Metal Fabrication
Metal Fabrication
The metals industry is characterized by a high percentage of small to midsized fabrication companies that supply larger manufacturers, including the automobile, electronics and construction industries. Competition is fierce, and with outsourcing, logistics and economic pressures mounting, metal fabricators are looking for new ways to get closer to their customers and gain a competitive advantage.
abas ERP provides you and your team the tools to:
- Find ways to make components better, faster and cheaper
- Improve container and packaging management
- Manage consignment warehouses
- Consolidate relevant information on customers and prospects
Core abas ERP Modules
view all core modulesCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)
Service has evolved. To gain and retain customers you need to exceed their expectations and deliver personalized service—on their terms.
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Storing excessive materials or goods ties down capital and limits your ability to react to changing conditions.
Costing
Customer satisfaction and the profitability of your goods and services begin with the accuracy of your quotes. Under-estimating prices or delivery times can cost customer satisfaction, profit margin, or both.
Financial Accounting
The financial health of your organization is the foundation on which your business grows. A healthy foundation gives you the flexibility to expand across international boundaries or diversify your lines of business.
Sales
Regardless of your industry, customers are what drive your business. But today’s customers are savvier than ever. Your sales team must ensure every interaction is relevant and valuable if they’re going to win more customers for your company.
Sales Planning
Today’s markets reward agile, responsive businesses. Proven statistical, collaborative, and top-down forecasting approaches help you plan for success by turning your inventory management into a competitive advantage.
Complete your solution with:
ERP Software PDM/PLM - Product Data Management / Product Lifecycle Management
Overcome the product data flood with abas ERP Software PDM/PLM solutions
Designing, developing and manufacturing complex products or extensive variants and customizations generates a flood of product data and documents. With the right solution your team can harness this wealth of information to reduce costs, boost productivity, and accelerate growth.
The ERP Software PDM/PLM solution for abas supports the entire product lifecycle by helping your people connect to the data and processes they need to deliver the quality your customers expect.
Get to market faster.
Centralize control of your product data for streamlined coordination within and between your teams for shorter time to market.
Eliminate compliance risks.
Easily archive relevant documents for machines, plants, and other technical components to meet national and international requirements.
Drive innovation.
Connect teams, with ERP Software PDM/PLM, regardless of their physical locations, to create cutting-edge solutions.
Project Management
Take control of your projects
Tracking resources, budgets and milestones for multiple projects through diverse business departments can quickly get out of hand. Take control of your projects with effective management tools that help you and your team improve planning and coordination through all project phases.
By bundling and visualizing all relevant data, your business can stay on top of departmental, company-wide, or even international projects to deliver what your customers expect, when they expect it, for how much you told them it would cost.
Visualize success.
Manage resources and materials for multiple projects with interactive, graphical tools and visualize up-to-date plans.
Improve collaboration.
Keep your team aware of operational context so they can take action that best benefits your project as a whole.
Plan everything.
Centrally plan all aspects of your project including inspections, approvals, or marketing schedules.
Control profitability.
Create budgets, track costs, and preview the effects of changes to ensure the profitability of your project.
Stay on target.
Get a real-time picture of your project status with instant access to orders, change requests, expense reports, invoicing, customer information, and more.
Document Management System (DMS)
Go beyond paperless
An effective document management system is about more than “going paperless”—it’s an essential tool for improving the flow of information throughout your company by managing and archiving documents effectively and greatly reducing wasted time and unnecessary hassle with efficient search and retrieval options.
Document management in abas automatically archives documents created in the ERP system and enables you to store external documents, indexed by customer, vendor, product, or process for quicker access to the information you need.
Get the information you need, where you need it.
Centrally archive all essential documents and correspondence in the DMS for quick and easy access—even on the go.
Keep your documents safe.
Maintain a secure, revision-proof archive of all of your critical and legally required documents.
Compartmentalize sensitive information.
Business data can be highly sensitive and should be handled accordingly. A comprehensive rights management system helps you reliably control access to critical documents.
Optimize workflows.
Take the stress out of document-based business processes with faster, more reliable digital workflows.
Spend less time searching.
Quickly access a manageable overview of all documents related to a specific business process.
