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Each and every modern enterprise has its basic objectives: profit increase, cost minimization, expansion of its areas of operations. To achieve these goals it only becomes possible when several conditions are met: effective company management, optimization and automization of all the company’s business and operational processes. However, the afore mentioned might not suffice. The current trade market and use of modern technologies dictate the essential necessity of employee mobility, perspicuity and convenience of software products application, flexible approach to cooperation with business partners, optimization and harmonization in dealing with these partners. This relates directly not only to the clients and suppliers delivering goods to your company, but to those, who provide up to-date new ways on promotion and movement of goods with the help of web sites and specialized on-line resources, and retail networks. Prompt and expeditious familiarizing with the new available software programs and business-related intercommunication web sites are the key to your company’s success in the modern world of trade.

SOT was developed particularly to provide a comprehensive modern solution to its users, to get business operating people together for the purpose of mutual benefit. Modern, yet at the same time simple and convenient capabilities, methods of use, offer SOT members modern, but simple and convenient venues, utilization of which will take your company and its relationship and dealings with its partners on the evolutionary new level.

SOT System setup takes 30 minutes, yet the System immediately becomes your indispensable and irreplaceable assistant granting your Company’s Executives, Personnel and Partners working comfort in all of your business endeavors.

		What is SOT?
		SOT is a network for professionals, while at the same time a *HUB, and a “Cloud Service”* for accommodating and processing such basic trade operations as trading, selling and buying for mutual interests of parties involved, in which combined multiple business *“know-how”* are applied. Brainstormed by our best technicians, SOT provides an expeditious and most effective solutions, to complete all business transactions and tasks in the most efficient manner. These tasks relate to goods movement in-between the interested enterprises, satisfying the mutual interest of aforementioned. The innovative feature of SOT is that its users are provided with simplified and convenient ways of mutual cooperation. In other words, they get matched in accordance with their areas of trade operations. Using SOT is easy and convenient; its utilization does not require training and/or email use. As well, your company does not have to disclose any confidential information. It only takes a couple of minutes to get connected to SOT, no program installation is required. All that is required is Internet connection, any Internet browser, and SOT will become your irreplaceable assistant.
		What are the tasks and aims of SOT?
		Following is the answer to this question: The main task of SOT lies in the realization of the principle “Unite – Simplify – Expedite – Harmonize.” “Unite” - all your Company’s business partners for the purpose of intercommunication using the same platform. This is also applicable to those partners not yet registered with SOT, or are already partaking in SOT network in cooperation with others. “Simplify” – means automize all the operations conducted with your business partners, making error occurrence during goods acquisition and/or sale improbable and impossible. SOT utilizes up-to-date pricelists; all primary documents and bills of payment are generated in both print and electronic versions; SOT coordinates questions related to logistics, offering an opportunity to specify the date, time, and place of goods delivery. Your company’s history of prior operations are saved for future reference. “Expedite” - SOT minimizes time expenditure required for trade operations (saving 80% of the usually required time), thereby providing your Company’s employees with time and opportunity to accomplish other tasks, or otherwise increasing commodity turnover. Thus, your Company’s profits become positively affected directly. “Harmonize” - all actions and operations related to the trade operations between your Company and its business partners and associates for precise, consistent, faultless completion along all the steps of transactions, beginning from the preliminary stage of placing an order to release of goods and payment.
		What are SOT innovations and particularities?
		Intercommunication and interaction with multiple business professionals in a unified informational space (on-line). Rapid development of new technologies and demands placed onto any business venture by its customers, as well as those of state regulatory departments, are compelling each enterprise to implement its own software products for effective management of its business processes. Certain convenience is, indeed, provided. Yet, such software products are not infallible. Safety regulations demand log-in and password use, restricted access to the non-personnel individuals (e.g. clients or suppliers). A situation arises when a seemingly convenient resource – specifically a software program, developed for expeditious processing and execution of business operations, becomes absolutely not adapted for intercommunications with the Company’s partners and clientele, since each of your partners and associates (goods suppliers and customers) do utilize their own, specifically developed software programs (ERP) which are not interconnected and are not able to interact with your own software system. Even if you do have an opportunity to access your partners’ informational system, it will not provide you with multiple conveniences – it is unrealistic to remember log-in paroles, passwords to each and every database. Moreover, learning to use all and absolutely different interfaces is beyond the capabilities even for the most gifted of geniuses. Teaching your Company’s employees makes no sense whatsoever. SOT provides a solution to this problem. SOT allows to carry out and control all the compulsory processes set for operations on selling and delivery of goods and/or services. The System gives its users requisite capacity for goods movement and website content management. Regardless of the software products utilized by your Company, SOT is an innovative tool. The number of your employees able to use SOT is not limited. It matters not whether your employees are working at your Company’s offices, or outside, in the field, conducting sales, goods’ acquisitions, or are controlling trade processes. Thus, all your business partners are able to connect and work productively with your Company. At the same time, use of SOT System was developed such wise that all your Company’s confidential information will remain inaccessible for persons unconnected, outsiders not registered in your own software program. Use of email communications becomes entirely unnecessary.
		How and why the SOT System is an invaluable tool?
		The SOT System simplifies and automatizes your Company’s operations such as products’ and goods’ turnover, thereby freeing the invaluable time of your employees (80% time saving rate); staves off and prevents occurrence of various mistakes thereby eliminating the emergent necessity, financial and otherwise, for their correction and amending. Use of the SOT System effect and outcome for the business owners and operators is in freeing the much valued time for attainment and achieving the of the new goals set by the Company. In order to work with a resource such as the SOT System, there is no need to hire out specialists such as software installers and/or programmers, or undertake special courses to acquire knowledge and skills for the utilization and operation of the new software program. All the mechanisms are based on human intuition. You are able to work with any partner, adding him/her to the list of your counteragents. Applying the same logic, he/she can join the SOT System in a matter of minutes to conduct business with your Company more effectively and efficiently. A creative mechanism of the trade operation processing, “beginning from the placement of the order to the delivery of goods ordered” is a *Know How, allowing to conduct all operations (order placement, sale, delivery, returns, etc.) and save all the principal information as a part of the transaction operation, ensuring prevention and evasion of any possible future mistakes, which might occur within the course of order formalization (prices, quantity, product designation, delivery time frame and goods/products recipient address). Critical in the use of the SOT System is the assignation method of the precise product name definition. Variant names or titles of the same product are often used by the Supplier and the Customer. Having met the requirement of adjusting the requisite titles of goods and products, your Company gains an opportunity to place in future orders using your own titles of goods/products. The Supplier will receive your order consistently with the titles used in their system. The above mechanisms* exclude the risk of using the wrong, double title id of the product. Furthermore, all known and familiar to you mechanisms of trade operations processing, bear use options which are more effective and convenient than those, currently used by your Company. Moreover, electronic versions of order forms exchange, invoices, etc., occur without email use and file exchanges. Among the many benefits of the SOT System use, is the ability of each employee of the Company to complete tasks assigned to him/her working outside of the office. For the Company owner it provides a solution to such predicaments as employee’s temporary absence due to maternity leave or illness. Further, SOT – using Company’s representatives operating in other regions are capable to simultaneously perform sales and prepare automatically all the required preliminary documentation data for the Company’s accounting department. Out of the office location operations completion provides the Company with an opportunity to set up and establish offices and agencies at the cities, towns, or regions without extra financial expenditures thereupon.
		What are the opportunities offered by the SOT System?
		SOT System users get: Automatized and customized Company interaction with its customers and clients. The SOT System decreases time expenditures, provides for an opportunity to expedite and increase goods’ turnover. Capacity for the effective and expeditious preliminary documentation formation in print and computerized versions. Provides for an opportunity for an intellectual goods’ order placing in. Use of the SOT System automizes order transfer to the chosen by the Company Suppliers. Logistics optimization, enabling to specify instantaneously place, date and time of goods’ delivery (Supplier’s or Customer’s warehouse premises); arranging for the services of Logistics Companies or Delivery Services with further goods tracking indication. The Supplier may accept the specified time of goods pick up, or provide an offer which is more convenient and accommodative for both parties involved. Furthermore, SOT users are enabled to conduct correspondence, pertinent to the order placed in. Within the frame of such correspondence it is helpful and convenient to itemize and specify questions arising and verify, finalize the details with respect to the Customer/Client business operation undertaken. The function of control and monitoring of business operations – an opportunity to review the Company’s ordering history; enabling or limiting employees’ rights of use for precise completion of assigned tasks. Ability to track employees’ time consumption for the task processing, example: customers orders, thereby evaluating effectiveness of his/her work performance. Financial Savings – SOT System use costs as compared to the employees’ salaries (employees performing correspondent tasks and duties). Time saving – the necessity to process orders of each Client/Customer by hand, choosing the actual individual product, matching the product with the up-to-date prices seizes to exist. All of the above mentioned is automatized and is simultaneously processed along with the order and documentation formation. Employees can be assigned new or additional tasks for completion. SOT fixates the correspondent names of goods, i.e. different titles of the same product used by the Customer’s and/or Supplier’s databases. Having specified the required correspondent titles only once, your Customer is enabled to make follow up orders of the goods using his/her own titles, while the Supplier will receive the order with the goods’ titles used in his/her own System. Company’s website content management and pertinent info formation for price-aggregators.
		Who derives the most benefits from the SOT System use?
		Users of the SOT System can be identified according to: The size and type of business conducted by the Enterprise (Organization, Agency) All: From individual businessmen to large-scale Enterprises with the multi- thousand item assortment of goods and products and an extensive network of sales; manufacturing enterprises and non-commercial organizations for raw materials and/or goods acquisition optimization; packing companies. Concordant with the level of Company’s automation Enterprises, which are in the process of preparation for automatization, yet unprepared for such innovation for the reasons of the process’s complexities and associated with substantial regular financial investments. Enterprises using software products, which are not autonomous, therefore cannot provide automatization and Customer interaction synchronicity. Enterprises selling goods on-line, through on-line shopping and price-aggregators. Employee category Supervisors and Managers at all levels Accountants Sales Managers Sales Agents Delivery Department Managers Warehouse Employees Logistics Department Employees
		What is the number of the Company’s employees and Customres who can use the SOT System?
		The number of your employees and customers is unlimited.
		Does the SOT System require installation and hiring out professional software programming specialists?
		The SOT System does not require technological equipment, installation and hiring of professional software programmers. Access to SOT is easily available through the mobile phones or the Internet.
		How are the questions of security and confidentiality dealt with by the SOT System?
		Principles of the SOT System use do not presuppose storage and existence of any confidential information within the SOT System itself. Yet, SOT using technologists provide the maximum level of data security protection and make information leakage impossible. Several principles and technologies which are used: SSL – certificate, Data Multi-Copy in the real time regime, distribution of user access rights. For the security reasons, any other information on the technologies employed and principles used, are not being disclosed. The SOT System employs secure access systems, data processing and saving (level of data security protection is that used by the bank systems), and completely excludes the necessity of email use, which is the most unsafe instrument of communication from the security point of view. Because of email use, which is vulnerable to virus penetration, break-ins into the Company’s systems take place, information theft and/or purposeful data distortion, as well as disablement of personal computers and LANs. Anti-virus software does not provide means able without fail to protect against this threat. Use of such powerful systems for individual Enterprises is costly, and for the most – financially unaffordable.
		Does the SOT System provide an option to run a test of the System’s use?
		Yes. All willing and interested in organizations are provided with an option to test the use of SOT System free of charge, on the condition of passing the required registration.