Orca | ERP - The highly flexible enterprise management solution for SME clients
With a suite of dynamic modules, rich in functionality and features, that can cater to and grow with most small to medium size enterprises, Orca ERP is your perfect ally when it comes to streamlining and managing every facet of your growing business.
From 1 to 1000 simultaneous users, Orca ERP is ideal for mid-sized organisations that require total data integrity and security to provide appropriate levels of access for all users across the business.
The heart of the software is a fully transaction-based object design which supports multi-company, multi-consolidation and multi-currency with fully integrated modular and functional workflow.
Will Orca | ERP work for me?
Orca ERP will streamline any small to medium enterprise, however Orca by TCS do offer industry-specific features and functions to make it the ideal solution for the following:
WAREHOUSING & DISTRIBUTION
ASSEMBLY & SALES
SERVICE & REPAIRS
EQUIPMENT HIRE
Modules
General Ledger
User definable reporting structure to allow for analysis at multiple levels
Regular or on-demand auto-reversing journals and standing journals
Reconciliation documents for account control
Full foreign currency functionality including forex revaluations
Multiple budgets, including budget revisions and forecasts
Updated automatically in real-time
Debtors
Detailed or summarised ageing
Credit control allowing for value limits, days overdue or both
Debt collection control with overdue letters, call tracking and automated follow ups
Comprehensive sales and margin analysis
Creditors
Detailed or summarised ageing
Multiple payment and prepayment capabilities including electronic payments
Comprehensive purchase and expense analysis
Cash & Banking
Multiple bank accounts and multiple bank clearing accounts in multiple currencies
Currency adjustments for revaluation purposes
User definable receipt types and associated processing attributes
User definable payment types and associated processing attributes including those required for electronic payment for both direct debits and direct credits
Supports online payments catering for most banks’ electronic banking software
Sales
Quotes, sales orders, picking and shipping documents and invoices
Consolidation of multiple orders into a single shipment
Consolidation of multiple shipments into a single invoice
Multiple shipments/invoices per order with backorder management
Various picking options are catered for
Multi-level pricing and discount matrices
Promotions allowing for discounts or gift with purchase for a specified period
Credits and/or returns processing with authorisation hierarchy
Purchases
Purchase quotes, orders, shipments and invoices with authorisation hierarchy
Shipment costing with multiple on-cost allocation methods
Linked sales orders with backorders are automatically updated by received POs
Inter-warehouse requirements processing
Inventory
Multiple warehouses and multiple bin locations per product
Multiple units of measure
Full and cycle counts
Batch, lot and/or serial number control
Tariff classifications and import duty rates
Dangerous goods
Build capability provides for stocked and non-stocked kits or assembled products
Optional image store for graphical representation of product
Full pricing module with unlimited price codes and base formulae
User definable inventory groups allowing for analysis and processing by category
User definable catalogue structure for product promotional documentation, etc.
User definable discount structures at group and/or individual product level
Assets
Accounting and tax depreciation registers
Straight Line or Diminishing Value depreciation method
Asset Registers including allocation to employees and locations
Asset revaluation
Insurance classification, valuation and reporting
Market valuation recording
Job Control
Quotes, job costing and job invoicing
Parts, labour recoveries, outwork and sundry costs/recoveries
Multiple user definable on-charging rules including fixed price jobs
Multiple invoices per job and multiple jobs per invoice
Warranty Control
Warranty registrations
Internal or external warranty claims with submission of claim to suppliers for reimbursement
Warranty recovery analysis
Free service claims
Warranty analysis based on failure codes or faulty products
Hire Contracts
Manage hiring of unique equipment or sundry items including license requirements and related items and equipment
Range of hire periods and charges catered for
Track availability and location of hire inventory
Track profitability of hire inventory including maintenance costs
CRM/Contact Management
Manage multiple contacts for debtors, creditors and employee records
Customer service calls to track interactions with customer, with contact type and classification codes for analysis purposes
Call escalation and automated follow ups
Employee Records
Linked to user profile to secure email control
Integrated links to timesheet control
Training course recording
License control
Employee schedules, productivity and turn over reports
Standard Features
Audit Control
Audit record for every record identifying user, date and time created and user, date and time last modified
List of all associated documents with drill down capability
User definable audit profiles to track and record specific actions on specific records
Security Control
Profile based security with users linked to menus, and access rights
General Functionality
Full transactional analysis with drill-down to source documents and transaction sets
Reference tracking for all transactions
Full document rollback allowing for corrections to processed data
Multi Currency
Catering for group, company and reporting currencies
Reporting
Automated job queuing allows for individual reports or packages to be processed at one time
Jobs can be queued at various intervals, e.g. daily, weekly or monthly
Dependent job queuing catered for
Supported formats include PDF, Excel and HTML
Output to printer, file or emailed or faxed to a list of recipients
SMS messages
Document Management
Allows for documents to be loaded against accounts, documents and codes
Category codes enable the classification of documents to assist with document management and searches
Stored documents can be viewed and maintained
Business Analytics
Embedded, real-time analytics that can easily scale for growing data and user volume
Open analytics enabling seamless interoperation with other systems and tools
Ability to incorporate advanced analytics into real-time processes
Business Intelligence (BI) allowing for customisable dashboards and ad hoc reporting
Multiple data models and subject areas catered for
Integrate seamlessly with a wide range of third-party and opensource analytics packages, e.g. Tableau, Power BI
Interoperability
Able to create seamless business processes that connect with internal and external data sources, applications and services
Graphical tooling to visually diagram processes, rules, and workflows
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) available for numerous documents including orders from customers, incoming shipment details from suppliers and consignment data
- EDIFACT and X12 formats supported by default
- Purchase and Sales documents (ORDERS, DESADV, INVOIC
- Product point of sales and forecast information (PAD/852,830)
Set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to facilitate integration with third party systems and/or for website integration
- Accessed via Web Services using either SOAP or REST
- XML or JSON format
Deployment Options
Automated deployment options provide flexibility when choosing a platform:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure
- Private Cloud
- VMware vSphere
- Pre-existing virtual and bare-metal environments