ERP Plus for Flat Rolled Coil Processing
ERP Plus is designed to meet the unique needs of metal service centers. However, Flat Roll metals companies have business system requirements above and beyond those of general line, tubing or plate service centers. ERP Plus contains all of the necessary functionality to address these unique needs for companies involved in coil processing, slitting, blanking, leveling and other value added services.
There are numerous North American flat rolled service centers who are optimizing their businesses with ERP Plus. Of critical importance for these companies, is the ability to process quotes and sales orders in a rapid fashion, while ensuring that they capture all of the specifications, including chemical and physical attributes, from the customers. Unlike other software solutions, the quoting and order entry “engine” within ERP Plus is tailorable to meet specific company needs. This dynamic quote and order entry feature provides flat rolled companies with the flexibility to process quotes and sales orders, generates a multi-step production routing, automatically selects the optimal coil from inventory and seamlessly communicates production requirements to the warehouse.
History is vital to flat rolled companies and ERP Plus drives efficiency improvements throughout the facility through its easy use of historical data for items like quotes and sales orders. Re-using customer part numbers, quotes, quote lines, sales orders and sales order line items facilitates inside sales activities and improves overall customer service.
Once at the slitter, production activity can be reported wirelessly through built-in data collection, including bar coded coil handling and processing. Slitting Work Orders are created automatically from sales and provides features for arbor setup, multi-order slit order nesting and cut to length processing. Those companies involved in toll processing will also benefit from deployment of ERP Plus, as there are many unique features to manage scrap credits, coil traceability and flexibility for billing based upon both timing and weights. Coils can be sequenced using the “drag and drop” production scheduler and production results are immediately visible to all employees through standard coil processing portals delivered through the Verticent Scorecard module.
ERP Plus excels at improving the logistics functions of flat rolled service centers. The ERP Plus Shipping Workbench and Shipping Planner is the central repository for all things relating to delivery. Scheduling shipments, trucks, bays, appointments, resources, packaging and containers is all facilitated through ERP Plus. Whether you maintain your own fleet of trucks or outsource delivery to outside carriers, ERP Plus streamlines the loading, sequencing, scheduling and route planning of the logistics functions. All of this logistics functional depth, flows into the ERP Plus accounting modules so as to reduce time between delivery and invoice.
The bottom line is that ERP Plus improves profits, reduces costs and improves both customer and employee satisfaction for flat rolled service centers. ERP Plus is a comprehensive business system including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), e-Business, Intelligence Dashboards and is delivered on a leading technology platform, one that is rooted in Microsoft.
For more information on how Verticent solves the complex issues facing today’s flat rolled processors, contact us today.
