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Businesscore 360
In today’s competitive Fenestration Industry, it’s hard for Window & Door manufacturers to be competitive without a strong suited ERP system.
The BusinessCore360 integrated system offers improved competitiveness which results in improved profitability all accomplished though powerful and specialized solutions that make running your business, quick, easy, cost effective and efficient.
General, large, heavy, confusing, ERP providers simply can’t provide highly targeted, industry-specific solutions except through expensive and time-consuming customizations. You know the kind…The kind that need years of training to understand and requires the expense of customizing everything from the beginning with no end in sight…a system that only works well and performs where you don’t need it to?
Our industry focus ensures that we continually develop with industry specific needs in mind and evolve with your business. This means that as the industry changes, so will we. No more expensive system selection, training, and implementation processes to deal with.
Decisional Support for Management
BusinessCore360 gives management the information needed to make timely decisions based on facts instead of guesses. BusinessCore360 tracks orders, inventory, WIP production capacity, process schedules, quality control, documentation, and a host of other activities critical to company success. All this available in real time because you don’t want to deal with errors that come from using yesterday’s data.
Adaptability to Your Business
You can easily customize BusinessCore360 to use your own business terminology, measurement systems, work patterns, and other unique aspects.
Manufacturing Execution Work-Flow System functions
With these functions already integrated into the BusinessCore360 system. You achieve an enterprise-wide, real-time view of your complete manufacturing environment. The result is improved production performance, a timely focus on shop floor activities, and a faster response to internal and external changes.
Quotation Engineering and Estimating
BusinessCore360 uses real-time production and material cost to prepare new estimates and quotations to increase accuracy and reduce turn-time in estimating and quoting.
Inventory Management
BusinessCore360 contains a full material management system with perpetual material requirements planning, detailed multilevel BOM, kit preparation and audit, material shortage management, internal, supplier, and customer inventories, what-if simulations, and purchase management.
Production Scheduling
BusinessCore360 provides automated continuous process and activity scheduling. The system queues jobs by priority, delivery dates, flags bottlenecks and process delays.
Work Order Instructions
There is no more guess work with BusinessCore360. Employees use equipment and process setup instructions, engineering change orders, parts lists, quality guidelines, and other special instructions.
Quality Control Statistics
BusinessCore360 provides quality analysis through many reports and Graphs. Monitoring of Corrective Action Requests, team progress by team members or groups.
Built-in Best Practices
BusinessCore360 can manage all pertinent production documentation. Change Orders, Corrective Actions, Preventative Actions, Part and Manufacturer Drawings, and detailed Bill of Materials.
Accounting and Financial System
A complete accounting system gathers data continuously from other system modules to provide up-to-date accounting ledgers and financial reports. Batch controlled “end of period” features ensure accuracy and data reliability.
Reports and Forms
BusinessCore360 includes a multitude comprehensive standard reports, charts, graphs, labels, and forms with more added regularly. Reports can be date ranged and sorted by work order and customer. Reports can be printed, displayed on screen, faxed, emailed from the system, or exported to other software packages. Forms such as invoices and packing slips can be printed online or in batch mode.
Modular System to Monetize ROI
BusinessCore360 is built on a core structure with many add-on modules. This enables both small and large companies to tailor the system to their needs and budget. The modular structure delivers a high return on investment because you can elect only to purchase the modules you need now. Additional modules can be added and easily implemented in the future as they are needed.
Full Feature Set
Quotation / Orders
- Multi-companie
- Multilingual
- Shipment schedule by route
- Automatic discount management and processing (customer, products, categories, formulas)
- Automatic fee management and processing (products, options, categories, etc)
- Full copy of existing orders
- Full copy of items in existing orders
- Full or partial importation of existing quotations and orders
- Input through libraries with product rendering at scale, including options visualization
- Management of complex assemblies and irregular forms
- Customizable comments on customers or products
- Printing with scaled product renders of all items
- Mass edit to properties common to all items in quotation/order
- Advanced Search features on past quotations /orders
- BOM and RMAs available for all ordered items
- Automatic product entry according to specific rules
- Automatic product breakdown according to specific rules
- Easy access to production schedule
- Unlimited number of items in quotation/order
- Price change log
- Sales commission calculation
- Status change tracking with dates
- Shipping address on order or individual items
- Order confirmation by email, fax etc.
