in physical stock? What is the best way to fulfil multi-line orders when products are held in different distribution locations but customers demand single or no more than two separate deliveries? These are decisions made by buying teams and the more orders an organisation receives the more buyers are needed to keep up with demand. Once again, this increases the burden of human resource overhead on the business.
Intoscape is in possession of all the facts from the start. Using the business algorithms and logic programmed in to its procurement engine, Intoscape will consider all possible sources of product to meet an order request. It will calculate all likely costs associated with direct shipping or consolidation through the business's own warehouse facility, and then make a definitive recommendation to the buying team of how best to fulfil the order whilst optimising margin, considering all logistics costs and the customer experience.
5. Exchanging & Integrating Data
Sharing the information and the decisions made by buyers, merchandisers and marketers is in itself a business challenge. In many traditional reseller businesses these departments and the information they gather are disparate and the closest they get to an integrated business solution is sharing a spreadsheet of their activities retrospectively.
Intoscape is a fully integrated solution. Common data schemes and commercially driven business intelligence deliver real time results to the business in industry standard open source formats that can exchange data with the businesses existing ERP, MRP or financial back office applications. Intoscape encourages businesses to take expensive overheads out of their business model without sacrificing control or customer service in an increasingly competitive arena.
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