iVP – ERP for Discrete Manufacturing

Right product, right customer, right time? You bet.

Solarsoft's flagship ERP software for discrete manufacturing, iVP is designed for intensive supply chains. iVP helps eliminate shipping errors, tighten inventory accuracy, and strengthen enterprise-wide control and supplier management.

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Make complex production easier

Looking for tighter supply chain integration, improved efficiency, standard EDI mapping and robust traceability? Solarsoft can help. Designed with medium sized discrete and repetitive process manufacturers in mind, we help keep your business on the right track.

Customized for your industry from quotations, financials, and inventory all the way to EDI mapping, product configuration, production and shipping, Solarsoft iVP brings value with quick implementation and ease of use. With built-in support for your most important requirements, Solarsoft iVP can be deployed on-premise or as a cloud option.

Built for your industry

The Solarsoft iVP ERP system is used in a wide range of manufacturing operations from agile make-to-order applications to repetitive production under long-term supply contracts:

• Metal processing
• Forming and stamping
• Plastic injection molding and extrusion
• Plastic sheet thermoforming and processing
• Electronic assembly and components
• Fastenings and springs
• Chemical supplies
• Leisure products

Infrastructure options

Whatever your infrastructure demands, we have the right option for you. Looking for a fully managed system and a simple monthly fee? Done. How about hardware installed on-site while we handle all the day-to-day hardware maintenance? Done. We remove distractions-while you focus on making things, we'll take care of your ERP system.

• Solarsoft iVP in the cloud
• Customer-owned infrastructure with Solarsoft Managed Services
• Traditional customer-owned server infrastructure

Management dashboards

Decisions are easy when the facts are clear. Business Intelligence gives you a complete picture so that you can act quickly and see new possibilities. Our dashboards bring graphic clarity to your key performance indicators (KPIs), and provide reliable, real-time information about what is happening in and across your business.

Detailed information and reports for bar-coded activity, real-time production verification, work-in-progress at specific locations, and up-to-the-minute financial information are available instantly. One dashboard can replace dozens of paper reports, turning raw data into answers and action. Easily spot trends, and explore opportunities with just a few mouse clicks.

Robust traceability

Look no further for software that tracks your products through the entire supply chain and helps prevent future recalls. We help you pinpoint the origin of each unit within your manufacturing process, making recall management easy, should one hit. Complete up-down traceability keeps you ahead of regulatory requirements, eases risk and limits negative impact to your bottom line.

Award-winning EDI

Reducing manual processes with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a must to connect your entire supply chain. No matter what you make, EDI eliminates errors, slashes costs, and speeds up your cash cycle. With thousands of existing maps, any-to-any connectivity for major OEMs and award-winning automotive suppliers as customers, Solarsoft is the right choice for the complex supply chain.

Efficient inventory management

From receiving to shipping, we help with efficient warehouse operations, increased inventory accuracy, and timely delivery. Multiple warehouses and bin types, and optional bin-level stock control are available with full support for manufactured, purchased, work-in-progress and finished goods inventory tracking. Easily define specific replenishment criteria, using e-Kanban, re-order point, and demand fulfillment (make-to-order) requirements.

• Bar-coded, RF-enabled transactions
• Electronic e-Kanban available
• Inventory serialization 
• Hierarchical traceability

Advanced production scheduling

Production scheduling is a breeze when you can gather, assemble and apply information for planning, scheduling and cost analysis automatically and right in your ERP system. Your team will solve bottlenecks before they happen with optimized manufacturing routings and individual item scheduling:

• Access production schedules at-a-glance
• Change the schedule on-the-fly to meet customer demand with drag & drop of production operations on an easy-to-use Gantt chart
• Easily see gaps in capacity usage
• Pinpoint bottlenecks ahead of scheduled runs
• Support for both work order and repetitive environments
• Full integration of resource and tooling maintenance

Financials

Solarsoft iVP allows you to manage your business wherever it is and take care of financials, production and inventory in fast moving supply chains. Solarsoft iVP features:

• Multi-currency, multi-company, multi-period ledgers
• Release Accounting linked to production reporting
• EDI transaction sets for thousands of companies, including all major automotive OEM's, major retail chains, distributors, and manufacturers.