PSSI’s Business Process Analysis is a proven methodology utilizing highly-trained and certified process experts to eliminate waste and inefficiencies and improve operational performance.  And, it’s guaranteed to produce results that exceed the modest cost of the analysis.


An integrated manufacturing system is vital for cost management and provides the platform for your company’s growth.  For over 20 years, PSSI has specialized in helping manufacturers align technology with their business goals to provide cost-effective platforms for growth and improved ROI.


Our ecommerce solutions integrate with our accounting and distribution systems to speed up automated web order entry and eliminate redundancy and errors.  We provide complete web store solutions, as well as EDI, that integrate tightly with order, inventory and invoicing systems.


PSSI’s E-Z WMS provides a cost-effective, integrated Warehouse Management System (WMS) for the small to mid-size firm.  With E-Z WMS you’ll pick, pack and ship orders faster, with fewer mistakes, fewer people and more efficiency than ever before.


Enterprise Resource Planning software, or ERP, is at the heart of your business.  For over two decades, we’ve guided clients like you through the complexities of accounting, inventory, manufacturing & shop floor control, materials management, customer relationship management, ecommerce and more.

Process Analysis

Business Process AnalysisYou know technology can help your business become more competitive, leaner, more efficient. But you’re not sure where to start. You don’t have a lot to spend. You’re not sure who you can trust. And you don’t want to bite off more than you can chew.

PSSI’s Business Process Analysis (BPA) is a proven methodology utilizing highly-trained business experts and certified process analysts to help you uncover hidden waste, inefficiencies and key areas for improvement. You can use the BPA to determine what steps you take next to improve your bottom line, even if you choose not to use PSSI to help you do it. And, it’s guaranteed to produce results that exceed the modest cost of the analysis. If we don’t reach our agreed upon success criteria, you don’t pay.

Manufacturing

MAnufacturing Factory ImageYou are not the typical run-of-the-mill manufacturer.  You perform discrete manufacturing, but you Make to Order, or Engineer to Order, or Make to Stock, or a combination of all three.  You need a system that’s flexible as you are and can grow and change along with you.  And most of all, you need a team working with you that knows manufacturing in order to help improve your processes, boost your productivity and get the most out of your system.

PSSI’s core specialty is manufacturing systems.  Our consultants hold CPIM and CPA designations.  They work every day in the world of manufacturing, and have been doing so for decades.  We know the territory.  PSSI has solutions for all these scenarios, and a lot more.  Talk to us about how we can align your technology with your business processes – and make a real difference in your bottom line.

eCommerce

Internet Header ImageThe Internet is changing the face of business.  Will you be a part of the way business gets done in the next century?  eCommerce solutions enable you to take advantage of the burgeoning new economic possibilities of an entirely new channel for sales.  But there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way.  The right way requires planning, and a foundation based on an integrated solution that drills right down into your inventory, and automates your process flow from the taking the order right through accounting.  Our eCommerce consultants and software solutions help you build a solid foundation – integrated with your ERP system – that can open up whole new channels of business opportunity for years to come.

E-Z WMS

Warehouse ImageYour warehouse and shipping aren’t what they should be. You have it, you just can’t find it. Inventory is a guessing game. Availability to ship is never certain. Inventory cycle counts are tedious, and rarely synchronized with your financial statements.

E-Z WMS is a proven solution to the challenges of warehouse management. Clients who use it have improved order ship rates by 25% with less staff. They’ve improved inventory turns. Cycle counts have been simplified. Year-end inventory surprises and their associated tax consequences have been eliminated. Order pick times have gone from hours to minutes. Warehouses require fewer people to run. Best of all, E-Z WMS sells for about half the cost of big-name warehouse management solutions. It’s like getting all the bang for half the buck.

ERP Systems

ERP System ImageYou’ve relied for too long on QuickBooks, Peachtree, or another low-end bookkeeping system. Your business runs on Excel spreadsheets or old homemade programs from another era. You know there’s a world of functionality and efficiency to be gained from stepping up to a real business management system, but you don’t know where to begin. You want to start small and move gradually. How do you get started?

The PSSI team has specialized in solving just this dilemma, for hundreds of businesses nationwide, for over twenty years. By offering you a choice of four best-selling, full-functioning business management systems, we can tailor a solution that’s just right for your business type, size and growth plans. Together, we can deploy, train and customize the solution that’s exactly right for you.

Management & Software Solutions for Increased Profitability

How We Help You

 

We help you improve your profitability and efficiency through the careful deployment of business management systems for the small to mid-size firm.  

Our nearly 25 years of experience implementing discrete manufacturing, accounting, warehouse management and distribution systems — across hundreds of clients in dozens of industries nationwide — brings you the benefit of our expertise, experience and thoughtful planning strategies.

PSSI sells, implements, customizes, trains on and supports many of the nation’s best-selling, state of the art business management (ERP) solutions, including Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Sage Pro ERP, Sage MAS 90 and TIW ALERE.

The information contained in the following white paper, "Software That Matters," is distilled from the experience gained from hundreds of ERP deployments over more than twenty years. It was originally presented as a series of blog posts, before being compiled into this format. It is intended as a guide to beginning the process of selecting and deploying a cost-effective Enterprise Resource Planning system, without regard to what particular product you may finally select.

The original series of blog posts upon which this paper is based, and blogs covering other articles of interest on related topics, can be found on the PSSI Blog site: http://pssiusa.wordpress.com/

The "PSSI Overview Brochure," attached below will give you a better idea of ways in which we can help you.

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What Our Clients Say

  • “Through it all, you guys always did the right thing.”

    Lila Leonard
    Vice President of Finance
    Rollie Williams Paint Spot, Inc.

  • “The PSSI staff helped us achieve giving our people the tools they need, and to keep us focused on doing even better in the future.”

    Bill Dawson
    Vice President
    General Manager
    Clean Seal, Inc.

  • “We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.”

    "With all the time and labor we’ve saved, we now devote more time to contacting clients and serving our customers.”

    Justine Williams
    Office Manager
    St. Joseph Paper & Packaging

  • “I’m a firm believer in working smarter not harder, and [our software from PSSI] does just that for us.”

    “The project was on track for the agreed upon cost and schedule.  We searched a long time for the right system… we checked references, and it was clear that PSSI was at the top of the list.”

    Bill Dawson
    Vice President
    General Manager
    Clean Seal, Inc.

  • “We have gained more than a 25% increase in order ship rates while total warehouse staff has actually decreased.”

    “Without this software, our shipping could never have kept up with our sales increases.”

    Eric Kronemeyer
    VP Operations
    Alpha Systems, Inc.

  • “This was the smoothest upgrade I’ve ever been involved with — and I’ve been through a lot of them in my career.”

    Kent Deal
    General Manager
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • “Now we can quickly look up customer history for things like pricing and purchases, when and how we shipped, quantities, order numbers, customer P.O.’s and much more, instantly.”

    Cindy Borich
    Customer Service Manager
    Clean Seal, Inc.

  • “[Clean Seal] now achieves 99.9% on-time shipments.”

    Apryl Turczynski
    Purchasing Manager
    Clean Seal, Inc.

  • “You guys are always so quick to respond.  Everything went really well during the upgrade process, despite staff changes at our end.  I really have nothing negative to say.”

    “I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else.  As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

    Connie Napier
    Project Coordinator
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • “E-Z WMS has eliminated all the spikes in our inventory counts.  It has reduced mistakes, sped up shipping and made a major difference in our comfort level at year-end.  It’s unbelievable the difference it has made in a year.”

    Sandy Garver
    Warehouse Manager
    Alpha Systems, Inc.

  • “The speed at which our warehouse team was able to learn to use the system was another plus.  I can teach someone all they need to know to use the system to pick orders in about fifteen minutes."

    Alan Wyne
    General Manager
    Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)

  • "Your group was great through the entire process — always professional, friendly and quick to respond.”

    “I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else.  As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

    Connie Napier
    Project Coordinator
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • “EZ-WMS has virtually eliminated our mis-shipments.  The discipline required by the system in picking, packing and shipping makes the process faster and provides a much higher degree of accuracy than was possible prior to the deployment.”

    Alan Wyne
    General Manager
    Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)

  • “I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else.  As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

    Connie Napier
    Project Coordinator
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • "With [our software from PSSI], we’re putting out more quotes with fewer customer service reps than we otherwise could do.”

    “Today, we do 35% more business, using one production shift compared to the previous three shifts, with over 40% less staff.”

    Bill Dawson
    Vice President
    General Manager
    Clean Seal, Inc.

  • “With [our new system from PSSI] we can do virtually anything. One person can handle multiple jobs and many roles.”

