Welcome to my blog space. My name is Steve Whitehouse and I am the marketing manager for SSL - WinMan. http://www.winman.co.uk . We are a distribution and manufacturing systems company. Our package is a completely integrated system developed from the ground up in Microsoft SQL Server and .NET.

The term used to describe the sort of system we produce is ERP (or enterprise resource planning) Software. ERP Software covers all aspects of manufacturers or distributors business needs from the front end CRM (customer relationship management) through accounting, manufacturing, stock control, purchasing, sales order processing, MRP (materials requirements planning), MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) to the shipping, warehousing and distribution end of the business.

Due to the transactional nauture of our ERP System WinMan supports complete batch and serial traceability which is a major requirement in many manufacturing industries such as Food Manufacturing, Medical Manufacturing, Electronics Manufacturing, Aerospace Manufacturing and Automotive Manufacturing.

Other benefits of the WinMan system include:

· First class customer service
· Single fully integrated commercial system
· Intuitive to use
· Modern Windows platform with transparent access to information
· Supports complex distribution requirements, Make to order, configure to order, make stock, subcontract manufacturing control & a jobs facility for one off tasks / prototypes.
· Remote Access via web, internet or terminal server
· Open source database allowing powerful reporting tools to utilise Microsoft’s reporting services embedded in the SQL environment
· Cutting edge technology utilising Microsoft .NET platform
· 100% .NET managed code
· Sales delivery performance
· Customer returns analysis and resolution procedures
· Web sales and customer enquiry facilities
· PO’s and sales order acknowledgements can be sent via comprehensive email integration
· Automated procedures via WinMan workflow agents
· Excellent telesales and pipeline management facilities
· Supports complex promotional and customer specific pricing
· Advanced kitting integrated with picking
· Full manufacturing capability including unlimited BOM’s
· Full EDI and XML facilitiesComplete batch and serial traceability

WinMan ERP as a manufacturing system supports both traditional and 'lean' manufacturing processes or a blend of both types. WinMan ERP also supports mixed mode manufacturing in make-to-order, make-to-stock, engineer-to-order and configure-to-order as well as volume repetititve manufacturing.

WinMan ERP is also strong where companies are offering features and options to customers. Our powerful rules based product configurator gives the ability to create Bills of Materials (BOM's) at sales order entry stage. Customers using our configurator in conjunction with our manufacturing software include Furniture Manufacturers, Door Manufacturers, Electronics Manufacturers and many others. An example of one company using our product configurator to great advantage can be seen here http://www.winman.co.uk/success.asp?section=4.

WinMan ERP is a UK developed product but has a strong presence in the USA.

If you have any questions or would like to talk about ERP Systems please feel free to contact me. My email address is steve@ssl-uk.com