A Shop Floor that is operating at high efficiency bodes well for your entire operation.
To remain competitive and efficient, accurate Shop Floor Reporting is essential. This is especially true in today’s competitive world and against the backdrop of current global supply chain challenges. More than ever, your management team and production schedulers simply can’t afford to have blind spots which prevent them from having access to timely and actionable information.
Here’s a checklist of common pain points which may be preventing enterprise-wide visibility of your operations and how best-in-class shop floor data collection can transform your organization:
If your reporting is manual, can you trust it?
If data is being captured on paper, we need to talk. “Management by Clipboard” is a red flag and the metrics being captured are inadequate. For example, do you have real-time access to information about Quantities Produced, Components Used, and In/Out Labor times? How do you know it is up-to-date and accurate? Getting this information right and conveying it to all pertinent areas of your organization is vital. Tracking the materials that are consumed to make your products and the labor costs related to production is essential to maximum efficiencies.
Is your reporting timely?
Getting notification of a problem after it has already occurred wastes the opportunity to take preventive measures or corrective action. For visibility of labor and equipment resources to be useful it must be current and available to the right decision makers. If you’re experiencing component materials “Stock-Outs”, it’s important to ask why steps were not taken to avoid this production killer when it would have made a difference. Having to expedite Supplier Orders to make delivery deadlines almost always increases costs. Similarly, orders that are released to the Shop Floor only to find that critical materials or resources are not available is a clear indication of a communication breakdown.
The solution to Shop Floor dysfunction is remarkably simple:
A holistic approach to capturing data points makes transparency throughout your operations happen within days of integration. Attivo All-In-One, powered by SAP Business One, delivers these capabilities (among many others):
Automatically records real-time updates to all Production Orders
Work process data is available on multiple platforms and devices
End-to-end transparency of materials and time information for informed decision making
Logs sign-in and sign-out of Shop Floor production orders, increasing accountability
Real-time flagging of error conditions such as materials shortages
Attivo All-In-One, powered by SAP Business One has the most powerful and fully integrated analytic and reporting tools in the ERP software sector for small to mid-sized businesses. This makes it easier and more efficient to design and implement customized quality control processes and methods across your organization.
EBizCharge is a PCI-compliant credit card and eCheck solution that provides businesses with a faster and safer way of accepting customer payments. With integrations into Acumatica, Dynamics BC, NetSuite, and SAP B1, it eliminates late payments and decrease overall days outstanding.
Powering payments for over 400,000 users across the United States and Canada, EBizCharge allows businesses to securely accept transactions, anywhere and anytime.
We’ve seen firsthand how EBizCharge has streamlined customer payments and benefitted Attivo clients.
Products:
Acumatica payment integration
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central payment integration
NetSuite payment integration
SAP Business One payment integration
Mondial delivers a global financial reporting and compliance software platform. The platform is primarily for companies with multiple legal entities and distributed operations, who are in search of a single system for management, group, and statutory financial reporting.
Statutory Financial Reporting is not optional and Mondial manages consolidations for group companies that may operate several different ERP systems. Mondial provides visibility and features that provide assurance that financial reports are error free and compliant with the various requirements of each regulation.
Boyum IT Solutions is a certified and multi-awarded SAP Gold Partner, passionate about helping partners and customers reach new levels of success with software solutions that expand SAP Business One’s possibilities and functionality.
With the Boyum Pack suite of horizontal modules for system customization, dynamic Outlook integration and Produmex – best of breed manufacturing management, warehouse management and scanning solutions – there is something for everybody in Boyum’s product portfolio.
Founded in Denmark in 1997, Boyum IT has been implementing and supporting ERP Software for more than 15 years. Since the beginning, the philosophy has been to offer professional users a great and safe IT solution with high reliability and security. Boyum IT has a presence in almost 100 countries, 7000+ customers and over 140.000 users.
Our vision is to inspire companies to achieve sustainable growth and a competitive advantage. Now and in the future!
B1 Usability Package: The B1 Usability Package (B1UP) is an award-winning solution designed to enable you to customize and automate SAP Business One effortlessly, making it ready to face the most diverse scenarios and challenges.
B1UP brings a new depth of versatility to SAP Business One, ensuring a flawless user experience and giving you the competitive edge that you need to drive your organization to success.
