Value Added Services for Metal Service Centers
In today’s economy, metal service centers continue to offer more and more value added services to their customers. These value added services increase customer retention, have higher margins and are a natural growth area for service centers, who to date had only offered cutting services. However, as companies grow the complexity of services, their software infrastructure is rarely able to keep pace, causing expensive and inefficient workarounds to track work in process, job costing and inventory usage.
Verticent has the functional depth to support a service center environment that offers these more comprehensive services. Fabrication, machining, coating, painting, rolling and forming are all supported as part of our multi-step work order routing. Not only is comprehensive routing, with machine scheduling, crew size tools and tooling and fixtures provided, but a multi-level Bill of Material (BOM) is provided to ensure accurate material usage and costing. Verticent delivers competitive advantages not found in any other metals focused ERP solution and solves the business issues that face metal service centers today.
It all begins with a Quote and Verticent captures material specs, processing requirements, outside processing, packaging and engineering details on the quote and subsequent sales order. Verticent even calculates a real-time Capable To Promise date based on capacity and material availability. These details become the work order shop schedule and pick list and coupled with the Verticent optimizer, the most efficient tag in inventory is selected to reduce remnants and material handling time.
Verticent provides flexible finite scheduling tools with Simulations to support important decision processes for sequencing jobs. Verticent provides real-time Work In Process (WIP) so that throughout processing. Sales and other users have visibility to status and as production changes occur, sales is notified via Verticent Workflow Messaging. It’s important to keep your “operators” operating and with our built-in RF Data Collection, we capture inventory moves, quality reporting and labor transactions with minimal operator interruption. This provides real-time production status to all departments.
Verticent’s Value Added Services features enable cost reductions and improved profit through automating and integrating all departments and business process flows. From Quote development to scanning a bar code to process the shipment, Verticent streamlines these more complex services, driving higher margins and increasing customer retention through an attitude of “one stop shopping”.
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