- All product configurations are preserved so old items can be opened with the same structure, prices etc.
- Product Return management
- Sales Statistics
Purchase Orders / Receiving
- Multi-companies
- Multiple measure units
- Regrouping units (boxes of x units, rolls of x meters, etc.);
- Price ranges according to ordered quantity
- Management of minimum quantity to be ordered, economic quantities, standard packages
- Automatic discount management and processing (global or per item)
- Automatic fee management and processing (global or per item)
- Price calculation formulas
- Price log available at input
- Multiple suppliers for one product
- Purchase requisitions available
- Regrouping of multiple purchase requisitions into one purchase order
- Effective tracking of back-ordered items
- Reception dates change log
- Order, reception and invoicing units
- Full copy of purchase order
- Comparison of purchase order, reception and invoicing documents against one another
- Document status tracking with dates
- Customizable comments per supplier and product
- Ability to order one item multiple times on the same purchase order
- Mass edit and update of purchase prices
- Contact list for each supplier
- Automatic generation of purchase orders according to rules specified in MRP module
- Full or partial receiving
- Receiving using Pocket PC and barcode reader
- Generation of quality control document upon receiving
- Inventory update upon reception
- Automatic closing of reception documents according to received quantities
- History of past purchase orders (closed) according to multiple criteria
- History of past receptions (closed) according to multiple criteria
- Automatic configuration of purchase orders via E-Mail or fax
- Product return management
- Purchase statistics
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Definition of minimum stock in inventory by product, warehouse and time period
- Definition of sales forecast in order to plan material need
- Definition of minimum quantities to buy from suppliers
- Automatic calculation of materials to purchase based on :
- Orders in production
- Sales forecast
- Back-ordered purchase orders
- Stocked inventory
- Etc.
- Efficient information layout (materials & timescale)
- Real-time material need calculation
- Automatic purchase order generation from planning rules
- Automatic generation of products made to stock
- Material selection rules
- Color-coded information for ease of consultation
- Information shown by day, week, month & year
Production Planning /Capacity Requirement Planning
- Definition of machine & resource speed
- Definition of workstations
- Function assignment per machine & resource
- Histogram view showing resource usage
- Work order management via drag & drop
- Clear and quick visualization of resources loaded over capacity.
- View by order, work order & production batch
- Validation based on criteria (required date, purchase orders, etc.)
- Adjustment of resource efficiency for a given period of time
- Information display as per work orders, orders and order details
Production
- Unlimited production steps
- Production steps proper to each product
- Dynamic BOMs
- Production fees per step (in % and $)
- Conditional production steps using formulas
- Conditional subcontracting using formulas
- Production lines
- Default production lines
- Automatic production line assignment using formulas
- Production step tracking
- Partial work order production
- Efficient tracking using barcode reader
- Automatic overtake management (flagging the last production step as done implies that the previous steps have been done as well)
- Real-time inventory deductions
- Work order hierarchy
- Viewing and management of work orders per production batch, step, workstation and operation
- Management of items broken within the facility or which fail to respond to quality standards
- Material tracking along item production
- Cost tracking
- Production progress tracking
- Management of generated work orders (adding, editing & removing)
- Work orders generated by orders, after sales service, MRP or via manual action
- Production process management over multiple factories, management of inter-warehouse transits (transfer slips)
Production Planning
- Customizable data grid according to business rules
- Production batch management using configurable criteria
- Simple and complex order management
- Work order priority management
- Access to configurator attributes (width, height & others)
- Work instructions management (cut at, etc.)