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
Give your team the right tools
In today’s challenging business environment the need to deliver faster and at a lower cost has never been greater. No matter what your business makes, success depends on your team—and they depend on the tools you give them. Give your team advanced production planning tools to meet customer demands on time and at the lowest possible cost. Advanced Planning and Scheduling is designed to help manufacturers develop an attainable schedule while balancing internal constraints and limited resources. APS balances due dates, machine capacity, tooling and labor to develop a realistic plan of action to move orders through operation to delivery.
Advanced planning and scheduling not only visualizes relevant processes, materials and capacities for faster, more effective planning, but also helps your shop floor team quickly identify material shortages or bottlenecks so they can make proactive decisions.
Untangle complex processes.
Leverage manageable process overviews to untangle interdependencies and better predict the overall effect of individual changes.
Facilitate lean manufacturing.
Continually measure and monitor key production metrics, pinpoint optimization potential, and eliminate waste.
Envision success.
Run easy-to-configure simulations to forecast outcomes for “what-if” scenarios and successfully plan against limited capacities.
Empower your team.
Give your team access to the information they need to make informed decisions with full understanding of their impact.
Identify profitable investments.
Locate permanent bottlenecks and shortfalls to invest in resources that will drive your bottom line.
Webshop
Embrace the shift
The customer journey has shifted. Not only has the internet revolutionized the way people search for products or services, it’s also become the worldwide method of choice for conducting business transactions with annual growth continuing to accelerate at a tremendous rate. Embrace the shift with an integrated webshop that allows you to interact with customers on their terms.
abas ERP enables you to design and maintain a professional webshop where your customers can comfortably search for products, receive personalized prices and discounts, check availability, and place orders—anytime, anywhere.
Enhance the customer experience.
Grant your customers instant access to view personalized prices and discounts, product availability, and order statuses based on real-time data from your ERP system.
Be found.
Attract more customers with cutting-edge search engine optimization (SEO) that makes your products and services easier to find.
Make it yours.
Seamlessly match your webshop to your corporate identity and integrate additional features with extensive customization tools.
Reduce errors.
Eliminate manual entry errors and duplicate data capture with a bi-directional connection to your ERP system.
Mobile Apps
Mobilize your organization
Mobility isn’t a business trend—it’s a game changer. But just having an ERP connection on a mobile device isn’t enough. If you want to compete in today’s increasingly fast-paced environment, your organization needs to be mobilized with tailored solutions that accelerate access and workflows.
From your external salesforce and service engineers to your internal shop floor and warehouse teams, abas ERP provides solutions that connect the right people to the right information to keep your business moving.
Sell Smarter.
Leave an impression with mobile access to CRM and sales relevant data that help you sell smarter and faster.
Earn Loyalty.
Deliver relevant, personalized service—anytime, anywhere—and earn the loyalty of your customers.
Reward Profitable Relationships.
Strategically manage vendor relations and access, edit and monitor procurement processes on the go.
Accelerate your shop floor.
Enable your team to clock attendance, view job lists and report work steps without running back-and-forth to a terminal.
Simplify inventory management.
Look up stock locations, post issues and receipts, or transfer stock from one location to another—from anywhere in your warehouse.
Get the count right.
Count inventory, enter amounts on the spot, check for accuracy, and then synchronize totals with the main system.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Unlock business potential
You already have the necessary information to ensure your business operates at continual peak performance—you just need to unlock it. No matter what type of business you run, Business Intelligence is the key to maximizing your business potential through greater insight into performance, trends and opportunities.
From standard reports to custom analyses and detailed simulation assessments, Business Intelligence turns your data into actionable insight to perform long-term, strategic business planning or make critical short-term decisions.
Connect your team.
Put information in the hands of the people who use it with intelligent, easy-to-act-upon dashboards and reports.
See more.
Integrate external data sources to quickly extend the scope of your insight.
Look ahead.
Identify trends early and run real-time simulation and scenario assessments for more effective long-term planning.
Keep it relevant.
Easily create custom reports and analyses that deliver relevant insight.
Stay in the know.
Leverage up-to-date information and analyze changes as they happen.