B1 Print & Delivery: B1 Print & Delivery (B1P&D) automates the entire communication flow in SAP Business One. It enables employees to maximize their productivity by handling day-to-day repetitive communication-related tasks, such as emailing, viewing, printing, and saving documents and reports.
B1P&D also boosts team synergy by delivering customized messages through collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams or Slack, as well as sending activities and internal messages within SAP Business One to your team members. All of this is entirely automated. Let B1 Print & Delivery take care of the work, while your team focuses on achieving their business objectives.
Build – Cloud Apps: Product design and management – Supporting product development and production departments in launching new or evolving products, to get from idea to production quickly
Produce – Cloud Apps: Shop floor management – A collaborative workflow between production management and the shop floor, for enabling production planning and understanding work done
Inspect – Cloud Apps: Quality control application – Create consistent quality testing plans to measure the success of your production, the quality of your suppliers, and discover ways to improve
Produmex Scan: Comprehensive warehouse management solution for SAP Business One that can transform your logistics processes into finely tuned operations that drive productivity and profitability in your supply chain. The solution supports multiple warehouses and operators, processing high volumes of transactions all while maintaining high performance
Produmex WMS: Produmex Scan is a robust and reliable barcode scanning solution for SAP Business One that seamlessly automates warehouse and inventory transactions. The solution supports multiple warehouse operators, processing high volumes of transactions while maintaining high performance
WiSys was founded in 2004 by Bruce Hollinger, who also founded Macola Software. His intimate knowledge of the Exact Software platform helped turn WiSys into the go-to warehouse management solution for ERP platforms. Over the course of the past 12 years, The Attivo Group has worked hand in hand with WiSys on dozens of implementations for our clients. Their development and support team often serves as a seamless extension of our own team. It is our strong relationship with the entire WiSys team that allows us to collaborate on complex problems and find creative solutions.
WiSys warehouse management software is designed to help you take control of your entire supply chain. Integrating seamlessly with ERP software solutions, WiSys is a perfect compliment to lean your manufacturing and distribution efforts. Whether it be upstream activities or downstream activities, WiSys’ full compliment of modules can save you money and help you better serve your customers.
Tipalti is a global leader in payables automation and spend management, designed to seamlessly integrate into SAP B1 and your wider tech stack. Focused on minimizing the time your finance team spends on manual payables processes, while helping to speed up your financial close, Tipalti helps teams improve cash flow visibility, while alleviating the amount of manual work your team spends on the payables process. Many customers experience a cost savings of up to 80% of their accounts payable processing costs using Tipalti!
Designed to seamlessly integrate with your ERP system, Tipalti helps ensure that your payables process fits effortlessly into your financial operations, without holding your business back from scaling to the next level. Automate the receipt of accounts payable invoices and payment of your suppliers.
Future-proof global payables operations with the ability to manage complex, mutli-entity subsidiary structures, with reporting back to your ERP system. Offer True Global Payables with the ability to transact in 196 countries and 120 currencies.
Proactively prevent fraud with detailed payee monitoring; global capabilities, deep audit trails and notes help provide your business more control, while helping you mitigate risk exposure.
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Maximise your Margins with the Number 1 Inventory Platform for SME’s
The easy to use, powerful, cloud platform to help you manage your Stock, Customers & Suppliers all in one solution. Stop running your business with basic accounting and excel spreadsheets. Get an All in One cloud-software with CRM, Service, Accounting and Banking to streamline your business activities. Enterpryze is a revolutionary platform for growing SMEs looking to modernize and simplify business processes. They help SMEs by providing a fully integrated business management system (inventory, finance, sales, CRM, stock management, manufacturing, distribution, scheduling, expenses, reporting, services etc.) securely in the cloud. Enterpryze is one of the most trusted business management solutions. With thousands of users over the world. It is the perfect solution for your business to reach new growth heights.
Also, Enterpryze is completely compatible with SAP Business One, thousands of users all over the world who have connected the Enterpryze solution to their SAP Business One to extend the reach of their system, with a seamless integration.
While every company seeks to reduce expenses and improve efficiency, the logistics are often difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to streamline processes. To address this very common challenge, Attivo Group has partnered with CompuTec SA to offer the ProcessForce solution, which extends SAP Business One to handle complex manufacturing needs.
