The only common thread linking all the other departments of any company is the Accounting and Finance Department. Roadmap ERP optimizes the process of that lifeline through flawless Financial Reporting. Absolute precision in Financial Reporting enables effective decision making to control operating cost, accelerate cash flow, and minimize risk.

General Ledger module stores data from all the other modules linked to it in a common repository and ensures ready availability of real-time fiscal information along with inclusive real-time reports at all times. The module is capable of handling multiple currencies with the ease of automatically updated financial/customs exchange rates.

Accounts Payable (AP) module automates the grueling processes like, forecasting cash needs, tracking supplier balances, keeping a tab on payments schedule, notifying due dates well in advance, remitting payment on priority, and maximizing discounts. Further, AP is programmed to enter debit / credit notes in dual mode, and make cancellations / adjustments, etc.

Accounts Receivable (AR) module generates precise country-wise, area-wise, territory-wise, sub-territory-wise, customer-wise and currency-wise AR Aging Analysis and Report. It enables the scheduling and calculating of receivables through Milestone based Revenue Recognition system. Reports on collection history helps to determine the financial health of the company's customers and avoid Credit Risk. Further, it provides the scope to monitor Exchange Rate Variances and handle unfavorable currency fluctuations involved in international business.

Cash Management module eases the channeling of cash between bank accounts, and to keep a tab on funds that are in transit. Based on actual Vs predicted cash scenario the module makes accurate forecast of the company’s financial standings and enhances ROI. The module furnishes bank book, cash book and bank reconciliation statements.

Roadmap’s Taxation Solution flawlessly automates the calculation and appropriation of all the components of GST. The module is flexible to aptly adapt and fit in between any industry and the GST regime’s scenario. The solution is devised, at the Master and Transaction levels to apply tax percentages that correspond to the mode of transaction. The GST regime assigns customer-specific HSN codes to the same product. The module is scalable enough to incorporate any change that might be attributed to the GST structure and/or slab in the future.

Roadmap ERP's Fixed Asset module manages the entire cycle of the fixed assets of the business right from acquisition to disposal. The system automatically converts Capital Work in Progress into Fixed Asset when the work is complete and the Asset acquired; and generates GL journals for every transaction involving a Fixed Asset.

Roadmap ERP’s SCM suite brings a real-time picture of the entire process to all interested parties within and among the stakeholders of the Supply Chain, ranging from Manufacturer to Consumer.

The solution also automates select functions through various levels of the Supply Chain workflow. For instance, Roadmap ERP software:

• Automatically raises Purchase Orders (PO) through periodical checks on the level-of-stock as per KANBAN inventory-control method. This ensures cost-efficient Production through the just-in-time stocking to actuate lean manufacturing and absolutely minimizing Inventory Carrying Cost.
• Automates hassle free and error free Gate Entry, through Barcodes and QR codes; which also furnish real-time date-wise Stock Level reporting.
• Automates the audit of Freight Invoice against the Original Contract for Transportation and leaves no room for error, thereby avoiding waste of time on manual data entry and subsequent rectification of errors.

Roadmap full-suite ERP’s Inventory Control module helps businesses to continuously monitor the flow of items in and out of Inventory and keep stock costs under control. This significantly reduces carrying cost, which is the cost of holding goods in stock and is also the major contributor to the total expenditure on Inventory.

Supplier Portal: Frequently Suppliers make ahead-of-schedule shipment of Finished Goods (FG) for POs received on a later date, while POs preceding them are either still WIP or yet to be processed. Such supplies break the chain of sequence in the records maintained at the manufacturers end and raise the possibility of conflicting delivery details between the Supplier and the manufacturer. But the Supplier Portal rules out all such conflicts by giving the Supplier with the facility to register an Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN) whenever he makes an ahead-of-schedule shipment. These ASNs automatically update the corresponding Purchase Order Vs Goods Received record with the Manufacturer.

