New ERP Applications Improve Visual Tools, User Efficiency, Billing Functions

In Booth E-121814, Fujitsu Glovia, Inc. (El Segundo, CA) will showcase their release of GLOVIA G2 V3.5.0, which expands upon their manufacturing planning and execution experience gained over more than 30 years. This new release provides a number of enhancements to the company’s manufacturing ERP software, along with three new applications: new modules for Shop Floor Dispatch, Enterprise Search, and Contract Agreements add functionality that was not previously available within GLOVIA G2. Shop Floor Dispatch eliminates the need for batching information and provides the user’s production team with a visual ‘one-stop’ tool for managing and recording production and inspection activity. Enterprise Search enables users to easily find and access capabilities within the ERP system that they haven’t used in a while or learn to use if they’re new users. Contract Agreements provides recurring billing functionality for aftermarket companies that offer service and maintenance agreements or rentals.

GLOVIA G2 V3.5.0 also features many enhancements to existing ERP modules, including:

• New file upload capability.
• Improved item, supplier, customer, contact searches.
• New General Ledger sub-Ledger and enhanced re-valuation capabilities.
• Improved Bank Reconciliation.
• Project accounting enhancements.
• New ERP integration for GLOVIA G2 Sequencing.
• Contract Management enhancements for shipping and transaction maintenance.
• Extensions to the engineering drag and drop capabilities.
• Enhancements to Repetitive Schedule and Customer Releasing capabilities.
• Further improvements to Ad-hoc grids.
• Further improvements to Insights.
• Expansion of Capable To Promise availability.

Increasing the amount of real-time recording and response of factory floor systems was a key driver of the new release, according to Jim Errington, the vice president of sales and service for Fujitsu Glovia, Inc. “These software enhancements reflect more than a year of user interactions to learn how we can better manage their changing requirements,” he said. “And, the feedback we’ve received from beta testers of this new software have been very positive.”

“The new Repetitive Schedule functionality in this release allows us to set multiple schedules per day and even per hour. This increased precision and flexibility will allow us to eliminate duplicate work and custom scheduling side systems,” noted Chris Sandlin, the senior manager of information technology for Keihin North America, Inc. (Anderson, IN). “Less software for us to maintain and less work/more efficiency for our end users is always an outcome we can get behind. Other new features that will really enhance our productivity are the new paging screen layouts, color-coded Grid thresholders (no longer just an on/off two-color option) and the new grid-like functionality added to paging screens. All of these features were big hits with our end users during beta testing.”

Installation, migration and testing time for existing GLOVIA G2 customers takes approximately one to three days.

Fujitsu Glovia, Inc., 200 Continental Boulevard, Third Floor, El Segundo, CA 90245, 800-713-1450, Fax: 310-563-7300, www.glovia.com.