Inventory application
Open Systems Holding Corp. has released an Inventory application for its TRAVERSE Accounting Business Software for Windows. The Inventory application includes: item status look-ups, safety stock alerts, valuation reporting, sales analysis, physical inventory worksheet and variance reports, trend analysis and inventory movement reports. The Inventory screens offer the end user maximum productivity. Tab stops at the bottom of the screen keep critical information such as location, aliases and alternative item selections at the user's fingertips. The setup has the same look and feel as Microsoft Excel and allows for quick navigation through the system to provide quick response to customers.

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Accident investigation video
Practical Accident Investigation Series is a new video-based interactive training program developed by DNV Loss Control Management. The training program includes a series of three interlinked Accident Investigation video modules, each approximately 20 minutes long, with accompanying discussion leader's guide and participants' workbook. Complete scenarios without interaction are provided on a fourth videotape. Upon completion of the video series, employees will be able to conduct expert accident investigations in their areas. In the process, they will learn the principles of accident prevention.

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Flow manufacturing software
American Software has introduced Flow Manufacturing, which provides automated support of the manufacturing process that bonds production to specific customer demand. With Flow Manufacturing, repetitive and other manufacturers can change production mix and volume on-the-fly and achieve significant reductions in cycle time. Flow Manufacturing incorporates mixed model planning, mixed model line design, flow-based costing and kanban support. The software, which helps eliminate all non-value-added activities from production, can also be easily integrated with enterprise resource planning systems from American Software or other vendors. Other features include automatic backflushing, guided event sequencing between inventory receipt and product shipment and functionality that can be extended across several manufacturing lines.

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ERP software
PeopleSoft, Inc. has released PeopleSoft Manufacturing, an integrated suite of applications that streamline, automate and augment business processes to provide a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. PeopleSoft Manufacturing is based on an advanced real-time planning and scheduling system; integrated product configuration capabilities; a highly customizable, flexible architecture; and embedded workflow technology. The software is targeted at discrete manufacturers with production environments such as make-, build-, and configure-to-order, as well as repetitive, mixed mode, and make-to-stock. This first release of PeopleSoft Manufacturing focuses on four core business processes, each of which spans multiple functions: planning to production, order creation to cash receipt, procurement to payment, and managing the enterprise.

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Supply chain management
Datalogix International Inc. has introduced software that now enables process manufacturers to exchange critical supply chain information over the World Wide Web. Customers, plants, suppliers and salespeople can now connect to Datalogix' CIMPRO applications with Web browsers to place orders, share manufacturing data and analyze sales information over the Internet. This Internet approach is more cost-effective than dedicated network connections and more efficient than voice phones and the mail. The new Web-enabled CIMPRO allows mid-sized chemical, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, biotechnology companies and other manufacturers to provide inexpensive access to their inventory, ordering and manufacturing information. CIMPRO's Web client includes performance accelerators that take advantage of the Internet's architecture. The Web client downloads and reuses critical system information, such as screen formats and dictionary elements, until changes are made to the host versions. This reduces time-consuming data transfer over the network.

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Warehouse management system
OPTUM Software has released MOVE 5.3 -- a warehouse management system. MOVE 5.3 offers a broad set of functionality and configurability enhancements for key features such as cross-docking, a Logistics Information Management System, order management and standard interfaces to third-party software. MOVE supports radio frequency-directed operations, material handling equipment interfaces, cross-docking, task planning, productivity management, real-time labor forecasting, and scheduling. Designed to operate in UNIX environments, MOVE utilizes a client/server object-oriented architecture and uses bar coding equipment.

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EDI software
SupplyTech has released version 1.1.3.0 of STX for Windows, an electronic data interchange (EDI) software suite that allows users to manage and exchange documents in standard electronic formats. The new release offers an improved Windows graphical user interface, with more advanced button bars and drop-down menus that make the interface more user-friendly and intuitive. It also offers an enhanced version of its STFORMS feature that now supports Microsoft's OLE technology, so objects such as spreadsheets can be embedded in EDI documents. A new module, STSECURITY, enables users to perform secure EDI over the Internet. The PDF Adobe Viewer allows users to place virtually any document in a PDF format into an EDI transaction. The software features an enhanced Automatic Operations, which allows users to perform unattended operations like external transfers, auditing and bundling.

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Wireless connectivity
AllianceWare 2000, from Alliance Systems Inc., is a family of inter-networking software products. AllianceWare 2000 provides high-speed, enterprisewide connectivity solutions across multiple wireless and wireline data networks including ARDIS, RAM Mobile Data, Cellular CDPD and Circuit Switched, and Motorola and Ericsson Private Networks. By supporting native host protocols, the need for external agent processes is eliminated, thereby allowing connectivity and increased functionality with virtually no modification to existing legacy applications or systems. AllianceWare 2000 provides visibility into message processing at the system, module, user and driver levels. A system watchdog process provides fault tolerance and error recovery. Because AllianceWare 2000 is horizontally and vertically scaleable, the software allows the user to expand the system by simply adding new hardware and software features rather than replacing the entire system.

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Enterprise resource planning
Pivotpoint, Inc., has introduced version 3.0 of Point.Man, its client/server enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Point.Man 3.0 adds four new modules -- Engineering Change Control, Financial Report Writer, Purchase Requisitions and Actual Costing. The Engineering Change Control module enables the user to track parts and corresponding documentation by historical, current and future engineering revisions. The Financial Report Writer enables the user to design and execute financial statements unique to each department, division or company. The Purchase Requisitions Module allows the creation and electronic routing and approval of material requisitions prior to creation of a purchase order. The Actual Costing Module values inventory based on actual procurement and production costs. Point.Man also includes enhancements to 19 other modules.

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MES module
The Automation Tool Kit (ATK) is a new MESA system module from Camstar Systems, Inc. Camstar's MESA is a manufacturing execution system (MES) designed to track, gather, analyze and report data generated on the manufacturing shop floor. The multi-platform ATK module permits the MESA system to manage shop floor operations through a simple set of API interfaces with cell level SCADA systems. With ATK, the MESA system now is able to manage an entire manufacturing process, to instruct cell units, and to start transactions causing work to be done.The ATK module runs on Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 and communicates with MESA through standard TCP/IP protocols.

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Process ERP software
Marcam Corp. has released Protean 2.0, an enhanced version of its ERP software. This release represents Marcam's next step in compliance with Microsoft technologies, delivering a fully 32-bit application that enables users to take advantage of ERP through Windows NT and Windows 95. Users can also link Protean 2.0 seamlessly to other applications through Marcam's use of Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) technology. The software offers two new applications: Plant Planning and Quick Scheduler. Plant Planning offers simultaneous planning of materials, capacity and all the resources critical to the production environment. Quick Scheduler, fully integrated with Plant Planning, enables manufacturers to rapidly fine-tune production schedules.

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Business process reengineering
WizdomWorks!, from Wizdom Systems, Inc., is a suite of business reengineering software tools. With WizdomWorks!, the user is able to model and analyze business processes from the standpoint of cost, sequential flow, lead time and quality relationships. Analysis is made easy as the user builds "what-if" scenarios to judge implementation. The WizdomWorks! suite consists of Document Manager 9000, ProcessWorks! and DataWorks! software.

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Internet security feature
SupplyTech has introduced STSECURITY. STSECURITY, a subsystem of STX for Windows, is a new module that enables users to perform secure electronic data interchange (EDI) over the Internet. It supports open standards allowing it to work with any other security product that also uses open Internet security standards such as MOSS, PGP, and S/MIME. STSECURITY uses public key, private key methodology allowing for encryption and authentication of transactions.

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