Multiple Affiliate Management through Global Shop Solutions  

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Calnetix’ growth has been so dynamic that it nearly tripled its employee base in 18 months. The growing pains associated with rapid expansion also cropped up in executive management. Controlling time and attendance, costing, scheduling, and other factors, was much easier with 20 or 30 employees rather than 90 or 95. Potential problems are compounded exponentially as affiliates spin-off and come online.

Working across multiple databases with dozens of schedules out of sync defined the need for a single ERP system capable of bringing all of the data under one single-view “home base” control. For Calnetix’ executive management, the new GS Dashboard is the best tool they’ve found for centralized ERP and MRP control.

Calnetix has continued its success due to the flexibility Global Shop’s ERP system has afforded them over the years.

According to Calnetix CFO Ian Hart, the flexibility built into Global Shop interfaces very well with (more…)

Calnetix-R&D and ERP

If you think that keeping a major manufacturing operation running smoothly from day to day is a hard thing to do, try running four major manufacturing operations at the same time and under one roof. This is the challenge for Calnetix, a Cerritos, California, company that is a world leader in developing and manufacturing high speed electric motors and generators.

Much of the technology that Calnetix uses in their products is the result of their own significant research and development (R&D) efforts into the development of frictionless magnetic bearing technologies, known as high-speed permanent magnet radial-flux machines. The result has been the (more…)

Global Shop’s Configurator Calculates Millions of Design Options
       
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Martin explains, “The Global Shop Configurator helps our customers to choose from the millions of different options available to them within our manufacturing services. And, it’s all automated-automated pricing, automated part number, automated description, automated router.

In other words, we’ve made our process as automated as possible-from the order entry on out, and that has given us great flexibility in what we can provide to our customers. Global Shop has elevated customer service for us to a niched marketing capability. With the Global Shop Configurator, we exceed (more…)

21st Century ERP Preserves American Craftsman Tradition

They say that a personal approach to finely-crafted wood furniture is a lost art in the United States. In a world of plastic and particleboard, the centuries-old tradition of taking a piece of American hardwood like Appalachian oak or Pennsylvania cherry, and turning it into an heirloom chair or table is simply not worth the effort.

Well, don’t tell that to the Martin family of Meyerstown, Pennsylvania. Nestled into the rolling Amish farmlands of Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Martins have been producing some of the best solid wood furniture made in America for over 20 years.

However, theirs is neither a typical industrial job shop, nor a sleepy backyard shed woodworking operation. Martin’s Wood Products (MWP) is a highly sophisticated custom furniture manufacturer whose lineage of family management has kept pace with the technological and enterprise resource planning (ERP) advances of the 21st century. According to MWP’s General Manager James Martin, one reason they’ve been able to (more…)

Global Shop Solutions Means Customer Care
 
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Continuous improvement is a hallmark of the Global Shop approach to ERP. In their headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas, Global Shop research and development works every day to produce cutting-edge modules that will help the modern manufacturer realize enhanced profits and greater management efficiencies.

One recent feature coming out of R&D is the Dashboard, and this, along with the various other modules, is what sets Global Shop apart in the world of ERP software systems. “We do use the Dashboard constantly, and it has been a really nice added feature for us in the Global Shop software. It’s easy to use and a key place to go to get quick metrics on the spot,” Miller relates. In fact, MWM has (more…)