Manage batches of one profitably
The nature of glulam and CLT, as well as wood processing, involves frequent customer-specific deliveries. Implementing these with quality makes you competitive, but ensuring optimal use of your production resources at the same time also makes you profitable. TimberTec with the TiCom ERP suite ensures you can do both.
Outstanding customer service and production efficiency
Demanding customers with unique requirements on the one hand and the need to optimally utilize your production resources on the other – you need a digitization solution you can trust. Through our extensive industry experience, we at TimberTec understand this. TiCom (Timber Commerce) will import customer drawings and allow you to plan the delivery in detail, while enabling you to plan your production resources optimally for multiple parallel customer orders. By digitizing your production with TiCom you will be able to leverage the power of an unbroken data chain and use it to optimize your operations on multiple levels. Through easy integration you will be able stay on top of your production as well as offering outstanding customer service.
Advantages
- End-to-end solution for glulam/CLT manufacturers and the wood processing industry.
- From customer drawing to loading the truck in the right order.
- Batch size of one support.
- Production and delivery planning and optimization with multiple unique customer orders in parallel. The optimization is based on your individual machines and production resources.
- Interface easily to your customers and directly import customer drawings.
- Integrated to your production. Send work orders, and receive production data, from your machines and other production resources.
- Manage and plan logistics and shipping. Manage packages for standard and unique deliveries. Optimize routes as well as loading to ensure that unique customer deliveries arrive in time and can be unloaded in the right order.
- Optimization and data analysis. TiCom offers an unbroken data chain from raw material to customer delivery. Optimize production for your individual machinery. By using the data in the data cube you can continuously analyze your production and update parameters used for planning and optimization.
- Manage CE certificates in the same system as your production to maximize profitability.
Dedicated modules for KVH (structural solid timber), straight and curved beams and CLT
TiCom for glulam/CLT manufactures and wood processing includes all modules that enable an optimized and digitized workflow. Efficient optimization for packs and loading as well as length and cutting. With smart press-optimization, glue-book and interface to the machine, TiCom not only provides high efficiency in the individual processes but also a seamless data chain.
- Transfer of package data from the sawmill (import or Intercompany)
- Tracking the costs
- Order proposal list
- Powerful stock overview
- Onward transfer of documents (offer, contract, order, delivery note, invoice)
- Import functions of CAD files and castings lists to create offers/orders
- Pre-calculation
- Direct connection into production modules
- 6 timber-specific dimension chains
- Different invoicing options
- Special product master data possibilities
- Web shop integration
- Web overview for customers
- OLAP Cube - MS Power BI Connection
- Open for every accounting system
- EDI (Electronic data interchange)
- Direct sales connection
- Optimize production by combining different orders
- Optimize production by creating length optimization
- Integrated glue book
- Optimized package handling
- Sticker handling and printing
- Workload overview
- Optimized press planning
- Direct connection to machinery via TIAS (control system software)
- Integrated forklift system to lift the production to a new level
- One tool for the whole production process
- Communication between TiCom an PLC via industrial Ethernet and S7 protocol
- Virtual stock management system, every single piece of wood has its own ID
- Management of the finger jointing process
- Forklifter control, stock, and visualization
- Glulam press optimization and monitoring
- Interface to planing station
- Adjustment through cutting and tagging with QR-code sticker
- Packing by forklift
- Control of pick and place robot
- Control of pack crane
- OEE analysis
- Direct connection to production data / sales data
- Truck & vessel planning
- Quicker creation of freight documents (bill of lading, CMR, loading list etc.)
- Connection to transport management platform (Transporeon)
- Graphical load planning
- Optimized loading support from mobile devices (Intrascan)
- Actual transport costs recorded for post calculation
- Master data for production like finger jointing, floor stacker, press
- Cost structure for calculating margins
- Shift calendar per production unit
- Package parameters for loading optimization
- Product BOM for raw material
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