Zimplu CRM

The way you can group companies, contacts, opportunities, tasks, or opportunities in Zimplu is unique. Every group you create is like a tag, so if you have a company in your database who is a supplier and a customer at the same time, you can assign that company to the Customers group and Suppliers group at the same time. Basically, you insert the Customers and Suppliers tag for the same company. What will happen is that when you will select the Suppliers group, all of the suppliers will be listed, including this company, and when you will select the Customers group, all the customers will be listed, including this company. You may watch this tutorial video on how to create groups in Zimplu.

This is an important feature because you can use Groups to create your own sales pipeline, and at the same time, to organize your companies by role, or however you want.

How to create your Sales Pipeline using Groups?

Lets say your pipeline looks like this: Cold Call - Engaged - Meeting Scheduled - Proposal Sent - Customers.

In this case, you will have 5 Company Groups for every step in your funnel.
If a company goes to the next step, e.g. from Proposal Sent to Customers, all you have to do is edit the company and replace the Proposal Sent group with Customers group.

Supply Chain Management is the set of methods and techniques through which the tracking and coordination of material, information, and financial flows are made on the provider-organization-consumer path together with the information system who supports it.

ERP systems assures data transfer both within the organization and in its external environment, starting with key suppliers and ending with the customers network.

SCM optimizes three categories of flows : production flows (movement of goods from a supplier to a consumer as a result of the latter's request), information flows (oders sent by the client and updates regarding the delivery), and financial flows (credit terms, payment methods, and payment schedule).

Considering the application features, these include two types of software packages:

• Planning applications usually using complex algorithms to determine the optimal satisfaction of an order. In this category are also the software applications who use algorithms for the breakdown of each product ordered into a tree structure components, determining the necessary products.
• Execution applications that track the physical state of the products and materials, as well as economic and financial information regarding sales and supply activities. However, Zimplu team enourages in using online applications which is the tendancy of the last years. In this case, Internet technologies being developed are:
• eProcurement systems that provide virtual support for most of the supply activities . These systems include an online auction component which allows a real time balanced supply-demand compatibility with the legislation in force.
• eCommerce systems where customers benefit from a range of sales and support services such as online payment facilities