Welcome to ICTEAS

In today’s highly competitive environment, Distributors play an increasingly important role in representing the brands and offers of multiple suppliers who seek cost efficient routes to market. To compete and win requires focus on Sales and Category Management with real time performance information across every level of the organization.

TurfView BI provides a unique solution specifically designed for managing the complexities of multi-category/multi-supplier distribution businesses. It’s simple and easy to configure Business Management tools ensure that you have vital management information exactly when you need it.

Building trusted relationships with you multiple suppliers depends on demonstrating you have the market insights and skills to achieve your ambitious business plans and can grow your business, keeping yourself in the driving seat.

TurfView BI gives you the power to improve your profits and manage your strategic supplier relationships.

Key Features

Sales Targeting and business performance data
Customer and business profitability
Inventory and purchase management
Financial and business planning
Debtor management

Analysis and Report

The analytical needs of an organization vary from Highly Structured Reports to Flexible ad-hoc analysis. TurfView BI addresses the full spectrum of analysis and reporting needs through:

Pre-Designed Reports
TurfView BI comes with a comprehensive range of canned reports that help turn data into insights. For example, it is possible to know :

Sales Trends by Divisions, Regions, Salespersons, Customers, Brands, and SKUs
Target vs Achievement and identifying causes of under- achievement
Product and Division Profitability
Effectiveness of Distributors and other Channel Partners
Inventory levels and excess/ shortage of inventory
Breakup of expenses
Email reports and export reports to various file formats: PDF, Excel, and Word

Ad-hoc Reports
TurfView BI recognizes the need to empower business users with the capability of generating ad hoc reports. Users can generate wide range of graphical reports: Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Graphs, Grids, and Tabular Reports, across various dimensions and combinations thereof.

Published Reports
Managers need the latest information about the organization's performance in their respective domains so that they can pinpoint issues and rectify them. To meet this need, TurfView BI allows its users to receive a predefined set of reports at a predefined frequency.

Management Dashboards
The KPI dashboard gives business users the flexibility of monitoring the health of the business from a single cockpit. The role based dashboards show information such as:

Top Products by Margin or Sales
Top Customers and suppliers
Top Markets and Sectors
Gross margins and Turnover
Inventory turns and debtor aging

The unique Map it features allows maps of countries and regions to be displayed against a backdrop of business information.

Approach to Implementation

Our approach is tailored to the individual needs of our customers, so implementation starts with a review of the customers’ data structures and sources of information and agreeing the specific needs and use of the information to be extracted. We then go through three simple steps all of which can take a matter of weeks to complete and put you in control of your business performance.

How TVBI works

Interfaces - TurfView BI can be interfaced to all sources of data, including those of suppliers where required to support sharing of data and business planning processes.

Our Services - ICTEAS offers a comprehensive range of services for implementing TurfView BI in your organization. These include:

Implementation of TurfView BI using an appropriate combination of web hosted on shore or offshore models
Consulting services for analyzing and enhancing business performance using data warehousing models
Technical service for extracting, transforming and loading information for multiple legacy IT systems, including ERP and CRM.

Platform - TurfView BI is a web enabled solution and uses Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting & Analysis Services and Dundas for data visualization.