Award Winning Flex by SoftSolutions streamlines manufacturing workflows and improves decision making 

ROANOKE, VA – SoftSolutions today announced a significant new release of the award-winning Flex RPM (Real-Time Production Management) software.  Real-time job status (scheduling) updates are exported to ERP/MIS systems, allowing key personnel to view plant-wide status of all jobs currently in production.  As an example, Sales or Scheduling departments can now stay up-to-date on each and every job.

Flex also has improved the site-wide capability to send data via the new Flex Data Service. This makes data export capabilities faster and easier to use across multiple facilities, no longer requiring multiple exports to get all job cost and scheduling data.  For clients, an even more reliable and faster method of shop floor visibility.

The award winning Flex by SoftSolutions is an "intelligent shop floor system" that supports the Real-time Production Management needs of the entire manufacturing operation, from the shop floor to the top floor.  Key benefits of Flex include:

• Real-time Visibility from any Web-browser
• Integration with MIS / ERP and Production Assets
• Customized Notifications and Alerts
• Time & Materials Consumption by Job
• Automated Data Entry = Fewer Errors
• Decreased Waste / Increased Margins
• Easy-to-use Touch-screen Interface
• Performance to Standards

Clients using Flex outfit their manufacturing centers with the Flex intelligent shop floor management system to provide trustworthy data, standard workflows, real time control, enterprise-wide performance standards and real-time Key Performance Indicators.  Flex also enables integration of job costing metrics from the shop floor directly into front office ERP accounting and scheduling systems.  Clients expect and receive a strong ROI from Flex by enabling a more quantitative war on waste that further improves operating margins and cash flow from operations.