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Commence Industrial CRM Profiled by Leading Manufacturing Journalist
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “There is rarely one central database of customer information that can be accessed and shared among the people who need it to efficiently do their jobs. As a result, acting less like a team, these people... - December 15, 2006 - Commence
SaaS for Industrial CRM Lead by Commence
Commence CRM On-Demand is delivered over the Internet at a fixed monthly fee per user and requires no upfront IT infrastructure cost. Commence CRM On-Demand is a web-based CRM solution that enables businesses to manage customer relationships in an organized and efficient manner. An intuitive set... - December 09, 2006 - Commence
Emjen Engineering Inc. Completes a Secondary Process Review Confirming Application Advantages
Emjen Engineering Inc. announces results of a secondary Process Review of The PLC Code Generator. The Process Review consisted of applying The PLC Code Generator software to automatically generate a complete PLC Program for a multi-station machine. For comparison purposes, programming time and... - December 08, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
Emjen Engineering Inc. Launches the PLC Code Generator Webinar Series
“…A new paradigm for Industrial Control Systems: The PLC Code Generator will change the landscape of PLC programming forever…” - December 08, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
CRM Platform Quite Different for the Manufacturing Sector
Unique Manufacturing Platform Highlights: Enterprise Class Platform Encrypted Database Security Automated Processes One-to-Many Data Relationships Remote Synchronization Built-in Report Writer Multi-level Security Centralized File management Mail Merge with MS Office Web E-Mail... - December 06, 2006 - Commence
Coatings Manufacturer Taps DEACOM for ERP Solution
The Magni Group, an ISO 9000 certified manufacturer of protective coating systems for metal products, has chosen the Deacom Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System to standardize all business processes, including quality control, batch formulation, and... - December 06, 2006 - Deacom
Emjen Engineering Inc. Launches Product Utilizing Latest Microsoft Programming and Deployment Methodologies and a Unique Payment Structure for Manufacturing
Emjen Engineering Inc.'s release of its new product, The PLC Code Generator, includes a number of technology enhancements made possible via Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Frameworks. The first enhancement is the use of Web Services. The PLC Code Generator software is a client program installed... - November 29, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
Emjen Engineering Inc. Launches Product with Free Trial Offer
Emjen Engineering Inc. has announced that the release of its flag-ship product 'The PLC Code Generator' and a new website: www.PLCCodeGenerator.com will include an offer for a Free Trial for a limited time basis. The Free Trial is currently scheduled to last until December 11th, 2006. "We... - November 29, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
Emjen Engineering Inc. Launches New Product and Website
Emjen Engineering Inc. has announced the release of its flag-ship product 'The PLC Code Generator' and a new website: www.PLCCodeGenerator.com. The PLC Code Generator is a revolutionary new software package that enables manufacturers and machine builders to considerably cut machine project... - November 29, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
Emjen Engineering Inc. Completes the PLC Code Generator Process Review with Staggering Results
Emjen Engineering Inc. announces results of an initial Process Review of The PLC Code Generator. The Process Review consisted of applying The PLC Code Generator software on two machines for a local customer. These machines had previously been programmed by the customers' Controls staff,... - November 29, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
The PLC Code Generator Receives Patent Pending Status
Emjen Engineering Inc. receives Patent Pending status for The PLC Code Generator after filing a Provisional Patent Application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for work originally initiated in 2003. The PLC Code Generator is a revolutionary new software application that cuts... - November 29, 2006 - Emjen Engineering Inc.
DM Review Magazine Reviews QC Software Warehouse Control Systems
QC Software Warehouse Control Systems Profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in DM Review - November 20, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
QC Software Warehouse Control Systems Profiled in Managing Automation
Manufacturing Journalist Thomas R. Cutler profiled Warehouse Control Systems in Managing Automation. The article can be read in its entirety at http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/exclusive/read/ Commentary_Get_Ready_The_Next_Generation_Warehouse_ Management_System_is_Coming_12419073. - November 13, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
S.T.E.P. Formula Changes Industrial CRM Efficiency
The deployment of any CRM system takes proper planning. In order to assist customers during this process, Commence has developed S.T.E.P., (Strategic Targeted Execution Process). A proven methodology for the successful implementation of the Commence CRM solution. S.T.E.P is the result of more... - November 09, 2006 - Commence
Inventory Optimization Addresses the Challenges of Sourcing Overseas
Inventory Optimization is proving to be a powerful tool for firms procuring materials from overseas. While pricing advantages for purchasing materials overseas have enticed many small and mid-sized manufacturing firms, they now face challenges with additional inventory being carried on the balance... - November 08, 2006 - TCLogic
MagSuite.com Announces Free for Life Edition
MagSuite.com first at the market announced Free for Life Edition of magsuite.com on-demand web CRM/accounting application. - October 31, 2006 - MagSuite Inc.
