Black Box Spatial has systems currently tailored for specific industries and sectors. Such systems have a short implementation time, but don't lose their customisation potential. For the greatest immediate gains an industry specific system is a good place to start.
Black Box Spatial can then customise that system to suit your organisation while you get the immediate dividends of standardised modules built to work out of the box. Here's a selection to explore:
Far and away the most successful systems are those built from the ground up for clients with complex businesses moving vast amounts of data. Explore these case studies at your leisure and then talk to us about how we can help your organisation reach its peak with Black Box Spatial systems:
Introducing the Bright Core platform
The Bright Core Platform is the central system architecture that drives Black Box Spatial's many and varied management systems. For Black Box Spatial's clients, the first stage of a system project is understanding how the organisation works and where the systems would make the largest gains for the organisation. We have seen many companies in the same situation - they have a lot of data being collected, but can't produce meaningful analysis and, by extension, extract real business benefit from the data.
The most common reason for that scenario is having many independent systems collecting data and storing it, but no means of making the systems work together and getting information in one place. Bright Core is a combination of technologies assembled by Black Box Spatial to create a central platform that can pull together disparate systems and allow the data to be turned into genuine business advantage.
Take for example a simple infrastructure company that manufactures manholes. This company has a manufacturing plant, several sales yards with sales centers, sales representatives on the road, delivery trucks and a product support and distribution team. The manholes they manufacture have a 50 year life span as dictated by the municipal authorities specifying manholes. The company has limited IT expertise, but has a vision of what technology can offer their business. With that vision they have acquired the following systems and components:
- A manufacturing management system
- A quality control system
- A certification and compliance system
- A point of sale system
- An inventory system
- RFID tracking built into their manholes
- A delivery fleet management system
- A dispatch system
- A pricing system
- A product design system
- An order system
- An accounting/financial package
- CCTV surveying equipment
- CCTV Surveying data storage
- A CRM system
Each system has value on its own, but the business gains are limited by their singular focus points. The manufacturing management system may control the manufacturing plant extremely well, and the inventory and fleet systems likewise do their parts. However, the business needs to understand how to match manufacturing output to delivery runs based on sales contracts and life spans. That may mean that manufacturing output needs to increase so that stock transfers to remote branches can occur ahead of time so that deliveries to installation sites can be guaranteed on time and to order. The business may also need to refer back to historical activity chains such as this when pricing new contracts. If all such questions had to be answered from extractions from the separate systems, the degree of manual work involved would be prohibitive and the process difficult at best.
Using a system built on the Bright Core Platform, all of these disparate systems could be unified via a single, visually driven interface. Because everything described here happens somewhere, a spatial platform easily links data by location, and can therefore perform cross system analysis with ease. As such, for our situation above the delivery fleet can be optimally routed for site deliveries, which in turn is subject to time and availability rules. These rules can then be worked back to the requirements for stock to distribute, and the needs for the stock to be at certain locations at certain times. That would then allow the precise planning of manufacturing to suit. As an added advantage the system could carry full manhole specifications, even down to the 3D CAD drawings of the products so that the site engineers and inspectors can arrive on-site with everything they need to approve the install.
The examples of how a singular master Bright Core system from Black Box Spatial would provide business advantage are many and varied. The simple fact of it is that Black Box Spatial's systems can unify business processes and give competitive advantage. What's more, for an organisation with no systems in place, Black Box Spatial can tailor something from scratch for maximum cost effectiveness and the greatest return on investment. Take the time to view our case studies to understand more, or feel free to contact us.
Keen to see how we can assist you in detail?
Our consulting team can take you through the process via a tailored presentation, or take the first step by having having a needs assessment and system plan drawn up. When undertaking this initial engagement, Black Box Spatial helps you mitigate risk by working to clear and specific deliverables. Our commitment to you is to provide return on investment and low cost of ownership so we always start as we intend to continue - delivering the best.
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