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| A.G.I (ARTCO GROUP INTERNATIONAL) |
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| LIVE ON METAL SERVICE CENTER SOFTWARE STRATIX,
FROM INVERA - Jan 2009 |
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| Houston, TX,
Dec 2009 - AGI (Artco
Group International), a steel plate processing metal service center,
is now live on the metal service center
software STRATIX from the metal industry software specialist Invera. |
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| About AGI |
| A.G.I. is a fast-growing company that specializes
in heavy (up to 22" thick) carbon and alloy steel plates. A.G.I. Group
was established in 1948. AGI stocks 15,000 tons of plate, mostly in heavy
thicknesses, and can deliver from stock to facilities anywhere in the country
in just a few days. The inventory is stocked at warehouses in Texas, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and other convenient locations.
The processing capabilities include oxy flame cutting, grinding, flattening
(3000 ton press), planing, milling, as well as in-house normalizing, annealing,
stress relieving and polymer quench/temper for plates and parts. The Houston
operation can also supply cones and cylinders as ASME codewell in the
form of columns, separators, steel drums, and towers up to 6" thick
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| Implementation |
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| The implementation of the Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) software solution STRATIX was completed
in four months. The ERP software has been implemented at their AGI Processing
Metal Service Center located in Hannibal, Ohio and will be live shortly
at the new plate processing Center in Houston. |
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| Functions and Benefits |
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| A seamless integration of native metal industry
terminology, functions and features made STRATIX more user-friendly and
easy to deploy with minimum implementation costs. The STRATIX software implementation
included sales, purchasing, receiving, inventory management, multi-step
production, production scheduling, delivery and logistics planning, invoicing,
and financials.
A.G.I has implemented a full complement of STRATIX software features,
including Sales Order steel plate burning pricing, multi-step processing,
production job time entry, value add costing, and on-line shipping planning.
Artco also implemented STRATIXimage, a certificate scanning and retrieval
product that automatically prints or emails a copy of the original mill
certificate or other third-party testing certificates at shipping time.
In addition, using the STRATIX XML document/forms customization feature,
several documents and labels were modified to address specific business
requirements.
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| Plate Nesting Software
Integrations |
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| AGI also integrated the plate nesting software
Sigmanest with STRATIX. Orders and inventory are first exported to the nesting
software, and then the nest is re-imported back as a STRATIX job. This saves
a tremendous amount of time for the production and CAD department, since
the orders and inventory do not need to be re-entered in the plate nesting
software, and since the resulting job is electronically imported back into
STRATIX without any manual intervention.
Damian Brennan, Vice President at AGI added, "STRATIX has significant
and specific functionality for plate processing metal service centers,
and, for AGI, the specialized plate processing functionality and the full
integration with SigmaNEST has really made a difference. To our customers
and suppliers, the transition to STRATIX was seamless".
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| STRATIX ON-DEMAND
Hosting Service |
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A.G.I. uses the STRATIX ON-DEMAND
hosting service that allows users to connect to the Invera Technology
Center through the Internet to use STRATIX. All software applications
and data are hosted at the Invera Technology Center. This service provides
an added dimension of flexibility for AGI to focus on their core metal
operations and outsource their technology operational requirements.
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| About Invera: |
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Invera has been providing steel and metal service center
enterprise software (ERP) and Internet systems for over 25 years. Their
metal industry software products are used by more than 13,000 users at over
600 sites in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada and the Far East.
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| For more information contact Invera at (514)-925-8558 or
visit www.invera.com. |
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| www.artcosteel.com |
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