Ubq Outreach

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Generic Questions

Outreach makes distributors’ inventory and secondary sales data visible to corporate management in near real-time, thus sales-marketing campaigns can be based on actual data. Promotional schemes reaches the taget market and claims get settled promptly. Automatic stock replenishment based on forcasted demand removes stock-out and consequent loss of business to competetors.

Yes, Outreach Retailer Connect App is available on both Android and iOS platforms. Retailes can place orders, track them, see promotional schemes run by the compant and send back their feedback directly to the company.

Yes, Outreach is a Cloud solution – can run on private or public Cloud infrastructure.

Yes, Outreach offers a hybrid online-offline model of implementation. Distributors with poor Internet connectivity can work on a local install with period sync with the central system, whereas distributors with reliable internet connectivity can work online.

Yes, Outreach Lite provides a lighter version of Outreach which can be used by small distributors who cannot use full Outreach functionality.

Yes, Outreach provides both on-premises Perpetual License model and SaaS monthly/quarterly subscription model.

Yes, Outreach comes with an integrated Management Dashboard/Analytics called Intellics.

Yes, Intellics Management Dashborad/Analytics integrated with Outreach comes with user defined reports feature.

Distribution Management System (DMS) like Outreach makes distributors’ inventory and secondary sales data visible to corporate management in near real-time, thus sales-marketing campaigns can be based on actual data. Promotional schemes reaches the taget market and claims get settled promptly. Automatic stock replenishment based on forcasted demand removes stock-out and consequent loss of business to competetors.

Outreach Enterprise consists of DMS, Central Sales Porttal and Intellecs Management Dashboard/Analytics.

Outreach Enterprise is the best in class solution for downstream supply chain management considering latest technologies, comprehensive set of fuctionalities, top-notch performance and intuitive, each to use user intertface.

Outreach is used by industry verticals like FMCG/CPG, Consumer Durables and Mobile Telecom.

Yes, Outreach supports Vendor Managed Inventory – based on distributors inventry position and forcasted market demand, automatic replenishment of stock happens without any intervention of the distributor.

Outreach allows flexible pricing models to its customer to choose from (a) Perpitual License or, (b) SaaS monthly/quarterly subscription.

Intellics Management Dashborad/Analytics can souce data from multiple sources like ERP, CRM, User Management System and even excel/flat files.

Yes, Workflows in Outreach are configurable with respect to multiple levels and approving authorities.

Yes, SFA suoorts all types of Internet connections.

Yes, SFA can mark no sales reason at a retailer point and the corresponding report is available in the Central Sales Portal.

Sales targets can be set at salesman and/or distriburor levels in Outreach system. Target vs Achievement reports are available.

GPS locations can be recorded and tracked even when the mobile is offline, i.e., there is no Internet connectivity.

Specific Questions

Outreach SFA is an in-house application integrated with Outreach Enterprise.

Yes, Outreach SFA has attendance management system based on biometics, i.e., figerprint/face-recognition.

Yes, Outreach provides integration with 3rd party accounting software like Tally/Busy/Marg.

Yes, Outreach provides Automatic stock replenishment based on distributor’s stock position and forcasted market demand.

Yes, Outreach SFA has ready-van billing functionality.

Yes, Outreach caters to Modern Trade Channels with their specific pricing and business processes.

Outreach SFA has biometic (finger print/face recognition) based attendance registration system, google map based geo-fencing while order capturing, recording of merchandising activity and capturing market intelligence on competing products. It also has an asset management module to track company given assets to distributors.

Outreach has been integrated with all leading ERP systems like SAP, Oracle ERP, Microsoft Dynamics, IFS, etc.

Yes, Outreach has inbuilt API to perform authentication using LDAP protocol.

Outreach supports Oracle, MSSQL, and MYSQL RDBMS.

Outreach Retailer Connect App uses NoSQL at the backend. However, transactional database is on RDBMS.

Yes, Outreach supports integration with legacy systems using Service Oreiented Architecture.

Yes, Outreach supports kafka integration and streaming

Outreach is a scalable solution. Based on the number of uses, it can be deployed on a very small hardware system and can be scaled up easily on a higer infrastructure with more users on the system.

Yes, Outreach SFA is built on a hybrid platform so that it both Android and iOS.

Outreach provides strong security features at multiple levels. At the application level it provides access with strong password policy, password expiry at defined intervals, and two factor authentication. At the network level, communication is over secured socket layer with payload encription. At database level, sensetive information is encripted.

Outreach supports Oracle Weblogic and Tomcat at the Application Server level. Outreach uses Apache and recommend it at the Web Server layer though it also support IIS.

Yes, Outreach provides notification and alert to users.

Yes, Outreach provides PJP and Route Planning features. It also has a approval workflow for the same.

In Outreach Central Sales Portal Promotional Schemes are defined. Once they are approved and released, invoicing in DMS and SFA automatically applies those schemes.