OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2012. The Energy Consulting Group in collaboration with the magazine "Chief Information Officer" (CIO.RU) " under support of the Perm Chamber of Commerce and Industry have arranged the Round-table Discussion "Promoting competitive growth of business in the current environment". Managers of leading industrial enterprises of the Perm Territory (Perm Kray) discussed crucial matters. They discussed the general economic position in the Perm Territory (Perm Kray), shared the implementation experience and experience of use of innovation in business, have gained the information on abilities of up-to-date integrated IT systems based on the Sage ERP X3 technologies, and have assessed the prospects of their usage and potential benefits of such systems for business of industrial enterprises in the region, reported the press-centre of Energy Consulting. 

"The Perm Territory (Perm Kray) has a rich history of the industrial development, thus it’s no coincidence that there are a lot of industrial companies of different branches located here. And a matter of no small consequence as well that the competitiveness in the Perm Territory (Perm Kray) is high, and enterprises of the region are looking for new abilities to increase their competitiveness, in particular by virtue of more flexibility and prompt adaptation to the requirements of the intensively-changed market. This circumstance facilitates companies to concentrate their efforts on process innovations — to increase their effectiveness and improve existing products and services by virtue of business models & processes upgrading, as well as due to organizational frameworks optimization", says Svetlana Ivanova, a member of the Board of Directors, the Energy Consulting Group.

Given the evidence of the global experience it is possible to increase the competitiveness of business, make it more flexible, sustainable, effective and manageable based on the integrated IT systems – the last ones are powerful management tools focused first of all on cutting-edge managers and business owners. They consider intentionally projects envisaging the implementation of such kind of systems like Sage ERP X3 as not only the investment systems but also as the innovation ones, because together with new technologies companies master new trends and techniques for running business which have the best goodwill in various countries of the world. It enables companies to be more sustainable on the market, be more adapted to changes, increase their operational effectiveness, manage business risks confidently, and issue new products or services in the shortest possible time. As a result the companies become more competitive and they have significantly more chance to be a leader and hold top positions.

As Chris Thibault, Sage plc Director for the development of Sage ERP X3 in Russia, says: "Sage is the third company among significant global suppliers of solutions for business management. Its products are focused on growing and middle-sized companies. As a rule it’s not already enough for these companies to be in the framework of IT-solutions for business management of low level, but they are not ready yet to invest into large ERP-systems".

The main differences between Sage ERP X3 and existing similar systems are in that Sage ERP X3 is aimed first of all at industrial companies with discrete and ongoing (process) production types such as: machine building, propulsion engineering, metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food production, and large-scale distribution. The core of Sage ERP X3 is the significant module for production management enabling to plan loading of company’s capacities and optimize them to produce more goods based on the current production powers. This module enables to reduce costs due to labor optimization in particular, as well as due to production stock optimization that ensures the minimum level of stock taking into account the current production schedule. The CRM functionality of Sage ERP X3 facilitates the work planning of the Sales Department, given the accumulated data and estimations of current situation on the market, as well as the loading of production capacities based on the developed plans and sales forecasts.

In future Energy Consulting Company, a partner of Sage plc, is going to continue the promotion of Sage ERP X3 in other regions of Russia and neighboring countries with high density of industrial enterprises of such profile and scopes.