Some facilities have an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution in place, however they usually suffer from a mainframe system that is rather inflexible. The stability and transactional trust an 80’s style mainframe brings is not without its issues. Regardless of it you are starting with pen and paper or if you entrenched with an ERP system, a Plant Management System can error-proof and scale up your business. Some key features of past projects have included:
- Customer Orders
- Order Status
- Bill of Lading / Shipment tracking and paperwork
- Deck space / Weight Calculations
- Truck Routing – for own trucks, full trucks or LTL
- Purchase Orders
- Receiving’s
- Yield Measurement
- Inventory Tracking
- WMS
- Production Scheduling
- Waste and Performance Reporting
- Machine Integration
As a primary system, these features can be put in place as modules, so you can start with only what you need for your current issues. As you grow and new pressure points are discovered, more modules can be built tailored to your needs.
Alternatively, as a supplemental “Middleware” for your existing ERP system, redundant, repetitive, or error prone work can be passed through a modern user interface before going into your existing system. With mainframe style ERP systems, application GUIs, or Web Interfaces, entry can be done directly into your solution using keyboard automation and screen visualization techniques. This enables us to ensure all your business logic, database triggers, and any other “gotchas” remain part of your transactional work, while removing typos, discrepancies, and other common problems.
We have past experience with a “Middleware” layer to integrate specifically with:
- VAI – Green Screen, GUI, and Web
- DMSi – Terminal and “Agility”, including WMS
- SAP
- Masterpoint / Centerpoint
- Software Application Programming Interfaces
- Web APIs
- Miscellaneous solutions backed by Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2, SQLite