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the shop fl oor—like track labor, move inventory, or check the status of a job—you just couldn’t do before. We’ve got one client who installed iPads on their forklifts to
track material movements on the shop fl oor. Every time they move a part, they print an inventory move ticket with a wireless hand-held printer. This has reduced the time it takes to track down a part from hours to literally seconds. Another client living in Florida uses iPads to remotely manage the business in Penn- sylvania. Using Skype, he can sit at his beach house and give instructions for setting up a machine or making a part. Another growing trend is automated machine integration.
You can set an automated machine to start at 5 pm and make parts all night. The machine will say what it made and when it fi nished, and Global Shop will import the job details into the system. You don’t have to key-in the data, and it’s always ac- curate because it came off the machine. ME: Are cloud-based ERP solutions making an impact on manufacturers, and if so, how?
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Alexander: With Global Shop you can run either way, so if you decide to switch it’s no big deal. The primary advantage is having someone else host all your data. They back up the data for you, so if your system goes down you’re covered. Keeping the data on your own system gives you more control, but you have to back up on a regular basis. I’d say about 25% of our clients are using a cloud to host Global Shop. ME: What are some new ERP tools from your company that users are em- ploying today? Alexander: We already mentioned
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a few, such as document control and mobile technology for shipping. Prob- ably the biggest tool we’ve added is our Global Application Builder, or GAB, which allows clients to make their own customizations to the software. For ex- ample, they can use GAB to code what they’re doing with external spreadsheets or databases directly into Global Shop. Melzer: Most ERP systems require a separate software and outside program-
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