South Lyon , MI: User Solutions, Inc., has announced immediate availability of Resource Manager-DBTM with ERP Link. For the first time, Customers who have implemented ERP have a ready-made add-on to immediately improve their planning, scheduling, and tracking capabilities. Written in Visual Basic, using Microsoft AccessTM Database and Microsoft ExcelTM as a flexible report writer, Resource Manager-DB provides Customers unsurpassed flexibility for leveraging Excel on local PCs, and sharing data across a network. With a flexible design to integrate with most all ERP Systems, Resource Manager with ERP Link has worked with JDEdwardsTM, SAPTM, Real WorldTM, MAS 90TM, Exact (Macola)TM, PrisimTM. LawsonTM, ManManTM, MapicsTM, and many more.
Each ERP Link interface is optimized per
customer request. For example, the Exact / Macola Link
features a direct SQL connection with Macola Progression
SeriesTM software and Resource Manager-DB can read from and
write to numerous Macola Modules per customers specific
requirements.
Resource Manager-DB with ERP Link provides the user with the
best of breed approach by adding powerful and flexible
manufacturing planning, scheduling, and tracking features to
existing ERP Systems. Users can leverage their ERP System
data combined with familiar Microsoft OfficeTM to add Routings
and Shop Scheduling, “What-If” analysis plus
powerful Finite Capacity Planning and Scheduling. Resource
Manager-DB also supports Just-In-Time and Lean Manufacturing
techniques. The product features on-the-fly configuration
and rescheduling, allowing the user to see the benefits almost
immediately, without complicated analysis or set-ups.
Milwaukee Sign Company, located in
Grafton, WI, produces signage for major oil companies, quick
service restaurants and retailers in the U.S. and around the
world. According to Thomas Bohmann, Director, Strategic
Projects, "We've been using Macola for 6 years utilizing
Routings, Shop Floor Control & Manufacturing Cost
Accounting. Recently we analyzed our business and concluded
Production Order Processing provides us with all the
capabilities we need while saving us considerable
administrative costs & maintenance fees.
"Our one reservation during the decision
making process was the ability to schedule work centers
according to capacity restraints. This is when Macola suggested
I explore User Solutions' scheduling system Resource Manager,
as a possible link to Production Order Processing in Macola.
User Solutions was very receptive to our ideas and, after a
joint effort in understanding both systems, User Solutions has
customized a link between Macola & Resource Manager to
support our goals for automated integration.
"We are now able to import POP work orders
into Resource Manager for scheduling purposes using Value Added
Cost Types & Product Structure Costs to load the work
centers for capacity planning. Scheduled due dates are updated
in Resource Manager & automatically sent back to Macola to
update work order due dates & sales order required ship
dates.
"The capabilities of Resource Manager &
the link to Macola will give us the needed scheduling tool to
plan resources & confirm product ship dates for our
customers.
"Resource Manager is a cost effective software tool that goes
well beyond our needs, but has the flexibility where we can
utilize what we need & still maintain the integration of
our Macola modules without duplication of effort. I'm looking
forward to a continuing relation with User Solutions".
Resource Manager-DB contains many advanced
planning and scheduling features normally found in systems
costing 10 times more. Resource Manager-DB features: alternate
routings, alternate workcenters, automatic optimization,
multiple constraints, and detailed workcenter calendars that
can be adjusted at any time. Now, inevitable labor
fluctuations, workcenter downtime, and unexpected material
shortages can be immediately accounted for, allowing the user
to regenerate a schedule with new priorities - on demand.
Real-time Resource Calendar reports include: Load Utilization,
Backlogs, Bottlenecks, Capacity Pockets and more. In addition,
a special Dynamic Reconfiguration allows the user to easily and
quickly reconfigure scheduled Production, on-the-fly, to
reflect reality.
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