With the ever-growing possibilities of software requirements for all types of business, contributions made by software development companies cannot be ignored. One such development through the contribution of information technology is in the field of the learning system.

Growth in information technology has led to change from the traditional learning system which involves classrooms to the e- learning educational approach, which is an amalgamation of both conventional activities in the classroom and computer-based learning. Today, e-learning software is being used to grow educational opportunities and develop learning process. Therefore, wide range of custom e-learning software solutions are offered by software development companies to help and optimize the learning process, thereby making it more effectively.

Software development companies providing E-learning software development services can be divided into three broad categories, they are:

Home or individual use e-learning software development

Educational use e-learning software development, right from kindergartens to standard 12

Business training related e-learning software development in order to train company’s employees and uplift their knowledge with the modern trends in their sphere

In order to provide better visual learning experience e-learning software development company integrate high technological solutions along with professional expertise, thereby making the e-learning software highly effective for better understanding. Therefore, software development professionals make use of various 3D graphics, multimedia services, video-streaming services and other rich visual experience into e-learning software. This task could not only involve expertise in Flash/Flex, PHP and Java technologies, but would also involve the best educational knowledge and practices, which would help software development professionals, provide efficient learning solutions.

These software development companies provide e-learning software solutions which is equipped with highly powerful search engines, so that learners can get relevant data search results, thereby fulfilling the real purpose of e-learning software, which is to give access to the relevant knowledge domain. Furthermore, the e-learning software is highly compatible and easy to use allowing the learners to get the relevant learning material within a touch of a button.

Furthermore, this software can be customized and be made to integrate with overall unique software for schools, which includes software for:

Time Table Software: This program can prepare a complete timetable, which can help organize the daily activity of the teacher substitutions. It can also organize subjects; classes/period allocation/class teacher period etc and can also generate weekly timetable reports.

Fees Collection Software: This software can keep a track of school students billing records, while saving 90% of manual work, leading to paperless management.

Question Paper Software: question bank software helps in reducing hurdles involved in generating question papers and it also supports graphical diagrams, Images, pictures and scientific equations.

Admission Register Software: Admission Register Software helps in adding and maintaining student’s admission information as per the institutions formal process.

A company that intends to implement Supply Chain Management does not necessarily increase their competitive edge. Often times, companies fail to identify the key business issues that are closely related to the effective implementation of Supply Chain Management. The key business issue often related to the effective implementation of SCM in the business processes are market positioning.

A company decision in market positioning can be consider as one of the most important key business issues to be dealt with. Market positioning relates to the core competencies that they have and how they utilize it to get ahead from other competitors. In order to compete, non core competencies are outsourced in order to give more focus on their core competencies. By stock taking company’s internal strengths and weaknesses, a company can benchmark itself with other similar competitors. Through benchmarking, a company can restrategize its internal operation to favour the niche expertise that they have. Through restrategizing also, the company can decides which type of suppliers that they want in their supply chain so that they can position themselves in the correct market segment. According to Martin in his book “Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service”, the benchmarking can be set through these priorities as stated below:-

i) Which processes and entities in the supply chain are of strategic importance?
ii) Which processes and entities in the supply chain have a high relative impact on the business?
iii) Where there is a choice between ‘make’ or ‘buy’.
iv) Where there is internal readiness to change.

As an example, in the case of Zara, Spain’s most successful apparel companies. Zara’s market positioning is in direct competition with fashion giant such as Benetton, The Gap and The Limited. But since, the fashion industry is a time-based competition; Zara therefore has utilized SCM as a tool for competitive advantage by having a much quicker response systems in the industry. Zara operates effectively through two successful objectives, and those are, working without stocks and respond faster to market demands. Zara not only managed to create competitive edge by positioning itself as the fastest apparel companies to deliver its goods to the customers but also as a leader in the fashion industry.