- Input file generator for factory machines (Ex. : door cut & holes)
- Modification of default factory routing
- Schedule printing (global or per production department)
- Work order & cut list printing
Inventory
- Permanent inventory
- Viewing of inventory situation at a given point in the past
- Distinctive attributes (width, height, thickness, color, etc.)
- Multiple locations
- Multiple warehouses
- Definition of minimum and maximum stock quantities per location and time period
- Definition of measure units for sales, purchase and production
- Definition of regrouping units
- Inventory adjustments using Pocket PC
- Complete stock tracing
- Definition of inventory adjustment types
- Stock reservation management (orders, production)
- Physical inventory count without interrupting transactions
- Parametric serial number management
- Inventory location management
- Supplier and administrative batch management
Delivery route planning / Loads
- Assigned routes on delivery addresses
- Order preparation management
- Information dashboard
- Delivery planning tool, loading docks
- Inter-factory transfers (sub-products or raw materials)
- Quick view of items to be loaded
- Partial loading of orders or order items
- Item tracking (in progress, loaded, stocked)
- Item loading using barcode reader
- Loading capacity management (# of units, weight, volume, value, etc.
- Multiple order delivery in one operation
- Multiple selection criteria
- Shipping, customs, etc. document printing
Accounts receivable
- Multi-currency
- Multiple shipping orders on one invoice
- Shipping order batch invoices
- Extra fees
- Configurable, multiple payment terms
- Interest calculation
- Commission calculation
- Customer deposit management
- Customer account aging management
- Disputed invoice management
- Automatic cash receipt management
- Viewing of customer account status from cash receipt input
- Bank deposit printing
- Customer collection tools
- Cash receipt history
Accounts payable
- Multi-currency
- Multiple receptions on one supplier invoice
- Stock reevaluation when material costs are modified
- Configurable, multiple payment terms
- Automatic disbursement management
- Individual check generation
- Batched check generation based on chosen criteria
- Account payments
- Checks without supplier invoice
- Supplier account aging
- Disputed invoice management
- Purchase batch management
- Configurable check forms
- Disbursement history
General Ledger
- Multi-currency
- Multi-segment
- Accounting hierarchy validation
- Multi-company
- Inter-organizational transaction management
- Accounting period configuration
- Budget management
- Easy transaction finding
- Detailed transaction origins
- No end of period or exercise necessary
- General journal
- Journal entry history
- Balance sheet, statement and financial results
- Bank conciliation management
- Assets management
- Treasury management
- Bank transfer management
- Allows entry regeneration at any time
Financial Statements
- Configurable structure (header, account groups, single accounts)
- Electronic multi-format
- Instant treatment
- Unlimited regroupings
- Multiple presentations
- Drilling from generated item
- Unit presentation (per company)
- Consolidated presentation
- Easy to use
- Budgets;
- Past comparatives
Post-sales Services
- Ability to extract the component from an order item
- Bidirectional link with orders, ability to add post-sale services via orders
- Status tracking management with date
- Multiples dates (call date, service date);
- Allows multiple problems for the same item
- Tracking of actions to do and actions done
- Customer or supplier invoicing
- Allows regeneration of purchase requisitions
- Allows regeneration of factory work orders
- Satisfaction rating management per post-sale service
- Incomplete services tracking screen
- Overdue materials tracking screen
- Link with production
- Online demands management (Web form)
- Service scheduling
Installation Schedules
- Linked to post-sales service module
- Linked to originating order
- Service scheduling by team and/or subcontractor
- Management of unscheduled services via drag and drop
- Management by service type (installation, repairs, etc.)
- Schedule viewing by week or by crew
- Work schedule validation per crew
- Crew competence management (electricians, painters, etc.)
