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SingaporeGlobal Shop Solutions is blessing the homeless one bag at a time. With a long history of supporting their community, Global Shop Solutions has participated in the Humble Area Assistance Ministries (HAAM) Blessing Bag for the Homeless, a project designed to provide the area’s homeless with individual personal hygiene kits. As part of its annual…
Month: April 2016
Welcome to the jungle. It’s not fun and games. We can make anything you want…but we do it with concrete. More and more concrete manufacturers are looking at ERP software to help their business. Global Shop Solutions has been helping small- and medium-sized manufacturers across nearly 20 industries and every mode to simplify their manufacturing…
The air was brisk in Boston, but the manufacturing was red hot. Boston is the largest and capital city of the state of Massachusetts and home to some of the most passionate people in America. I saw and felt this passion for the city and manufacturing at the Design & Manufacturing New England Expo. The…
You know what it is when you walk into it. The perfect floors, the bright white walls, not a spec of dust anywhere. People moving around methodically following processes and procedures, dotting every “I” and crossing every “T”. Machines perfectly tuned and maintained humming along in perfect harmony. It is easy to mistake this for…
The globalization of the economy and market has driven manufacturers to be as lean and efficient as possible. The most effective manufactures are constantly trying to identify their weaknesses and improve their processes. Outside of labor, one of the biggest costs incurred by companies involves material. Nesting software packages like ProNest and SigmaNEST® have helped…
For most manufacturers, determining how much individual inventory cost components contribute to the total cost of finished goods can be a difficult and uncertain process. Global Shop Solutions takes the mystery out of this process with the introduction of FLOOOM – a software that takes a giant step forward in ERP job costing capabilities. “Too…
After shopping as I unpack my purchases at home I always end up shaking my head and pointing to the sky shouting “Why? Why?”. You know what I am talking about…end cap shopping. Each time I walk through the aisles at Walmart I get caught. I get to the end of the aisle and it…
In conjunction with their 40 years in business, Global Shop Solutions, a leading developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, broke ground on its third state-of-the art facility at its headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas on Friday, April 8, 2016. The 10,000 square-foot facility will be home to a reception area, a 72-seat training room,…
Saved time, reduced expenses, improved accuracy, and lowered administrative costs are just a few of the many reasons manufacturers are turning to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to simplify their manufacturing and lean their shop floors. EDI orchestrates the safe and secure digital communications with customers, vendors and other business partners. In the manufacturing industry, trading…
Recently, I had a conversation with one of our great long time manufacturing customers in the metal products space. This manufacturer has been in business for nearly 100 years, and they pride themselves on a commitment to advanced engineering and manufacturing the impossible with metal. The operations and inventory employees at this metal products manufacturer…
Fourteen locations, 12 consultants, 235 consulting days, and 110 users. Those numbers represent the impressive scope of a large-scale single company manufacturing ERP software launch. This is the story of just one of our many customers. A privately-owned corporation specializing in the fabrication and distribution of lightweight conveyor belting and industrial conveyor products did extensive…