New ERP Dashboard Designer Feature Digitally Transforms How Manufacturers Design and Track Data

As the manufacturing industry continues to grow more complex, manufacturers are becoming more dependent on accessing operational and financial data the way they want to see it. Global Shop Solutions, a leading provider of ERP software, is improving transparency for manufacturers with the Dashboard Designer feature. This innovative feature makes it easy to design, customize, track and display data in formats that meet the unique business needs of manufacturers. “Dashboard Designer is a no-code data analysis tool manufacturers can use across their organization,” says Dusty Alexander, President and CEO of Global Shop Solutions. “Manufacturers can tailor Dashboards to their own specifications by dragging and dropping features directly onto the screen. If they know Excel they can easily tailor just about anything they want to do in the Dashboard Designer.” Basic Dashboard Designer templates come standard with the ERP and can be edited according to user preferences. The most popular Dashboards for current customers include Sales Analysis, Employee Productivity, Real-Time Workcenter Dispatches, and Work Order Estimate Versus Actual. These data metrics are prized because they make it easy to discern outliers, including which products are profitable and which aren’t, and why work order estimates are deviating projections at unacceptable levels. One of the newest Dashboard Designer features fulfills an urgent need for manufacturers by displaying shop floor metrics on interactive TV screens located on the shop floor. Shop floor personnel no longer have to search for production data because it is always in front of them. Five times faster than running a report, the interactive TV screens have proved so efficient that the Dashboard Designer team created a “sister” Report Designer to generate faster, more customized reports. Global Shop Solutions has also grown a user community where manufacturers with a Dashboard Designer license can download, implement and edit existing Dashboard designs at no cost. These include tailored Dashboards that have been created for other customers by Global Shop Solutions employees. Dashboard Designer users download custom designs from the library of tailored Dashboards and, if needed, edit them so they can see the data in ways that add value to their decision making. “Our goal has always been to continually simplify manufacturing and be more than a software company for our customers,” says Alexander. “With the latest update, Dashboard Designer data is always live, and enables our customers to drill down into as much detail as they want to see. It literally transforms the way they work.”

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