In addition to registering ASNs, the Supplier also assigns the supplied materials with Barcodes/QR codes, which automate Gate Entry and re-confirm the updates made by ASNs to the Manufacturer’s record. This relieves the Manufacturer of the tedious burden of keeping track of pending orders with the Supplier.

Customer Portal: Roadmap ERP's Customer Portal empowers clients to have control over purchasing; interactive access to the status of orders; sorting out issues regarding delays, returns, and technical support facilities without the trouble of having to get hold of the right person via email or phone. Thus, the Customer Portal links the customer to the business process at approved levels and actuates immense customer satisfaction.

Quality Control: Roadmap supports APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) procedures and techniques. This gives the QC Management process the scope of defining client-specific specimens at each level of Production, thereby, ensuring the delivery of customer-specific products. The solution also adheres to the Eight Disciplines Problem Solving method (8D), which is a Best Practice to handle Quality issues. When it comes to auditing the Product/Workflow, Roadmap is the only ERP software to be equipped to conduct: 5S Audit, Customer Audit, Supplier Audit, Sub-Contractor Audit, Process Audit, and Internal Quality Audit.

Roadmap’s Planning & Manufacturing suite helps all business types to be prepared and to cater to any demand.

The Routing module helps to easily identify and define all the resources required and the steps to be followed to accomplish the production process.

The Bill of Materials (BOM) module enables the achievement of error-free planning of the entire production process by integrating all the departments involved in the manufacturing procedure and ensuring cost efficient production of the Product without compromising on quality and lead-time.

The Roadmap Demand Management module handles the process of analyzing Made to Stock, Made to Order, and Project material requirements; and presents a consolidated report of the demand of materials for the Production process.

The Master Production Schedule gives an absolute knowledge of ‘how much to produce?’ and ‘when to produce?’ through forecasts based on production feasibility, planning, and scheduling reports.

The Material Requirement Planning (MRP) solution is designed to correlate the acquired data to furnish a clear picture of BOM Vs Inventory Vs Demand scenario; and further, 'explode' the results to provide accurate details that would help business stakeholders to precisely plan their procurement and production processes.

Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII) determines the resources required for the planned Order Release quantity, by running Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and a Capacity Requirement Planning (CRP). Further, the MRP II's linking with the Plant Maintenance department and Shop Floor furnishes the real-time scenario of the Equipments, in terms of planned machine downtime, etc; and labor resources, in terms of attendance, contribution, productivity, etc.

The Shop Floor module is the center of the entire Manufacturing Execution System (MES), which tracks all manufacturing information in real-time. The module is integrated to the Planning, Inventory, QC, Subcontractor, Gate Entry, and Rework procedures involved in the production process, and effectively monitors and coordinates the entire workflow. It also furnishes a visual/on-screen update of all the work-in-progress on a single screen.

Manufacturing Schedule module integrates the Shop Floor and Planning Department; and arranges, prioritizes, controls, and optimizes work and workloads involved in the manufacturing process. It assigns task and allocates time for the use of resources, such as, personnel, equipment and facilities for production activities. It also facilitates the automated or manual prioritization of the usage of resources for Production Order.

Roadmap ERP automates the tedious data entry work of the HRD staff, especially the manual work involved in making the Payroll. The Employee Self-Service portal faculty of the ERP facilitates and prompts the respective employees themselves to update their personal, academic, and professional information. The following are the critical HRD functions that Roadmap full-suite ERP efficiently streamlines:

Planning manpower requirement: The solution provides the scope for the top-level and mid-level managements, and individual departments to register their need for manpower. Then the system verifies the requests against the available resources and confirms the availability/inadequacy of manpower. In case of inadequacy the module automatically raises a manpower-request, delegates the same for approvals through a preset hierarchical channel, and delivers it to the Human Resources Department.

Recruitment: The ERP system automates the burdensome tasks involved in the recruitment process, and helps organizations to establish an efficient recruitment process and select the best talent.

