Associate Editor TR Cutler to Profile SE U.S. Manufacturer’s Representatives

Written by Thomas Cutler


Thomas R. Cutler, Associate Editor of Industrial Connection magazine (www.industrialconnection.net) isrepparttar leading North American manufacturing journalist, writing for more than 200 publications per year. Cutler recently announced an important addition forrepparttar 134875 May and June Industrial Connection Editorial calendar for 2005.

With a fast approaching deadline of April 21, 2005, Cutler is going to profile regional manufacturing representatives with a SE U.S. territory. These one page Manufacturer’s Representative profiles will include a JPG photograph, and information about their product line being offered torepparttar 134876 readers of Industrial Connection.

A 60% discount will be provided to advertorial participants in this special section. Cutler noted, “Manufacturer’s Representative arerepparttar 134877 face and image that our readers know and it is important that their efforts and products and territorial experience is shared in these two upcoming issues.”

Mississauga-Based OTI Provides Rationale for PRONTO ERP Selection

Written by Tom Verzi


OTI, Optimization Technology Inc., located in Mississauga Canada, has been developing and implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems since 1984. The Canadian VARs (Value Added Reseller) customer base appreciatesrepparttar features built into their legacy systems which focused on individual manufacturing and distribution requirements. Withrepparttar 134874 advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some ofrepparttar 134875 new productivity features OTI and their clients wanted.

According to Dave Airey, VP of Sales and Marketing at OTI, “We started looking for a way to move our application to a GUI “look and feel,” but after two years of investigation it became obvious that it was not a practical goal. As an alternative we investigated upgrading our legacy application to a new product.”

OTI’s requirements for a new system revolved around their customers. After many years of custom changes,repparttar 134876 legacy system was geared to client requirements.

Airey noted, “OTI’s initial search took us torepparttar 134877 major ERP players, but none hadrepparttar 134878 features we required to support our loyal customers.”

Finding an ERP System with Strong Functionality:

The search for a new ERP system ended when OTI was introduced to PRONTO North America (www.PRONTOerp.com). According to Airey, “We were introduced to Pronto and were immediately impressed withrepparttar 134879 rich functionality. One important feature was that Pronto is fully integrated. We had engineered our legacy system to be fully integrated so this was of major importance.”

The Rationale for PRONTO ERP:

o Fully integrated o User definable options to tunerepparttar 134880 systems functionality o A support system to back up our customers o Functionality o GUI look and feel built using a 4 GL tool o Equipment rentals and tracking o Service maintenance o Both Manufacturing and Distribution in one package o Email & Fax capability o Multiple SQL platforms including MS SQL

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