    Michelle Nordlof
    General Manager
    Aeronautical Electric Company

  • “We have reduced paper invoicing and all those associated costs in paper, staff and postage by 75%.”

    “We can put in so many more orders so much faster, and the system has saved us from hiring more staff.”

    Kent Dennis
    President
    St. Joseph Paper & Packaging

  • “E-Z WMS allows us to run our business with as few as one-sixth the number of employees our competition uses.”

    Alan Wyne
    General Manager
    Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)

  • "They have always been there to help me out."

    Ms. Angie Hill
    Accounting Supervisor
    Computer Care Company

  • "PSSI has provided us with great customer service. They have helped us in many ways since we became partners with them.  I would definitely recommend them to someone else."

    Ms. Maria Grossman
    VP & Controller
    Indiana Municipal Power Agency

  • “E-Z WMS has eliminated the need to have paper in our system.  We eliminate the paper chase, the hand-written confusion, the missed communications.  At the same time it allows us to provide key employees with information on multiple work centers, thus allowing them to manage more work centers.”

    Alan Wyne
    General Manager
    Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)

  • “Utilizing the software we got from PSSI fully yields big savings to us."

    Dean Skwarcan
    Vice President
    St. Joseph Paper & Packaging

  • “We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.”

    “The system has eliminated purchasing pressures.  We can plan now.”

    Doris Fletcher
    Vice President Manufacturing
    Union Products, Inc.

  • “We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.”

    “[With our system from PSSI] we produce more, with fewer errors, in less time.  And we catch the rare mistake sooner.”

    Doris Fletcher
    Vice President Manufacturing
    Union Products, Inc.

  • “The system has really improved our customer service!  We can take multiple orders simultaneously, check orders faster, know when incoming product is due, keep our customers informed and make better promises on delivery.”

    “We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.”

    Justine Williams
    Office Manager
    St. Joseph Paper & Packaging

  • “The barcode and data collection systems have given us real-time inventory analysis.  We’ve cut our number of inventory counts in half already.  It’s real-time from the shop floor straight to the balance sheet.”

    “Our inventory accuracy has been dramatically improved, and that’s been a huge payback, in addition to improved reporting.”

    Connie Napier
    Project Coordinator
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • “In fact, you know the thing I liked most?  That you got our ERP implementation done in a very professional manner, but we also had fun!”

    Connie Napier
    Project Coordinator
    Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.

  • “Once you know how to use the system, there isn’t anything you can’t get out of it.  The system is really user-friendly and intuitive for our office users.  The screens are well laid-out and consistent.  But the real versatility shines through for the power-user, who can drill down to unprecedented levels to extract key data and trends from the system – it’s fast, simple and powerful.”

    Lila Leonard
    Vice President of Finance
    Rollie Williams Paint Spot, Inc.

  • “It went brilliantly!”

    “I’ve been involved with many of these projects, both large and small, and this is the smoothest I’ve ever seen one go.”

    “It’s nice to have faith in your partners.”

    Penny VanHorn
    CFO
    Trevco, Inc.



Dynamics NAV

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV™ (formerly Microsoft Navision) is an integrated business management solution designed for growing mid-market companies that want the freedom to focus on their business. The system provides you and your people with industry specific functionality that’s relevant to the local needs of your regions of operation — even for highly specialized industries and organizations. Through the rapid adaptability, simplified customization, and ease of use offered by Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can easily add functionality, custom applications, and online business capabilities.

Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics NAV by visiting the Dynamics NAV page.

Sage Software

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Sage Pro ERP is a robust solution designed to meet the changing needs of your manufacturing or distribution company. Sage Pro ERP offers a full range of features and benefits to help you better manage your business.

Additional information about Sage Pro ERP is available on the Pro ERP page.

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Either Sage MAS 90 ERP or Sage MAS 200 ERP from Sage may be the ideal system for your Manufacturing or Distribution company - or for ANY type company, for that matter.

Additional information about Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 is available on the Sage MAS 90 page.

ALERE® from TIW

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The two key suites of products from TIW Technology include ALERE® Accounting and the well-established ALERE® Manufacturing (formerly known as TIW WorkShop.) Since 1983, TIW Technology has provided software solutions for businesses, with a deep concentration in manufacturing solutions. TIW's broad base of thousands of U.S. clients range in size from smaller manufacturers all the way up to $250 Million dollar firms.

Learn more about TIW ALERE by visiting the ALERE page.