Plastics and Rubber

Control and manage inventory, production and tooling for maximum yield, quality and efficiency.

In today’s supply chains, collaborating with trading partners, optimizing internal processes and controlling costs have never been more critical. Suppliers face high customer expectations and pay a high price for failing to meet those expectations.

Solarsoft allows you to integrate your supply chain, so every change in your customer’s business immediately and seamlessly ripples through your business and your suppliers. With a full range of features for tooling management and shop floor data collection, Solarsoft provides the control essential to driving performance in plastics and rubber manufacturing.

Key Benefits

• Better inventory accuracy
• Improved productivity and plant utilization
• 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 plastic and rubber 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.

Solarsoft provides features that are unique to plastic manufacturers:

• Tool Management
• Graphical Production Scheduling
• Real Time Production Monitoring
• Shelf Life Management

Production Management

The real time 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

EDI

Supports EDI transaction sets for thousands of companies, including all major automotive OEM’s, major retail chains, distributors, and manufacturers. Solarsoft  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 solution.

• Trading partners Master File
• Vendor Releasing
• Material Releasing / Shipping Schedules
• Advanced Shipping Notices (ASN)
• 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 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