Boosting Borden Metal’s Grating Production Efficiency With Our Full Custom ERP System
Borden Metal Products Ltd., with more than 65 years of experience under its belt, is widely recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of all kinds of gratings. Dependable and high-quality, their range of gratings covers include roadway gratings, sidewalk gratings, pressure-locked gratings, riveted gratings, and more. Leading in strength, their products are made of various heavy-duty metals, including aluminum and stainless steel. The company also offers custom gratings and grizzlys to all their customers.
- ERP System
- Quotation System
- Inventory Minimums & Maximums Module
- Custom Pricing System
- Shipping & Receiving Desk
- Operations Management Software
- Work Orders
- Label Printing
- Financial Module
Offering customizable solutions alongside a wide array of pre-existing grating systems, Borden Metal Products Ltd.’s complex inventory and manufacturing and sales operations required a system that could streamline their day-to-day processes. In short, what they needed was a custom ERP system that featured various modules tailored to their unique pain points.
Vestra Inet rose to the occasion and developed manufacturing ERP software for them that included useful modules such as custom pricing, error-free quoting, automated label printing, a shipping and receiving desk, inventory management, and financing. Each of these was geared towards optimizing Borden Metal Products Ltd.’s daily operations.
Starting with our sales quotation software, it helped the company display the accurate pricing of all their grating systems as per their individual specifications including dimensions, materials, bearing bar sizes, strength, deflection, and more. Our in-built custom price calculator enabled dynamic pricing, which correctly displayed the cost of custom models despite their varying modifications and unique specifications. Finally, it also generated automated quotes in a quick and error-free manner, thus improving sales-closing timelines.
The company also needed a way to optimize its vast and complex inventory. It required a system that would instantly alert managers and other key personnel of changes in inventory levels such as shortages and surpluses so the correct action could be taken to rectify each. Our B2B inventory management software’s maximums and minimums feature stepped up to address this issue. It automatically notified Borden Metal Products Ltd. of changes in inventory levels so they were better equipped to cater to customer orders without delays or interruptions.
To ensure the company could accurately track their shipments and orders, we deployed a shipping and receiving desk feature in the operations management software we made for them. This feature ensured full visibility into all of the company’s shipments, ensuring they received and sent out the right products at the right time.
In conjunction with shipment optimization, they needed a system to ensure each product sent out to their customers was correctly labelled with all the necessary details. Our label printing software automatically generated accurate labels that were instantly printed via designated printers so they could be put on shipping boxes before they were sent out.
Finally, our financial module helped the company keep tabs of its transactions. It also enabled useful time-saving features such as invoice management, finance report generation, and income and expense tracking. It consolidated all financial data in one place, offering valuable insights that determined future financial decisions.
Vestra Inet’s custom ERP software equipped Borden Metal Product Ltd. with a tool that not only increased overall operational efficiency, but also allowed the company granular control over its data - including pricing, finances, and inventory among others - thus, eliminating guesswork from all of its processes.
Custom ERP
- Custom-tailored to your business
- Cross-module integration
- Workflow automation
- Reduced labor costs
- Improved data security
- Enhanced employee experience
Tired of struggling to align your operations with your software? Get software specifically designed for your business! Custom ERP software precisely replicates every operational task of your business according to your unique specifications. With custom ERP, your business processes are centralized, resulting in consolidated data, improved workflow efficiency, and cost savings.
Custom Operations Management System
- Custom-made for your business
- Real-time visibility
- Maximizes productivity
- Streamlined workflow
- Performance and productivity monitoring
- Allows businesses to make informed decisions
The primary purpose of operations management systems is to streamline an organization's business processes and improve operational efficiency. By automating repetitive tasks and providing real-time visibility into all aspects of the business, operations systems can help organizations improve workflow, reduce costs, and increase profits.
Operations software can be used to manage a wide range of business operations, including quotation generation, production management, scheduling, inventory control, order processing, shipping and transportation, and much more. A custom operations management system can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any organization and include virtually any feature you may need to streamline your business operations. Operations software is a valuable addition to any business that will help you achieve your goals and improve your bottom line.
Custom Inventory Management Software
- Real-time dashboards
- Automatic conversions of metrics and currencies
- Multiple warehouse management
- Access and tracking of SKUs in all facilities
Every company operates differently in terms of inventory management. While inventory management software applications are available commercially, many of the features are either not applicable for some companies or insufficient for others. Custom inventory management software is designed and tailored to meet your exact specifications. These systems include specialized features for companies, such as compatibility with barcode and QR code scanners, relationships between assemblies with complex part combinations, connectivity to multiple warehouses and databases, real-time updates to stock levels, track using dashboards, dedicated client logins, automatic stock level updates, and more. For businesses that have suppliers in multiple countries, a custom inventory system can help with automated conversions of metrics and currencies, which is useful for uniformity while offering convenience.
Price Calculator
- Real-time complex calculations
- Multi-system integration
- Custom price margins
Price calculators with advanced capabilities met unique situations where complicated calculations involving multiple variables were required. The functionality of the calculators varied based on client needs, with features like quantity-based discounts, price margin management, additional options, and real-time updates to the displayed price. These calculator tools were implemented into various client systems including product builders, online ordering systems, and assembly selection. Depending on requirements, additional functionality to set custom price margins was programmed. Additionally, personalized pricing information was displayed to individual users based on order history and other predetermined factors.
Each pricing calculator was designed to meet specific criteria for each client. These custom systems were designed to adapt to the unique needs of each business and its specialized operations, with the ability to adapt to multiple complex variables in real-time. This greatly improved user satisfaction due to immediate results when making item selections or building products online. Designed to be integrated into multiple client systems, these calculators met exact requirements in terms of customizability and functionality. Custom price margins enabled users with administrative access to define parameters such as quantity-based discounts, promotional offers, individual product price margins, and more. This resulted in a more personalized pricing information display for users.
PDF Generator
- Automatic PDF generator
- Picture-to-PDF conversion & Searchable PDF
- Generate PDF for product configurator
Modern websites have dynamic pages where the information that is displayed is generated from databases based on input from different systems such as product builders, ordering systems, e-commerce platforms, and more. However, there are situations where this data must be saved or printed. Examples of these situations include invoices, order information, shipping details, inventory data, performance statistics etc. The most common format to save the data in is PDF.
Automatic PDF generators were designed to store this unique information for later reference and put it into a more accessible format for emailing, printouts or backups. In unique situations, scanned images were converted to searchable text in PDF format to facilitate navigation through archives with large quantities of scanned information and documents.
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