Verzi of PRONTO ERP Raves about Airey of Mississauga-Based OTI

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 105524 advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some ofrepparttar 105525 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 105526 legacy system was geared to client requirements.

Airey noted, “OTI’s initial search took us torepparttar 105527 major ERP players, but none hadrepparttar 105528 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 105529 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:

- Fully integrated - User definable options to tunerepparttar 105530 systems functionality - A support system to back up our customers - Functionality - GUI look and feel built using a 4 GL tool - Equipment rentals and tracking - Service maintenance - Both Manufacturing and Distribution in one package - Email & Fax capability - Multiple SQL platforms including MS SQL

E-Kanban: Blanket Purchase Orders

Written by Sam Bayer


Blanket Purchase Orders are a “best practice” inrepparttar well-oiled kanban process. They minimizerepparttar 105523 flow of information between buyers and their suppliers, while maintainingrepparttar 105524 terms, conditions and integrity ofrepparttar 105525 business relationship betweenrepparttar 105526 two parties. Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com),repparttar 105527 leader in e-kanban, found that while managing a large number of suppliers with many part numbers, managingrepparttar 105528 integrity of blanket purchase orders become an issue. For every given kanban release it is important to make sure that: an open purchase order still exists, and that there was enough remaining balance onrepparttar 105529 purchase order to coverrepparttar 105530 current purchase. The new Best Practice was “integratingrepparttar 105531 electronic kanban system” with a manufacturers current purchasing system. Kanbans are now guaranteed never to be sent to supplier unless there is a valid blanket purchase order.

Fax Kanban is not Efficient and not Lean

At ten minutes per fax, someone is spending 3.5 hours per day in administration time. That inefficiency results in less time to utilize more suppliers or improverepparttar 105532 relationships with existing suppliers.

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