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AXIOM
AXIOM is a Core Business System that integrates estimating, order entry and
invoicing with all of our other production management applications for sheet, sheet feeder and full
box plants. AXIOM delivers extensive customer contact and workflow tools that enable
real-time collaboration between every department in your organization.
AXIOM offers complete visibility of your facility’s real time data from within
the AXIOM shell. A facility that has multiple Alliance applications can see all applications from
the drop-down menu selections within AXIOM
ESTIMATING
Request for Quotes (RFQs) can be
internally generated from a phone call or salesperson, or directly from the customer on the
internet via the Alliance eCustomer Link system.
Estimates are generated for RFQs, and orders are then booked against estimates.
Graphics, Design, Costing and Estimate creation are electronically passed though
the defined departments with a configurable authorization procedure controlled by user accounts.
This ensures that management chain approval is granted for each.
Pricing and costing strategies are infinite and configurable in AXIOM.
For example, Customer A may have a strategy that is simply 15% over the estimated cost of
production. Customer B might follow a much more complicated strategy using a surcharge for
waste, a discount on paper consumed or a freight exemption. A pricing strategy can determine what
revenue an order should generate. When confronted with a given or market price, the pricing
strategy can return whether or not accepting a specific order is profitable.
AXIOM allows estimates to be created on a selling or manufacturing plant basis.
For integrated plants, orders can be assigned a “selling” plant identification, while allowing
for manufacturing to be done in a sister plant best suited to run the order. This allows a plant
to retain the sales credit while still meeting the customer’s needs in a manner most effective
and beneficial to the whole company.
INVOICING
The Alliance plant floor applications track all plant production, notifying office personnel when an
order is completed and shipped. These orders appear in the Invoice register, ready to be printed
and mailed, auto-faxed, or auto-emailed.
By collecting accurate and detailed real-time production data, feedback on
the strength of the pricing strategy for a particular estimate can be collected. The complete
Alliance suite will estimate the costs involved for a particular order and then compare them
against reality.
PURCHASING
The purchasing module allows plants to order and receive raw materials such as rollstock
via EDI.
DATABASE QUERIES
Configurable database queries display pertinent information. At a plant with AXIOM and RIMS, open
Roll Stock purchase orders can easily be displayed from a drop down selection. Or, with a
Shipping Manager, finished goods inventory can be displayed. All the granular data provided
by Alliance office and plant floor applications can be displayed in bulk form. This macro view
of pertinent data can be easily filtered to generate printable, custom reports. For instance,
visibility of outstanding orders to customer XYZ, are simply a few mouse clicks away.
KEY BENEFITS:
- Fully integrated estimating, order entry and invoicing system for sheet, sheet feeder and
full box plants
- AXIOM can easily be integrated with third party HR or CRM systems.
- AXIOM is integrated to SAP Financials, Oracle Financials, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500 or
Great Plains.
- Customized fixed reporting. The AXIOM shell will launch custom design reports
necessary for operation.
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