The workflow capabilities in VISIBILITY.net software are available on each and every transaction giving customers complete flexibility executed as their specific business requires.
The need to mitigate risk has never been more visible. There are many approaches to executing better controls and many are bolt on approaches. The development process enabled Visibility to design several capabilities into VISIBILITY.net that specifically help manufacturers address important integrated capabilities.

* Workflow - escalation procedures and multi-level sign offs are routine yet require systematic approaches to insure formal compliance.

Features in this area allow unlimited conditions to be checked, tested and directed appropriately based on passed or failed conditions.

This is extremely important with all financial transactions but by no means is limited to the financial applications.

The workflow capabilities are available on each and every transaction giving customers complete flexibility executed as their specific business requires.

* Data Accessibility - gaining access to data is important for decision making and is important to control based on security rights of employees to view.

The VISIBILITY.net architecture gives clients complete control to drill down into detailed information as well as assigning who has the rights to see data and at what level of detail.

Transactional audit trail - every transaction is stamped so that total audit ability of every transaction is captured.

Time, date, user and transaction are all recorded.

* Security - all data is contained within the system in a manner that effectively secures all data to the field level.

* Distribution and Scheduling engine - the system has a tightly integrated reporting and inquiry capability that also facilitates the delivery of one or more reports, inquiries or forms and also has a calendar facility to automate the delivery time and frequency.

This function is heavily utilized within the workflow engine.

These capabilities bring new levels of automation that allow companies to gain higher levels of control in their business.

* About Visibility - Visibility Corporation is a leading developer and supplier of business software solutions designed for the unique needs of project-based, engineer-to-order and to-order manufacturers.

Visibility's Enterprise Application solutions help midsize manufacturers of complex products operate their businesses effectively.

VISIBILITY.net is an integrated ERP solution and more.

Offering unparalleled functionality and integrated workflow, this browser-based solution cost effectively delivers the power of .NET-based Web services for use with either a Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database.

Conducting business any place, any time, any where is a reality, deployable with unprecedented flexibility.

Software for first cost analysis for machined products gives real-time, predictive cost estimates for turned and 3-axis machined products throughout the entire product delivery process.
According to Frank Azzolino, president and CEO of aPriori, 'We offer an industry first cost analysis for machined products - real-time, predictive cost estimates for turned and 3-axis machined products throughout the entire product delivery process.' Always knowing product costs prevents surprises, missed cost targets and rework, schedule delays, and missed market windows. Azzolino asserted that, 'Cost visibility begets business agility. Exposure to real-time product costs at any time, by all who impact costs from conceptual design through production and delivery, allows users to evaluate product design, manufacturing, and sourcing alternatives before making critical decisions that drive costs.' The new technology broadens visibility to the cost impact of trade-offs between performance, quality, price, and delivery for a wide array of industries and products.

It provides abilities to capture cost-relevant design information, production facility data, and cost accounting methodology to accurately explore cost saving alternatives in the design, manufacturing, sourcing, and management of product programmes.

* About aPriori - based in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, aPriori is the technology leader providing innovative cost management solutions to the discrete manufacturing industry.

aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.

aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to 'cost-critical' decision information, and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business 'offensive'.

aPriori's patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages.

The aPriori Platform truly enables 'Cost Knowledge Before it Matters'.

Production costs estimating software is making costs related to materials, labor, and logistics more predictable and available more quickly and accurately than ever before.
According to Frank Azzolino, president and CEO of aPriori, 'Recent production use has demonstrated an 8 to 39% cost of goods (COGS) reduction for both new and mature products and a first year return-on-investment (ROI.) aPriori's Cost Management Platform is driving significant and substantial cost saving for customers. Azzolino suggested, 'Using aPriori, costs related to materials, labor, and logistics are more predictable and available more quickly and accurately than ever before.' Discrete manufacturers are in the continuous pursuit of lowering cost-of-goods sold (COGS), which is now possible through the real-time, predictive cost management platform. aPriori Version 4.0 broadens visibility to the cost impact of trade-off's between performance, quality, price, and delivery for a wide array of industries and products.

