GN Platform One: Mobile Computing & Automated Data Collection Solutions application platform designed to make available all information about your enterprise anywhere, even on mobile devices

1. GN Platform One:
Mobile Computing & Automated
Data Collection Solutions
GN Platform One
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2. Today’s high-
velocity digital
economy is
evolving the
reality of
business.
Mobile has
reinvented the
supply chain,
transforming a
single pathway
into a multi-
channel
Businesses
around the world
are turning to
mobile apps to
optimize their
business
processes and
secure a lasting
competitive edge
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3. What is GN Platform One?
• GN Platform One is an application platform
designed to make available all information
about your enterprise anywhere, even on
mobile devices
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4. Connect your Enterprise
• Platform One provides a two-way communication between
business applications (ERP, CRM, database and legacy system)
and a wide range of mobile devices (PDA, smartphone, web
browser, desktop)
• An easy integration with several ERP
• An easy integration with several mobile systems
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5. Connect your Enterprise
• Platform One optimizes the information flow within your
enterprise improving business processes both at warehouse
and production levels.
• Through safe and immediate data flow, the communication
between your enterprise and employees is improved and
boosted, providing a more efficient connection.
• It makes operations easier to mobile users.
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6. Your ERP becomes mobile
• The distinctive feature that characterizes Platform One lies in
the real-time and direct connection between mobile devices
and the enterprise information system.
This allows mobile users to query, manage and edit data,
interacting directly with the ERP.
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7. Why a platform?
• Gives you a responsive, capable
foundation on which to build
and deploy a variety of solutions
tailored to your industry and
business.
• You will be able to manage
and monitor several areas of
your enterprise directly from
your mobile devices.
WAREHOUSE
SHOP FLOOR
SALESFORCE
WORKFORCE
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8. GN Platform One – Area 1:
Wharehouse Management
GN Platform One
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9. Warehouse Management
A simple error at the
warehouse level can affect
several other business areas
• for the enterprise applications
to know what happens in the
warehouse
• for the workforce to know
exactly where, how and what
are the stocks
Data are essential:
This area is
highly critical
for enterprise
success
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10. Warehouse Management
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Know the warehouse content at
any time
Check and confirm availability
of goods in stock
Keep inventory matched to the
demand
Eliminate mistakes in ordering
raw materials or supplies
Improve customer service by
knowing what products can be
shipped and when
Gain real time visibility of the
stocks
Check the goods flows by using
mobile devices
Get information and product
details
Prevent goods loss
With Platform One mobile users can

11. Warehouse Management
• With Platform One you gain direct
visibility of your inventory. Directly from
your mobile device you can optimize the
search of available goods and fulfill
orders.
• Platform one ensures a more efficient
warehouse management. Transfers,
receipts, shipments and availability
checks, are handled by mobile users
equipped with mobile devices
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12. Warehouse Management
• Stocks are managed in real time; this allows an automatic
update of the enterprise applications with remarkable
returns in terms of efficiency and law compliance.
• The use of Platform One on your mobile device is a time-
saving solution that offers advantages in terms of mistake
reduction and decreased use of paper-made documents.
• Platform One also allows to fully track your supply chain
(from raw materials receipt to production, and even
finished product sales), checking its performance and
working progress activities.
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13. Wharehouse Management
GN Printer Server:
• Platform One provides the right tool to control the label printing
process directly from mobile devices.
• Thereby employees’ efficacy is boosted, through time savings and
mistake avoidance. The label print process management with
Platform One makes easier to collect information about outgoing
products as well as about incoming goods from suppliers.
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14. Printer Server: Architecture
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15. GN Platform One – Area 2:
Shop floor Management
GN Platform One
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16. Shop Floor Management
The whole production process benefits from the use of Platform One.
• Through mobile devices, production workers will be able to:
• Platform One allows to immediately retrieve data about products in case
of mistakes along the production process.
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Track the
supply
chain
Check
shop floor
status
Monitor
production
orders
Manage the
packaging
process
Track
finished
products

17. GN Platform One – Area 3:
Salesforce Management
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18. Salesforce Management
• GN Platform One represents an optimal solution in the
salesforce management field where it can be applied to
mobile devices such as: Apple iPad and iPhone, Android
devices and Windows Mobile devices
• Salesforce is equipped with a flexible,
fast and intuitive tool able to support
operations such as:
– Managing accounts of specific customers
– Planning route sales
– Showing catalogues
– Controlling and confirming warehouse availabilities
– Printing sale documents such as invoices and sales receipts
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19. GN Platform One – Area 4:
Workforce Management
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20. Workforce Management
• Even in the workforce management field Platform One makes the
human resource planning process easier, it enables to:
– Manage and monitor employees activity, work orders and working
days
– Easily access to the application
– Manage travelling expenses and clock-in/clock-out
– Manage the whole application via web through an intuitive interface
• Automating these operations makes the employees’ workload
easier, gaining an increase in terms of efficiency and providing
faster activity reports.
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21. GN Platform One:
Components
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22. Components
• Platform One consists of a series of components ready for use and
available for several platforms that simplify the user interface:
• GN Mobile One is the GN’s answer to mobile computing needs. Through modular
and safety management solutions applied to mobile devices, Mobile One provides
long-distance interoperability between all your mobile devices and your ERP and
Database. Less of mistakes, less paper-made documents, higher productivity and
better decision-making process are just few of the advantages you can obtain with
Mobile One.
• GN RFID represents the solution designed by GN to implement RFID tecnology
within your enterprise.
• GN Label Print Process enables label printing straight on devices endowed with
GN Platform One and GN Mobile One Desktop Edition. It perfectly integrates with
Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One and Loftware (www.loftware.com) and it
provides a centralized management of the label print process.
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23. GN Platform One:
Main Transactions
GN Platform One
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24. Main Transactions
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25. Main Transactions
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26. Main Transactions
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27. Main Transactions
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28. Main Transactions
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29. GN Platform One:
Main Features
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30. Main Features
• Safety: data flowing through the connection among devices can be coded
using coding algorithms such as DES and AES.
• Scalability: the whole architecture is modular, therefore both low-cost
solution (with just one server) and more complex solution can be
designed.
• Flexibility: the component-based structure enables access only to specific
users, according to their competence.
• Data Integrity: GN Platform One has been designed to manage the
communication between remote applications and back-end systems,
assuring data integrity, even in case of connection problems.

31. References

32. International Presence

33. Gualtiero Biella
e-mail: gualtiero.biella@gninformatica.com
Fabio Sessantini
e-mail: fabio.sessantini@gninformatica.com