Sales and administrative management of weighed products
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Icare : administration and sales management of quarries, sandpits, waste reception centres, classification units, asphalt plants, concrete plants, and more generally all activity based on bulk product weighing.
From price discounts, to statistical studies, including weighbridge and invoicing, icare perfectly meets the specific needs of these activities, whether in single-station environment, LAN or WAN (TSE, CITRIX).
It has been designed on a modular structure, to be available in several versions and in multi-site and multi-company environment.
> Weight input
- Unlimited weight tickets entry and listing
- Various methods available: Deliveries, supplies and inter-site transfers
- Carriage by road, train, ...
- Cash invoicing
- Badge management
> Customer/Carrier invoicing
- Automatic or manual invoicing
- Credit notes, re-invoicing, haulage invoicing, haulier pre-invoicing, end-of-year rebates
- Customers' accounts management, payments and allowed credit
- Data transfer to accounting software: salesbook and diverse transfers (purchases, carriage, internal transfer, ...)
> Statistics
- A powerful statistics reporting tool for a customised analysis of your weighing system and of invoicing
- Predetermined daily statistics to control the weighbridge activity
- In order to facilitate access and mobility, eStat complementary module allows the analysis of deliveries and invoicing via a web browser.
> Sales management: Quotations, discounts, orders follow-up
- History of enquiries and quotations, with the edition of follow-up calls to be made
- Orders survey and control with real-time update and delivered quantities
- Delivery planning and real-time follow-up
> Stocks control
- Production input
- Automatic update according to products inwards/outwards
- Stock and recycling activity management
> Dumpster rental
- Equipment availability control
- Invoicing
> Data exchange and treatment planning platform through FTP (file transfer protocol)
- Automatic data generation and transfer through FTP from icare to icare, but also to and from external software.
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ADVANTAGES Icare includes a powerful statistical and graphic analysis module, to make in-depth sales studies. Thanks to its elaborate database, you can quite simply make detailed analyses to control your activity profitability in quality and quantity: a real decision making tool !
Icare is a complete and coherent whole with password and access-level protection system, and a powerful data transfer module, to consolidate and manage several databases.
It integrates into distributed and complex environments and adapts to any type of organisation thanks to its high customisation capacity, all that with a simple, modern and user-friendly interface.
ABOUT ICARE As an open software package, it can easily communicate with Windows® standard applications: word processors, spreadsheets, in order to import external data and offer more flexibility and freedom.
Data can be exchanged with any financial accounting software, after the transfer format has been studied.
Of course, icare can also communicate with weigh indicators, through a series interface, after a specific protocol has been determined, in master or slave mode, in particular for an automatic connection with a weighbridge.
HISTORY, CREATION icare was created in 1987 in MS Dos version, as an answer to the specifications of a big quarry.
To take into account technical evolutions -both in computer science and in extractive industry- it has been re-programmed under Windows®, relying on a powerful and secured database management system. eStats module is a first step to icare web development in DotNet environment, with SQL Server.
TECHNICAL ENVIONNEMENT icare works on any PC/PS or 100% computer in 32-bit Windows® (95, 98, NT, XP, Vista, W7) environment. The space required for the software and data files, as well as the execution speed have been optimised.
Minimum configuration: Pentium-type processor - 512 Mb RAM - 2 Gb available on hard disk – Graphic card and colour VGA screen – Pin-dot-matrix or lazer printer for tickets and invoices – Printer with good graphic capacities for statistics graphs, colour recommended.
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