Serus Offers Comprehensive Support for Sales Order, Purchase Order, and WIP Management as well as Supply Chain and Demand Planning for Leading DSP Communications Provider
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Serus Corp., a leading provider of Intelligent Operations Management (IOM) solutions for growing enterprises, today announced that Vativ Technologies, San Diego, a world leader in DSP-based communications solutions, has selected Serus’ comprehensive Intelligent Operations Management Suite to help the company accelerate production of its new digital TV products to meet a rapidly growing demand. Vativ chose Serus’ complete suite of software solutions to address expanded demand for sales order management, purchase order management, and Work-in-Process (WIP) management in addition to supply chain planning and demand planning.
The current ‘built-to-forecast’ environment at Vativ will be support by Serus’ IOM suite through advanced demand planning, sales automation, optimized inventory planning and the ability to peg forecasts and quotes to inventory in the supply network yielding increased customer satisfaction through on-time deliveries, and better financial controls resulting from increased inventory visibility.
“As the demand for digital TV grows, it became apparent we needed a new solution to help us keep our businesses processes in line with the strong demand from our customers,” said Rocky LeBlanc, vice president of operations, Vativ Technologies. “Serus was the only vendor in the market with a comprehensive operations solution than spans from demand planning to sales order entry to backlog scheduling to supply chain planning and WIP management. The entire Serus suite has had an enormous impact on managing increased production levels.”
The Serus IOM suite provides a complete modular and scalable operations management solution suite that can scale to the growth of the company while maintaining high levels of accuracy and performance. The Serus IOM suite is ERP agnostic, which allows Vativ to upgrade it’s ERP system from QuickBooks to any other financial system of choice, a benefit that is not available in competing solutions which are tied to a single ERP application.
“We’re pleased that Vativ has elected to leverage the power and performance of our complete IOM suite,” said Robert Gunn, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Serus Corp. “Vativ reviewed our solution against the competition and determined that Serus offered the software solution that best meets their growing needs and changing priorities.”
Serus provides a complete and comprehensive Web-based intelligent operations management (IOM) solution that helps companies of all sizes address multiple global outsourcing challenges. For organizations that outsource all or part of their manufacturing operations, Serus software solutions are an effective way to collect data from their network, plan changes to their network organization or processes, collaborate with network partners, and make smarter decisions through their network for efficiency.
The Serus Fabless solution has been designed to enable companies to plan, collaborate and execute throughout their supply network; the Serus solution offers the following core value propositions for fabless companies:
-- Integrated Comprehensive Modular Operations Solution, which provides key business users with the ability to: -- Create and manage a complete demand forecast to ensure that the deviation between booking, backlog and billing is minimized. -- View consolidated inventory and work in process from different network partners. This allows companies to view any inventory liabilities and manage their financial exposure. -- Execute informed planning decisions using a nimble "what-if" engine that uses real-time supply, capacity and demand data, thereby reducing revenue exposure and supply costs. -- Manage orders from quote to cash, thereby ensuring reliability of order promises and preventing missed revenue opportunities. -- Improve internal departmental collaboration and collaboration with their trading partners. -- Empower the executives with a dashboard to make informed operational and financial decisions quickly.-- Seamless integration to trading partners for supply and demand visibility as part of the standard deployment of the Serus Fabless solution.-- Configurable integration adapters to other business systems, such as ERP financial systems, as part of the standard deployment of the Serus Fabless solution.-- Attractive Subscription Pricing Model that provides a high return on investment.
About Vativ Technologies
Vativ Technologies, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company focused on providing innovative high-bandwidth, advanced digital signal processing solutions for the digital television and datacom markets. The company’s patent-pending advanced DSP-based architecture enables higher data rates and lower system cost, while providing greater robustness and higher performance margins required for using low-cost media interconnects. Vativ is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. www.vativ.com.
About Serus Corp.
Focused on helping mid-market to Fortune 500 companies solve multiple outsourcing challenges across their worldwide supply network, Silicon Valley-based Serus Corporation is a leader in the emerging category of Intelligent Operations Management. Serus’ configurable software – which includes transaction automation, operations planning and business performance management – provides global organizations the ability to integrate business processes among trading partners. For more information, go to www.serus.com.