Maintaining Employee Portfolio: In addition to personal and professional data, vital information like details of legal documents, Passport, Visa, Driving License, Work Permit, Identity Card, Medical Card, and Insurance, etc, are maintained by this faculty. This is of great use for companies contracting employees from overseas to track information and never miss out on renewals and validations.

Orientation: This facility prompts the HR professionals to assign role-specific Orientation plan for the newly recruited personnel, and the promoted and/or transferred staff to help them effectively fit and function in their new positions.

Training & Development: This capacity of the ERP helps to identify employees' training requisites and train the workforce with appropriate internal and/or external programs. The module also evaluates the pre and post training performances the employees and projects the success rate of training sessions.

Performance Appraisal: The ERP is capacitated to perform validation for appraisal through 10 methods, namely BARS method, Check List method, Critical Incidents method, Essay method, Forced Choice Rating method, MBO method, Ranking method, Work standard method, Scale Rating method, and Multi Rater Assessment. This gives business stakeholders a wide choice to validate the performance of employees and make the best possible decision on appraisals.

Leave and Time Management: This HR activity gives a comprehensive description of the Accrued, Outstanding, and Advance leave profiles of employees. Integration with attendance system enables assessment of employee-efficiency based on worked hours, on-time arrivals, late arrivals, permission, overtime, etc.

Loan Management: The ERP helps organizations to mould an efficient loan management system to support its staffers, while it still does not have to lose anything. The integration of the system with the financial units of the organization automates the loaning procedure by disbursing the loan through employee payables or payroll, and enabling employee loan deduction through Payroll.

Business Trip and Ticketing: The solution eases this function of HRD by the streamlining the procedure in strict adherence to the set parameters to choose the staff members and their dependents that are eligible to be provided with tickets for their periodical home-bound vacations; and to appropriately allocate funds for their tickets.

Medical: The software is programmable to stick to any organization-specific medical reimbursement criteria, and grant/restrict medical facilities to employees according to Hospital Contract Scheme (or) Insurance Card based medical support system (or) the medical Reimbursement policy of the company.

Government Relation: The ERP's Government Relations facility is helpful in handling employee oriented Governmental procedures, like applying for and renewing residential permit, work permit, sponsorship transfers, exit & exit-re-entry visas, business visa's, labor visa's, etc.

Payroll: Roadmap’s combined solution for HR & Payroll effectively integrates all employee related departments, especially the Financial wing and automates the generation of payroll as per the company-specific preset formulae. This empowers the HRD staff to process the payroll with a touch of a button.

The Roadmap ERP's Customer Relations Management suite compiles customer information through bulk mail campaigns; and helps to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle, in order to improve business relationships with customers and thrive in sales growth.

Marketing module helps to choose the target markets with ease; and get, keep, and grow client- base. The module aids in assessing the efficiency of the marketing force through the Sales Person Tracking facility. The faculty guides the sales personnel to register the details of their sales visits from the client’s venue and ascertains the authenticity of sales activity by verifying the registered data against the geo-location of the sales person.

Customer Support module assists the customers to make cost effective and correct use of the product, by offering active help in planning, installation, training, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrading, and at times even unto disposal of the product. The solution automates the hassle-free activation of product warranty right at the time of sale or during installation based on Company policy. Further, it generates Annual Maintenance Contract proposals, based on the Product's vicinity to its warranty or AMC expiry date thereby ensuring increase in service revenue.

The Roadmap ERP's Cost Management suite gives the potential to plan, analyze, accurately ascertain the Production Cost, thereby, efficiently Price the Product.

Process Costing module evaluates the cost of the Product at each stage of its manufacture. Then, by procuring proportionate values from the individual per stage evaluations, it performs standard Accounting procedures involving standard Accounting formulae, and determines the minimum value of the homogeneous products. 

Operational Costing module is designed to bring about the most efficient way of Costing Products that are comprised of homogeneous material and also involve materials that are in one way or many different from each other. The solution assigns Process Costing method to appraise the cost of components that are homogeneous in nature; and assigns Job Costing method to cost the components that are not identical to each other.  Thus, by mixing the Costing procedures the accurate production cost is arrived at, however complex may be their manufacturing methods. 

