Global Shop Solutions
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Global Shop Solutions is an Enterprise Resource Planning
software (ERP
) company that targets small to medium sized manufacturers, job shops, or make-to-order companies. Located in The Woodlands, Texas
, Global Shop Solutions also has offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver and Detroit, and serves customers in a variety of industries throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. Global Shop Solutions software is premised on the real-time analysis of cross-operation manufacturing data to facilitate cost accounting
, inventory management, production scheduling, and on-time delivery.
(and Six Sigma
) manufacturing principles such as continuous improvement (Kaizen
) and just-in-time manufacturing (Kanban
). In these approaches, the goal is to reduce all possible waste in the system. Such waste might be found in non-value added labor, inefficiency in production (including set-up and break-down times), excessive or obsolete inventory maintenance, and raw material flow (including scrap). For this reason, Global Shop Solutions ERP software is often used as a supply chain
tool in the development of Value Stream Mapping
for manufacturers. Key industries employing Global Shop Solutions ERP software are found in aerospace and defense, consumer products, heavy industry, metal and plastics fabrication, electronics, and medical instruments industries.
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
software (ERP
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
) company that targets small to medium sized manufacturers, job shops, or make-to-order companies. Located in The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands, Texas
The Woodlands is a master-planned community and a Census-designated place in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. The population of the CDP was 55,649 at the 2000 census—a 90 percent increase over its 1990 population. According to the 2010 census, The Woodlands' population rose...
, Global Shop Solutions also has offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver and Detroit, and serves customers in a variety of industries throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. Global Shop Solutions software is premised on the real-time analysis of cross-operation manufacturing data to facilitate cost accounting
Cost accounting
Cost accounting information is designed for managers. Since managers are taking decisions only for their own organization, there is no need for the information to be comparable to similar information from other organizations...
, inventory management, production scheduling, and on-time delivery.
ERP Functions
Founded in 1976 by Dick Alexander, the progression of upgrades of the company's ERP software has always been based upon established Lean ManufacturingLean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, or lean production, often simply, "Lean," is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination...
(and Six Sigma
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986. , it is widely used in many sectors of industry.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and...
) manufacturing principles such as continuous improvement (Kaizen
Kaizen
, Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government,...
) and just-in-time manufacturing (Kanban
Kanban
, also spelled kamban, and literally meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and just-in-time production. According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved.Kanban is not an inventory control system...
). In these approaches, the goal is to reduce all possible waste in the system. Such waste might be found in non-value added labor, inefficiency in production (including set-up and break-down times), excessive or obsolete inventory maintenance, and raw material flow (including scrap). For this reason, Global Shop Solutions ERP software is often used as a supply chain
Supply chain
A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...
tool in the development of Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as "material and information flow mapping"...
for manufacturers. Key industries employing Global Shop Solutions ERP software are found in aerospace and defense, consumer products, heavy industry, metal and plastics fabrication, electronics, and medical instruments industries.
Company Citations
- Baylor University Institute for Family Business, Texas Family Business of the Year—Well Managed Award, November 2006.