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ERP-Software Healthy processes for your variant production

ERP-SoftwareHealthy processes for your variant production

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Do you want ... to be well positioned among your global competitors

to optimize your processes and reduce costs

customer loyalty by offering tailored products

to master the complexity of the sheer variety of your products

to minimize your data/administration expenses

a variant-related cost calculation and price generator

fl exibility and transparency in your production

collaborative integration of your value-added chain

software partners who know their stuff

... then here is: VlexPlus - Semiramis inside, the ERP software for variant pro-

duction in your industry

a technologically leading and forward-looking

ERP solution

a team, which will bring you success due to

its many years of experience

project-related services and general support.

a portfolio of IT-products that leaves nothing to be desired

software that will inspire you

Please ask for further

information or a meeting to

discuss your requirements at:

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VLEXgroup – the ERP expertsin variant production

With skills and expertise resulting from more than

thirty years of ERP development and project business,

the VLEXgroup stands for customer-oriented business

software for small and medium-sized fi rms that is tried

and tested in practice.

As sales unit, VLEXsolutions AG offers turnkey com-

prehensive solutions in co-operation with all companies

Since 2009, a common holding company has united under one umbrella the Kulmbach-based update Solutions

AG and the companies of the SWING Group, based in Achim near Bremen, Germany.

of the VLEXgroup for every requirement of modern,

growth-oriented manufacturing and wholesale busines-

ses. With a network of six locations in Germany and

Switzerland, today the VLEXgroup is one of the leading

medium-size providers of variant-oriented ERP solutions.

More than thirty years of experience in the development of high-performance systems for va-

riant production and technical wholesale have contributed to the solutions of the VLEXgroup.

The companies of the VLEXgroup can look back on

a success story lasting more than thirty years. With

a total of six locations in Achim (Lower Saxony), Dür-

nau (Baden-Wuerttemberg), Koblenz (Rhineland-Pa-

latinate), Kulmbach (Bavaria), Rheineck (Switzerland)

and Sursee (Switzerland) and more than 450 regular

customers – including multinationals – the VLEXgroup

ranks among the leading manufacturers of variant

ERP for medium-sized businesses in Germany, Aus-

tria and Switzerland.

VLEXgroup – the ERP specialists near to the customer

Confi guration and implementation

For the basic set-up of the test and productive system,

all necessary system parameters, user profi les and

roles, as well as all classifi ed and controlling base data

and organizations, will be provisionally set up to serve

as examples. Necessary adjustments will be defi ned

in realization concepts and realized as development

orders, tested under everyday conditions, and prepared

for going live.

Project management

The defi ned activities will be recorded by us in a project

plan, in accordance with the project defi nition and the

specifi ed working parties, and assigned priorities, dates

and resources in a phase model. The main focus here

is on planning, controlling and monitoring of costs, due

dates and workfl ows, as well as guaranteeing quality

and documentation in the project.

Training, support and maintenance

Before going live with the system, extensive training of

the fi nal users and/or key user takes place. If desired,

we support your business after the productive start

with extensive services such as a hot line, training

or services relating to software modifi cation. Beyond

that, we keep your customized software environment

available on our systems and thus ensure the ease of

adaptation of new releases and release levels.

The VLEXgroup supports its customers with the

selection, procurement and installation of all ne-

cessary hardware and software components. Du-

ring the introduction process, optimization of the

company‘s operational process chains is a central

component in a successful and forward-looking IT

strategy. An extensive partner network, as well

as further service features complete the portfo-

lio and guarantee the success of the IT project.

As »Semiramis inside« partners, the companies of

the VLEXgroup are without equal in dealing with va-

riant production.

A solution that brings together all the conditions

necessary for a successful IT project:

» Extensive experience in ERP projects

» Competence in and understanding of business pro-

cesses in the environment of variant production

» State-of-the-art and future-proof technology

The ERP variant solution VlexPlus - Semiramis inside

takes centre stage in the range of products on offer.

