In today's globalized markets, manufacturers and distributors are under sustained pressure to squeeze prices yet deliver more complex products to ever higher standards of quality and service.
Flexibility and rapid response to customer requirements are essential to success. Solarsoft provides a modern enterprise management system that focuses on the special needs of manufacturers and distributors in meeting these challenges. Solarsoft delivers:
- Clarity - better management information
- Revenue - more effective sales processes designed to maximize the value of every customer contact
- Productivity - higher utilization and efficiency across shop floor and warehouse
- Connectivity - integration and automation of operations up and down the supply chain for better accuracy and timeliness
Key Features in Solarsoft Manufacturing Products:
Management information
Get an instant feel for:
- Margin by product, supplier, customer
- Supplier / customer behavior and performance
- Stock turn, aging and outages, cost of carry
- Plant utilization and costings
- Drill down to get detailed line-by-line analysis
- Export to Excel
Production Planning
- Powerful and easy to configure reporting
- Rich order entry linked to product catalog
- Shop floor data collection and warehouse automation
- Real-time production monitoring
- Extensible user-defined properties
- Integral EDI and e-commerce
Powerful Reporting and Extractions Tools
- Built on Microsoft Reporting Services, Solarsoft offers a full range of build in reports.
- User defined reports may be easily added.
- Any screen data table may be exported to Excel.
Effective Sales Processes
- Rich order entry screens with full catalog and inventory data presented for each line item
- Standard and repeat orders for rapid capture of regular customer business
- Full support for forward order stock allocation, contracted delivery schedules and drop shipment and collections
- Promotions, and alternates to maximize upsell and cross-sell opportunities
Web Sales Option
- A complete web sales and account services system that is fully integrated with your core ERP system
- Business to Business (B2B)
- Secure account login
- Statements, copy invoices, order status
- Customer specific pricing and delivery
- Business to Consumer (B2C)
- “Walk-in” account creation
- Credit card payments
- Full integration of the web site with your core ERP system, provides customers with accurate, up-to-date inventory and price information
- Shared catalog data means no duplicate data entry and maintenance
- Non-technical users can update and modify the web site without knowledge of HTML or programming
Shop Floor Data Collection
- Fully integrated data capture system is robust and easy to use
- Accurate, real-time data collection
- Multi-function: time and attendance, WIP stop, start, suspend, resume operations etc
- Feeds standard timing analysis
- Industry standard hardware
- Touch screen
- Barcode scanner or card reader options
- Cost effective and easy to maintain
Real-time Production Monitoring
The optional Mattec Manufacturing Execution System (MES) can measure machine cycles as well as analogue and digital data captured directly from plant and machinery.
With Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) you can monitor manual operations and times too.
Together, the monitoring systems capture accurate and near real-time data about production and operations.
Historic data feeds the production manager’s dashboard, giving a clear insight into W/O progress, plant utilization and efficiency.
Warehouse Automation
- Integral support for wireless hand-held terminals provides out-of-the-box automation of all major warehouse operations.
- Extensive barcode and labeling support for rapid and accurate batch and serial number capture and trace.
- Perpetual inventory support for accurate stock and maximum “from-stock” delivery
Integral EDI and e-commerce
Solarsoft has broad experience in industries with tightly integrated supply chains. EDI and XML support is core to the design.
- Library of 7,500 EDI mappings available
- The open services architecture supports ready integration of web services for:
- Catalog load from suppliers and downstream distribution to customers
- Programmable interfaces for e-commerce (eg order input) and account inquiries
Flexible User-Defined Properties
Extensible property sheets may be used to extend the information captured against customers, products or any of the major data elements in the system.
Create custom forms for product data such as quality inspection results, environmental characteristics, performance and usage qualities
Add special attributes to customer data to capture marketing or sales characteristics, special credit terms etc.