Manufacturers looking to enhance customer service and raise operating efficiency need software to do more than work orders.

Solarsoft provide you with the tools to control and manage your inventory ensuring that capital is not tied up unnecessarily and protect production should problems arise with the supply chain.

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 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.

Features and Benefits

Key Benefits

• Better management information
• Improved productivity and plant utilization
• More effective sales order processing
• Seamless integration with customers and suppliers

Solarsoft offers manufacturers an integrated enterprise system specifically developed to meet the performance needs of medium sized businesses in discrete and process-based industries.

We take care of financials, production and inventory of course, but we understand the need to add value across all operations from quotations and configuration through to dispatch and delivery. 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 mVP platform, our manufacturing software uses Microsoft.NET technology for seamless integration with desktop applications. Rapidly installed and easy to learn, our software will deliver value from day one.

Detail

Management Information

Getting reliable and up-to-date information about what is happening within your business can be a complicated task. Most business owners know what their top selling product is - but which products contribute the most margin and which customers are buying those products?

The Management Information Option is easily mastered and presents key performance data for your business in a graphic “dashboard” giving you instant access to:

• Margin by product, supplier or customer
• Supplier price and delivery performance
• Patterns of sales by region or between products
• Stock turn, ageing and outages

What's more, with a few clicks of the mouse, a line-byline breakdown of the transactions behind each summary chart can be inspected or exported to Excel for further analysis.

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.

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

E-Commerce & Supply Chain Integration

The traditional back-office focus of ERP is a thing of the past. Modern enterprise software must be open and easily connected
to systems across the organization and up and down the supply chain.

Solarsoft has deep experience in traditional EDI messaging which is built to our manufacturing software. What’s more, the open services architecture supports modern XML based web services for low cost and maximum flexibility. Our manufacturing
 software can be set up to automate supply chain operations including:

• Catalogue feeds from suppliers and to customers
• Supplier and customer order entry and confirmation
• Invoice and payment confirmation
• Advanced shipment notices
• Statements and account enquires
• Gateway to Microsoft CRM

Production Management

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

Technology & Options

Built on our cross-vendor platform, mVP, Solarsoft for Distributors is a Windows based system that is modern, open, reliable and easy to use. Easily installed on low-cost industry standard servers, mVP is a low-risk investmentthat delivers a high return.

• Standard edition: Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server
• Open source edition: Linux and mySQL
• Relational database for ODBC access to data
• XML message support for flexible data exchange
• Built-in data migration tools for rapid implementation
• Compatible with a wide range of warehouse and yard automation equipment such as WiFi handheld devices and barcode scanners

mVP supports the Solarsoft Open Services Architecture (SOSA), a data gateway that allows systems to be easily and securely connected to business partners and customers via simple web services. SOSA compliance means that mVP also supports the full range of Solarsoft added-value Options plug-in applications that allow the core system to be extended as your business grows. Options include Web Sales for online customer service, our Warehouse Automation and Delivery Management Options for end-to-end barcode tracking and proof of delivery and the Management Information Option for graphic performance analysis.

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