Software manages tasks throughout project lifecycle.
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VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing incorporates scheduling, production, and inventory control; e-business; financials, and logistics. Tools include those for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management, earned value reporting, and project costing, control, and execution. Access to information is provided throughout organization and allows collaboration with customers and supply chain. Software also supports planning of multiple projects.
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Project-Oriented Manufacturers Gain Tools to Deliver On-Time and On-Budget with Project-Based Edition of VISUAL Enterprise
05 December 2002, Hampton, NH (USA) - Lilly Software Associates announces the release of VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing, a solution for companies that manage complex business projects.
Over the past 10 years, Lilly Software's integrated VISUAL applications have been successful for contract and commercial manufacturers wanting to improve their business processes. With the release of the Project-Based Manufacturing edition, these companies can now gain advanced tools geared specifically to help them deliver on-time and on-budget. VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing incorporates Lilly Software's traditional enterprise functionality such as patented scheduling, production and inventory control, e-business, financials, and logistics with tools for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management, earned value reporting, and project costing, control, and execution.
"VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing allows project-oriented companies, such as capital equipment manufacturers, to quickly access information throughout their organization and more easily collaborate with customers and their entire supply chain," explains Scott Rich, Vice President, Marketing, Lilly Software Associates. "Lilly Software has worked to create an end-to-end product suite that addresses a variety of production strategies. Currently, we are focused on tailoring our solution to meet the unique needs of particular vertical industries. VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing addresses the requirements of companies that use project management techniques. This industry needs a solution that offers stringent cost control and delivers accessible, integrated data, and that is exactly what we are providing."
VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing is a solution that helps companies manage tasks throughout entire project lifecycles. It includes a comprehensive WBS that allows users to build a hierarchical definition of their project reporting elements, and it supports the planning of multiple projects. The system includes robust features that enable managers to develop and manage costs from Request For Proposal (RFP) through project completion. Users can capture costs from engineering, procurement, production, inventory, and other activities, and perform scheduling and analysis.
Lilly's integrated functionality allows companies to handle budgets for proposals and approved programs and copy those budgets into work orders and relevant milestones. Users can quickly establish multi-type, multi-year rate codes for direct and indirect costs and expenses. VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing offers project control and execution features that enable users to maintain contracts, set up terms and conditions, and take advantage of tools for risk management. With the system's powerful tracking and reporting features, companies can expertly manage material and inventory, monitor cash flow, computer overhead, and accumulate labor.
VISUAL Enterprise Project-Based Manufacturing is available now from Lilly Software Associates.
About Lilly Software Associates
Lilly Software Associates, Inc. (LSA) provides a complete line of enterprise and supply chain management solutions for manufacturers and distributors. With its easy-to-use graphical nature, the VISUAL suite of products helps companies capture accurate, real-time data about their business processes using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business Relationship Management (ERM), and Warehouse Management System (WMS) capabilities.
Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and financial growth. Recently, Lilly Software has been voted one of the 2002 Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of Consumer Goods Technology , included in MSI's Top 100 for its seventh year, listed again in Software Magazine's Top 500, ranked in the Top 100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain e-Business, and selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider by Inbound Logistics.
