5th Annual Business and Technology Regatta - Now Open for Registration

Date: October 12, 2007 - Location: Courtyard by Marriott, Marlborough, MA

This year's business technologies conference will bring together a number of our customers who will share with you their successful experiences in many aspects of their operations, from:

accounting | payroll | HR | manufacturing | material tracking | inventory management | sales | customer service | data warehousing | electronic data interchange  | supply chain processes

We hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity to learn about some of the tools that have made a significant difference for their bottom line!

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TIW Business Application Suite: Spotlight on Workshop

Main Street Software, Landisville, PA. Since 1983, TIW has developed and implemented its flagship application, Workshop, at small to midsize companies. Today, over 3000 businesses are successfully running their operations on Workshop.

Because of its broad range and depth of features, WorkShop is ideally suited to a wide range of businesses:

Make to Order | Job Shops | Engineer to Order | Make to Stock

In the manufacturing industry, day-to-day processes are critical to the success of a company, which is why the design of WorkShop has been focused on making them as easy as possible:

• An exceptionally strong BOM processor allows entire indented bills of material to be graphically constructed on one screen, using Treevision
• The finite scheduler handles forward or backward scheduling to the nearest minute or hour and runs extremely fast
• The MRP report supports both bucketed and bucketless planning and can be synchronized with the finite scheduler to provide JIT material planning
• Work order can be released, materials issued, standard labor posted, finished goods placed in inventory, and the order closed with a single button.

Companies representing over 120 types of manufacturing processes are using WorkShop - check out their profiles, and how they benefited from this solution.

We've also compiled our "Top 10 Reasons to Implement WorkShop", to give you some very tangible examples of the benefits of running WorkShop.

As with most software that we support, WorkShop is modular. A company needs only select and deploy the modules that it needs:

Manager - the WS Manager module handles the housekeeping for Workshop.

Bill of Materials - the BOM module is responsible for bills of material and for the material requirements planning (MRP) process.

Orders - the Order module creates the orders that are used by the shop to process jobs. Work orders include the instructions, configurations, and material lists for making the items and tracking them through the shop to their completion and movement to inventory.

Routes - The Route module is responsible for the routing instructions used by work orders to manufacture items.

Machines - The Machine module defines the capacity of the manufacturing facility and helps with the machine maintenance.

Schedule - The Schedule module develops a production plan for processing work orders through a manufacturing facility.

Plan - the Plan module extends the capabilities of the MRP to include many advanced functions.

Cost - The Cost module is responsible for estimating and tracking the costs associated with the manufacturing process..

Replacing a .5 mile walk with an efficient order entry system

Zuckerman Consulting, Novato, CA: American Mastertech Scientific of Lodi, CA, manufactures and distributes a vast array of lab supplies and equipment to hospitals and laboratories worldwide. They have recently redesigned their entire order entry, order review, pre shipment and shipment processing system to accommodate the very specific requirements of their practice. The project enables sorting and filtering of every order based on entries into custom fields as the order makes it’s way through the various departments. Previously, every order was walked approximately ½ mile between departments before it was completed. The new design will provide great savings in efficiency and accuracy.

Brandon Jones of AMTS says: “Very few companies in the world embrace the principle of “kaizen” which is continuous improvement. Zuckerman Consulting has been our greatest resource to continually innovate within our company”.  

An Offer You Cannot Refuse - FREE Lodging for the Regatta

Smart e-Solutions, Lawrence, KS: Smart e-Solutions is offering **FREE* lodging at the Courtyard by Marriott (2 guest rooms per company maximum) to Smart e-Solutions' customers who are attending the company's first Business and Technology Regatta!

Email Karen Smart  to reserve your guest room at the Courtyard by Marriott in Marlborough, MA (40 min from downtown Boston). Hurry, we only have a limited number of rooms available, and we expect that this conference will be sold out among the clients of the WAC Consulting Group's partners.

This 1-day conference will give you specialized hands-on experience with Sage Pro and other business technologies, and it's jam packed with the kind of information you've been seeking on how to run your business more efficiently using Sage Software.  Many other solutions to help you drive greater productivity in your business operations will also be available for test drives!