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Sadler’s Montreal office provides the sales extension of DS Handling, an existing Questica SE customer, located in Orangeville, Ontario. Sadler Conveyor has seen the benefits of Questica SE, and has purchased additional licenses in order to link in with the existing system in Orangeville, and provide greater cross-company efficiencies in their ERP processes

The company, located in Mississauga, Ontario, provides assembly of electrical control panels, pneumatic, hydraulic and computing platforms for heavy industries. Although they had an existing system, it wasn’t able to meet all of their requirements.

Questica SE’s SolidWorks add-in and Engineering to Procurement functionality were key drivers to this purchase

Questica is pleased to announce an update to Questica SE V3. Several highlights of this release include:

Shipping Queue – A new Shipping Queue has been added to the application for the tracking/releasing of shipping related data for each Machine. This queue runs parallel to the manufacturing Queue, and will list any Machines released from Engineering, and any Parts Order’s released from Sales.

Split PO Line Item – Purchase Order line items can now be split into separate line items, assisting with staggered deliveries, and other unique delivery needs.

Procurement Alternate UOMs – RFQs and POs can now change an item’s UOM to another UOM, and have the required quantity update accordingly. A new lookup allows you to define relationships between your UOMs.

For a complete list of new features, or to find out more about Questica SE, contact us at sales@questica.com.

A recent article published on the Manufacturing Alumni website highlights how the right ETO technology solution must provide real integration with all aspects of the enterprise. The unique requirements of each department and stage of production must be met while ensuring an overall efficiency.

Questica SE allows all departments access to real time integrated information at each stage of the process, as well as full integration with associated software such as Solidworks and Autocad.

“An integrated business system is the most important production tool an ETO manufacturer can buy.” states Dennis Parass of Questica

Read more in the Streamlining ETO article in the Business Excellence November issue, page 10

Unlike the Make-to-Order and Make-to-Forecast manufacturer, the ETO manufacturer is faced with the challenge of tracking BOM associated costs throughout the entire manufacturing process. Find out how Questica SE solves this challenge in the article Make-to-Forecast and Make-to-Order Systems Fail CFO’s of Engineer-to-Order Companies.

AutomationMedia.com publishes an article showing the benefits of Questica SE in ETO manufacturing.

The ability to capture engineering history, and to free up time from the engineering staff, allows for significant increase in productivity.

“Handling Specialty, a Niagara region custom manufacturer specializing in lift systems, was able to triple their sales in a five year period after implementing Questica SE while keeping the same size staff throughout that period, exactly the same number of designers and shop staff, the same size plant and inventory.

Questica SE is featured in an article on Automation.com, outlining how implementing the solution can provide ETO manufacturers with a significant increase in output, without the need to increase staffing.

“The key is to streamline your business process, speeding up the process and freeing up critical staff from clerical tasks to focus on income generating tasks.” states Dennis Parass of Questica, Inc.

Monsanto, a multinational agricultural company, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, has chosen Questica SE as their ERP system.

Questica SE will provide integration with SolidWorks, to streamline the creation and changes in producing BOM, for Monsanto’s design and equipment manufacturing group.

A plus for Monsanto is the ability to use Questica SE without requiring an internal accounting package. The new software will enable Monsanto to speed up their design and build process while reducing errors and cost.

After conducting a review of ERP solutions, NAO Engineering Inc. has purchased Questica SE to help them streamline their ETO process.

NAO was looking to upgrade from a Unix system in order to; provide a central database for all departments, streamline the flow thru of data, and eliminate duplicate entries. Questica SE’s latest release v3.0 is a powerful tool that will enable NAO to meet all of their ERP requirements.

NAO Engineering is a provider of combustion, environmental and safety products for major energy corporations.

Our product development team is constantly working on improving Questica SE’s features and functions. Each year we summarize all of this work into a single release. Each annual upgrade incorporates a number of product enhancements, ergonomic improvements and product fixes. This year we are announcing a major release with Questica SE 3.0. This includes a new ergonomic interface leveraging the latest Microsoft technology, and, as usual, there are a number of new features that will help our clients improve their productivity.

For full details read press release or contact Questica for a demo.

Ecco Fuels Technologies selects Questica SE as its ERP software to streamline their business process and improve efficiencies.