- Configurable enterprise financials (including accounts receivable and payable, cost accounting, remittance processing, and budgeting and analysis)
- Supply chain management
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- applications (including sale performance management, purchasing, promotion, inventory management, and forecasting)
- Multi-mode manufacturing applications (including planning, production scheduling, capacity planning, shop floor control, and plant maintenance)
The key ideas in BPCS include:
- A general adherence to programming standards for distributed object computing (including Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and other standards
- A sophisticated use of client/server computing and object data repositories
- Adoption of the Microsoft Windows Desktop user interface for all end users site-wide
- A guided workstation-based system of installation
SSA augments its own sales and support force with a system of independent business associates. It has a widely-distributed customer base, with 34% of its customers in Europe, 22% in the Asia Pacific region, and 10% in Latin America.
Contributor(s): Jenny Delgado
This was last updated in October 1999