Metal formers in tight supply-chain relationships rely on powerful ERP software systems to be competitive.

Solarsoft gives small and mid size metal formers unprecedented enterprise-wide control of all financial, purchasing, customer services, inventory, production, maintenance and shipping processes.

Stamping and Forge manufacturing

In today’s supply chains, increasingly tight performance and quality controls on second and third-tier suppliers – standards identical to those placed on the largest Tier 1 suppliers, Solarsoft offers control of all front and back office processes. And with metal-forming specific features, such as Coil Tracking, Material Certification and Tooling Management, Solarsoft is a vital tool for metal stamper and fabricators working to the needs of their demanding customers.

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 the stamping and forge industry.

Features and Benefits

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 stamping and forge 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.

Detail

Bar-Code Labeling / Serialization

Supports is designed primarily for companies who want to optimize inventory accuracy, but who also want to minimize the burden placed on their shop-floor worker and eliminate operations taking time and attention away from production tasks.  The use of serialized bar-code labels in on products and containers ( raw, WIP, and finished goods) throughout the enterprise, can achieve the required tracking results without added staff or custom software development.

Full serialization integrates the supply chain, inventory management, quality control, production and RF capabilities.  In Solarsoft, labels can be printed automatically – as often as required and in the user’s specified format.

• Supports part specific, Containers, master and mixed – load serialized labels
• Quick, easy and Real-time posting of all material-moves via serialized label movement
• Lot number referenced in each serialized label
• Hierarchical traceability

Sales Orders

Our goal for sales order processing is to maximize thevalue of each customer contact. Rich order entry screenswith 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 repeatbusiness while a product configurator allows make-to-orderquotations 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

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

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