December 1996 € Volume 6 € Number 12
December 1996 € Volume 6 € Number 12
Optimax has announced a new Internet-enabled "available-to-promise" product, OptiFlex ATP. The software allows dealers, sales representatives and customers outside the factory to check on product availability and enter orders remotely via the Internet or other communications channels and receive an immediate response and confirmation of the factory's ability to fill their order. OptiFlex ATP doesn't simply match orders to pre-planned production slots, but actually determines the factory's ability to fulfill an order by checking detailed constraints such as machine capacity, material availability, labor and logistics. OptiFlex ATP is a client/server-based software product. It allows the user to construct an order, query the factory for a desired or best-available delivery date, and confirm a reserved position in the product schedule. A single OptiFlex server handling transactions for scheduling can be accessed by multiple customized client applications for the purpose of production management and planning.
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MDIS has announced the availability of three new applications for its Chess ERP solution. The new Service and Repair, Field Service and Fixed Assets applications offer increased system functionality. The Service and Repair application supports a firm's goal to quickly respond to its customer's service needs by controlling the entire service and repair cycle. The application provides the ability to manage service contracts, launch service and repair orders, define service job requirements and more. The Field Service application provides the tools for tracking and executing service calls from the user's support center or the customer's site. It manages all aspects of field service including sourcing appropriate service resources, escalating service calls and performing service follow-up. The Fixed Assets application allows users to maintain and track corporate fixed assets. It features asset registration and classification, composite assets, asset tagging, asset retirement, numerous depreciation methods and general ledger integration.
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LK Global Manufacturing Systems, Inc., formerly Online Applications, has announced the newest addition to the MTMS ERP/MRP Software package-MTMS Client. The new Client can support not only PCs, but dumb terminals, existing first generation GUI or the new powerful GUI of the MTMS Client-simultaneously-thereby offering cost savings to many clients with dumb terminals or lower level PCs. It achieves this by allowing the building of a subclient side GUI application, which allows extensive flexibility without compromising centralized administration and management function. MTMS offers 16 modules with more than 4,000 applications and covers all aspects of manufacturing, from order entry to shipping.
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Systems Modeling Corp. and the CIMulation Centre have released Preactor 400, a finite capacity scheduling system that can be seamlessly integrated with ERP/MRP and other information systems. Preactor 400's intuitive graphical interface makes generating schedules and interacting with them easy for those making critical shop floor decisions. Its features make it equally adaptable to both discrete part industries and process industries. It is easy to set up and use, generates schedules in seconds or minutes, and can be installed at a reasonable price. Preactor 400 is available for PCs running Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT.
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Smith, Birchbauer & Associates has developed Forecasting for Demand (FD) to support formal business planning processes advocated by leading industry consultants and world-class manufacturers and distributors. FD provides a better approach to demand forecasting by integrating a company's historical sales data with product management and sales representative intelligence. FD establishes performance measurements that directly support sales and operations planning. FD forecasts become "self-fulfilling prophecies" that provide an organization with accurate demand projects that continually improve. With its intuitive graphical user interface and open client/server architecture, FD fits into all corporate information plans.
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Smart Software has released Version 4.1 of SmartForecasts for Windows. This version of Smart Software's Windows-based demand forecasting and planning software combines a new multivariate analysis module with forecasting power and intuitive graphical user interface for increased ease of use. The product runs as a native 32-bit application under Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1x. SmartForecasts for Windows contains an Automatic Forecasting expert system to forecast sales and product demand together with a unique "Eyeball" adjustment feature to let users interactively adjust forecast results based on their business judgment. The software also has a multiple document interface that permits simultaneous displays of product demand data, forecast graphs and forecast reports. It has a flexible spreadsheet-style data table for easy display and editing of product data, as well as a versatile report editor for creating custom reports.
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Symbol Technologies' PPT 4600 pen-based radio frequency hand-held computer has been integrated into Prologic Management Systems' Warehouse Manager application tools. The Warehouse Manager uses Internet/intranet technologies to solve problems in the warehouse. The use of this technology allows warehousing solutions to be deployed on corporate intranets using Internet industry standards. Symbol PPT 4600 is a ruggedized pen computer which integrates the Symbol Spectrum24 local area network. This hand-held unit relies on Netscape Navigator, by Netscape Communications Corp., to provide an easy-to-use and familiar interface for warehouse personnel.
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Fygir, Inc. has released a new version of their finite capacity scheduling system on the Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. GRIP 2.0 offers increased functionality as well as an improvement in performance. GRIP offers the production planner an extensive range of functions to solve multi-constraint, multi-level problems which typically exist in the batch process industry, such as moving bottlenecks and sequencing. By directly simulating the critical resources on the shop floor on a one-to-one basis, the planner is able to quickly produce a feasible schedule. The graphical plan board also allows what-if scenarios to be evaluated before deciding upon which alternative plan to proceed with. GRIP easily handles the varying complexity within the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and brewing industries.
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TimeCentre 2.0 from Konetix, Inc., is a Windows-based time and attendance system for managing timekeeping, scheduling and job costing. Version 2.0 is built on an open system platform using Microsoft Access. TimeCentre can be changed to meet a company's needs with customized reports, entry forms, queries and data objects. It also provides an enhanced scheduling feature that allows the creation of an unlimited number of recurring schedules. These schedules can then be tied with their own rule set to produce employee attendance, assignment, variance and exception reports. To facilitate the use of TimeCentre 2.0, Konetix includes a full line of electronic data clocks that capture data with keypad entry, magnetic cards, bar code cards or wands. Networked data clocks are available for real-time transmission.
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