MagSuite.com Announces Support of AJAX technology
MagSuite.com announces support of Web 2.0 AJAX technology to deliver desktop-rich application experience to magsuite.com accounting/inventory control/CRM on-demand web suite - October 31, 2006 - MagSuite Inc.
Inductive Automation Offers Dynamic PDF Reporting Plugin for FactoryPMI
FactoryPMI Reporting provides dynamic report generation embedded within the SCADA system. The web launched architecture enables the fully functional, web based HMI clients to produce professional pdf based reports without the cost of individual client licenses or the need to physically install... - October 26, 2006 - Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation Offers Free Integrator Partner Program
Inductive Automation offers free partner program for industrial systems integrators. The following details can be found at http://www.inductiveautomation.com/integrators/program/ Inductive Automation's integrator program is the core of their business. They believe that their integrators are... - October 25, 2006 - Inductive Automation
Lean CRM Automation Technology Must be Measurable According to Commence
In an effort to help industrial distributors and manufacturers thrive, Commence Corporation presents Practices That Pay: Leveraging Information to Achieve Industrial Selling Results, a compendium of smart practices from the leading industrial sales and marketing experts and organizations that are... - October 21, 2006 - Commence
Manufacturers Learn Steps to Implement a Sales Process
Commence offers industrial companies complete “Freedom Of Choice” to select the solutions and platform that best meets the business requirements of manufacturers and distributors. The comprehensive CRM Industrial application suite is available for use on premise or on-demand as a hosted... - October 16, 2006 - Commence
START-IT Magazine Editor Smedley Recognized QC Software
"It is truly an honor to be recognized by the editors of START-IT," said Thomas A. Verzi, Jr., vice-president with QC Software. "This only validates our ability to develop and deliver real world business solutions to global organizations -- we put our customers at the center of... - October 07, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Lean CRM Overcomes Dirty Data
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “With unreliable data, industrial distributors and manufacturers have reported they were unable to reap most of the benefits of a sales and marketing database. Salespeople will quickly realize the data is... - October 07, 2006 - Commence
Measuring Impacts on Lean CRM Automation Technology
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “In order to measure the results of automation implementations, leading industrial distributors and manufacturers first determined how their definition of success.” The easiest way to do this is... - October 04, 2006 - Commence
Coach Leather Accessories Utilizes QC Software
Coach has emerged as America’s preeminent designer, producer, and marketer of fine leather accessories and gifts. As part of a major system upgrade in which the facility’s former WMS was being replaced with Manhattan & Associates PkMS, Coach required a flexible WCS system that could... - October 02, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Texas A & M University Uses Commence Lean CRM Software for Industrial Distribution Curriculum
“Customer Relationship Management is quickly becoming a critical component for managing sales optimization and customer service in the Industrial setting,” says Dr. Barry Lawrence the Texas A & M program director. Dr. Lawrence noted, “The Commence software will provide... - October 02, 2006 - Commence
Commence President Caretsky Speaks About Lean Industrial CRM in Quality Digest
Manufacturing Journalist, Thomas R. Cutler recently wrote a feature article about industrial CRM for Quality Digest. The full feature article may be read at... - September 28, 2006 - Commence
Warehouse Management System SmartStock.WMS is Already Available in the 4th Country Besides the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia
The Barco Company signed a partnership contract with JSC “Intelligent Solutions Systems“ Company, Lithuanian integrator of barcode technology and a supplier of Point-of-Sales (POS) systems, about representation of warehouse management system SmartStock.WMS on Lithuanian market. - September 28, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.
