Business
A modern ERP software solution that grows with you
Modern look and feel
View important company data at a glance
Integrated calculation
Calculation of all components on the basis of purchase and sales price lists
Technically advanced
Special parts lists for smooth order processing
Automated
Automation through individually configurable workflows
About the Product
Functionality and ease of use are vital to your business success. We designed A+W Business to streamline your functions, including simple order entry and processing, which allows you to copy documents and generate automatic purchases or order proposals and an innovative parts list that can handle every part of a product tracking it throughout your facility.
Additionally features include the following:
(1) Our software smoothly connects with A+W Production, making it easy to transfer orders, purchase orders, and track production progress; (2) integrating A+W CAD Designer and standard shaping & machining catalog simplifies technical order input; and (3) our system supports swift and easy evaluations and analyses utilizing either Crystal Reports or QLIK reports.
Functionalities and Benefits
- Modern appearance
- Intuitive interface & processing steps
- Streamlined order processing
- Automation options
- Potential connection with A+W Production and A+W CAD Designer
- Quick and easy evaluations and analyses
Known for its modern approach, intuitive interface, powerful calculation capabilities, and advanced technical features, our solution is flexible, catering to both individual enterprises and conglomerates. With A+W Business, you gain access to a comprehensive software suite designed to streamline your business workflows and bolster managerial control over your company.
Satisfied Customer Voices
A+W Clarity Reference
Cooling Brothers
With A+W Business, A+W provides an excellent and contemporary product to the international flat glass industry. The software shows the great potential of modern “WINDOWS” systems in terms of more features and ergonomic and user-friendly functions. Getting new users up to an excellent skill-level has become even easier!
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Osby Glas
With A+W iQuote, anything that is ordered can actually be built. The entire order runs through a restriction check based on master data stored in A+W Business. The customer transmits a technically correct complete order to us. There are no questions and time-consuming clarifications by telephone or e-mail. This is how we can achieve much greater efficiency in the entire order process.
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Glas Fritz
The intelligent networking of our production through A+W Production has shortened delivery times by one to two days. Our staff who used to have to search for sheets and laboriously hand-pick them, now work productively. The process reliability has improved considerably and the error rate dropped to virtually zero.
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Popular Add-ons
Clarity
Furnace Optimizer
A+W Furnace Optimizer introduces an intelligent solution for toughened safety glass production that aims to maximize furnace bed utilization and energy efficiency simultaneously. By reporting the availability of sheets prior to the glass tempering system, A+W Furnace Optimizer facilitates dynamic and efficient furnace bed occupancy.
This software solution conducts real-time optimization directly in front of the oven, ensuring cost-effective production based on available sheets. Providing a graphical display of furnace bed occupancy and seamless access to booked sheets, A+W Furnace Optimizer offers a user-friendly operation.
Integrated into the production data acquisition system, this software solution furnishes real-time production progress updates, thus enabling precise control of the furnace bedto optimize production processes and maximize machine utilization. With its dynamic, customizable functionality, emphasis on quality assurance, cost efficiency, A+W Furnace Optimizer emerges as the ideal solution for glass industry firms seeking to streamline production processes and bolster competitiveness.
- Graphic display of the furnace bed assignment for efficient monitoring
- Batch-by-batch production and booking of the furnace bed
- Online optimization directly in front of the furnace, based on the available sheets on racks
- Direct access to booked sheets on racks and slot carts via A+W Barcode Manager or A+W Production Terminal
- Ability to save and evaluate batch information in connection with A+W IoT - Smart Trace
Business
A+W Business is a complete ERP system for small and medium-sized companies. This commercial solution allows not just the entry of quotations, orders, credit notes, complaints, delivery notes, and the management of purchase orders and inquiries, but also control of other company areas (e. g. stock, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
Business Pro
A+W Business Pro is a professional and cost-effective entry-level solution for small and medium-sized companies where order processing and production planning are completely integrated.
Enterprise
A+W Enterprise is a fully-integrated multi-site-capable ERP system for corporate groups and upscale medium-sized companies in the flat glass finishing industry.
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
Clarity
Smart Delivery Maps
A+W Smart Delivery Maps is a comprehensive solution for digitizing your delivery processes. The mobile app replaces paper-based workflows with a centralized, intuitive platform that connects drivers, dispatch and accounting.
All relevant order and item data is available directly on the driver’s mobile device. Customers confirm deliveries with an electronic signature, supplemented by photos and comments, which are automatically transferred to your ERP system. This eliminates manual steps, triggers invoicing immediately and improves liquidity.
Real-time documentation ensures maximum transparency: status changes, complaints and special notes are recorded instantly and visible to all stakeholders.
Integrated map material and rack management enable efficient planning and monitoring of deliveries and pickups. Optionally, the solution can be extended with the A+W Logistics Optimizer to intelligently optimize routes and reduce costs.