In the age of the Internet, VlexPlus - Semiramis inside

has been specially developed in order to best meet the

requirements of companies with a product portfolio

that is rich in variants. As one of the first products of a

new generation of business software („Next Generation

ERP“), VlexPlus - Semiramis inside sets new standards

in terms of future-proof technology, flexibility, scalability,

and ergonomics.

The VLEXgroup provides comprehensive industry-spe-

cific knowledge, a high level of investment protection,

and a high-performance ERP variant solution - and all

of this as a one-stop service. Just see for yourself!

VlexPlus - Semiramis Inside: Innovation prize-

winner of the 2010 SME Initiative:

The IT innovation prize is awarded by the SME

Initiative and the Huber publishing house for

new media under the patronage of the Federal

Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Professor Dr. Norbert Pohlmann of the University

of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen and Boris

Groth, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Group

„Information and Communications Technology“

(IuK), represented the 60-member jury of sci-

entists, specialized journalists, and IT experts.

The global competition from low cost countries and a

sharper focus on export mean that many businesses

in various industries have to manufacture more and

more product variants, at the same time as batch

sizes are decreasing.

For years, the requirements in manufacturing have

been growing appreciably – ever greater customiza-

tion, increasing variant variety, declining batch sizes

and shorter delivery times are major challenges for

manufacturing businesses. Flexibility in manufacturing,

however, is still all too frequently gained by a loss of

efficiency in the workflow. Rising prices and competitive

pressure is the result. Production costs and flexibility

become crucial factors of success in variant-oriented

manufacturing - no matter whether this involves con-

sumer goods, furniture production, or the working and

processing of metal products.

Growth requires flexibility and efficiency in production.

In order to extend their market share, companies must

be more customer-oriented in their production, without

thereby effectively increasing their underlying costs.

The specific challenge is to produce the multiplicity of

variants in a cost-efficient way, thereby making opti-

mum use of their resources, and to meet the delivery

deadlines on time. Here, however, companies have

frequently reached their limits in both business and

technical terms. In order to achieve optimum value-

added, a coherent variant logic is strongly recommended

in all areas of value creation. The variant logic should

ensure an efficient mapping of the production process

and simultaneously assume strategic control of variant

management in terms of costs, complexity and quality.

The Way to EconomicVariant manufacturingOnly ERP software with coherent and integrated product and variant

management can fulfill your complex requirements on a long-term

basis.

Sophisticated Variant Processes are our Specialty

The potential savings due to an effective variant system

are enormous. By means of accompanying organiza-

tional measures, fully integrated variant systems lead

to more efficient manufacturing and to permanently

leaner operational procedures.

Optimized variant management will significantly minimi-

ze expenditure on data acquisition and maintenance.

Where a company used to administer hundreds of

thousands of master data records, bills of materials,

and routings, these can now easily be consolidated into

a substantially smaller number of base items.

Here are some of the things that you need to make

sure of in a successful IT project:

» The technologies used by the software partner must

be forward looking to the future.

» The software partner must have a high degree of

industry-specific competence and project experience

in the relevant business processes.

There are of course a few good systems on the market

that focus on variant manufacturing. Usually, however,

these applications operate with variant aspects that

are only partly integrated or have been added on later

and are based on outdated hardware and software

technologies.

The upshot of this is that, e.g., invalid configurations of

products cannot be excluded by means of comprehensive

plausibility checks, cost calculations are not available

online, and much precious time must be invested in

master data activities or so-called „workarounds“.

With VlexPlus - Semiramis inside, manufacturing companies have the ability to optimize

the complex processes of cost calculation, production planning, and manufacturing in a

sustainable way and to organize them cost-effectively.

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Sales Production Purchasing Logistics

With its coherent variant logic covering all areas of

sales, purchasing and production processes in the

business, VlexPlus - Semiramis inside offers excellent

flexibility and efficiency in variant production.

Industry-specific features and functions, a sophisticated

set of rules for product configuration, as well as full-

level variant management are the core characteristics

of its integrated variant functionality.

