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Photo courtesy of Eagle Precision Cast Parts, Inc. What Can Your ERP System Do For You? by Jim Eaton, Manager, Business Development, B&L Information Systems Is W it order entry?


hen you think about your ERP system, what is the first area that comes to mind? Material inventory?


Shipping? Maybe its accounting and financial reports? Scheduling? I bet quality isn’t one of the areas that comes to mind. However, your ERP system can be used in multiple ways to improve and maintain the quality of your products.


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Heat/Lot Tracking/Serialization And Material Certifications Planning your alloy melting processes is critical to avoid wasted precious metal, which is bottom line dollars. Odyssey has a high-performance advanced Heat Planner that is fully integrated with your melt testing and tracking needs. Material certifications are a key component of customer requirements


and product quality. Creating them from your Spectrometer data and tracking your heat lots is key to ensuring your customer is getting the correct material. Further lot identification to track secondary operations and serialization should all be generated from your ERP system where the data will be stored and easily retrievable.


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