Functional Integration

ALFOX ERP II fully integrates Enterprise Resource Functionality with Customer Relationship Functionality and Analytical Processing. This tight integration ensures that the different functional areas have all the information required for business decision-making. There is no need to derive information as everything is based on the source transaction.

Many applications do not provide full functional integration. In ALFOX ERP II entering or viewing Project information in transactions does not require additional steps. When exceptions occur, like vendors owing money or customers requiring refunds, ALFOX ERP II treats these without additional overhead.

Interfaces

Business Views

If the internal reporting facilities are not sufficient, third party SQL based tools can be used. ALFOX ERP II provides business views, which resolve all foreign key references and are therefore 'ready to use'. There is no need for data model knowledge or developing and maintaining catalogs for these third party tools. You need to enforce any security manually.

Data Export

ALFOX ERP II exports all data in reports to the following data formats:

• Excel
• HTML
• XML
• Text
• PDF
• PS
• Word
• Business OLAP Cubes

ALFOX ERP II allows exporting of OLAP data to Excel Pivot tables and selected OLAP tools for further analysis.

Data Import

ALFOX ERP II imports data from XML, fixed records, etc. ( details ). There are predefined formats, but you can also define your own record formats.

Scanner, Electronic Senders

ALFOX ERP II will provide a scanner interface for order entry and inventory transactions like purchase orders, material receipts and vendor invoices.

Information Structure

If the information structure is not sufficient, clients can add fields to any record with its presentation and validation rules. Data entry can be made mandatory, if certain conditions apply. The entry validation can be based on lists, tables or functions like callouts.

Call-out

Functional extensions are implemented via 'callout' technology. Clients can provide additional functionality in Java or even native C functionality, e.g. for additional validation or data feeds. Callouts can be invoked before or after data entry in any field. ALFOX ERP II ensures that callouts cannot crash or corrupt the system.