* About aPriori - based in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, aPriori is the technology leader providing innovative cost management solutions to the discrete manufacturing industry.

aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.

aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to 'cost-critical' decision information, and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business 'offensive'.

aPriori's patent-prot! ected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages.

The aPriori Platform truly enables 'Cost Knowledge Before it Matters'.

To help custom manufacturers become more competitive a job management system has an attractive user interface that hosts four modules for creating quotations to time and resource management.
A new job management system, MyWorkPLAN, was officially launched in the French market at the Paris 'Industrie' Show. With the rise of global competition there is a growing need for good quality job management solutions, specifically designed to help small to medium sized custom manufacturers reduce their manufacturing costs and become more competitive. Most solutions currently on the market require a lengthy installation and implementation process, are often difficult to use and can be expensive.

Most of them simply do not meet the very exact requirements of the industry or activities they target.

In order to fill this gap in the market, SESCOI, in collaboration with its industry customers, set about analysing working processes and best practices in custom manufacturing, then built MyWorkPLAN around these.

An attractive user interface hosts four modules for efficient job management, from creating quotations through to time and resource management.

Designed with an innovative concept for working data, MyWorkPLAN displays all data related to each project such as e-mails, Excel spreadsheet and even CAD data in a clear tree structure, inspired by Windows Explorer.

Data can be retrieved or filtered at the click of a mouse.

MyWorkPLAN also comes with the 'MyWorkPLAN Analyser', which can be used to analyse CAD data in most formats, ensuring accurate quotations are generated quickly.

Based on many years' experience implementing job management solutions, Sescoi has also developed its 'FastStart' implementation methodology which aims to get companies fully up and running within as little as seven working days.

MyWorkPLAN is designed to integrate easily into the user's working environment and quickly beds in with existing software, such as MS Office and CAD systems.

This allows the user to get the best out of all their software, for example, the powerful data processing capability of MyWorkPLAN and the familiar printing options of MS Office, from directly within MyWorkPLAN.

* About Sescoi - for nearly 20 years, Sescoi has developed software solutions renown for their quality, reliability, ease of use, and automatic features, as well as for world-class technical support and service.

Headquartered in France, Sescoi has established sales and support offices across Europe, Asia and the United States in order to serve thousands of local and international customers from a range of industries.

Sescoi's software solutions include: * WorkNC, an automatic CAM/CAD solution for 2- through to 5-axis milling, featuring the award-winning 'Auto 5' module, which automatically converts 3-axis toolpaths into simultaneous 5-axis toolpaths.

* WorkNC-CAD, a uniform CAD solution for the entire manufacturing process.

* WorkPLAN, an integrated management solution for custom manufacturers that brings together company-wide data and resources enhancing knowledge, responsiveness and efficiency across the company.

With many years' business, engineering and software development experience, Sescoi understands customers' requirements, helps them master the challenges of new software implementation and build their business long-term.

True-cost convergence provides early cost-assessments from the product development cycle that naturally converge to production level costs estimates as decisions are finalised.
Advanced 'should-cost' analysis incorporates cost estimates for customer's in-house facilities, generic industry and global supplier production plants to enable more efficient supplier selection and fact-based negotiations. True-Cost Convergence, developed by aPriori, provides early cost-assessments for the designer from the beginning of the product development cycle that naturally converge to production level costs estimates as manufacturing and procurement finalise decisions. Predictive real-time cost assessments provide all involved in the cost process.

'What if' cost trade-off analysis from component to assembly to product to production facility level is available with the aPriori Cost Management Platform, the first solution to bring much needed innovation to the discrete manufacturing industry.

According to Frank Azzolino, president and CEO of aPriori, 'For today's companies to remain agile, they require real-time visibility to cost-critical information for the many important decisions that impact costs prior to product delivery'.

'This visibility must be immediate, available in a commonly understood language and accessible to all who impact costs in the process across the enterprise.' * About aPriori - based in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, aPriori is the technology leader providing innovative cost management solutions to the discrete manufacturing industry.

aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.

aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to 'cost-critical' decision information, and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business 'offensive'.

aPriori's patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages.