Features
(EA! denotes ExtSTAR
Advantage features/benefits not found in other extrusion software packages)
- Order Entry
- Customer database, including multiple ship-to locations per customer
- Two-level Scheduling - Weekly and Daily
- EA! Daily Scheduling tool with drag-and-drop capability for intuitive and
efficient scheduling
- Extrusion Schedule and
Scheduled Shifts Summary reports show scheduled press utilization
- Billet Yield Calculator, to compute optimum billet lengths and quantities
- Support for an unlimited number of user-defined production processes (e.g. fabrication,
anodizing, outside fabrication) per order line item, with
user-definable lead time for each
- Billet Inventory, automatically relieved as production is posted
- Production data entry in the office or directly on the shop floor
- Profile and Die
(a.k.a. die copies) database, including storage of profile drawings in PDF format
- EA! Integrated PDF
die drawing viewer included at no additional cost
- Customer Parts database
- Stock Inventory
- Packing Station for generating packing tickets and recording them for
invoicing or stock inventory
- Invoice and Credit Memo generation
- Shipping document generation
- Quality Module, including chemical analysis database, computation and
storage of Yield
Strength, UTS and Elongation from test measurements, and generation of
printed Material Certificates
- Invoice/Credit Memo exporting using
plug-in agents custom-developed by you or KRAHE InfoSystems
- EA! Optional Consignment/Outside Processing module tracks material
shipped to outside vendors for processing and/or not invoiced until the
customer reports it has been used; generates fillable PDF forms that vendors
and customers use to report material processed/used with a minimum of fuss;
ExtSTAR imports results directly from filled PDF files
- EA!
ExtSTARWeb opens up Outside Processing reporting to vendors
directly via a web site, and provides the infrastructure for even more
web-accessible functions in the future
- Several built-in reports for scheduling, backlog and production
- Flexible sales reporting
- EA! User-defined Print Packages to automate the generation of groups of shop
order- or invoice-related documents
- Support for all common metric and
English units of measure
- Date, time, number and currency
formatting according to user-specified locale (language and country); dozens
of locales supported
- Units Converter tool to convert
measurements in any English or metric unit of measure to any other units
- Single-install for client
workstations using Type 4 JDBC database drivers
- EA! Automatic
Pricing option, including contract pricing and fulfillment tracking, and generation
of customer price lists; prices
can be combined in any of several ways on invoices while yet reported
separately for accounting purposes
- User-defined payment terms with automatic computation of invoice due dates
Benefits
- EA! ExtSTAR's profile & die database remembers multiple production parameters and notes for each
profile. Different billet temperatures, press speeds and notes can be
specified for different presses and/or alloys, or even different dies for
the same profile. When a Shop Order is
generated, the parameters appropriate to the press, alloy and temper
specified on the order are printed on the Shop Order and Extrusion Data
Sheet, reducing errors, guesswork and research.
- EA! Multiple lengths extruded from the same die can be combined on a single
Shop Order, saving paper and eliminating redundancy.
- The Customer Parts database remembers the length, tolerances, alloy,
temper, production processes, notes and packing instructions for each part,
improving accuracy and reducing data entry for repeat orders.
- EA! Scheduling tools compute projected press utilization based on the recent
productivity of scheduled profiles, resulting in a schedule with a high degree
of accuracy. This allows you to give customers more accurate projected
delivery dates. A percentage of typical non-production downtime can
also be specified for each press and accounted for in the schedule, letting
you schedule your presses more tightly.
- EA! An unlimited number of press downtime reasons can be recorded for each
Shop Order on each shift. Downtime types can be categorized as production
(e.g. setup, full table) or non-production (e.g. maintenance) downtime, and
the production reports show pounds per hour with and without production
downtime, letting you determine productivity more accurately.
- EA! ExtSTAR's efficiency calculator helps optimize billet lengths and
quantities for small orders, where a billet size other than the one with
optimum yield may produce a higher percentage of shippable product and less
overall backstock.
- Invoices can be generated from recorded packing tickets with little to no
additional data entry. Miscellaneous charges can be added to any
invoice or credit memo.
- A separate approval process for pricing and invoices/credit memos lets
managers delegate clerical activities while retaining the authority to
approve and lock prices and invoices/credit memos.
- ExtSTAR automatically alerts order entry operators to the availability of
stock material that can be used to fulfill part or all of an order.
Stock in longer lengths than required by the order can be reserved and cut
back. Details about stock reservations are automatically added to the
Shop Order, including quantity, cut-back instructions and the location of the stock
material.
- Shipping paperwork, including Packing List, Shipper/Load Sheet and Bill of
Lading can be automatically generated for any invoice.
- Sales account rules let you specify general sales (GL) accounts for each
type of charge, as well as accounts specific to the press, alloy and/or die
type, for maximum sales reporting flexibility. Sales totals can also
be extracted into other applications such as a general ledger.
- EA! ExtSTAR's optional Patent Pending rule-based Automatic Pricing module
allows you to define and apply simple or complex pricing schemes accurately and
efficiently, reducing
mistakes and ensuring that all applicable charges are applied to each
order. You can also define contracts for a particular volume or period of
time for any combination of die types, dies, parts and/or alloys, and
ExtSTAR's ability to
generate Customer Price Lists lets you easily ensure that customers are
apprised of their current prices.
- EA! The availability of ExtSTAR source
code for a nominal fee (little more than other software companies charge
just for an escrow agreement) gives you security and peace of mind as well
as the flexibility to implement your own enhancements should you desire to
do so.
- EA! ExtSTAR is written in the Java™ programming
language, so it can run on the Windows® and
Linux® operating systems, or any other platform that supports Java, allowing
you to choose the platform that makes the most sense for your business.
Java also allows ExtSTAR to tap a large and ever-expanding library of third-party tools, applications and services. Several such tools have
already been incorporated into ExtSTAR, and more will be used in future
releases.
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