These characteristics ensure that a greater number of

product variants can be effectively realized in production

at considerably lower data acquisition/maintenance

costs and higher flexibility, at a time when batch sizes

are decreasing. Feature options and option groups help

reduce complex product item structures. Precise bills

of materials and routings optimize other operating se-

quences in sales and purchasing, through to production

and dispatch. The purchasing department, for example,

can react quickly to changes to customer requests.

Erroneous orders can be minimized or completely avo-

ided, and materials scheduling can respond flexibly to

shifts in deadline. The sophisticated, integrated costs

management determines the variant costs as well as

the profit margins. In addition the costs management

helps companies, for example, save costs or reduced

lead times.

VlexPlus - Semiramis inside is a high-performance

ERPII all-in-one solution of the newest generation.

VlexPlus – Efficiency with SystemVlexPlus - Semiramis inside offers the necessary basis for cost-effective

mapping of the increasing demands made on variant-oriented production.

VlexPlus - Semiramis inside is a high-performance

ERPII all-in-one solution of the newest generation.

It was conceived specially for modern medium-size

variant manufacturers, in order to automate their

demanding processes to meet industry-specific needs

in an up-to-date way.

The solution not only has sophisticated variant manage-

ment and a high-performance product configurator, but

it also offers process-oriented and collaborative system

architecture based on the latest Java and Internet tech-

nology. The modern basis architecture therefore allows

companies to be independent of hardware, databases

and operating systems. Coherent workflow manage-

ment, business intelligence, archiving and document

management as well as business finance applications

are also components of the solution.

there must be maximum flexibility for the customer‘s

preferences. The check on possible technical and

economic feasibility through to unique identification

for further processing as a customer order plays an

important role here. Just as important is process

integration of the entire value-added chain: customer,

supplier and staff.

Procurement

VlexPlus supports you extensively in reacting rapidly

to customer changes to sales and purchase orders.

It is not just that you can take an informed decision

whether to manufacture in-house or procure your

order with optimized batches and variants via a third

party, but it also helps you to reduce or completely

avoid wrong orders.

Basis

The integrated variant logic of VlexPlus has defined sets

of rules, resulting in simplification and significant mini-

mization of the data administration of your company‘s

variant products. This gives you greater freedom in

your product specification, allowing an unlimited num-

ber of features.

Sales

The main requirement on VlexPlus is to enable the

customer to quickly arrive at a purchase decision by all

product information being available. At the same time

The Advantages of a Coherent Variant LogicIn the standard version, VlexPlus - Semiramis inside already contains extensive

functionalities in fourteen integrated Frameworks.

Materials Scheduling

By means of sophisticated batch sizing, VlexPlus allow

you optimum utilisation of your resources. With the

help of the system, you can react flexibly to changes

in deadline. Unlike non-integrated variant systems, the

VlexPlus batch sizing means that no fixed product items

need be created for flow production.

Costs Management

You can make your decisions easily, quickly, and safely

by means of easy-to-use evaluation methods for all func-

tional areas and product and feature stages, including a

break-even analysis. Multidimensional evaluations show

you both in-house and market trends that may have

an impact on how you organise your product range.

Manufacturing

Due to the VlexPlus option of modifying the orders during

the entire production process - including the realloca-

tion of prefabricated or ordered components - you can

reach an optimal degree of capacity utilization. There

is an improvement in lead time, and your production

factors - staff, materials, and machinery - are employed

more cost-effectively.

Warehouse Logistic

Thanks to the option of variant transfer to and release

from stock, VlexPlus automatically results in significantly

lower costs for staff deployment and the necessary

storage capacities. This means you can identify at any

time all product variants and assign them right through

to the customer order line. This includes withdrawals

from and returns into the production cycle for re-use.

More Semiramis© Standard Frames:

» Relationship Management (CRM/PRM)

» Financial and Human Resources Management

» Financial Accounting and Liquidity Management

» Asset Accounting

» Cost and Profit Management

» Data Warehouse

» Workflow-Management

» Software Development

» System-Management

The remarkable thing about VlexPlus is that you can

freely define features.

