Globis 9 Solution Overview
Small and Medium Enterprises employ over 67% of the total persons employed in the European union. But, as SME s are the place where real entrepreneurship and creativity thrives, managing administrative aspects and controlling the supply chain are often domains where energy is spilled and opportunities are neglected. Global software companies have entered the SME market with -often- too global solutions! Large software suites -built for large organizations- are scaled down, and third party software vendors try to make it work for as many companies as they can... After 15 years of intense development with only SME s in mind and numerous success stories, Globis ERP software excels as the most efficient ERP solution for companies between 5 and 50 users. Globis brings great warehouse management features and innovative supply chain solutions within the financial and organizational reach of those companies that grow, but want to remain lean! The Globis Suite Introduction Globis has been developed for sales driven trade and production companies, with needs for advanced product data management, high performance order fulfillment, efficient production management and optimized purchasing and logistics execution. Globis has an elegant user interface which makes it easy to organize, search and navigate information about your business s primary processes. User groups, general access privileges and field level security are easily managed by your company, without the need for specialized programming knowledge. Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.2
The application is multi-language, multi-currency and multi-company. Advanced inter-company transactions are supported by the system. Globis integrates well with most modern accounting software and multiple legislations/countries are also supported. Globis has a built-in reporting module aimed at turnover drill-downs with an almost unlimited set of dimensions, and with precise allocation of gross margin. For larger organizations though, Globis provides business intelligence based on Crystal Reports technology, which can integrate data from multiple systems, databases and establishments. Product Data Management Globis is well known for its easy and flexible structuring of large sets of products. For every class of product, templates can be defined that contain many fields for technicals specifications, the production process and logistic execution. Product version management is one of the many unique features of Globis, formerly available only in costly ERP-systems, only accessible to large companies, with large budgets... Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.3
For trading companies, offering multi-level sales prices and managing large numbers of price agreements and discounts, is often a cumbersome job! Globis, though, offers you the right tools to effectively structure your price policy, and produce ready-for-print customer specific pricelists. Forget about Excel! Production companies can rely on Globis advanced price calculation possibilities and plausibility checks. Not only cost- and sales-prices are consistently calculated, users can only configure articles that are technically possible. Globis integrates with external PDM-sources and CAD programs, where it can extract products, bill of materials and technical drawings. Order Fulfillment Globis has a set of innovative features for creation and follow-up of sales quotations. Quotation requests for many article variants and different quantities can be converted into multiple price request to multiple suppliers, or -when you are in a production environment- into cost calculations. From quotation to invoice, Globis offers a highly optimized workflow, that is easily configurable to meet the needs of most SME s. With its built-in EDI capabilities, Globis gives smaller companies access to high volume retail markets, which heavily rely on exchanging order, delivery and invoice data in standardized file formats. Globis lets you screen all open orders in a systematic way, so that bottlenecks in stock availability or production are noticed early and action can be taken. For customer specific products, Globis lets you create purchase or production orders that link directly to the specific sales order. Invoicing can be done 100% automatically by the system, where Globis relies on certain parameters of invoice grouping and frequency, set in the customer master data. Purchasing Management The purchase process is critical to lots of SME s, since a lot of money is parked in stock and delivery interruptions can quickly spoil a good customer relationship. It is a time consuming and complex task to estimate what is the best quantity to be purchased at the right time, without over-buying, nor losing out on customer service degree. Globis monitors the materials requirement of the sales and production processes, and -taking sales forecasts, stock rotation and lead time into account- creates precise purchase proposals. Purchase proposals for products with no valid purchase prices, can be transformed into a batch of price requests, which -after having entered suppliers quotations and being validated- can be transformed into purchase orders. Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.4
Purchase orders and suppliers need follow-up! Globis lets you manage overdue delivery times and send delivery reminders before real problems start occurring. Also, you can track shipments and container informations, and -through the use of GlobisOnline- lets you even monitor real time delivery status. Globis supports advanced inter-company transactions, where one company buys/imports goods and distributes these goods from central warehouses to local sales and distribution establishments. Sales orders and invoices for the distribution company are automatically converted into purchase orders and -invoices for the local branches. Warehouse Management Have you ever seen the prices of specialized WMS systems? Not to speak of the cost and time for the integration with your existing ERP! Sure, these systems offer great value for large organizations, but if you are a smaller company looking for great stock management functions -including multiple warehouses, optimized