A+W BUSINESS PRO
Integrated Production Control.
A+W Business Pro is a fully integrated solution of the latest generation for small and medium-sized companies. The process from quotation to dispatch has never been easier!
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A+W Business Pro
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With the commercial part of the integrated solution (A+W Business), you can handle the entry of quotations, orders, credits, complaints, and delivery notes and manage orders and inquiries; you can also take control of other company areas (e. g. warehouse, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
The user can switch to “expert mode” at any time and thus influence the results directly. The cut optimization per batch and glass type is based on the latest algorithms and, thanks to the intelligent variation possibilities for storage space depth, selection of various stock sizes and residual plates, delivers very good results.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Fully integrated commercial & production system
- Wizard function for quick production release
- Possibility for more detailed and optimized planning with expert mode
- Easy and quick output of production papers and NC code for cutting tables, IG lines, and benders
- Combination of B.O.M. items in production batches (multi-step-production)
- Integrated rack allocation after cutting
- Selection, reservation and booking of stock plates
- Cutting optimization per batch and glass type based on the latest algorithms
- Predefined production lists and labels
- Machine connectors for cutting tables, benders and IG lines
- Job completion for optimizations
- correct inventory thanks to reports from production
- Many add-ons: possibility to grow
Integrated modules and business processes
The Sales Module helps you to manage all documents and processes related to an order – including down payments, partial shipments and complaints.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Graphical order entry
- Up to 99 items per order – no single variety orders needed
- BOM concept offers full control on every level of an item / a product
- EDI import and export of orders (e.g. to other sites)
- Definition of supply conditions and prices
- Receipt of goods booking
- Supplier statistics
- Creation, dispatch and saving of declaration of perfromances by strong interconnection to A+W SLT (european product regulation law)
The Purchase Module helps you to manage your processes – from order – to purchase order – edi transfer – via receipt of goods – up to incoming control.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Automatic generation of purchase orders from orders
- Automatic or semi-automatic external purchasing (P.O. proposals)
- Consideration of stock levels and stock forecast (e.g. minimum, critical…)
- Internal client separation – internal purchasing at other sites with order reference
- Multisite stock & warehouse consideration
- Generation of supplier inquiries
- Definition of supply conditions and prices
- Receipt of goods booking
- Missing quantities control
- Invoice control
- Supplier statistics
- EDI import and export of P.O.s
- Delivery date control
A+W Enterprise Stock Management allows you to manage different jumbo sizes, stock sizes, residue plates, cases, glass doors, fittings, frame parts and accessories, such as mountings, sealing tape, etc.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Future stock on hand and stock forecast
- Stock bookings & stock movements
- Strong interconnection with Purchasing and Goods Receipt
- Stock management and control for main stock components and material
- Possibility to proceed booking during inventory (based on mirrored stock procedure for inventory)
- Stock management for homogeneous cases (one size, contains all the same products)
- Stock orders (filler)
- Stock history
- Evaluation of stock based on FIFO, LIFO or weighted moving average
- Stock management for homogeneous cases (one size, contains all the same products) and inhomogeneous cases (different sizes, different products)
- Stock forecast on base of orders and P.O. (multiside)
- Management of several internal / external stock locations and shelfs (multiside)
- Management of variants and colors
The Georgian Bar Entry gives you the possibility to design grill patterns for the 1st and 2nd cavity.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Integrated CAD Designer for manual, order based grill pattern design
- Quality improvement based on graphical display
- Construction field- or drill hole symetrical
- Colors and variants possible
The Shape & Process Entry gives you the possibility to design shaped items and to import and export technical drawings (TOE).
Functionalities and Benefits
- Integrated CAD Designer for manual, order based shape design
- Technical Order Entry for complex items based on CAD templates and DXF files
- Quality improvement based on graphical display and zoom functionality
- Extension of your product-specific shape catalog by free constructions with A+W CAD Designer (Shapes)
- Automatic construction of technical drawings to support all necessary commercial documentation (orders, production paperwork, delivery notes, etc.) and control machinery
- Efficient data compilation and processing, made possible by the separation of fixed and variable dimensioning
- Instant availability of all data for subsequent optimization and production control, including optional machine control
- Templates can be defined with fixed or variable parameters.
A+W Enterprise provides various possibilities to control the system and the processes and modules within. As well you will get information about single documents (e.g. based on forecasts and history-tables).
Functionalities and Benefits
- Order / P.O. history
- Production feedback & overview
- User rights management
- Workflow and status management
- Expansive copy documents functionalities
- Check for doubled documents
- Future stock on hand
- Cost calculation
The Statistic Module provides the management with all needed information to get an overview of the commercial progress. Thus it is an important instrument for analyzing the company.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Volume & consumption statistics
- Turnover statistics
- Group statistics
- TOP 10 statistics
- Supplier statistics
- Accumulated statistics (e.g. customer, sites, products)
- Delivery statistics (DIFOT: own & supplier)
- Possibility of customized reports based on Crystal Reports or QLIK
- Deep and customized Pivot Statistics thanks to the export possibilities to MS Excel
The Production Manager offers the possibility to optimize and release the imported orders very fast and automated (Standard Mode) or to create production jobs and optimize them with human sensitivity (Expert Mode).
Functionalities and Benefits
Standard Mode
- Automatic import and job creation based on Number Manager
- Quick selection of rack organization and depth tolerances
- Selection of required production papers
- Manual fine tuning of optimization parameters, stock sizes …
- Manual selection of best optimization
Expert Mode
- Fine tuned user defined jobs
- Job oriented optimization
- Manual editing of cutting pattern
- Manual release of production jobs
Available add-ons for A+W Business Pro
A+W Analytics
Central and easy evaluation and analysis of (location-spanning) company data.
A+W iQuote
Give your customers and dealers the possibility to calculate quotes and orders 24/7 online by using your homepage.
A+W iShape
Photograph stencils of shapes easily with the mobile phone camera without having to spend time calibrating it
A+W CAD Designer (Shapes)
Enables the entry of lite and contour data, all processings, customer CAD data and the digitalization of templates.
A+W CAD Designer (Bars)
High-performance design program to arrange common bar types at will on a rectangular or shaped lite.
A+W Logistics Optimizer
Creates and optimizes the shortest routes – taking into consideration your real fleet and the order data transmitted.
A+W Realtime Optimizer
Allows flexible and wide-reaching interventions into production flows even after an optimization has already been performed.
A+W Shape Optimizer
The A+W Shape Optimizer combines shapes from different items in space-saving fashion within a rectangle.
A+W Capacity Planner
Planning and control of existing production capacities, in synchronization with the capacities reserved for the order stock.
A+W Capa View
Quick overview of machine utilization for the next few days and weeks
A+W Barcode Manager
With fully-integrated barcode reading by A+W all scans are entered directly into the database and the user receives immediate feedback.
A+W Production Terminal
Increase the clarity of processes on your shop floor as well as the productivity thanks to a nearly paper-free process.
A+W Business Pro Flyer
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