A New Business Unit

Oceanbreeze, aims strategically to be a leading solution provider of system integration services specifically tailored to support IT Services. This involves the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning software and the Genesys CTI software for electronic call and support centres.  It is important to stress that members that will populate the company have participated in or wholly implemented major projects relevant to the business objectives.

The participation of these people in the company highlights the new company’s ability to support expanding customer requirements.  As customer needs developed throughout the referenced territory of business activity, Oceanbreeze initiated action to meet these needs. 

The blend of the two outstanding technologies provides the customer with a full set of weapons to face the challenges of the contemporary competitive environment. This in general assures the customers that an immense pool of resources is available for their operating well-being.

 

Services

The company aims at:

Becoming a leading actor as a solution provider in the business sector of IT Services in the EMEA geo-market.

In order to accomplish such an objective the company has to:
• Identify the customer’s problem
• Outline the boundaries of the customer’s business
• Ensure that there is a solid team of people to support activities
• Provide sufficient evidence of technical background and know-how
• Acquire business alliances
• Market the above extensively with the use of contemporary methods
• Ensure capital resources
• Demonstrate efficient installations

The new installations will demonstrate:

• Solid and robust operating environment
• Swift implementation
• Ability to develop custom software to accommodate customer specific needs
•Safe navigation of the customers towards their goals

Cognitive Areas

Manufacturing Control and Planning

This area deals with inventory, distribution and production issues related to manufacturing companies. Projects that have been successfully completed, cover the design and implementation of these areas. The main objectives in this process are to optimise the systems and to ensure compliance to the state-of-the-practice international standards.

 

Management Information Systems

Such systems concern the development of the appropriate infrastructure for the customer’s management to obtain the information necessary for decision making. The projects within this area deal with the definition of the system boundary, design and implementation of the supporting applications. It is within this aspect that some projects deal with Data Warehousing or Reporting Systems that allow for the aggregation of data and subsequent meaningful interpretation.

 

Customer Relationship Management

This area deals with mechanics are necessary to achieve an infrastructure capable of clearly defining the exact needs that a customer has, processing his needs accurately and being able to provide sales statistics that are of future use to the supplier-customer relationship. The main objective in this process is to optimize the workflow of the system in order to ensure compliance to the state-of-the-practice international standards.

 

Management Information Systems

This concerns the development of the appropriate infrastructure, so that management can be aware of the necessary decision-making information. Within this aspect, dealing with Data Warehousing or Reporting Systems allows for the aggregation of data and their subsequent meaningful interpretation.

 

Supply Chain Logistics

Data becomes information only when accurate, in-time and complete. The monitoring therefore of the supply chain, from the supplier of the supplier up to the customer of the customer, is essential in order to obtain a consistent picture of the mechanics that support the company’s infrastructure. There is extensive knowledge of Logistics within the Industrial sector, Distribution sector as well as in the Retail & Wholesale business.

• Development of custom application software
• Management consulting in all the above areas
• Turn-key solutions that cover the entire project of conception, design, sizing, implementation, training and maintenance.
It is often a customer’s need, to design and build a number of satellite modules to this software, in order to cater for a set of company specific requirements. This issue is dealt with efficiently by Oceanbreeze. It evolves from the data collection and design stage all the way to delivering and maintaining the custom-to-suit application. This is regardless of the version of the application software or the hardware platform. One of our strongholds is that we do not design or propose only, but we deliver the turn-key solution as mentioned above. The exact tracking and control of the above areas constitutes the core of the company’s quality system. This system assists in the identification, successive reduction and eventually elimination of the quality deficiencies by introducing all the necessary preventive and corrective actions. This in effect ensures that the customers receive a timely delivery of products of services offered at a commonly accepted level of quality.

Who we are in the new business unit

Oceanbreeze., consists of professionals in the areas of Management Consulting, Information Technology as well as Manufacturing Planning and Control. The prime goal is that of implementing supply chain management application software. This blends with the development of custom software to suit the needs of customers along the lines of this integrated backbone. Oceanbreeze. is dedicated to promoting sales of SAP software and implementing its integrated supply chain solutions. The members of the company have significant experience in the above mentioned areas. Moreover they have interesting track records that prove accomplishment of complex supply chain implementations as well as large IT projects. To conclude, the expertise and specialisation of the company members spans over a wide range of cognitive areas that involve production planning, logistics, distribution, warehouse management, Master Data Management, Master Data Governance, Quality Control & Assurance procedures as well as industrial and marketing management. The growth of Oceanbreeze. is ensured by commitment to continuous investment. This is expressed in two major channels of action. One is successive training to contemporary techniques and tools that enable personnel to be consistent with technology trends. The knowledge of state-of-the-practice products and services as well as R&D will support inevitable expansion. The second is acquisitions of similar companies that may prove to be able to assist business activities. In effect, investment will be gladly directed towards that direction. The company’s perpetual goal will be to produce high quality deliverables that meet customer’s expectations. This has been the case for projects that its constituting members have participated in.
Our:
• Highly experienced professionals in Management Consultancy, Master Data Management and Information Technology
• High quality consulting services in business and industrial projects
• Products that have explicit company image and are diversified from competition
• Promotion Installation and Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software
• Positive customer's predisposition with the Information Technology area
• Close relationship with customers and partners
• Management's commitment to support changes through ongoing investments
• International experience
• Multicultural and multilingual background
• Shareholders commitment to investment

 

The Market

Entry into the EMEA market is envisioned to occur through existing prospects. In addition, the company is currently speculating orders for planned implementations by large local manufacturers as well as intermediate trading and/or re-selling of software environments to support implementations. Concurrent to supporting customer requirements, it is anticipated that marketing efforts will identify additional targets in the region. The objectives, as the company's management specified them, include:
• Support the supply of consulting services
• Increase company's profitability
• Maintain company's qualitative profile

 

Consequently, the objective set is:
• Increase of overall sales and supply of services

Areas addressed and vision:

• Buying out of smaller IT companies
• Increase of Marketing department's associates
• Increase of installations of the software securing a respectable perpetual customer base
• Consultant force increase in order to implement projects in smaller time horizons, to satisfy increasing demand
• Continuous training and re-training of employees that shall result in increased customers' confidence in the company which in effect results in indirect advertising
• Qualitative upgrading of services provided
• Increase in sales of the most profitable products
• Establishment of closer relationships with the customers or prospective clients
• Diversification of software from the competition through the effective utilization of the company's competitive advantages
• Establishment of a reliable company image
• Renovation of clientele using a planned penetration in attractive market segments with perspectives

Management Team

The management team has significant experience in the areas mentioned above. Moreover its members demonstrate international proven track records. These involve establishment of complex supply chain implementations, building sales and distribution networks as well as implementing large IT projects. To conclude, the expertise and specialization of the management team spans over a wide range of cognitive areas that involve the Supply Chain involving Distribution, Sales, Production Planning, Logistics, Inventory & Warehouse Management, Master Data Management, Master Data Governance, Quality Assurance & Control procedures as well as financials and marketing management