Batch Costing module is useful to cost common products among orders received from different customers. These products that are produced in predetermined quantities called batches. The costs of Direct Labor, Direct Material, and Overheads involved in the process are added up; and aptly projected against the Equivalent Units of Production (EUP) factor to determine the entire Cost of production. Then the total amount is divided among the number of units produced per batch to determine the price of individual units. 

Activity Based Costing (ABC) module focuses on enhancing profitability, through refining the costing system of the production process, by rendering 'individual activities' as 'fundamental objects' of Costing. The module pioneers in this process, and identifies/segregates individual units of work (activities) in the Production process, and assigns each activity with its actual functioning cost, by evaluating its consumption of resources, both direct and indirect (Overheads), to the entirety. 

Contract Costing module, irrespective of the magnitude of the contracted job, easily handles all the accounting procedures involved in the pact, and meticulously tracks down all intricate details right through the entire business cycle of the contract, starting from project registration; estimation; execution; accomplishment; invoicing; till generating profit and loss (or) income statement.

Roadmap full-suite ERP comes equipped with inbuilt Plant Maintenance, Engineering (R & D), and Project Management modules to augment its digital competence.

Plant Maintenance

Roadmap full-suite ERP with integrated Plant Maintenance module scales across the entire enterprise and integrates the functions of Plant Maintenance with the other functional components of the business and reveals exactly where to invest to avoid unexpected machine downtime.

Roadmap ERP facilitates the analysis and assessment of the stature of individual components of equipments, and assigns Preventive or Predictive or Breakdown maintenance schedules, as is appropriate.

The module tracks and maintains a vector of machine spares in stock, especially the ones with rare availability quotients; and through timely notifications, ensures the purchase and stocking of the spares in the Inventory.

Engineering

The Roadmap ERP's Engineering module involves new product development, and improving existing products based on the difficulties faced by clients, by raising an Engineering Change Request (ECR). Subsequent to the raising of the ECR the Engineering module takes care of the entire process of bringing about the approved change to the Product and ensures customer safety/satisfaction.

Project Management

Roadmap ERP software with integrated PM solution is a definite advantage for Projects that also involve Project Manufacturing, the manufacture of materials for the Project’s purpose. The complete processing of the Project is seamlessly and comprehensively directed by the system, to be carried out within its defined start & end dates, budget, and resources.

On-Time: Roadmap ERP’s PM module is capacitated to calculate overall project costs as well as classified costs such as task-wise, milestone-wise, and resource-wise costs. This feature empowers Project Heads to apply necessary alterations to selective or overall expenses when and where required and ensure the completion of the project within its budget.

Within-Budget: The module compares current project status with the actual plan and manifests the results of project history, project status, and project progress in the form of easy to interpret graphical representations of real-time Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); through Business Intelligence service. This enables Project Managers to adjust schedules or apply necessary alterations to resources to keep the project on track and actuate on-time completion of the Project.

Project History: The ability of the system to evaluate the success rate of Projects and assess the quality of finished goods or solutions, based on certified standards and client approval statuses; makes sure that a history of Project success rate is registered and maintained, in order to serve as precedents for future Projects.

Roadmap’s reports are designed to present actual and predictive analytics for all business processes of any industrial workflow. Roadmap Reports project the exact business stature and even forecasts business progress by capturing the appropriate information from history, real-time data, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Roadmap’s reporting faculty provides deeper insights into the business functionality and helps enhance its productivity by informing the concerned personnel of invoices, backlog, vendor, production performance, etc; and by alerting them of potential threats, downtrends, production lapses, etc.

Even when not in the business premises key stakeholders can access and view these reports through mobile devices at any time from any location in the form of dashboards and scorecards delineated as graphs, pie-charts, and such easily understandable graphical representations.