Enterprise Search Solution for Marine Procurement Process
Ulysses Systems proudly presents ‘Enterprise Search Solution for Marine Procurement Process’ supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants. The solution aims to increase competitiveness of enterprises in the marine industry for businesses operating not only in the European donor states, but globally as well.
Developed by Ulysses Systems, ‘Enterprise Search Solution for Marine Procurement Process’ is an application for integrating email systems with procurement processes. The application is designed specifically for ship managers and serves logistics use cases in all their variations and richness. As a result of the application factoring in the real-world processes around a purchase transaction and delivery, indexing of artefacts from huge arrays of emails aligns to managers’ profile needs on the spot. This means managers and staff find what they need in the processes that concerns their department.
Integration, a feature throughout your IT system
Integration is a feature enterprises need throughout an IT ecosystem. Since all industries are already on the path of a digital revolution, new tools are constantly entering the market. And one such tool is the Ulysses Systems Enterprise Search Solution for Marine Procurement Process.
Integrations between internal modules
Integrations between internal modules join related processes and provide relevance between them. For example, the largest bulk of enterprise information usually lies in unstructured data stories like emails and files. To be able to fully digitalise, an industry must find ways to add this information to the digitalized eco-systems. Essentially, the enterprise system must allow existing processes to be complete beyond the ERP applications.
Joining modules made by different vendors
Integration is also eminently necessary for joining modules made by different vendors.
This leads us to another crucial aspect of integration, that of joining the best of breed of different vendors. And since best of breed technologies are de facto the dominating trend, then integration is must-have feature. However, the software industry not only has been slow providing satisfactory technological solutions. It has also not made integration job no1 over and above all other jobs. Conceivably, the likely tendency in software will be that new innovative developments will complement existing ERP systems without replacing everything.
Consequently, Ulysses Systems is currently pioneering fast development of new annexes with the goal of adding value to existing software. And ‘Enterprise Search Solution For Marine Procurement Process’ is a development that runs searches for emails, which are related to procurement processes and filtered by objects already existent in the enterprise ERP system. For example, POs, invoices, delivery notes, etc. And the benefit of digitalising semi-structured content and integrating processes across departments is coordination. Coordination is the highest value assistance that software can provide to the marine enterprise. And integration plays the primary role.
Integration with email
Certainly, integration with e-mail is a concern of growing importance and one of massive value to enterprises, which will inevitably weigh on their choice of software. So, finding key information related to the purchasing process within the huge array of emails exchanged between different actors offers commensurate value.
Email and enterprise applications
So, integration is needed to join different technology platforms such as e-mail and enterprise applications. Otherwise, applications are not covering the business areas where enterprise staff communicate only by e-mail. Furthermore, e-mail is the standard platform for communicating between third parties.
Essentially, enterprises in the value chain that do not use common software cannot report in a common system. For example, DHL will not perform data entry in a ship operators logistics and procurement platform. Undoubtedly, managers recognise the huge variation of logistics use cases in shipping and the fact that there are processes that are not amenable to rigorous record keeping.
Consequently, procurement delivery logistics cannot easily be covered by the usual applications. And therefore, e-mail is the much-needed coordinating communication component. What the Ulysses Systems Enterprise Search Solution For Marine Procurement Process brings to the table is integration of EPR objects so the collaboration between all stakeholders involved in the procurement process can be delivered to the interested parties in a timely manner.
Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants in Greece 2014-2021, in the frame of the Business Innovation Greece Programme.
