San Ramon, CA – July 18, 2001 – Extending complete, in-depth document control capabilities to its engineer-to-order, build-to-order, discrete manufacturing, and maintenance organization customers, Relevant’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) users can now attach electronic documents to records or menus in the ERP. They can also add reference items to Bills of Material, attach objects to records or programs, and attach their own help items to Relevant fields and menus.

“Discrete manufacturers and maintenance organizations seldom get to do the same job twice,” asserts Patrick Garrehy, Relevant Business Systems' President and CEO. “Although different customers often require similar products, these items typically have differentiators that provide competitive advantages. With documentation provided throughout the manufacturing or maintenance process, both our users and their customers are assured that what was ordered is what gets delivered.”

Relevant’s ERP provides document tracking on many levels. Documents can be added to the engineering database as reference items and included in bills of material. Customers can attach assembly instructions, videos, spreadsheets or good manufacturing practices (GMP) to items, routings or work orders. Documents can be copied from one record to another.

Relevant also provides an On-line Documentation module with user guides, file layouts and context-sensitive help. Customers can add annotations to Relevant’s help or attach their own help to ERP fields and menus without requiring programming.

The e-documents can be in any standard format, including Word, PDF, CAD, Windows Help, HTML, EDI Forms, and even graphic and video forms.