CompuTec SA has developed multiple ERP, manufacturing and warehousing integrations that boost the prolific platform that is SAP Business One. Their expert knowledge in production processes have produced functionally rich, uniform and user-friendly solutions for their clients. ProcessForce delivers complex answers to multiple challenges in the production process and is currently deployed in over 350 SMEs. It also provides product data (traceability), production process management, quality control and complaint management.
CompuTec SA became and SAP Partner in 2006 and received Gold Partner status in 2009 and is currently the most awarded SAP Partner in Central and Eastern Europe, with customers in over 60 countries on 5 continents. Attivo Group is proud to be a valued partner of CompuTec SA.
PayNation, specializes in optimizing and securing payment environments, while providing the best rates possible. Fulfill all your incoming customer payment needs with the Advanced Payment Gateway. Make payments simple with a platform that allows you to process and manage transactions – from anywhere you need, safely and securely.
PayNation created their payment technology services to provide payment processing, proprietary technology, and omni-channel payment acceptance solutions. PayNation’s platform was created to make life a little easier, with a suite of value-added payment tools to help B2B companies accept payments in a simple and secure environment. Their solutions are built to scale each growing business and device, big or small. PayNation specializes in manufacturing, distributors, wholesalers, e-commerce, and SAAS technology companies.
A whole new way to process payments, which allows merchants the ease of payment to capitalize on new payment opportunities, PayNation powers your success every step of the way.
This payment platform provides a unified solution that streamlines your processes and removes the complexity of multiple vendors.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) were developed to minimize fraud and improve transaction security for the payment card industry. PayNation offers intensive penetration testing and compliance with PCI DSS standards for optimum payment protection while reducing your processing costs for PCI compliance.
Consumers today facilitate commerce from multiple points of entry and interaction. PayNation ensures your business offers a multichannel approach to provide customers with a seamless shopping experience, whether you are shopping online from a desktop or mobile device, by telephone, or in a brick-and-mortar store.
This platform technology is predicated on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to offer integration assistance, for a customized technology strategy and go-to-market payments approach.
The training component includes an online chat, email, or phone call support modules. Regular assistance includes comprehensive training materials, live weekly webinars, and personal demonstrations.
It’s simple…increase productivity and spend less time worrying about time-consuming billing or reconciliation using the many programmed payment options available through PayNation.
Providing quality job management and project management solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, Eralis Software has partnered with SAP and The Attivo Group to offer SAP-certified companion solutions for SAP Business One.
Many service-based businesses face common challenges every day, from tracking projects to staying within budget and minding every detail in between. Increase visibility and gain control of your costs, profits, and progress with Eralis Software and its many add-ons to streamline processes and much more.
Eralis Software (formerly Enterprise Software), has been an SAP Business One Partner since 2006. They have developed full-featured job costing and project management solutions to extend the power of SAP Business One. They have enabled more than 400 customers around the world with Eralis, to solve unique job costing, scheduling and reporting challenges, as well as project management, project accounting and even rental equipment requirements.
The industries Eralis Software particularly enables include Commercial Sales & Service, Industrial Service, Trade Contractors, Engineering Firms, Management Consulting Firms and Software & Technology Firms. With offices and partners throughout the world, they are a recognized leader in the field of Job Costing and Project Management for SAP Business One.
To learn more about Eralis Software and how the Eralis suite of extensions to SAP Business One can solve your job costing and project management challenges, Contact Us.
AchieveIT Solutions is a leading provider of SAP Business One based business management software. With Over 24 years in the ERP industry and helping companies worldwide organize their operations, AchieveIT provides businesses with the right softwaresolutions to support any needs and challenges of your business.
Achieve IT has been a Gold Partner of SAP Business One since 2005, and to implement and make the most of your SAP Business One software, Achieve It experts will assist you:
Achieve IT also offers innovative software products that expand SAP Business which includes Resolve and Resolve+ Mobility.Resolve is a fully integrated application suite of distribution, logistics, and warehouse management software designed to optimize freight shipping and warehouse operations.
Achieve IT has partnered with the Attivo Group to provide you with the best-in-class support services for your SAP Business One software systems. Contact us to find out how we can bring streamlined and efficient operations to your distribution business