Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu and a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order and high volume manufacturers, announced the next version of their extended ERP solution, glovia.com. According to Arc Advisory Group, the new version, glovia.com v9, stems from extensive customer input and direction from Fujitsu, who is not only Glovia's parent company but its largest reseller, to build and expand upon the functionality of previous versions of the product.

Supplier Management

v9 Supplier Management provides visibility and control of the entire procurement process including developing and executing supplier contracts, managing purchase orders, coordinating supplier shipments and executing outsourcing strategies. The solution balances purchases across multiple suppliers and tracks order status and supplier progress against contracts quickly to strengthen and automate business processes and coordinate the complex flow of materials from suppliers to manufacturing facilities.

To further synchronize supply with demand v9 provides a new level of time-of-day granularity for the scheduling of purchase orders including critical events and the accommodation of real time status reports. Lead times can now be expressed in days or hours and fixed lead times can be expressed in units as little as 15 minutes.

For purchasing inventory from suppliers there is a new capability to define the item that will be purchased linking it to the actual item required. In addition, based on the vendor selection, substitutes may be purchased.

Customer Management

v9 Customer Management supports real-time order promising and allows customers to configure products, place orders and check the status of their orders by using a simple web browser. glovia.com Customer Management streamlines the creation of sales proposals and sales orders, as well as the development and execution of customer contracts by quickly compiling accurate sales forecasts, identifying changing demand trends and analyzing sales and profitability.

Item Substitution

To improve the speed and flexibility of sales orders, work orders and inventory management within local structures, extensive functionality has been added down to the component level to enable one-to-one substitutions and prioritize one-to-many and one-to-multiple substitutions. It is now also possible to define exclusion groups to a particular customer to ensure they never receive a substitute or a particular substitute. Items may also have substitution exceptions based on configuration variances, excluding certain substitutions while allowing others.