Product Summary  
 
Product Suite
 
CEC has the following products within their stable:
 
Procure to Pay
The Procure to Pay cycle is, in most businesses, the single largest area for cash outflow and accordingly, ought to be an area of key focus. The effectiveness of the management of this key functional area could determine the success of the entity’s performance, its competitiveness and ultimately its survival. CEC provides a Procure to Pay reporting suite that enables business managers to make more effective decisions and manage their businesses more efficiently. This suite of reports is designed to enable all parties in the Procure to Pay process to identify and improve activities crucial for performance on a strategic and on an operational day-to-day basis.
 
Inventory Management
Business success often depends on its ability to deliver the right product to the right place at the right time. Effective inventory management is a key function of business that is responsible for the coordination of planning, sourcing, purchasing, storing and controlling materials in an optimum manner so as to provide a pre–defined service to the internal production processes as well as the external customer, in a manner that maximises the business’s return on investment. CEC has harnessed the combined experience of several professional inventory management experts that have all served at the coal–face of their respective areas of expertise, to produce a unique Business Intelligence product suite for Inventory Management.
   
Finance and Compliance  
The incidents of financial mismanagement and corporate failures recently experienced the world over, clearly highlight the urgent need for tighter financial and process controls and greater management responsibility. In large part, many of the failures were attributable to a lack of information visibility. A consequence of this has been the establishment of several instances of legislation to foster an environment of heightened compliance and management control. The CEC Finance and Compliance suite delivers relevant business content that aids decision-makers, control and finance functionaries. This is achieved using a powerful range of pre-determined reports designed to address specific areas of control and financial accountability - thus enabling the organisation to continually monitor its financial environment.  
   
Enterprise Data Integrity  
Enterprise data integrity is a function that analyses the utilisation and quality of master, configuration and transactional data in virtually any ERP system. This is a critical area as it highlights the integrity of the data used for managing activities on the ERP system. The CEC solution contains data testing algorithms that analyses and reports on the process of population and validity of critical configuration, master and transactional data within the ERP system. This provides information on the number of data records containing the specified problems and from a tactical and data cleanup point of view, the percentage of records containing the selected errors. By recording “point-in-time” snapshots of the error, businesses can monitor whether the integrity of the data is improving or getting worse.  
   
Communication Hub  
Communication is the lifeblood of any organisation and the ability to enable the flow of constructive communication and information
is critical to the success of any organisation. The purpose of the Communication Hub suite of products is to provide the workforce
with tools to enhance user productivity, efficiency and effectiveness during day to day operations.
 
   
Business Process Management  
In most companies managers will acknowledge that they have business process problems but do not have the capability to
measure and report on these problems in order to highlight business process inefficacies. Due to this lack of the ability to perform
diagnostics, analysis and heath checks on business processes many companies find themselves in an environment with little
or no meaningful business process reporting. The CEC Business Process Management suite contains pre-defined analysis tools
within the following focus areas: utilisation, diagnostics and analysis and business process health checks, enabling managers
to manage and highlight shortfalls within these areas.
 
   
Scoreboard  
CEC has developed performance management functionality as a core module of the CEC Product Suite. The Scoreboard
application can be utilised as a standalone scoring system. However, when it is rolled out as a module of one of the solution
areas, it distinguishes itself from typical performance management products since it is implemented with a set of pre-determined
performance indicators. The aim is to provide the business with 75% of their scoreboard pre-built, providing instant results and
return on investment.
 
   
Competency Development  
CEC supplies a solution that creates, improves, manages and retains scarce and critical talent specialising in the advanced
application of World Class Procurement, Financial Management, and specific Supply Chain areas. CEC training and coaching
is aimed first at addressing Executive and Senior Management development requirements and from this vantage, Intermediate
and Junior level training is derived.
 
   
Product Summary  
   
 
   
Cutting Edge Commerce commands an extensive range of expert skills and is therefore well equipped to offer a wide range of professional services which include, amongst others:  
  • Strategic consulting
  • Change management advisory
  • Data cleansing and rectification
  • Training
  • Custom development
  • Performance management
 
 
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