Why do some of the top 50 Steel Manufacturers on Purchasing magazine's 2008 Top 100 Metals Service Centers run Steelman SEMS applications?
If the ability to offer value added services, the best pricing, a large selection of made to order and inventoried products, and the best service, are trade marks of your business, then Steelman Software Solutions’ STEEL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS® (SEMS®) software meets all of your requirements for a system that will provide your Company with a strong competitive advantage.
Inventory
- 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.
- Gain the advantage of practical, advanced and comprehensive processes for metal processing inventory management, including handling shape and attribute-based properties.
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- Seize a sales and business advantage in processing orders through a combination of capabilities:
- Comprehensive metals-specific customer requirement specification
- Advanced competitive and comparative pricing and costing ability to win the right quotes
- Management and monitoring of production to meet customer expectations every time
- Production and inventory delivery planning that can deliver on time
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- 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.
- Enhance the critical customer relationship that relies on delivering what you promise. Monitor and plan each work center, which potentially represents a road block or bottle neck to a multi-million dollar order.
- Do every small thing right to provide customer satisfaction and gain dramatic competitive advantages.
- 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.
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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.
- Know what inventory you can handle by including production capacity availability in the purchasing decision.
- Make appropriate and accurate purchasing decisions based on Inventory demand planning
- Gain an inherent business advantage from purchasing inventory that matches your process requirements, like delivery direct to outside processors or staged delivery.
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- Increase load efficiency and reduce shipping costs by pre-planning loads, optimizing delivery routes and managing dispatch scheduling.
- Remove a bottleneck by automatically scheduling packaging as a work center operation
- Reduce processing delay by automatically adding transfers to the routing for operations in different locations
- Gain greater inventory control by using metals industry specific receiving procedures including receiving in transit.
- Reduce the overhead of paperwork by capturing all shipping documents and associating them with the Bill of Lading
- Increase efficiency and track inventory in real time through RF bar code scanning support for receiving, inventory movement, inventory reconciliation and shipping.
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Accounting
- Get the financial control you need to run your company effectively from a fully integrated advanced accounting system of your choice
- Take control of operations with immediate and real-time review and summation of:
- purchase invoices
- receipts
- accurate inventory values in multi-locations and transit
- sales based on shipment, storage or toll processing
- freight
- credit and debit notes
- Accurate records of Production transformation of inventory, including scrap and production loss ratios
- Integrate with Oracle EBS Financial and Sage AccPac Financial
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Oracle
- Steelman Software Solutions has built SEMS using 100% Oracle technologies and standards
- Go with the leading product. Oracle is the number 1 Relational database with 48.6% share (Gartner 2007)
- 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.
- See www.oracle.com for more information
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Management Reporting
- 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.
- Gain control of multi-plant, multi-location business with consolidated reporting and effective comparative data that identifies potential problems immediately.
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SEMS’s Processing and (NEW) Fabrication modules, coupled with Quality Management and an outstanding Claims Management system, further enhance your bottom line by saving costs at receiving, processing and shipping time.
A test reporting system integrated with both the Customer Claim and Vendor Claim functions can be tied into Corrective Actions Reporting in the Quality module. This provides your team with a proactive method of improving business processes in every department and can be used to develop and implement a continuous Business Process Improvement planning methodology.
We offer our customers a superior and outstanding information system and a long term business partnership with industry leading enterprise metals software developed by Steelman Software Solutions Inc. The solution for your company is obvious - STEELMAN SEMS on ORACLE 10g database and application server.
