EVS Presents Its Annual Charity Recipient List

As we come to the end of another successful year, we want to than all of our clients and partners for being a part of the EVS family.  In the spirit of the holiday season, EVS selects a number of deserving, locally registered charities to give contributions as part of our annual giving campaign on behalf of our clients and resellers.  This years Holiday Giving recipients were as follows:

• The Heritage House
• Meals on Wheels - Boulder
• Colorado Children's Hospital
• Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra
• Denver Rescue Mission
• Adopt Colorado Kids
• The MaxFund

We wish everyone the best in the coming new year, and we look forward to serving all of our clients and partners.  EVS, a developer of process manufacturing ERP software and warehouse distribution software systems, has over 10 years of experience working with companies in the food and beverage, commercial bakery, chemical, metal and health and beauty product manufacturing.

EVS Signs on with Infor to Become Infor SyteLine ERP Software Reseller

In a past post, I mentioned that we at EVS has an exciting announcement right around the corner.  Today, we can officially announce a new partnership with Infor as EVS will now become a reseller of Infor SyteLine ERP for manufacturing.  This partnership will allow EVS to provide expanded ERP software product and service offerings to clients.

By becoming an Infor SyteLine reseller, EVS will continue to provide manufacturers tools for a better, more effective experience with ERP software.

In the first quarter of 2015, we will give you more details on the partnership and specific offerings related to Infor SyteLine.  We are looking forward to the partnership and being able to offer clients modern, innovative, and global ERP software solutions.

For more information on EVS's product and service offerings, visit www.evs-sw.com.

Managing Your Food Manufacturing Distribution Warehouse

For food and beverage manufacturers and distributors, managing warehouse distribution operations can be a challenge.  Recently, I read an article from Food Manufacturing that discusses "4 Ways to Better Manage Your Food Distribution Warehouse."  The number one way listed in the article is the use of technology.

At EVS, we have worked with numerous food manufacturers, as well as distributors of multiple industries to implement software solutions that will improve their warehouse operations.  O2 Mobile Warehouse provides real-time views and increases visibility and accuracy of your warehouse inventory.

By utilizing bar codes and hand held scanners, warehouse personnel will minimize key strokes and maximize efficiency with true pallet tracking, pick-while-you-pack/ship, pre-shipment staging and more.

For companies such as food manufacturers/distributors, managing lot tracked items and/or expiration dates of inventory becomes critical.  This warehouse distribution software provides bin movements with a location through a simple scan of a barcode.

For more information on the O2 Mobile inventory management software, visit www.vs-sw.com.

Enhancing you Production Master Schedule in O2 Process Manufacturing for Sage 500 ERP Software

The next enhancement option we are going to cover is part of O2 Process Manufacturing for Sage 500 ERP software's Production Master Schedule.  With this enhancement, businesses can extend the existing functionality of the Production  Schedule Dates screen to allow the ability to schedule out production batches by route step or by any other criteria a business requires.

There are a lot of outstanding enhancements that our clients have seen tremendous efficiency and business improvements from over the years.  For a more detailed larger list of enhancements that are available for both our process manufacturing ERP software suite as well as our O2 Mobile warehouse management software for Sage 500, visit our O2 Enhancements Catalog page.

A Closer Look at the O2 Process Manufacturing BOM Cost Rollup for Sage 500 ERP Software Enhancement

The Bill of Materials (BOM) Cost Rollup enhancement for O2 Process Manufacturing and Sage 500 ERP has made a tremendous impact on the operations of many of our clients.

The BOM Cost Rollup will account for standard cost byproducts in your cost rollup.  This allows the finished good to be costed correctly based on the planned percent contribution of the co-products.  It also adds the co-products detail to the BOM Cost Rollup report, so the planned percent co-product will contribute to the finished good rolled up standard cost by adding quantity to the formulation size, and crediting back the expected output of the co-product at standard cost.

The BOM Cost Rollup is part of several Costing related enhancements that are discussed in the O2 Enhancements Catalog.  For more information on this or many other process manufacturing software enhancements, visit www.evs-sw.com.  Be sure to check back frequently as I will be highlighting several other enhancements that have proven very helpful to many clients over the years.

This Will Change the Way You Use O2

Here at EVS, we have a very creative customer base.  The combination of their ideas and our ability to make upgradable non-intrusive additions to software, has led to many innovative enhancements that benefit our customers in countless ways.  For example:

• Production Master Schedule: Extend the functionality of the Production Schedule Dates screen to allow the ability to schedule out production batches by route step, or any other criteria that your business needs.

A small change in software can produce results every day.  These are things like: automated smart lot numbering, enforcement of customer specific picking rules, customized cost calculations, and mobile enabled data gathering screens for your specific business process.  These small changes can make a significant impact on your operational efficiency.

To view a list of some of our most useful enhancements, and how we can streamline your processes and get you the functionality you need, please follow the link below:

Top Ten Areas We Have Made Enhancements

1. Production
2. Utilities
3. Distribution
4. Manufacturing
5. Costing
6. Reporting
7. Sales Order
8. O2 Mobile
9. Customizer
10. Discrete Manufacturing

See something that could be useful to your company?  Do you have an idea or a question about what is possible in your environment?  Contact EVS to discuss your requirements and how we can help by reaching out to Jessica Kameron, QA Project Manager, by phone or email found on the linked enhancements page.  For more information on these enhancements or to learn more about our ERP software products and services, visit www.evs-sw.com.

Is It Time to Upgrade to a Commercial Bakery Management ERP Software System?

If you are a growing commercial bakery, you may be finding your current operational software system, or in many cases multiple systems, just aren't making the cut.  While growth is a welcomed situation, it often doesn't come without bumps in the road.

Working with commercial bakers and other process manufacturing specialties for over 10 years has given us the opportunity to help them find more efficient ways to operate.  For example, one commercial baker performed manual mandatory lot tracking required of all food manufacturers, with mock recalls consuming hours and hours of staff time.  Once they implemented O2 Bakery ERP software, which includes powerful integrated lot tracking and Certificate of Analysis functionality, their operations were significantly streamlined.  In their own words,

"In less than an hour we can trace any lot, identifying the source of the ingredients, the final products they went into, and who we shipped the products to."

Creating more efficient operations within the warehouse will also mean large savings for commercial bakers.  Again, a client facing unprecedented growth found that their warehouse operations weren't doing them any favors in terms of determining inventory and shipping out orders.  Previously, warehouse employees would spend up to six hours each week, moving in and out of freezers counting product, recording their results, and double-checking discrepancies.  Now, the company performs smaller cycle counts on a subsection of its inventory using wireless handheld devices for O2 Mobile Warehouse and receives real-time, accurate inventory information. 

Despite doubling its operations, this commercial baker has not had to hire additional administrative personnel to support the growth either.  By utilizing the tools and functionality provided for both manufacturing and warehouse operations, they were able to eliminate redundant tasks, minimize overhead, and reduced paperwork -- all while increase accuracy.

For a more in-depth look at how this commercial bakery and others have successfully managed their operations using commercial bakery management ERP software, visit www.evs-sw.com.