Swedish provider of action business applications for mid-size and ample enterprises, angrily denied assertive erroneous advice in media about its Q1 2002 banknote breeze situation. In affair no.23, the Swedish advertisement AffпїЅrsvпїЅrlden appear an commodity that compared, in agreement of liquidity, the banking situations of a another of the IT companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The commodity generated a abundant accord of absorption and was cited by a array of added media sources.
The aboriginal division is frequently the one in which Intentia's banknote breeze is afflicted by once-a-year payments such as agent bonuses for the antecedent year. In the aboriginal division of 2002 account payments accounted for SEK 220 million. Because the calculations in the commodity were based on banknote breeze afore investments пїЅ a bulk that includes ancient payouts accompanying to account payments пїЅ the consistent appraisal of approaching banknote breeze was inaccurate. Intentia acicular this out to AffпїЅrsvпїЅrlden, which after appear the afterward correction:
"In the accumulation of IT companies' banknote flows (AffпїЅrsvпїЅrlden no. 23) the absolute bulk of account payouts for 2001 was included for Intentia. This transaction should accept been time phased, appropriately consistent in a absolute banknote breeze for Intentia. The aggregation accordingly should not accept been included on the list."
The retraction was alone a atom of abundance in ablaze of Intentia's advertisement of Q1 2002 after-effects on April 24, though. The advantage apology plan, which was launched aback in 2000 with the ambition to ensure the aggregation would abide to accomplish college authorization acquirement aural the constraints of its accepted artefact development and sales organization, has yet to aftereffect in consistently bigger balance and banknote flow. As mentioned above, banknote breeze from operating activities of abrogating SEK 126 actor (~$12.1 million) for the division was impacted by tax and agent account payments that totaled ~$21.1 actor for 2001. Yet, banknote and coffer balances and accepted investments were at solid SEK 310 actor (~$29.7 million), while clamminess continues to beat borrowings. In accession to the banknote position, the aggregation disposes with an bearding (for aggressive reasons) notable bulk of accessible banknote aural its borrowing facilities. Still, authorization acquirement was down by 11% to SEK 211 actor (~$20.2 million), while consulting acquirement was up by 8% to SEK 673 actor (~$64.5 million) admitting the lower amount of billable canicule during the quarter. Absolute acquirement of SEK 903 (~$86.5 million) represents a 3% access compared to Q1 2001 (See Bulk 1).
Figure 1.
As a aftereffect of somewhat bigger accommodation utilization, Intentia's consulting allowance added to 18%, which still could not annul an operating accident of SEK 33 actor (~$3.2 million). Net accident of SEK 39 actor (~$3.7 million), attributable mainly to poorer authorization acquirement and added cadre costs, was about hardly lower compared to a SEK 42 actor net accident from a year ago (See Bulk 1). Its geographic regions reportedly acquaint alloyed results.
While net acquirement for the Northern Europe arena fell by 14% and authorization acquirement beneath by 29%, net acquirement in Central Europe was collapsed as the connected access in consulting acquirement account the lower authorization revenue, and in Northwest Europe, area college consulting acquirement account lower authorization revenue, net acquirement was still down by 7%. Bigger assuming regions were Southern Europe, which enjoyed college authorization and consulting acquirement during the division compared to the aforementioned aeon endure year and had net acquirement up by 26%.
Net acquirement in the Americas rose by 4%, as authorization acquirement was banausic and consulting acquirement rose by 20%, forth with a continuing access in the consulting margin. Net acquirement in Asia Pacific climbed by 11% as the advance reflected college consulting acquirement as a aftereffect of solid authorization trends in 2001, while authorization acquirement decreased in the region. Still, these bigger assuming regions still represent a baby atom of the company's absolute acquirement (e.g., the Americas contributed to beneath than 6% of absolute revenues). Intentia does not breach down accumulation abstracts by regions, nor does it board abundant forecasts or a breakdown of its new business against absolute audience revenues.
Intentia's focus charcoal on measures to added advance cost-effectiveness and to ensure that advance continues aural the accepted authoritative structure. Expansion will be careful in the faculty that it accept to be adequate with the requirements of the company's absolute business volume. The absolute amount of advisers rose by 67 to 3,392 during the quarter, of which 27 were the aftereffect of new acquisitions.
The a lot of arresting one is Intentia's accretion of all rights to the antecedent cipher and software of Archive International AS in Denmark. Catalog-International AS has congenital a adequacy in Internet-based articles for sales and aberrant abstracts procurement. Through accessible interfaces to abounding ERP systems, Archive has fabricated it accessible for its barter to get a quick alpha in aperture a new sales approach and/or account from the amount accumulation added able aberrant accretion routines can give. The affiliation of Catalog's adeptness in the acreage of Internet-based e-procurement and sales articles with Intentia's Movex adeptness appreciably strengthen its artefact offering.
During the accomplished brace of years, Intentia has focused on developing a complete ambit of chip e-business components. It has repositioned itself from getting a acceptable ERP bell-ringer to an e-collaboration provider. In the autumn of 2001, Intentia launched Movex adaptation 12, an chip action appliance that supports collaborative business processes. The assimilation of added anatomic improvements in the aboriginal division of 2002 reinforces Intentia's acceptance of a administration in agreement of technology and functionality.
As the company's competitors added about-face to Java as the development ambiance of the future, that abeyant forerunner position adeptness coalesce further. Consequently, Intentia's development accomplishment confused during the division from technology and architectonics against a greater focus on approaching functionality. The aggregation believes that adeptness added access its present administration in such burning areas as accumulation alternation administration (SCM), e-business and chump accord administration (CRM). Finally, although the bazaar charcoal awful ambiguous about the calmness and across of the bread-and-butter slowdown, based on its anticipation pipeline, adjustment excess and the accepted chump base, Intentia anticipates absolute operating balance and appreciably bigger banknote breeze for the abounding budgetary year through a aggregate of sales advance and greater cost-effectiveness.
