Category Archives: Product

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  STATEMENT OF DIRECTION

  Posted on June 3, 2011 by Daniel Brody in News, Product

  STEELMAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS STATEMENT OF DIRECTION FOR CORE TECHNOLOGIES   OPERATING SYSTEMS In todays world when IT departments support multiple operating system two are dominate Windows Server and Linux RedHat Kernal Server. While you will find older versions of Unix technology such as AIX and HP these are reserved for older software solutions.   STEELMAN [...]

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  How to use Steelman’s Metalink Priorities

  Posted on April 27, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product, Technology

  How to use Priority and Severity in Metalink Priority P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Severity Production Production Customer Testing Our testing In development Blocker A1 Drop everything Production stopped no work around A3 Urgent Production stopped no work around B1 Urgent Customer testing stopped no work around C1 Urgent Our testing stopped no work around [...]

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  Guide to using Steelman Metalink

  Posted on January 25, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product, Technology

  Guide to using Steelman Metalink Introduction The metalink is a useful on-line reporting tool that facilitates a clear understanding of how action requests (AR’s) are processed by Steelman. An action request can be any of the following types of request: A bug in the software – you may find by searching our database that this [...]

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  About SHM

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About SHM The SHM folder contains all of the forms that have been documented through the SEMS HELP MAP process, and exported to the Help system. See SEMS HELP MAP for the technical description of SHM creation. SHM details every field, block and form used in SEMS. It is an essential link required to provide [...]

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  About Shipping

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Shipping Overview plan a load for shipment, see About Load Planning add material to the load that has a Shipment Status of “Ready”, print the shipment documents (automatically) pick and ship the load, relieving inventory of the material shipped. – See About Load Shipping maintain carriers and carrier freight rates, maintain customs brokers, and maintain customs duties. maintain [...]

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  About Setup

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Setup The setup menu contains the forms used to maintain data variables used throughout SEMS. Normally these are set-up initially and are only changed when new business variables are required or when employees leave or are reassigned or new employees are hired. Often these variables provide limitations or choices for drop down lists used [...]

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  About Sales

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Sales Functions SEMS Sales Order Entry provides a powerful and flexible capability to record, manage and effect customer requirements. Many set up options and defaults affect the behaviour and enforced business rules within the Order Entry process. See Flags that affect Sales Functions and General Company Setup. Freight rates associated with sales items are controlled by the [...]

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  About Receiving

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Receiving See Flags That Affect Receiving Functions for details on how company settings affect receiving processing. In addition, the default location, grade standard, and shipment method for purchased goods is set in the General Company Setup (STCOMP), General tab. For goods received with defects, the default code standard is also set there. Receiving has these [...]

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  About Production

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Production The production process has a number of very useful capabilities that manage the complexity of production and support accurate planning and scheduling processes. In general, the journey from input materials to finished goods follows a pattern or sequence, with plenty of variation possible. The production process is initiated by two demand streams: Sales [...]

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  About Inventory

  Posted on January 20, 2010 by Daniel Brody in Product

  About Inventory Use the Inventory module to control the steel products inventories (work in process inventory and finished goods inventory), consumable items inventories, and scrap inventory. Steel Products: may include merchandise steel products (purchased for resale which form is not altered prior to resale) and job-specific steel products that require further processing before completion and sale. [...]

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