On February 6th Global Shop Solutions will be giving our first quarterly webcast. Each quarter, one of these webcasts will be highlighting a business goal and, how Global Shop One-System ERP Solutions™ can help businesses achieve that goal. This week’s topic is “Trust Global Shop for Increased Sales.” (more…)
Global Shop’s Project Management module and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) system have become industry-leading tools in the Engineer-to-Order (ETO) ERP market. GS Project Management replaces multiple manual systems in MS Excel™ and MS Project™. With GS Project Management, Global Shop customers can look at costs and schedules of complex projects in real-time through a simple, integrated interface.
An early adopter of Global Shop’s ETO ERP system, FIMA Peru is an engineer-to-order, make-to-order manufacturer that provides (more…)
Global Shop experienced a record setting year in 2012 thanks to their many customers located around the world and dedicated hard working employees. While increased sales contribute to their storybook success, the current infrastructure continues to expand with multiple positions becoming available moving into the New Year. “We are excited to have an opportunity to increase our internal headcount by 18% going into 2013,” Jayland Keeney Director of HR states. “It is our mission to (more…)
In preparation for our appearance in The Manufacturing ERP Experience, Global Shop Solutions paid a visit to one of our oldest and favorite customers, Wilshire Precision Products. Currently in its third generation with Global Shop Solutions One-System ERP Solutions™, we couldn’t think of anyone more qualified to present the benefits derived from implementing our software.
“Global Shop is a huge part of our success”, praises Tom Lewis, President of Wilshire. Tom goes on to describe how rapidly he’s watched his business expand after implementing Global Shop Solutions in 1986. “Our business has easily increased by at least 30% in the past few years without adding any new personnel,” (more…)
Multiple Affiliate Management through Global Shop Solutions
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
Read part 1 here
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
Read Part 1 Here.
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…)
Miller Welding and Machine Manages Growth with Less Manpower
The year was 1963. The Dodgers, behind the arm of Sandy Koufax, beat the defending champion Yankees for the World Series, while the first Super Bowl wouldn’t be played for another four years. The astronaut, Gordon Cooper, became the first human to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to fly there alone. And, there wasn’t a single Toyota to be found anywhere in the United States. A new America was in transition, maturing in the age of postwar prosperity. It was also the year David Miller opened the doors to the Miller Welding and Machine Company (MWM).
Today, over four decades later, David still opens the doors to the shop, usually showing up before his wife, his five children and five grandchildren who also work there alongside him. With three generations of Millers involved in the day-to-day functions of the company, the family maintains a solid foundation of American working tradition, while also (more…)