- Time period reservation for future servicing
- Service invoicing
- Information search using multiple criteria
- Linked with Microsoft Outlook and Pocket PC
Workflow
- Graphical representation of business process
- Task assignment as per role within the enterprise
- Quick access to screens corresponding to your assignments
- Assignment calendar
- Information flow tracking
- Assignments per user or user group
- Process history management
- Hierarchical tracking of processes within ERP (PUSH mode)
Business Intelligence
- Fully parametric
- Pivot table for data interpretation
- Data storage linked to production database
- Sales analysis over multiple dimensions
- Representatives
- Customers, commercial classes
- Products, families, categories
- Region
- Options (color, etc.)
- Etc.
- Purchase analysis over multiple dimensions
- Suppliers, commercial classes
- Products, families, categories
- Region
- Etc.
- Inventory analysis over multiple dimensions
- Warehouses, locations
- Products, families, categories
- Options (color, etc.)
- Etc.
- Post-sale service analysis over multiple dimensions
- Problems
- Products, families, categories
- Customers
- Subcontractors
- Etc.
- Multi-level statistical drilling
- Allows saving of BI settings for regular viewing
- Report generation tools
- Varied graph generation tools
- Exportable to Microsoft Office suite for customized layouts
- Exportable to PDF format
- Sales objective dashboard (% of quotations converted to sales)
Report Generator
- Multilingual
- Fully configurable and linked to ERP data structure
- Subreport management (Ex. : order fees & discounts)
- Report type management
- Reports per customer, supplier, product
- Configurable reports per screen
- Advances configuration functionalities
- Preview
- Quick & easy to use
- Colors
- Forms
- Fonts according to workstation setup
Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Toolkit allowing system customization, fully linked to the ERP’s API
- Apply new versions without adverse effects
- Adding, removing and editing of field behavior
- Interaction with base processes in order to build customized behaviors
- Menu option adding, allowing the creation and use of custom data
- External application calls (Word, Excel, internal program, etc.)
- Fully linked to security module
- Plug-in generation for base ERP
Management tools
- Order tracking
- Linked purchases
- Merchandise reception
- Item production tracking
- Item loading tracking
- Post-sales service tracking
- Call date
- Customer
- Service region
- Subcontractor or assigned internal crew
- Service status
- Post-sale service creation fully linked to ERP
Product360
- Multilingual
- Programmable configuration
- UML modelization of product structure
- Hierarchical input of options
- Integrated management of business and manufacturing rules
- Default, minimum and maximum values
- Availability of options based on rules
- Visibility of options based on rules
- Read-only options based on criteria
- Management of multiple options (Ex : identical or detailed sashes) with synchronization possibilities between options
- Customization of input form per product family (casements, awnings, etc.)
- Quick library names for rapid pre-configuration of items
- Customized pictures based on options (colors, knockers, etc.)
- Full-time options validation with appropriate warnings and error messages
- Rendering of windows and doors
- Sub-rendering of specific aspects (top view, frame section, etc.)
- Management of assembly options
- Product matrix configuration for attachment of options to assemblies
- Management of properties common among parts of assemblies
- Built-in alignment of mullions, grilles etc.
- Versioned configurations and price lists
- Production cost calculated during quotation and order entry
- Scenario management
CustomBuilt360
- Multi-company product list
- Multilingual quotation input
- Product rendering at scale, including options visualization
- Automatic discount management and processing, with formulas and effective dates
- Management of complex assemblies
- Automatic calculation of fees
- Automatic calculation of installation price
- Mass edit to properties common to all items in quotation
- Copy and importation of existing orders or items
- Quote printing with scaled product renders of all items
- Input of miscellaneous products
- Synchronization of data among workstations
- Network operations with central server
- Software, product configuration and price list updates over the Internet
- Quotation to order conversion
- Automatic order transfer to manufacturer
- Order reception confirmation by the manufacturer
- Unlimited number of quotations/orders
- Advanced Search features on past quotations /orders
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