PRONTO North America ERP FaxMail Reduces Faxing CostsWritten by Tom Verzi
The PRONTO-Xi FaxMail solution, including a flexible document transmission management system, allows manufacturers and distributors ability to monitor status of every fax and e-mail sent. It becomes an indispensable tool for any manufacturing, distribution, service, or retail concern where fast, hassle-free communication is central to business operation.The Key Benefits of PRONTO-Xi FaxMail: •Reduce Postage Costs •Reduce Faxing costs •Reduce Labor costs in folding, addressing, and posting documents •Reduce time spend at fax machine •Highly professional-looking documents, incorporating logs and other layout elements •Easy to sue as printing within PRONTO-Xi A PRONTO-Xi user of FaxMail noted that it has eliminated need for staff to mail out 1500 statements per month and approximately 200 invoices per day. This is has reduced postage costs significantly and saved at least five working days per moth in staff folding envelopes. PRONTO North America, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is North American Master Distributor of PRONTO-Xi, a comprehensive software system allowing manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to effectively manage all phases of supply chain. Far beyond just another Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, PRONTO-Xi’s financial and distribution applications are unique and have provided maximum return on investment for a wide variety of organizations since 1976.
| | ETO ERP Leader Encompix Selected by FormglasWritten by Roger Meloy
Formglas, Inc. (www.formglas.com) recently joined fraternity of Engineer-to-Order/project-based manufacturing companies. Formglas placed an initial order for 20 seats of Encompix with implementation and support services. Formglas, located in Toronto has 4 operating divisions. The primary division (commercial construction) provides custom gypsum-based products to construction industry. The gypsum products are used in place of heavier, more expensive, more flammable materials like wood. Formglas specializes in providing ornamental ceiling and wall fixtures to Casino and cruise ship industries. Their other divisions are architectural, fireplace and CNC Pattern.A typical project for them begins with a quotation to provide a certain amount of a product that has been designed by an architect to a customer building a large facility. Formglas provides a quotation in number of pieces and feet using several custom dimensions. They make a pattern (mold) to use in production of final product. Formglas is like many of mold makers in their system requirements. Once patterns are complete company makes a recipe of gypsum or glass and then manually presses gypsum into pattern. The gypsum dries, is finished, (painted, sanded, etc) and then stored for shipment to job site. The shipments and production schedule are timed in accordance with project site build schedule.
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