TOMAS makes possible:

• AUTOMATIC MATERIAL FLOW CONTROL, i.e. sinchronization of sales delivery due dates, inventories, orders to vendors and production work orders release.

• IMMEDIATE INSIGHT into operations of any part of the organization, what happens now, last few sconds or minutes.

• IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISIONS  in all parts of the organization (price policy changes, accounting practice etc).

• PERMANENT AND COMPREHENSIVE INSIGHT INTO PERFORMANCE OF THE ORGANIZATION AS A WHOLE and decision support by means of modern management techniques.

All this is achieved with low cost and easy to use system, without special requirements.

This is achieved thru the following properties of TOMAS:

• comprehensive - supports all relevant business functions

• integrality - TOMAS is truly integral solution, rather than set of partial applications, so that once entered transactions reflects on all aspects of business, without data transfer from one application to another, hence with no delay and inconsistencies.

• the whole database and informationbase are actually in one place, so there is no need to transfer data from one computer to another, again with delay and potential inconsistency.

• advanced management science techniques have been implemented (knowledge base, optimizations, simulations, analytical models etc.)

• speed of operations with several thousands database accesses/sec - without this speed the concepts buildt into TOMAS wouldnt be possible and only TOMAS achieves this speed on the low cost equipment, due to TOMAS' special development techniques.

TOMAS is the single solution on the market with this kind of capabilities. For all other information systems it is characteristic:

• consist out of several partial solutions for various business functions

• the purpose is mainly to support administrative functions and for lower levels of employees

• the data are held on more than one computer; from time to time, these data are (partialy) collected in smaller nr. of computers, hence, the data are permanently fragmented by applications and computers.

• dupplications and inconsistencies of data

• delays of needed information for decision support

• inadequate organization due to limitations imposed to management by information system (material code system, price policies, inventories etc are fragmented)

• unsufficient information for decision support

• alltogether, management never has complete and up to date business indicators, so the management is less effective.