February

​Firstly, thank you for all of your positive comments on the first blog post; I'm so glad that you enjoyed reading it. As a result, I'm back with blog number two!

IC-ENC is now half way through the first training course of 2015, which is being held here in Taunton for a two week period from 2nd – 13th February. Eleven delegates were selected to attend the course from various different regions of the world: Belgium, Egypt, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, and Spain. So far, the delegates have been learning about IC-ENC's roles and responsibilities, as well as its core processes such as how we download and register data from our members.


Some of the training course delegates enjoying their mid-morning break! From left to right: Tamer Nada; Mlungisi Buthelezi; Costica Furnica; Martien Coolgem; Elizaveta Ratner

The training course aims to provide the knowledge and skills required to carry out the various aspects of ENC Validation back at their home offices. In addition, delegates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of IC-ENC, the relevant international standards, and the content and construction of ENCs by validating ENC data and investigating the reported errors.

We also intend for our training courses to bring our members together to share ideas and build strong working relationships with one another, therefore showing us as a truly international organisation. In addition, the delegates also have the opportunity to meet and build working relationships with the team at the IC-ENC UK office.

There will be two more training courses delivered during 2015, one in Latin America and one in Australia. If you are interested in attending one of our training courses, please see the IC-ENC website or contact Mike Hawes (Course Instructor) at mike.hawes@ic-enc.org for more information.

We have also enjoyed a visit from Dr Mathias Jonas, IC-ENC Chairman, to the IC- ENC HQ office in Taunton on 5th February. Mathias was introduced to the course delegates before spending the rest of the day with the each member of the IC-ENC team to gain a full understanding of all the services IC-ENC provides, as well as some of the current project work that each team member is working on.


James Harper, Mathias Jonas and Mike Hawes

On the data front, IC-ENC has now released all of the Italian ENCs to the market place for distribution by our VARs. As a result, 253 additional ENCs have been added to our catalogue, which brings our total number of issued ENCs to 5,473!


Week 06/2015 IC-ENC Cell Totals

This month also saw the release of Real Time Reporting (RTR), the new IC-ENC business system, which has been one of Richard Northover's main projects since he joined as IC-ENC Commercial Manager in March 2014. The main features of the system include automated XML based sales orders, from VARs, submitted on a 24 hour basis via email, fully automated sales order processing, immediate automated VAR receipts or error reports via email, and automated monthly VAR invoicing. This new system will provide immediate benefits including a robust, streamlined and automated sales order process for both the VARs and IC-ENC with the elimination of manually induced errors. In addition, RTR will provide the ability to customise reporting for members on far more elements than has previously been possible.

Further afield, James will be attending the 6th Meeting of the RSAHC, which will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 9th – 11th February. James will be there to meet with current and potential members, so please do go and introduce yourself if you are also attending.

Looking ahead to September, IC-ENC is pleased to announce that this year's Steering Committee Meeting will be held in Munich from 7th – 8th September. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Munich – City Centre hotel. All invitations were sent out on Friday 23rd January, so please make every effort to respond by Monday 16th February, and if you have any questions please contact me at laura.tyzack@ic-enc.org.


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