San
Ramon, CA – September 19, 2001 –
As a result of partnering with its build-to-order, discrete
manufacturing and maintenance organization customers, Relevant
Business Systems has enhanced its Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) suite by providing users with in-depth estimating management
tools. Users can generate estimates for new or existing products,
customize estimates for customers or prospects, change estimates
to quotes and orders, convert prospects to customers, and
extract data in reports and queries.
"Relevant Estimating Management
works likes an engineer’s white board, allowing users
to change factors and routings, erase components, add charges
and price, and recalculate the estimate throughout the process,”
explains Patrick Garrehy, Relevant Business Systems' President
and CEO. “An estimate may be constructed from existing
parts, present bills of material, existing routings, user-defined
new part numbers, user-entered bills of materials and routings,
and user-specified items to collect additional costs, such
as design and engineering, labor, and special charges. With
this tool, users can produce a cost basis of the ‘assembled’
product on the white board.”
Uses for these estimates include
“what-if” scenarios, developing new products or
finding more cost-effective ways to manufacture an existing
product. Estimates can be generated for an existing customer,
a prospect, or for internal use only. They can be customized
to meet requirements specified by the requestor.
Users can enter an existing
item number, which is validated against the engineering master
database. Item master, routings, and first-level BOMs can
be imported from production and then modified in the estimate.
If a new item is added, it can be created from scratch, based
on an existing production item, or added as an “other
direct charge,” allowing costs to be added to that line.
Garrehy adds, “Once the
base item and cost data are in the estimating database, users
can alter routings on a line to reflect changes in processing
or costs. They can modify detail components. Prices can be
calculated at any time. Factors can be applied to material,
labor, overhead and subcontract costs, the total estimate,
or line level. Effects can be seen immediately.”
The enhanced Relevant Estimating
Management capability is available now. |
| About
Relevant Business Systems
Relevant Business Systems provides
superior project-oriented enterprise software for Aerospace and
Defense, Engineer to Order, Contract Manufacturing, Maintenance Repair
and Overhaul, and project-oriented manufacturing companies. The company
was co-founded in 1983 by Patrick Garrehy, a pioneer in the development
of packaged software for discrete manufacturers and a veteran of several
defense industry firms.
Relevant software is architected to better meet the
needs of make-to-stock, make-to-order, and engineer-to-order manufacturers
for whom aggressive project management is the key to profitability. Through
superior product performance and outstanding customer service, Relevant
has become the supplier of choice for many of the premier firms in the
industry.
Relevant Business Systems is headquartered
at 12667 Alcosta Blvd., Suite 300, San Ramon, California, 94583
and can be found on the web at www.relevant.com. |
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