Variants can be formed by the allocation of as many

desired features and feature options to a base item

as you want. „Features“ here means characteristics

of individual component parts, assemblies or items.

Examples of features are: color, shape, accessories etc.

Feature options are the possible values that a feature

can assume. Taking, for example, the feature „color“,

then, e.g., the following feature options are possible:

yellow, blue, green, red etc.

As a user, you can assign as many options as you

want to a feature.

The integrated variant generator of VlexPlus is conti-

nuously available and allows the variant logic to be used

across all product structure levels through to procu-

rement. At any stage, feature options can influence

the final price. Depending on the feature option, both

proportional as well as fixed surcharges and discounts

can be specified.

VlexPlus - Vitamins for your ProcessesFreely and simply definable sets of rules for feature-dependent variants.

VlexPlus Variant logic

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Using the continuous reservation logic and an excellent

identification system within the materials scheduling

chain, individually manufactured variants and compo-

nents can be located at any time.

Item variants need not be pre-defined, but, once a

combination of feature options is configured, they can

be generated as variants or stored with the transaction.

Using the variant feature options, the relevant variant

bills of materials and routings are generated from

modules and routing master data that are stored to-

gether with their versions. The process allows access

to customer-specific rules and formulas.

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As one of the first products of a new generation of

business software („Next Generation ERP“) VlexPlus

- Semiramis inside sets new standards in terms of

future-proof technology, flexibility, scalability, ergonomics

and functionality.

To be able to satisfy at reasonable cost the process

requirements of small and medium-sized businesses,

the latest technology is needed. The Internet and the

JAVA programming language constitute the technological

basis of VlexPlus - Semiramis inside and consequently

allow extremely flexible utilisation of the software.

You choice of database, operating system, and

hardware platform is completely up to you. Existing

systems can be used.

» Security is taken very seriously

» Latest interfaces and output management

» Highly flexible and scalable

» Comprehensive functionality

» Future-proof software

» Allows simple mapping of collaborative processes

over the entire value-added chain

There are Many Reasons in Favor of VlexPlusVlexPlus - Semiramis inside combines comprehensive functionality

with the latest technology.

„Next generation ERP“ for Variant ProductionVlexPlus – for efficient mapping of complex business processes

and product variants in the system.

The wide range of services and the requirement to

offer suitable solutions for businesses of all types in

the medium-sized sector are not a contradiction in

terms to VlexPlus - Semiramis inside.

Each user in the company only sees the functionality

he needs. In addition, each workstation can be tailored

to the relevant tasks.

The business processes of a company, as well as the

structures and processes of a company group with

several organizational units can be mapped using the

multi-site functions. The use of multi-site functions

range as far as joint use of master data, as well as the

handling of cross-organizational business processes.

Whatever your business model looks like today and

however it‘s going to develop in the years to come,

VlexPlus ensures you get:

» User-controlled presentation of the data

» Reproduction of all the process structures

» Multisite ability and eCollaboration

» The latest in output management

» Internationality

» The highest level of security

Identification, potential analysis and initialization

We visit you on your premises and discuss with your

management the objectives you want to achieve with

the introduction of new ERP software. Sector by sector,

we discuss with you how you can obtain clear compe-

titive advantages by employing an integrated variant

solution and what the requirements would be for your

organization as a result.

Process-Assessment

Together with you, we analyze your business processes.

We do that internally, with your business partners, and

with your customers, and from this we develop solutions

for optimized processes. Already at this point, the pro-

duct logic and product strategy your company wants to

implement plays a role, as do the advantages you can

achieve by employing integrated variant management

in the production process.

Initial design, planning and evaluation

All the requirements we identify, including the necessary

hardware infrastructure, will be matched for you with a

solution design, a costs estimate and a timetable and

schedule for implementation. This is done on the basis

of the ERPII solution Semiramis© and our integral and

coherent extensions of all manufacturing processes

relating to »variants«.

We are known for seamless rapid integration that

deals with all your requirements

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