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 easy 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
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Float Glass Industries
High-quality innovative products are just not enough to be competitive as a glass processor. Requirements such as adherence to delivery dates, flexibility and short delivery times are becoming more and more important, competing in this vein with factors such as quality and costs. Lean processes and far-reaching IT support by our A+W system, which we have been successfully working with for many years, contribute considerably to our success in a fiercely competitive market.
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Glas Schöninger
The A+W Barcode Tracking has taken our entire production organization to a new performance level. Only with it are we in a position to truly organize ourselves efficiently without long information paths, complicated inquiries, and time-consuming re-makes. Earlier, an employee frequently had to search for racks for hours in order to find a sheet if he was not sure whether or not it had been produced yet. Today, he just looks in the system – done!
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Thermalsun
At Thermalsun, all IG-orders are delivered within 48 hours. We require the best available ERP- and production software to offer that unequalled service. After our first glimpse of the new generation A+W Business 5, I am sure it will enable us to work even more efficient than before. I am impressed about the great ergonomic features the A+W team has implemented in that new system.
Popular Add-ons
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 software controls and checks all processes from entry of the order to control of the machines, on through to delivery of the finished products. Thanks to consistent barcode control and the A+W Production Monitors, we always know where each sheet is at any point in time. All commercial and technical data is available company-wide – and this without having employees running around all the time with folders and stacks of paper under their arms in order to determine what they must do with which sheet (…) All employees work productively! The focus is always on information, all the time and everywhere.
With the A+W Production system, we manage our complex product mix very flexibly. No more sheets are lost. And there are almost no complaints. We produce much greater quantities in the same amount of time. In addition, cutting has generally become more flexible and yield has increased significantly. The realtime optimization and automatic breakage pool also make a contribution here – poor sheets are remade immediately and can frequently still be delivered with the main order.
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Logistics Optimizer
A+W Logistics Optimizer revolutionizes logistics in the glass industry through automatic route planning and optimization, thus providing an efficient solution for the delivery of glass products.
It automatically creates and optimizes routes and delivery addresses, saving time and money. Based on Nokia Maps, A+W Logistics Optimizer considers truck restrictions and current traffic data to calculate optimal routes, ensuring efficient deliveries.
The mobile app facilitates seamless communication between drivers and the ERP system, which allows for real-time delivery tracking via GPS and almost instant confirmation.
- Automatic creation and/or optimization of routes and delivery addresses & weight (2 modes)
- (Re)calculation based on times, additional stops, and traffic
- Consideration of truck restrictions, tunnels, and traffic
- Printout reports for truck drivers and customs
- Mobile app for drivers and online delivery tracking via GPS
- Feedback to the ERP system possible (e.g., for printing delivery notes and invoices)
- Delivery statistics
- A+W Smart Delivery (delivery app) as a scalable solution, e.g., only for the electronic delivery invoice
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.
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iQuote
A streamlined solution designed to simplify the process of recalculating quotations and orders. With A+W iQuote, your dealers’ customers can make changes themselves and add notes—such as different delivery addresses or requested delivery dates—depending on the order status.
A+W iQuote integrates seamlessly with your ERP system, ensuring that data is retrieved directly and in real-time from your database. This eliminates delays caused by emails or phone calls, and prevents issues with your dealers’ customers inquiring about non-buildable products. Your dealers and their customers will always see up-to-date products and prices online, which you manage through your ERP system. A+W iQuote adheres to the rules of your A+W ERP system, including the same prices and feasibility and plausibility checks you have established.
- Browser-based product configuration
- Online construction and price calculation
- Data directly calculated and saved in A+W ERP
- Products, prices and discounts from your A+W ERP System
- Integrated authorization based on A+W ERP
- Paperwork done by ERP
- Interface for touch screen
- Order history
- Attractive design
- Responsive Design: made for modern and portable devices (tablets)
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.
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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iShape
For the production of non-rectangular or extra-large shapes, glass processors frequently receive hand-drawn templates on paper, cardboard, wood, etc. from their customer. In order to fabricate these non-rectangular or larger shapes, modern CNC machines require digital data.
To solve this problem, A+W, in conjunction with Viprotron, developed a user-friendly, easy-to-operate app called A+W iShape.
With A+W iShape you can use your smartphone to photograph the template. The only requirement is A+W’s L-shaped reference objects that have to be placed on the template. Once photographed, the app will digitize the template by transforming the shape into an easy to edit outline, ready to be imported into A+W CAD Designer.
What makes A+W iShape special? In contrast to older solutions, there is no need to calibrate the camera! A+W iShape works with any quality smartphone camera.
- Place the L-shaped reference objects to automatically detect the template/photographed object.
- The L-shaped reference objects help correct any distortions when photographing a template.
- Once photographed, the iShape file can be imported into A+W CAD Designer, where further edits can be done.
- Transfer the DXF file to your CNC machine and start the production.
- Quick, reliable digitalization of templates
- Use of a good smartphone camera instead of an expensive, heavy digital camera
- Automatic import of the photo into the A+W CAD Designer
- Smoothing of the contour via the A+W patented smoothing process
- Output as DXF or A+W CAD format (SN) for use in A+W ERP and control of your machines with quick transfer to CNC machines
- Reliable compensation of distortions thanks to the reference object
- No calibration of the camera required
- Automatic import of the photo into the A+W CAD Designer
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.