picking and barcode processes- then Globis might be the ideal solution for you... Built upon the Globis principles of user friendliness, cost effectiveness and none-overshooting functions, our WMS gives you the right tools to lower inventory levels, have full traceability and improve customer satisfaction. Globis WMS can function on regular PC s but there is also a GUI for forklift displays where warehouse employees get their paperless instructions and register put-aways, pickings and moves. Globis supports WIFI based scanners for real time stock mutations, but also simple, screen less scanners are supported. At production sites, the Globis WMS is fully integrated with the barcode-based production and time registration modules, so production output can be traced back to every individual material batch or serial number that was used. Globis WMS supports inter-company stock transactions and integrates well with POS (Point-of-Sale) software. Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.5
With the optional LSP Interface Module, you can even set-up a bidirectional link between the Globis WMS and your external logistics service provider. Picking-lists are sent electronically to your LSP s WMS, and all stock mutations in the external warehouse (pickings, receivings, corrections etc) are registered in the Globis WMS. The WMS module is fully integrated in the Globis ERP-suite but -as a standalone module- it can also be interfaced with other ERP-systems. Production Globis supports discrete manufacturing, as well as certain types of process manufacturing. First of all, Globis has excellent features when it comes to engineering-to-order production. Components and bill-of-materials can be extracted from CAD/PDM software, and linked to a Globis project and/or sales order, even long before the last drawings are completed. On the project level, material and resource budgets are allocated and parts of the BOM can be released to the Globis MRP Engine, which triggers price requests, purchase orders, and even external sub-assembly orders. At every substantial iteration of the design process, the BOM s in Globis can be updated and Globis will check current purchase orders and stock-levels. Through this unique approach of dynamic interaction between the engineering and the ERP environment, Globis offers companies greatly improved lead times and stock control. Production follow-up and budget control are performed from within the system and result in all kinds of external reports (work in progress, project-matrices, profit and loss,...) In the process industry, Globis has excellent features and references. Based upon dynamic production process formulas, Globis suggests a production routing and calculates what raw materials are to be used. It suggests the setup time and run time of the machines, which is the basis for production planning. The production planning is visualized in a planning screen which updates instantly when registration takes place in the production. Through the use of color codes, users see for example when the confirmed delivery time of your customer is threatened by a late delivery of raw materials. Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.6
Production registration can be performed real time through an easy to use touch-screen interface. Raw materials -used during the production process- can be scanned, machine setup/run times are entered with the push of a finger, and output quantities are registered. Even labels with unique codes per box and/or pallet are generated on demand through the touch screens, both for finished products as for rest-materials that return to stock. Full resource traceability -a must in today s modern production environments, is guaranteed by Globis! Service Customer support, complaints and service interventions are managed by Globis Service Management Modules. Track customer calls, create work order requests, schedule interventions through a visual planning interface and register time and material usage, after which interventions can be invoiced by the system. It s all in Globis... Online Integration Globis integrates seamlessly with GlobisOnline, the integrated CRM and E-Business suite of Globis. GlobisOnline is built on and for the latest of online technologies. GlobisOnline is a cloud-based software service, for which you only pay a monthly subscription fee. From within GlobisOnline, you can create customer portals and webshops with -literally- a few mouse-clicks. No extra software installation is needed and shops become available instantly. From a simple, generic webshop, to a customer specific portal, where customer have secure access to detailed product and inventory information, outstanding orders and full buying history, GlobisOnline has it all! Your business partners can even skip the web browser, and make use of our background webservices to request prices or the status of their orders, directly from their ERP-system! Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.7
GlobisOnline offers new ways of business communication, but not only on the sales side. Give your supplier or transporter a limited and secure access to enter lead times and delivery times. Without any interaction from your side, your customers are provided with the most up-to-date information about product availability. GlobisOnline is not exclusively for Globis ERP users! Any other ERP-system that can post XML-messages to a webservice is supported! The Company Globis NV has its offices in Aalst, between Brussels and Ghent (Belgium) and has customers all over Belgium and The Netherlands. Recently, Globis started activities in Germany where a production company near Cologne went live with 30 Globis users. With a team of very experienced developers and consultants, Globis offers one-stop ERP-projects: process analysis, programming, implementation and onsite support on go-live. A professional help desk, an online call tracking tool and ongoing customer follow-up completes the service cycle. Globis holds the Q*For Quality Certificate for its great overall customer satisfaction. For more information about our products and services, please refer to our website www.globis.be our contact Globis at sales@globis.be. Globis ERP - Solution Overview p.8