Like abounding articles advancing from Scandinavia, Intentia's Movex has apparent superior and sturdiness, but one cannot advice activity that the artefact holds abundant added abeyant than the bazaar is acquainted of. As for Intentia's bazaar position, like abounding others in its high Tier 2 ERP league, it has reinvented itself as a 'collaborative commerce' solutions provider. Intentia has absolutely angled out its platform-independent artefact portfolio, which aswell appearance able industry-specific functionality and expertise.
Movex NextGen (standing for the next bearing of Movex) release, the flagship ERP arrangement launched in 1999, is now a Java-based software apartment adaptable agnostically aloft assorted platforms rather than alone on the IBM iServer (formerly AS/400). Looking at the artefact scope, the Movex 'collaborative action solution' strives to awning end-to-end accumulation alternation requirements, the ultimate cold getting advice abounding seamlessly amid manufacturers' advisers and trading ally (suppliers, and customers). It consists of six capital appliance suites, anniversary of which can be implemented on a stand-alone basis: Action Management, Chump Accord Administration (CRM), Accumulation Alternation Administration (SCM), Business Performance Measurement (BPM), Value Alternation Collaboration, and e-Business Suite.
Movex Action Administration is a absolute ERP suite, which supports acceptable back-office functions, including manufacturing, finance, artefact abstracts administration (PDM), logistics, and animal assets (HR). For a Tier 2 vendor, Movex is one of the a lot of natively anatomic ERP articles in the bazaar that caters for about all accomplishment environments пїЅ from assemble-to-order (ATO) to amalgam accumulation action manufacturing. Contrary to its associate mid-market products, Movex appearance able banking and administration functionality as well.
Intentia has aswell complemented this abundance of accumbent functionality with specific solutions for several altered industries, such as distribution, fashion, aliment & beverage, furniture, cardboard & pulp, account & rental, steel, aviation, and automotive. The aggregation has congenital specific functions to board the different requirements of anniversary industry. For example, it added the пїЅaccommodations' affection to handle ample volumes of items with abbreviate activity cycles for the fashion/apparel industry, and functions to administer by-products and co-products, or another recipes and assembly curve for the aliment & cooler market.
Also, it can handle parameter- or attribute-based planning for lurid & cardboard and animate industries, banker commissions and citation administration for the appliance industry, and abutment for just in time (JIT), Kanban, line-balanced/leveled scheduling, alloyed modeling, and synchronization to board requirements of the automotive industry. For some of the aloft industries, Movex aswell offers campaign-planning functionality, chip class advice administration arrangement (LIMS), and actual assurance abstracts bedding (MSDS), as able-bodied as the adeptness to accomplish planning simulations that yield both banking and multilevel accomplishment adeptness planning factors into consideration. In engineer-to-order (ETO) industries, its chip artefact configurator and PDM functionality afresh angle out a part of the like aggressive products.
Consequently, Movex Appearance and Movex Aliment & Cooler articles are the capital contributors to the company's acquirement and action some functionality that is still incomparable even by added accustomed competitors. Additionally, Intentia's acknowledged about-face in technology, the change against e-collaboration and the appreciably bigger functionality of prioritized industry applications should accept fabricated Movex even added competitive. Indeed, Intentia now offers a set of applications that aggrandize far aloft acceptable ERP functionality to natively board Accumulation Alternation Planning & Beheading (SCP & E), Chump Accord Administration (CRM), Partner Accord Administration (PRM), Business Performance Measurement (BPM) and chip e-business components.
Movex CRM involves sales management, sales force automation (SFA), account and rental administration and business administration and automation, admitting Movex SCM covers primarily planning and execution, forth with adeptness and actual planning, scheduling, and accomplishment activities forth the accumulation chain. The arrangement offers cardinal planning, including accumulation alternation design, as able-bodied as appropriate affairs with their amount enhancement and supply/demand acclimation requirements. In general, today Intentia can action the abounding apartment of SCM & E including Multi-site Planner, Global Capability to Promise (CTP), and Real-time optimization.
Movex BPM, on its hand, is the continued analytics suite, while Movex Value Alternation Collaboration is the XML-based web adapter interoperability apartment with its associated sales, logistics, accretion and archive functionality, as able-bodied as automated certificate capture, web-based cyberbanking abstracts altering (EDI) and added features.
Finally, the Movex eBusiness apartment covers the web storefront technology, and business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) pertinent functionality pieces. The aggregation aswell offers maintenance, adjustment & check (MRO) e-procurement and web aperture functionality bites, currently including agent self-service (ESS), and accessories for limited arrangement administration and wireless applications agreement (WAP)-based limited service. Intentia has along articulate an adorable action to abutment e-marketplaces with new developments in its aperture technology for accumulated and clandestine trading exchanges (PTX). Good archetype is e-Collaborator module, which was devised to handle the manual of all frequently acclimated types of business advice a part of companies over the Internet and thereby extend the customer's adeptness to collaborate alfresco the four walls of the enterprise.
Based on essentially bigger across and functionality, the company's hopes that the new absolution will added strengthen its administration in the markets on which it focuses are not unfounded. The new adorable applications, some already mentioned above, cover Multi-Site Planner, e-Collaborator, and Movex Business Messages (XML-based business transactions). Added new functionality includes Call Center Integration, Demand Planner, and Agent Self-service. Movex adaptation 12 aswell offers new functionality in the areas of point-of-sales (POS) integration, deficient and alternating sources of accumulation identification, cross-docking, bell-ringer managed account (VMI), self-billing, e-billing, Web-based artefact agreement and alone accumulated portals.
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