Global Shop Solutions

Advanced Planning and Scheduling Module

Job/production scheduling is one of the most important — and complex — processes in the manufacturing environment. When managed properly, it lays the foundation for a lean, efficient manufacturing process. When managed poorly, it drives costs higher, lowers productivity, and contributes to inefficiencies in all areas of the business.

Global Shop Solutions Advanced Planning & Scheduling System (APS) provides amazing flexibility on the shop floor while delivering unprecedented levels of scheduling accuracy and efficiency.

Robust scheduling features dramatically improve shop floor efficiencies through forward/backward scheduling, capacity planning, precise employee, tooling, and materials scheduling, and more.

The simple​“drag and drop” feature allows you to reschedule jobs or make routing changes instantly. 

Advanced finite/infinite scheduling feature allows you to quote jobs more accurately through custom job forecasting and​“what-if” scheduling. Real-time,​“real shop” reporting features enable you to respond instantly to customer demands and changes in the marketplace.

Global Shop Solutions APS gets the production process started off on the right foot each and every time. With each job, orders are accurately estimated, priced, and quoted. Materials, labor, and tools are utilized at maximum efficiency. Finished goods are packaged, shipped, tracked, and invoiced with a high degree of precision. Deliveries are made on time, quality is assured, and the numbers balance out each and every time.

With the most robust Advanced Planning & Scheduling system in the industry, Global Shop Solutions puts you in control of the entire production process for more control over your business and your bottom line.

Forecasting Trust Module

There is nothing more critical in manufacturing than controlling inventory. But, in a roller-coaster global economy where no one is certain where the next demand will come from, commodity-based end-product production is often a tricky undertaking. It takes a great measure of intuition and capacity planning to stay competitive. In short, manufacturing mandates unerring forecasting capabilities.

Global Shop Solutions One-System ERP SolutionsTM software is designed to enhance forecasting and to make inventory management a part of the profit formula. Working capital and carrying costs are reduced through increased inventory turnaround, better visibility to the supply chain and your vendors, lower administrative costs and improved capacity planning.

Through a robust Advanced Planning and Schedule system (APS), in combination with Automated Purchasing, Global Shop Solutions is able to manage inventory levels for the most efficient outcomes. For manufacturers, especially those working in modes such as make-to-stock, accurate forecasting is a treasured commodity.

Global Shop Solutions’ Forecasting Features

• Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) and production/capacity planning
• Dynamically manage inventory requirements
• Automated notification of purchase requirements
• Inventory tracking
• Multi-location inventory/manufacturing
• Inventory supply & demand
• Automated purchasing and vendor tracking
• Purchasing/receiving, purchase history
• Cycle counting
• Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Lot & serial number tracking
• Consolidated parts list
• Inventory status of multi-level BOM

Shipping & Receiving Management Module

Complete monitoring of shipping and receiving as a function of work order progression all the way through tracking inbound purchases and outbound products. Shipping and Receiving Management allows dock area personnel to easily manage operations from a single screen that integrates data from vital areas of the process. 

Supplier Relationship Management Module

Building trust along and within the supply chain requires a sense of order both upstream and downstream. As you are confident in your own supplier performance history, so too can you be counted on for promised delivery, quality, and value. Global Shop Solutions’ powerful ERP software integrates cross-referenced supplier history data to ensure the relationships with your vendors are fully informed and one that ultimately brings order to the supply chain stream.

Supply Chain Manager Module

Global Shop Solution’s newly enhanced Global Shop Solutions Supply Chain Manager module integrates all work order, purchasing, and shipping functions into one easy-to-manage screen. Global Shop Solutions Supply Chain Manager is one of the most powerful tools in the industry for the way manufacturing runs today. Product requirements, supply chain configurations, forecasting demand, capacity planning, scheduling, shipping, and tracking are integrated components of the Global Shop Solutions Supply Chain Manager that lets you know where you are in the production picture.