Customer Information

Beijing SPOT Image CO.,LTD. is a subsidiary of SPOT Image, a subsidiary of Airbus Group. It provides customers with high-definition Earth satellite data, graphics, image products and software related to satellite data applications.

Project Background

SPOT Image is the world's leading provider of high value-added satellite imagery and geographic information. SPOT Image is the commercial operator of SPOT satellites and provides imagery from other optical and radar satellites. SPOT Image has the jurisdiction to jointly operate a variety of satellite and ground systems to meet the needs of its users. With subsidiaries in the US, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Brazil and China, Beijing SPOT Image is SPOT Image's subsidiary in China and is responsible for selling satellite imagery products in the Asia Pacific market, as well as providing image processing solutions with integrated software and hardware products.

Since the establishment of the company, business execution has been managed manually, and financial processing is separated from business data, which is handled manually by finance staff. With the continuous development of the company's business, it is necessary to integrate the business flow and financial flow through the information system to meet the standardized operation of the business, and at the same time to open the integration with the finance. At the same time, the diversity of satellite image products requires a very flexible system that can distinguish the needs of specific sales operations. Combining with the business requirements and improvement objectives, Beijing SPOT Image chose Dynamics as the unified ERP platform to achieve overall management improvement.

Solutions

Beijing SPOT Image uses Microsoft Dynamics ERP system to fully integrate all business processes and information platforms of the company. The implementation includes product data management, sales, supply chain, finance, and management analysis reports. Bringing the insight, connectivity and professional tools that business managers and employees need.

Flexible product attribute management:

Beijing SPOT Image sells products with custom satellite images for customers. Satellite images have very flexible options for configuration, such as cloud coverage, data format, data type, etc. At the same time, different product attributes affect the price of products, and if a single SKU is set for each attribute, the amount of data is very huge. With Dynamics' flexible product attribute solution, you can customize the attributes corresponding to different products and easily and flexibly place sales requests based on product attributes.

Pricing based on product attributes:

For the same type of satellite image, the sales price is defined differently according to different product attributes, Dynamics can easily price according to different combinations of product attributes for the same material. That is to meet the management requirements of setting standard market prices, and at the same time, it provides a simple and flexible data management solution, reducing the workload of data maintenance and providing easy and flexible management functions.

Financial and business integration:

Dynamics integrates the originally separated business and financial flows into one system solution, which greatly improves the efficiency of financial operation and financial management.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 will closely integrate people, materials, supply, sales and the corresponding logistics, information flow, capital flow and business flow, realize resource optimization and sharing, greatly improve the company's management ability and work efficiency, greatly enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and lay a solid foundation for the future high-speed development of Beijing SPOT Image.

The powerful functions of Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 system realize the full integration of financial operations and the full integration of information technology in sales, planning, purchasing, production, inventory and other business aspects. Various management reports provide strong support for management's decision making. It not only solidifies the business operation process for the enterprise, but also provides great support for the development of the enterprise.

▪ Eliminates information silos and improves customer satisfaction.

▪ Optimized and solidified the operation of enterprise business processes, standardized business operations, and reduced reliance on personnel thinking.

▪ Increased productivity and greater improvement in internal enterprise management efficiency.

▪ Visualization, accurate, fast and multi-dimensional report analysis.

About Microsoft Dynamics AX2012

Microsoft Dynamics AX2012 provides manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide with a comprehensive business management solution that helps them manage their broad business areas more efficiently, including retail data and financial analytics, with a special focus on achieving comprehensive real-time visibility across the supply chain. This integrated, customizable solution creates business value through the following benefits:

▪ Enhancing business insight to help make sound decisions and providing visibility into all types of data managed by the business

▪ Extending data and key processes to strengthen critical relationships with customers and partners, regardless of the systems they use and regardless of their level of complexity

▪ Maximize technology return on investment through smooth integration with existing enterprise ERP systems and Microsoft product families

▪ Optimize and automate processes to increase productivity and optimize the supply chain, thereby reducing costs and increasing profitability

▪ Customize to meet current needs, easily capitalize on new business opportunities, and more easily meet individual customer requirements to outperform the competition

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