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Your
busy and you need more capacity. So you decide to add additional
equipment. You want that equipment to operate efficeintly, you want
to keep operating costs as low as possible.
So
you shop for a new furnace, plating, or coating line. You look at
that piece of equipment and figure the cost to purchase it, install
it, and make it run. Then you determine how much revenue it will
generate less the operating and other costs.
If
you determine it will make you money, you make the investment.
Your
busy and you need more capacity. But this time it's because your
paperwork is getting lost, mistakes are being made, your old management
system is slow, customers are getting mad, and your left hand dosn't
know what your right hand is doing.
So
you have the following choices;
- Add
more people which is very expensive.
- Continue
to suffer which is unacceptable.
- Increase
the productivity of your staff and essentially do more with less.
Visual
Shop is
very similar to adding additional equipment. There is a cost to:
purchase it, install it, and make it run. However Visual Shop will
not generate revenue by itself. Our customers tell us that Visual
Shop makes them more efficient, accurate, responsive, and better
organized.
Efficiency
alone is often enough to justify the purchase of Visual Shop. As
we all know the cost of employees continues to increase. If by installing
Visual Shop you can eliminate the need to add one or two new employees
then the program will quickly pay for itself. Ultimately you will
receive a Return on Investment which you will enjoy year after year.
How
do you know if your business is not operating efficiently?
Here
are the top 5 examples of inefficiency.
- Entering
the same data more then once. This often occurs where you
enter an order and then re-enter information into an invoice
or another program. Extra work for no good reason.
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Repetitive work. On repeat jobs, do you have to enter
all the information over again or do you just enter a part number
and everything is automatic.
- Procedural
Steps. For example; how many hands must an order go through
before it is ready for processing? How quickly can an order
be entered.?
- Searching.
How much time is wasted looking for paperwork, orders, etc..
- Communication.
How much time is lost because you didn’t have the right information,
lost a post it note, didn’t run the right job, didn’t ship a
rush job.
Visual Shop is designed to make you as efficient as possible.
As we all know, Time is Money. If you save time, you save money.
Then
there are the intangibles. Those items that it is hard to put
a dollar amount on yet are very important. Here are some examples.
Accuracy
- By being accurate you increase your quality. Accuracy means the
correct work instructions are printed on an order every time that
part comes in. It means printing a picture of the part on the work
order for identification purposes. It means billing the same price
for a part every time it comes in. It also means keeping promises
made to customers such as shipping dates.
Responding
to your customers - What is the value of quickly giving the
customer the information they are looking for. A customer calls
and asks, “Where is my job?” With Visual Shop you go into expediting
and you know instantly. With Visual Shop you can e-mail shipping
notices. With Visual Shop your customers can check the status from
the Internet.
Organized
- Simply put, it means you know where everything is. With Visual
Shop everything is just a couple of keystrokes away. It is all stored
in the database. Everybody works off of the same information.
Conclusion
- Visual Shop is designed to make you more efficient. If it does
just that, then it will pay for itself via labor savings. Add to
that the intangibles that it provides and you have a valuable asset
to your organization.
Here
is what some of our customers have to say.
“We
were able to eliminate two employees after getting Visual Shop.”
Ace Plating.
“Visual
Shop has saved us a lot of money especially in keeping track of
shipped orders.” Precision Anodizing.
"We
find the program very responsive. It saves so much time for everyone.”
Carolina Commercial Heat Treating
“It
saved us. With our other heat-treating software, we were going crazy
with it.” Progressive Steel Treating.
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