The world-recognized,
IBM Value-Add
Approved small manufacturing
management software
for the IBM iSeries
Server line.
Software PM sells
and supports MPM II
through a nationwide
third party sales and
support channel...the
MPM II Associate
Network.
> The Myth
- Our Recipe
- Prospect Profile
Software PM believes there is a Manufacturing Industry Software "Myth" in contrast to what we embrace as "the technology street truth". This truth is simply that "the software industry's technology is far advanced beyond the practical, functional needs of the end user for whom software was designed."
Going forward, what this means to our industry sector is that small manufacturers simply cannot absorb the implementation of the advanced software modules and functions available from most software authors. Nor, in our opinion, do they need such advanced software function to achieve practical business pay-back objectives. What is needed instead is the practical and maximum use of the basic and most productive "pay-back" integrated manufacturing software modules in the context of industry-accepted manufacturing philosophy and system design espoused for over 40 years. This philosophy still holds true and relevant today, and tomorrow in the opinion of many, including Software PM.
When the typical smaller manufacturer "boils it all down," his views of critical Information Technology (IT) software "pay-backs" revolve around:
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inventory control and flexibility; |
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basic production control/planning ability; |
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better shop floor efficiency; |
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billing/accounting control; and |
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database access for responsive customer service, custom reporting and management analysis of the business. |
No more. No less. Just software that can do these things affordably, timely, practically, flexibly and with as little implementation effort and business disruption as possible.
The sad news: small manufacturing has thousands of disappointing legacy software implementation stories in which simple expectations of manufacturing software return have not been met by many supposed specialized industry "packaged" software solutions. Overall, today's manufacturing software products have fallen short, are over-priced, contain frivolous feature and function and fail to be able to change and "grow" with the customer. Never mind the name of the software or the computer hardware/operating system - manufacturing management software has failed, in general, to be truly effective for the small manufacturing industry.
If you're nodding your head in agreement and seek a better solution, please call us. We have that simple, better software solution -- Manufacturing PM II (MPM II) -- crafted in a simpler day by functional, realistic manufacturing systems "street" designers with a simple software language, look and feel, and an even simpler implementation approach. And, we don't charge you any more for future hardware upgrades or additional MPM II users. That's not fair -- don't you buy MPM II to use it to the max? MPM II for the IBM AS/400 computer family and integrated networks. Available under an affordable lease plan from IBM with very aggressive interest rates.
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