iVP 5.3 (formerly CMSi5)

iVP is Solarsoft's flagship ERP platform for discrete manufacturing. iVP is designed for intensive supply chains and will help eliminate shipping errors and significantly tighten inventory accuracy and strengthen enterprise-wide control and supplier management.

Solarsoft's iVP is ideal for single plant to enterprise level discrete manufacturers including plastics & rubber, stamping and forge, automotive supply chain and general manufacturing in fast moving industries with highly integrated supply chains. In today’s supply chains, collaborating with trading partners, optimizing internal processes and controlling costs have never been more critical and challenging. Suppliers face high customer expectations- particularly in on-time order fulfilment and order accuracy – and pay a high price for failing to meet those expectations.

Solarsoft iVP allows you to vertically integrate your supply chain, so every change in your customer’s business immediately and seamlessly ripples through your and your suppliers’ enterprises. That level of supply chain control is a function of the amount and quality of the information collected, analyzed and shared within your enterprise and with your trading partners. Solarsoft provides that control with a robust and integrated ERP solution designed specific to your industry.

With built-in support for shop floor data collection and supply chain integration, Solarsoft will help bring clarity and efficiency to all your operations. Based on our proven iVP platform, our manufacturing software uses IBM System i server. Rapidly installed and easy to learn, our software will deliver value from day one.

At a glance:

Rock solid reliability for mission critical production management, comprehensive EDI features. Broad range of automotive industry specific features.

Features

Financials:

Multi-currency, multi-company, multi-period ledgers allow you to manage your business wherever it is. Release accounting linked to production reporting will take care of financials, production and inventory in fast moving supply chains. iVP will add value across all operations from quotations and configuration through to dispatch and delivery.

Supports EDI transaction sets for thousands of companies, including all major automotive OEM’s, major retail chains, distributors, and manufacturers. Solarsoft iVP provides a complete solution to meet the strict demands placed on our customers to meet supply chain requirements. EDI/Order Releasing, Shipping Management and Vendor Releasing are all components handled in Solarsoft iVP Release Accounting module.

Trading partners Master File
Vendor Releasing
Material Releasing / Shipping Schedules
Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN)
Inline Vehicle Sequencing (ILVS)
Material Releasing / Shipping Schedules

Sales Orders:

Our goal for sales order processing is to maximize the value of each customer contact. Rich order entry screens with catalogue images and data sheets and available-to-promise data for each line item help your sales team become expert advisers. Multiple sales order processing options with support for complex product configuration, pricing and deliver schedules.

Rapid access to historic orders accelerates entry for repeat business while a product configurator allows make-to-order quotations to be prepared accurately and easily.

Online account service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service offering for your customers.

Smart product search for fast, accurate order entry
Flexible product configurator for custom builds and quotations
Multiple price books with flexible discounts and breaks
Forward stock allocation, delivery and drop shipment

Inventory:

Multi-facility inventory management with inter-location movements and inventory availability. Goods on consignment. Multi-bin and multi-attribute directed put away and pick. Backflush from production. Lot and serial number traceability with warranty tracking. ASN and shipping interfaces.

Manufacturing:

Multi-plant operations with sophisticated and multiple methods of manufacture. Full production resource scheduling with MRP. JIT & Kanban. Built-in shop floor data collection and barcode reader/printer support. The graphical production planning workbench gives production managers a clear and accurate view of current and planned utilization across plants and cost centers:

Multiple capacity plans with drill down to individual machines and operators
Drag and drop control over production schedules
Multiple methods of manufacture and flexible BOM and Process Configurations
Touch screen shop floor data collection for accurate, real-time production reporting
Integrated barcode labeling and support for warehouse automation using wireless readers
Real-time machine monitoring options

Localisation:

Multi-language capable in single instance. English, Spanish and Mandarin (UNICODE) support. US and Canadian tax and regulatory reporting. Certified to Chinese accounting standards.

Other: Quality control and preventive maintenance. Time and attendance. Honda certified.

Technology

Client: Windows GUI written as self-installing Java application.

Server: IBM System I.

Database: IBM DB2.

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