Today, my CDO Team Leader reported that the Sales Volume report problem was fixed and the Plant's Finance Manager confirmed it in his email to my Client's Executive Committee.

As usual, the Technical Team was reliable as ever, and the Consultants at site worked on the diagnosis and testing the whole day yesterday. This provided our Technical Team, which remotely fixed the errors based on the submitted screenshots and sample reports by the Consultants.

This also tested and confirmed our infrastructure solution to remotely access any Server/Databases using Wide Area Network (WAN) for Plant-base sites, powered by fiber optics provided by PLDT, a giant telecoms provider in the Philippines. Also, we used PLDT's We-Roam services in the remotes Sales Offices to provide connectivity - to enable sending of regular program and reports updates, as well as in making remote support activities. We-Roam provides 3G internet connection with HSDPA in major cities, while it can provide EDGE or GPRS connection to remote towns and municipalities.

We-Roam utilizes the network coverage of SMART, a leading mobile telecoms provider in the Philippines. As long as there's a SMART mobile phone signal, you can get a connection.

For more information on SMART and PLDT We-Roam, visit the following links:

>>> SMART Communications
>>> Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT)


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Today also marked another project success. Our Davao Plant Team succesfully migrated the Plant's old system to the new Route Sales to Delivery to Receivables system. Being the 9th Plant to roll out the new S&D system this year, Davao is the biggest Plant in the Mindanao Region. 5 of its Sales Offices are also included, and will be rolled-out to the new system as well starting next week.

My last visit was last week, where I met with the Team and the Plant Team to discuss and resolve several transition issues. I am scheduled to visit next week to oversee the roll-out of one of the biggest Sales Offices.

Today, we cutover to the new system and succesfully migrated the Client's Accounts Receivables and Sales databases. The Cagayan de Oro (CDO) Plant is the 8th Plant to roll-out the Route Sales to Delivery to Receivables system this year.

It's 10:30pm and my team is currently supporting the Users - Sales, Finance, Logistics, and even Customers in completing the necessary daily transactions.

This Plant has been doing daily reconciliations of all Sales and Finance transactions, and complete the entire task regularly at 4:00am of the next day. Reports are generated twice a week, as volume of transactions do not allow daily reporting of Sales and Receivables.

With this new system in placed, all transactions should be closed every 10:00pm, as achieved by the previous 7 plants that are already running the new system. Sales reports and Receivables can now be generated daily. Customer orders are now properly served, and delivery fill-rate should greatly increase, from the current 75-80% to 98% in about 3 weeks time.