Industrial Focus Profiles Commence President Caretsky Regarding Industrial CRM
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence (www.commence.com/mfg), an industrial customer relationship management (CRM) firm, “CEO’s of these companies often share how their new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provides them all the information they need, but fail to... - September 27, 2006 - Commence
Pleasant Company Distribution Center Benefits from QC Software WCS
Pleasant Company, based in DeForest, Wisconsin, has a distribution center that is responsible for direct-mail sales of all American Girl® merchandise to millions of households around the United States. Due to performance issues with their current Warehouse Control System (WCS), in conjunction... - September 27, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Turnkey Operator Picks DEACOM ERP to Centralize Business Processes
TrueHouse, Inc., a structural engineering service provider and building component manufacturer based in Jacksonville, FL, will implement the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System to consolidate its multiple businesses and provide accounting and labor... - September 27, 2006 - Deacom
QC Software Recognized by START-IT Magazine
The solutions provided by QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability. With a commitment to total customer satisfaction QC Software is the obvious... - September 26, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Manufacturing Journalist Thomas R. Cutler Profiles WCS System
According to manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in a recent issue of Manufacturing & Technology Magazine, “Network marketing is a distribution system, or form of marketing, which channels goods or services from the manufacturer to the consumer through a "network" of... - September 25, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Integrated Software Provider to Offer Demonstrations at Component Manufacturers Conference
Deacom, Inc. will provide free demonstrations of the DEACOM ERP System to attendees of the Annual Building Component Manufacturers Conference (BCMC) from October 4-6 in Houston, TX. BCMC participants may arrange their software demonstration by visiting Deacom at booth #784 or online at www.deacom.net. - September 23, 2006 - Deacom
Commence Corporation Profiles Lean Change Management Plan
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “By implementing a formalized sales process, distributors and manufacturers are fundamentally changing the way people do their jobs on a daily basis. There will be natural resistance.” Caretsky... - September 20, 2006 - Commence
Warehouse Control System Profiled in Quality Digest
QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of... - September 20, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
QC Software Leads the Distribution Sector with QC Toolkit
QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of... - September 15, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
Lean Industrial CRM Takes Hold
Elimination of waste is the hallmark of an effective lean initiative. The single greatest area of waste that remains in the manufacturing operation is in Sales and Marketing. For this reason there is a strong increase in Industry specific CRM technology anticipated over the next eighteen months. - September 15, 2006 - Commence
Lean Sales & Marketing: the New Value Proposition for Manufacturers
Having eliminated much of the waste in the manufacturing and distribution process, continued process improvement dictates that other areas of operational inefficiencies be corrected. The greatest area of deficiency in the manufacturing enterprise is in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM)... - September 14, 2006 - Commence
Kaizen Blitz for Industrial CRM
Kaizen blitz procedures quickly identify the best opportunity for lean efficiency and productivity. The most glaring omission of these kaizen blitz efforts has been in the sales and marketing elements of the manufacturing enterprise. According to manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in a... - September 13, 2006 - Commence
Industry Demands Hands-On Training to Address Shortage of Manufacturing Skills
Control Station Expands Partnership with BIN95 to Strengthen Skills of Domestic Manufacturers - September 13, 2006 - Control Station, Inc.
Industrial CRM Leader Commence Profiled in Manufacturing.net
In Manufacturing.net, manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler notes, “Some ERP vendors offer industry specific CRM solutions; many do not. Bolt-on generic CRM solutions are frequently sold as the panacea; few are.” Commence offers industrial companies complete “Freedom of... - September 11, 2006 - Commence
Virtual Coatings Conference to Feature Deacom Lean Manufacturing Program
Jay Deakins, founder of the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System, will present on Thursday, September 28th from 2-3:30 p.m. (ET) at the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) Virtual Learning Conference. Deakins’ presentation,... - September 08, 2006 - Deacom
Commence Industrial CRM President Outlines Focus and Value Proposition for Manufacturers
In an effort to help industrial distributors and manufacturers thrive, Commence Corporation presents Practices That Pay: Leveraging Information to Achieve Industrial Selling Results, a compendium of smart practices from the leading industrial sales and marketing experts and organizations that are... - September 04, 2006 - Commence
CTI Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation and Service to the Corrugated Packaging Industry
Founded in 1981, by Gordon C. Hay, a Forest Products Industry veteran, CTI was one of the first companies to develop sophisticated optimization, planning, and communications solutions for the corrugated packaging industry. Twenty-five years later, CTI is a leader in the development and delivery of technologically advanced software solutions for corrugated packaging companies. - September 02, 2006 - Corrugated Technologies Inc.
RFID Technology of the Alien Technology Company for Automatic Radio-frequency identification is Heading for Bohemia and Slovakia
The Barco Company has now extended its portfolio of products and services with RFID technologies and solutions of the Alien Technology Company, featuring very good power parameters, flexible architecture and low implementation costs. - August 30, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.
SmartStock.WMS Warehouse Management System for Online Warehouse Management is Heading for the Russian Market
The Barco Company concluded a partnership agreement with the INWATECH Company, a Russian warehouse management system integrator, on representing SmartStock.WMS system for online warehouse management in the Russian market. - August 30, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.
Commence Corporation Presents Practices that Pay
According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./) “In order to thrive in today’s industrial environment, characterized by intense competition, strategic sourcing contracts, customers’ pressuring for self-service, and the ongoing debate on... - August 28, 2006 - Commence
QC Toolkit Creates Differentiation in the Distribution Sector
The QC Toolkit is a multi-purpose module within the QC Enterprise software solution. It offers all of the interface technology necessary for communicating with host Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and lower level Material Handling Systems (MHS) as... - August 28, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.
EPAM Named to Fast-Growth 100 List by CMP Media’s CRN
EPAM Systems, the leading Software Engineering Outsourcing provider with delivery centers in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today that the company has been identified by CMP Media’s CRN, a vital source of information for VARs and technology integrators, as a Fast-Growth 100 company for... - August 25, 2006 - EPAM Systems