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Component module

1. Inventory
   1. Manage Inventory to maximize value, customer satisfaction and ROI. SEMS provides the most comprehensive metals-industry specific inventory management capability. This focus and ability infuses every related business module and process.
   2. Gain the advantage of practical, advanced and comprehensive processes for metal processing inventory management, including handling shape and attribute-based properties.
2. Order Entry
   1. Seize a sales and business advantage in processing orders through a combination of capabilities:

1. i.      Comprehensive metals-specific customer requirement specification
2. ii.      Advanced competitive and comparative pricing and costing ability to win the right quotes
3. iii.      Management and monitoring of production to meet customer expectations every time
4. iv.      Production and inventory delivery planning that can deliver on time.
5. Get the financial control you need to run your company effectively from a fully integrated advanced accounting system of your choice
6. Take control of operations with immediate and real-time review and summation of:
   1. purchase invoices
   2. receipts
   3. accurate inventory values in multi-locations and transit
   4. sales based on shipment, storage or toll processing
   5. freight
   6. credit and debit notes
   7. Accurate records of Production transformation of inventory, including scrap and production loss ratios

1. Management Reporting
   1. In these challenging times, understanding the flow and trends in your business are exceptionally important. You require information summaries that are based on real-time data with drill-down capability that will quickly identify issues and problems and provide you with the ability to make an early impact and right the ship. SEMS places critical information in your hands for decisions today based on today’s data.
   2. Gain control of multi-plant, multi-location business with consolidated reporting and effective comparative data that identifies potential problems immediately.
2. Production
   1. Manage the production resources effectively; demand a clear view of order requirements, inventory availabilities, planned shift time, competing order priorities, throughput rates and critical dates.
   2. Enhance the critical customer relationship that relies on delivering what you promise. Monitor and plan each work centre, which potentially represents a road block or bottle neck to a multi-million dollar order.
   3. Do every small thing right to provide customer satisfaction and gain dramatic competitive advantages.
   4. Gain the ability to handle shape transformation and complex fabrication steps which are just two of the advanced abilities in SEMS that make production effective.
3. Purchasing
   1. Buy what you really require, no more, no less. Understand the very dynamic relationship connecting what you buy and what you sell in determining purchasing needs.
   2. Know what inventory you can handle by including production capacity availability in the purchasing decision.
   3. Make appropriate and accurate purchasing decisions based on Inventory demand planning
   4. Gain an inherent business advantage from purchasing inventory that matches your process requirements, like delivery direct to outside processors or staged delivery.
4. Comprehensive ERP modules
   1. Claims
   2. Costing
   3. EDI
   4. Fabrication
   5. Inventory
   6. Production
   7. Purchasing
   8. Quality
   9. Receiving
   10. Management Reporting
   11. Sales Order
   12. Shipping
   13. Warehouse operations
   14. Business process definition
   15. Setup
5. Accounting

1. 1. Integrate with Oracle EBS or AccPac (or your current accounting system)
2. Oracle
   1. Go with the leading product. Oracle is the number 1 Relational database with 48.6% share (Gartner 2007)
   2. Be secure in your technology Investment. As Oracle business partners, Steelman has 100% support for all customers in all aspects of business systems deployment and operations.
   3. See www.oracle.com
3. Logistics
   1. Increase load efficiency and reduce shipping costs by pre-planning loads, optimizing delivery routes and managing dispatch scheduling.
   2. Remove a bottleneck by automatically scheduling packaging as a work center operation.
   3. Reduce processing delay by automatically adding transfers to the routing for operations in different locations
   4. Gain greater inventory control by using metals industry specific receiving procedures including receiving in transit.
   5. Reduce the overhead of paperwork by capturing all shipping documents and associating them with the Bill of Lading
   6. Increase efficiency and track inventory in real time through RF bar code scanning support for receiving, inventory movement, inventory reconciliation and shipping.
4. Adaptability to your business
   1. Customization to fit your business without changing standard core code to keep your version of SEMS standard and upgradeable.
   2. Build in your business control by making SEMS work the way you work, by using extensive set-up and business process options for almost every aspect of your business
   3. Expand international operations through support for Mexican operations and local Government regulations and requirements

Software solutions prove efficient

By ADRIANNE HARTLEY, SUN MEDIA

Many industries face logistical challenges, but with the help of supply-chain orientedsoftware, challenges are being met head on. Richer Systems Group Inc. offers one suchsoftware solution, Enrich, which is used throughout North America by companies in thecommercial transportation field.It features online, real-time data processing to give clients up-to-the-minute information fromany area of their operation, regardless of size and number of facilities — from front-office operations to maintenance and materials to lease and rental information.”Information is playing a more important role than it ever has before in the success of ourcustomers in this industry,” says Tim Bowes, vice-president of sales and services withRicher Systems Group Inc.”The need to provide more information increases in order to make the supply chain moreefficient.”Bowes says a specific solution is vital for most companies, because there is morecompetition in the marketplace.Also, as companies outsource to other companies, the need for information and progressreports on operations must easily be generated beyond just invoicing.”A consolidated system provides accurate and timely data back to customers,” he says.Enrich consolidates transactions so that companies can provide key performance indicators to their customers.”The supply of information is becoming critical in this age, and the ability to collect it and make sure it’s accurate and then deliver it in a timely fashion is what Enrich does,” saysBowes.In the steel industry, Steelman Software Solutions Inc.’s Steel Enterprise ManagementSystem Version 4 creates a collaborative environment for customers, suppliers andprocessors of steel and other metal products.In the past, the metals industry kept track of inventory with a series of cumbersomedatabases.Steelman’s system makes sense of all the confusion by delivering end-to-end solutionsbased on industry best practices as well as their customers’ unique operating practices and processes.”This is very current and specific enterprise resource planning technology designed to suitthe steel marketplace,” says Daniel Brody, managing director of Steelman.