- Digital delivery and real-time documentation
- Efficient rack management with driver assignment
- Electronic delivery proofs including signature, photos and comments
- Immediate online feedback to accelerate invoicing
- Integrated map material for planning and monitoring
Business
A+W Business is a complete ERP system for small and medium-sized companies. This commercial solution allows not just the entry of quotations, orders, credit notes, complaints, delivery notes, and the management of purchase orders and inquiries, but also control of other company areas (e. g. stock, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
Business Pro
A+W Business Pro is a professional and cost-effective entry-level solution for small and medium-sized companies where order processing and production planning are completely integrated.
Enterprise
A+W Enterprise is a fully-integrated multi-site-capable ERP system for corporate groups and upscale medium-sized companies in the flat glass finishing industry.
Clarity
Barcode Manager
Barcode scanning and tracking saves your employees and company time and money! A+W offers a wide array of functions to streamline production and process oversight.
Take charge of processing steps, keep track of machine utilization, and also record any breakage with ease using A+W’s barcode solution. This solution lays the groundwork for comprehensive evaluations and future planning, which are vital to your company’s current and future success. From status and storage location bookings (per user, station, machine, rack, item, and sheet) to precise processing entries and machine control via barcode scanning, our solution was designed to specifically meet your needs.
- Status and location bookings per user, station/machine, rack, item & sheet
- Machine start and control of processing via barcode reading
- Automatic reject handling (with implemented downstream concept)
- Statistical evaluations based on barcode readings (e.g. by using Crystal Reports or QLIK)
- Quality improvements based on breakage bookings
- Capacity updates based on barcode readings
- Printout of labels by A+W Production
- Flexible label design thanks to CR
- Centralized display of status information based on barcode readings by extension A+W Production Monitor and/or A+W Production Terminals
Business
A+W Business is a complete ERP system for small and medium-sized companies. This commercial solution allows not just the entry of quotations, orders, credit notes, complaints, delivery notes, and the management of purchase orders and inquiries, but also control of other company areas (e. g. stock, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
Business Pro
A+W Business Pro is a professional and cost-effective entry-level solution for small and medium-sized companies where order processing and production planning are completely integrated.
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
The [A+W] team made a serious and dedicated effort to fix things. And they incorporated new tools like barcode scanning, seeing the product, [and] production scheduling [all of which have] really helped us improve our On-time in Full (OTIF) number.
The intelligent networking of our production through A+W Production has shortened delivery times by one to two days. Our staff who used to have to search for sheets and laboriously hand-pick them, now work productively. The process reliability has improved considerably and the error rate dropped to virtually zero.
Clarity
CAD Designer
Looking for a CAD system designed specifically for the flat glass industry? Look no further than A+W CAD Designer, which offers innovative design solutions. With intuitive tools, it facilitates the creation of complex free forms and standard templates for reuse in ERP systems.
The special challenge of free-form entry of construction and automobile glass is entering the multitude of parameters quickly and correctly, drawing technically correctly and clearly, and generating reliable CNC code from this.
The A+W CAD Designer enables the entry of lite and contour data, all processings, the takeover of customer CAD data and the digitalization of templates, for example via digitalization table or virtual digitizing.
Moreover, A+W CAD Designer has a bar design program with graphical interface that allows the majority of common bar types to be arranged at will on a rectangular or shaped lite. Bars of different widths can be used in a design, and it is also possible to use different bar types within a bar pattern.
- Simple and quick creation of complex individual shapes and standard template files for re-use in ERP systems
- Easily capture and modify complex shapes and processing steps, such as edge layering or intricate cut-outs
- Correct inaccuracies in digitized shapes using A+W's patented streaming mode
- Easy entering and changing of difficult shapes and processings (for example edge deletion or complex cut-outs)
- Possibility of direct control of your CNC machine
- Easy and quick creation and dimensioning of complex grill pattern designs
- Little training required thanks to graphical tools and modern user guidance
- Direct control of the muntin saw possible
Business
A+W Business is a complete ERP system for small and medium-sized companies. This commercial solution allows not just the entry of quotations, orders, credit notes, complaints, delivery notes, and the management of purchase orders and inquiries, but also control of other company areas (e. g. stock, purchasing, dispatch, etc.)
Business Pro
A+W Business Pro is a professional and cost-effective entry-level solution for small and medium-sized companies where order processing and production planning are completely integrated.
Enterprise
A+W Enterprise is a fully-integrated multi-site-capable ERP system for corporate groups and upscale medium-sized companies in the flat glass finishing industry.
Production
A+W Production is an extremely flexible PPS solution for complete rough and detailed scheduling for insulated glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass production. The system allows planning and control of even the most demanding multi-level production flows.
The [A+W] team made a serious and dedicated effort to fix things. And they incorporated new tools like barcode scanning, seeing the product, [and] production scheduling [all of which have] really helped us improve our On-time in Full (OTIF) number.
We’ve not missed a beat. June 2020 was the biggest month we’ve ever had in our history. We keep humming along.