Solarsoft CS1

WorkGroups for Packaging Webinar

On December 16 at 11 AM EST, Solarsoft will be hosting a WorkGroups for Packaging Webinar. This pre-press & artwork workflow solution is a great complement to the CS1 software suite. With WorkGroups for Packaging you can:

• Manage all your digital assets on-line
• Determine the status of a specific job, and where it is within the department at any given time – with only a few mouse clicks
• Have your customers review and approve designs and revisions over the Internet
• Use electronic versions of your intake and request forms
• Manage your digital design library

Don't miss the 30-minute webinar December 16, 2010 at 11 AM EST. Register today!

 

Costing & Estimating for Success

CS1 helps you get the estimate right - the first time, and stand out from the pack.  CS1 can be configured to fit your specific estimating needs, and you can ‘peel back layers’ at any time to validate your estimating costs.  Here’s a screenshot of our new cost comparison screen that let’s you compare your estimated, actual and standard costs to ensure that your costing is in-line with your business goals.

 

Driving a car and running a business have something in common

What if you could have all the necessary information about your business at your fingertips in an easy-to-view dashboard?  No more running daily/weekly/monthly reports, all the information is provided to you in a real-time, continuously updating dashboard!

Imagine if you had to pull your car over and run a report every time you wanted to know how much gas you have left?  It would be very difficult for you to make decisions in real time while driving, for example, if you had enough gas to visit a friend in the next town, since you didn’t really know how much gas you had left.  It would take you a lot of time and effort to pull your car over to figure this out.  In real life you just take a quick look at the gas gauge to know exactly how much gas is left!

If you are only running reports to gain access to information in your business, you are wasting time and money.  View the recorded webinar, ‘Decisions made easy with dashboards,’ to see how business intelligence can help you with your business.  

Watch this Webinar Recording on CS1 Dashboards

Make sure you take a look at this webinar recording "Decisions Made Easy with Dashboards" which showcases one of the greatest features of CS1: dashboards. These management dashboards help you to instantly identify trends, send you pro-active alerts, and give a top-down view of your business. You can view the free webinar on your computer with windows media player. 

Champion Innovation

Without systems that support sales and service efforts, responding to changing customer requirements quickly and efficiently becomes impossible. Solarsoft CS1 helps you embrace change and innovation, by moving time-consuming administrative tasks to automated processes. This means professionals in your organization can spend more time creating the innovative products and services customers demand.

Companies using Solarsoft CS1 profit from their ability to fulfill more orders, handle complex requests as though they were routine, and encourage customer loyalty with unmatched service and fulfillment.

Promote Productivity

Your customer service reps can spend upward of three hours a day tracking projects down, hunting for the right files with the latest information.

The advanced features in the Solarsoft CS1 software translate directly to faster response times, reduced plant downtime, and increased opportunities to outperform the competition.  

Stop relying on paper records and telephone communications, Solarsoft CS1 helps gain productivity and efficiency in your operations! 

Greater Control Can be Found in CS1

Sales cycle times, order to delivery turn around, real-time inventory control, costing and profitability, and production usage reports all enable managers to get the big picture. Built-in intelligence tools monitor and track plant and work center productivity, helping managers to pinpoint areas for operational improvement. Uncover underutilized resources and direct new business to maximize their use. On the sales side of the business, create reports that identify which products generate the most profit and view which customers represent the highest value and the largest revenue streams.

Ready for efficient shop floor data collection?

It’s impossible to improve something that you can’t measure. This rings true especially with shop floor activities – it’s impossible to improve your manufacturing efficiency if you don’t know what and how much you’re producing in the first place. 

Production Manager, a real-time shop floor data collection system, connects directly to most production machines without add-ons or retrofits, and allows on-line monitoring of your machine and job performance.  The system highlights efficiencies and deficiencies throughout your entire plant and provides immediate information for process improvements.

Read this story about how Packetis in France increased their monthly production by 3% using Production Manager.

Industry’s most advanced scheduling software at your reach

Are you still struggling with inefficient production scheduling?  Solarsoft CS1 Advanced Planning & Scheduling software is an advanced, automated planning tool that can accommodate your most difficult scheduling scenarios.  Would you like to be able to:

• Reduce make-ready times by grouping like jobs together
• View alerts on the availability of raw materials, dies & plates etc
• Drag & drop to easily schedule and move jobs
• Drill down to important job details directly from the schedule
• Analyze ‘what-if' scenarios, including work-late and cost implications of any changes
• Tie into real-time shop floor data collection for the most up-to-date accurate information?

By the way – did you know you can get started with Advanced Planning & Scheduling for as little as $20K?

 

On-line customer portal let’s you instantly improve customer service

One of the easiest ways to improve your customer service is to allow your customers to manage their order-related data on-line.  With Solarsoft CS1, you can have your customers enter and release orders, submit quote requests and check their order and inventory statuses via an Internet portal.  Imagine how much more effective your customer service department could be when your customers have the information they need at their fingertips!