Clear Enterprise ERP is an Australian-produced enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 package by Clear Objective

Clear Objective

Clear Objective Limited is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support. The company was established in 1999 and holds a customer base which spans across Australia, New Zealand and the United States .In 2004 Clear Objective Limited was awarded a...

. Clear Objective

Clear Objective

Clear Objective Limited is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support. The company was established in 1999 and holds a customer base which spans across Australia, New Zealand and the United States .In 2004 Clear Objective Limited was awarded a...

 is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support.

Clear Enterprise has been developed and supported for clients in Australia, New Zealand and the US since 1999 and is now used by hundreds of companies across these regions. In 2004 Clear Objective

Clear Objective

Clear Objective Limited is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support. The company was established in 1999 and holds a customer base which spans across Australia, New Zealand and the United States .In 2004 Clear Objective Limited was awarded a...

 Limited was awarded a $1million AusIndustry R&D grant to develop a web service-based ERP system. Clear Objectives' ERP system Clear Enterprise now runs over everyday objects such as RFID devices, scanners and PDAs as well as offering an e-commerce option.

Clear Enterprise by Clear Objective

Clear Objective

Clear Objective Limited is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support. The company was established in 1999 and holds a customer base which spans across Australia, New Zealand and the United States .In 2004 Clear Objective Limited was awarded a...

 has also been recognised by receiving AQIS EXDOC Accredited Software Supplier status (Export documentation accreditation given only to 9 software suppliers in total) and also by being chosen by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (AusIndustry Division) to receive the above mentioned grant.

Core Clear Enterprise functions

Clear Enterprise packages each system with all core modules. These core modules include: Inventory Life Cycle Management, Manufacturing Life Cycle Management, Sales Management, Customer Life Cycle Management, Service & Rental Management, Financials, Project Management and Human Resources.

Modularisation model

Clear Objective's

Clear Objective

Clear Objective Limited is a public QLD based company, specializing in software research, development and support. The company was established in 1999 and holds a customer base which spans across Australia, New Zealand and the United States .In 2004 Clear Objective Limited was awarded a...

 Clear Enterprise software is not so much modular, as it has core enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 functions with industry extensions which come off from that. So a client in Food Services, would use the same core enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 functions as for example a client in Building Products & Hardware supply, but they would have different industry extensions added on. This approach means that only a single core release needs to be maintained for all clients.

Industry extensions

• Meat processing Clear Enterprise offers traceability for the meat industry.
  • AQIS export interface for automated export documentation compliance
  • Integration with on-floor processing and grading equipment
  • RCTI payments (RCTI's are recipient created tax invoices, in this case invoices to growers of animals which are slaughtered at meat processing facilities are often paid based on the grade of the meat. Since Clear Enterprise feeds grading information directly from the grading station on the processing floor, into the financial suite, RCTI's can be automated)
  • RF scanner integration
    • Lot and serialised tracking options
    • Meat pallet labelling

• Food services Clear Enterprise works with pack station touch screens, scanning and labeling devices used in the food industry. An ERP solution with food service specific extensions can be found being used by a food manufacture
  Food manufacture
  Food manufacture is the process by which food is manufactured.-History:Early food processing techniques were limited by the available food preservation, packaging and transportation. Early food processing mainly involved salting, curing, curdling, drying, pickling and smoking...
  
  r, food distribution
  Food distribution
  Food distribution, a method of distributing or transporting food or drink from one place to another, is a very important factor in public nutrition. Where it breaks down, famine, malnutrition or illness can occur...
  
   company, food market agent, or food exporter.

• Equipment service Clear Enterprise offers an extension for complex equipment servicing, preventative maintenance
  Preventive maintenance
  Preventive maintenance has the following meanings:#The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or...
  
   schedules and service bookings.

• Office products Clear Enterprise provides industry specific functionality for office equipment and stationery suppliers. Metered billing, rental service agreements, warranty tracking
  Warranty
  In business and legal transactions, a warranty is an assurance by one party to the other party that specific facts or conditions are true or will happen; the other party is permitted to rely on that assurance and seek some type of remedy if it is not true or followed.In real estate transactions, a...
  
   and maintenance service agreements are all a part of this extension.

• Timber and building products Clear Enterprise handles timber packs, truss manufacture, hardware and building materials warehousing, distribution and sales (and point of sale
  Point of sale
  Point of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
  
  s systems for both account and cash customers)

• Flooring Clear Enterprise offers special roll based product management and complete management of manufacturing processes for carpet, tiles, and wooden floors.
  • Material Requirements Planning
    Material requirements planning
    Material requirements planning is a production planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. Most MRP systems are software-based, while it is possible to conduct MRP by hand as well....
    
    
  • Roll-based product management
    • Products by Dye Lot => Batch => Rolls within batch (Every lot of carpet manufactured has a unique colour or "Dye Lot" associated with it and then there are batches of that colour. But once that colour runs out, it can never be made exactly the same again. Hence, it is important to track products correctly so that when a customer orders a specific length of carpet of a specific colour, they get all one colour)
  • Carpet manufacturing production schedule management
    • Beaming / Warping process (bobbins into beams)
    • Tufting (beams into "greige" rolls)
    • Backing (cleaning, etc., then backing applied to "greige" to make finished carpet)
    • Support processes, such as cutting (cutting carpet converts the cut length of carpet from a roll based product into a normal single product in the system)
    • Interface screens record outputs at each stage of manufacture

• Blinds and awnings Clear Enterprise addresses key concerns of variable product configuration and Product lifecycle management
  Product lifecycle management
  In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...
  
  , manufacturing, and business wide processes
  Enterprise resource planning
  Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
  
   in an integrated and paperless system
  Paperless office
  A paperless office is a work environment in which the use of paper is eliminated or greatly reduced. This is done by converting documents and other papers into digital form. Proponents claim that "going paperless" can save money, boost productivity, save space, make documentation and information...
  
  . As most blinds are made to order, a major concern for the Blinds & Awnings industry is being able to manage the variable nature of the product configuration and track the product through various stages of manufacture, sales, distribution and warranty / after-sales service.

Information access

• Hundreds of standard reports
• Business intelligence
  Business intelligence
  Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
  
   and customisable reports
  • OLAP data cubes
    OLAP cube
    An OLAP cube is a data structure that allows fast analysis of data. It can also be defined as the capability of manipulating and analyzing data from multiple perspectives...
    
    
  • Integration with crystal reports
    Crystal Reports
    -External links:*****Reviews:****...
    
    
• Integration with Microsoft Office Suite

Application extensions

• On-floor sales scanners
• Stock management scanners
• Integrated web ordering / e-commerce
• B2B
  Business-to-business
  Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...
  
  and systems integration

External links

• Clear Enterprise by Clear Objective Official Website