Internal Shops within a Corporate Manufacturing Environment

Many large organizations rely on internal job shops to provide specialized shop services such as prototype machining, tooling and engineering. While these organizations have fewer accounting requirements than a typical job shop, they clearly have similar shop management challenges.

JobBOSS offers these organizations the ability to implement essential shop floor management tools independent of the JobBOSS accounting package. Functionality such as:

• Work order processing that lets you define and track individual jobs.
• Job scheduling to help manage work loads, run "what-if" scenarios and optimize shop capacity.
• Real-time data collection for up-to-the-minute job status and monitoring of employee time & performance efficiencies.
• Calculations of actual time and job costing to determine actual job cost.
• Internet-based customer service features for entering orders and checking status.
• A software developer's kit so that data may be imported from other enterprise systems such as Oracle or SAP.

A few corporate manufacturers using JobBOSS from within their internal shops include :

• American Axel BIC
  
• Delphi Automotive
• Dow Chemica
• Eaton Corporation
• GM Powertrain
• Harley-Davidson
• Ryerson Steel

For more detailed information on how JobBOSS is improving the profitability of captive shops, or for a live, detailed demonstration focusing on our unique capabilities in this area, talk to an expert .

Here are some of the many reasons to choose JobBOSS

» Designed specifically for job shops; small-to-medium-sized make-to-order, engineer-to-order, contract and mixed-mode manufacturers. » Has the agility you need to handle the real world - where customers are demanding shorter lead times and better pricing, but specs are not always accurate, and smaller order quantities mean more set-ups. » Accommodates changes and provides increased control over your entire business so you know the profitability of every job. » Knowing the status of a job is the key to efficient scheduling of the shop. JobBOSS works the way a shop does, helping you build parts to customer specifications, with job details and the order that work needs to be performed right at your fingertips. » In today's fast-paced business climate, you can't afford to waste time. Your most important information including customers, vendors, work center rates and materials; can be added, "on-the-fly." There's no need to build masters in advance, so you can start using JobBOSS with your next job. » Unlock the benefits of emerging standards and new web technologies. The powerful JobBOSS framework allows data exchange with other software applications. With this added functionality JobBOSS users have easy and powerful data access and integration.

For a more in depth look at the Job Control functionality click the Job Control Detail link in the left hand menu.