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Why?
Previous systems required a lot of manual re-entry of data, and spanned many different systems. It also required heavy use of spreadsheets, which were not tied into anything, and were usually hiding on someone's harddrive. Purchasing was isolated, Sales and Customer Service didn't know what was in stock, inventory was misplaced. The only way to know the status of something in production was to walk out and find it. Each order that came in, by phone, fax or from the internet ordering site had to be re-entered into the accounting system.
Project ERP aims to deal with all of these limitations. Using state of the art communications protocols, orders from the internet will be directly entered. Once an order has been made, shipments can be scheduled at the click of a button, and all the forms created. If product has been ordered from a supplier, but has not arrived, Customer Service can find out when it should arrive. Purchasing can monitor inventory levels, at all locations, and reorder as needed. Remote machines can update the status of production as the goods progress.
pERP's bill of materials system allows you to save time, effort and complexity by re-using subsystems in multiple products. The manufacturing options allow simplification of customizable products, so each combination of features or colors no longer requires a separate bill of materials. Several hundred different combinations can be reduced to the simplest sub assemblies and combined as needed.
