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 how many orders, etc., and set dash- boards up by department to allow everyone in a particular department to see the same information on their screens and work toward the same goals. We can tell the system how often to update the numbers, and select dashboard information to appear on dashboards in other departments, pro- viding information at a glance.”
Dalsin Industries currently is in the process of implementing these dash- boards, and parsing needed informa- tion throughout the company to, as Dalsin says, “have everyone compa- ny-wide working toward the same goals. Displaying this information in real time beats just finding out at the end of the month. We can track in real time how we are doing, see if we’re falling behind, and strive to hit the budgeted goals. We’re exciting about this capability. We wanted it in earlier ERP software versions but waited until we had Kinetic running and its new user interface.”
Dalsin describes Kinetic as having “a whole different user interface, with so much effort made to make it as user- friendly as possible. Users can turn dis- play items on and off, rearrange columns, change column sizes to fit more information onscreen...it’s look- ing really good.”
While the company had for a long time a great appreciation of ERP capa- bilities, the COVID-19 pandemic brought home to Dalsin just how help- ful an effective ERP setup can be.
“During the pandemic, many of our people used the VPN to continue doing their jobs just as if they were onsite,” Dalsin says. “To support fluctuating prices, the Data Management Tool (DMT) in the ERP system allows us to adjust costs. We would export our pur- chased items into an Excel spreadsheet and send that to our purchasing agent to input price adjustments, then the DMT updated the pricing in system. Sometimes every other week, some- times once per month, sometimes
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“This comes in handy,” Dalsin says, “and we use this training quite a bit. Many of our people are familiar with how Epicor ERP software works but this helps them adjust more quickly to the Kinetic version. We can assign employees to watch certain training videos and track their training progress —it tells us if they’ve watched the videos or not.” MF
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