Business Function

Finance & Legal

With everything else under control, you still need to ensure that your organization keeps its operational costs low, cash flow positive and expected profit margins intact while staying compliant to financial regulations.

The Applane FM Suite ensures that you are on top of your finances and not the other way around as is often the case with service-based organizations which get so bogged down by customer delivery issues that they hardly get time to think finance.

Applane also ensures that your financial accounting processes are completely integrated with your entire business, thanks to a seamless order-to-cash and procure-to-pay business process. This ensures that everyone within your organization is aligned to financial objectives, and can act responsibly.

Detailed Description

The Applane FM Suite consists of the following modules seamlessly integrated with each other:

Order-to-Cash
Procure-to-Pay
Book Keeping

Applane FM Suite allows you to keep a close tab on your above processes giving you complete control and visibility ensuring a financially healthy organization.

Order-to-Cash

Record and manage sales orders with clear payment terms
Track and ensure on-time execution of deliveries in an efficient way as per the sale order
Create system generated customer invoices and send them automatically to your customers in a timely and accurate way, increasing efficiency
The invoices can be tracked, speeding up the debt realization
Follow up regularly for outstanding amounts with each customer and record receipts in the account books automatically
Manage taxes such as Service Tax, Modvat, etc. in an easy way along with other statutory reports submission
Reconcile customer accounts at the click of a button
Analyze and rate customers on the size of business and their payment record
Analyze business in hand and forecast revenues to ensure better cash flow management

Procure- to-Pay

Generate and send Purchase Orders through the system
Ensure that asset ownership is established and assets are well managed
Analyse expenses and enforce internal spending controls
Optimize expenses through mapping of business function and expense type
Reduce work load by system generated TDS certificates
Automate Service Tax, modvat calculation
Integrate purchasing department with accounts payable department by auto posting to account books, enabling timely release of payments to vendors resulting in better relations and favourable credit facilities with them over a long period
Analyze vendor wise procurement trends and prices to enable better price negotiation

Book Keeping

Reduce the resources needed for billing and ordering with an automated system
Input ledger entries with an easy and intuitive interface, making the whole process error free and fast
Prepare and record vouchers with ease
Enjoy a seamless integration with Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay
Reconcile and Prepare P&L, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements quickly and shorten your period close
Manage accounts across well defined Profit Centres giving complete visibility to the pockets of growth
Prepare standard statutory reports
Give Finance and Sales & Service a complete view of the customer potential
Enjoy real time reporting and multi-dimensional business analysis
Create multicurrency and global taxation rules as you enjoy a uniform user experience across all accounting functions
Discover a comprehensive accounting functionality that can scale with you

Usability

Dynamic filtering of data on multiple inputs saves precious time in generating reports
Non-scrollable view gives single snapshot views to the user
Context menus throughout the solution allow you to perform most actions with a single click
Ajax based application makes browsing a breeze
Web 2.0 Interface that is modern, simple and logical to use
Auto-fill capability makes data entry fun and fast

Usability

Single sign-in using any of your existing accounts such as Google Apps, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hyves, MySpace, VeriSign and myOpenId
Create as many users as you need* (depending on your user plan)
Kick off frequent activities from the interface of your Gmail or Google Apps email account
Data and file sharing capability with other users
Integration with Google Calendar and Google Docs
Use the dashboard to keep you right on top of your HR schedule
Export reports in convenient excel or pdf formats for sharing

Support

Easy to understand user guide which provides extremely insightful ideas and tips on how to make the most out of the Applane FM suite to benefit your organization
Free support through Support Tickets, Email, Net Meeting and Toll Free Numbers
Development support for extensions and customizations as per your requirement