Sales Management Just think of the benefits your organisation would derive if your salespeople or even customers could place their orders with you securely across the Internet. Imagine if you had access to view incoming orders to confirm those you wish to accept and those you don’t. What would it mean if those orders automatically updated your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which resulted in the manufacture and despatch of your products to the customer and updates to your financial system. AKAS can be used to create a simple or sophisticated sales management system, which integrates with your ERP system and utilises information on stock, pricing and delivery information. By extending the application across the Internet, salespeople or customers can gain ready access thus relieving the administrative burden created by receiving orders centrally or regionally via fax, phone, letter or EDI. This means staff can devote time to analysing sales trends or delivering higher levels of customer service.