Pacific Software Associates, Inc.: WoodManager

A Built on IBM Express Advantage^TM offering

Pacific Software Associates (PSA) is a team of highly qualified technology specialists dedicated to the PSA philosophy: “Building client trust through quality products and support.” With support agreements, project consulting and management, implementation and training, PSA is the complete source for building and maintaining a business infrastructure.

PSA’s abilities, accumulated experience and extensive ongoing training allow them to serve customers’ needs even in the most advanced elements of technology. As a long-term Premier IBM Business Partner, PSA provides customers with a variety of complete business solutions.

Solution overview

WoodManager keeps a customer’s inventory up-to-date with production, purchases, committed sales and shipments. User-defined multiple units of measure (UoMs) work in conjunction with dimensional calculations to manage lumber, panel, millwork, cutstock, posts and pilings, as well as other volumetric products. Inventory is maintained as ticketed or volume-only.

Pacific Software’s experience has touched all the major segments of forest industries:

Softwood lumber, including dimension, shop and special cuttings
Hardwood lumber, including random lengths, widths and grades
Panel products, including plywood, OSB, MDF, particleboard
Engineered wood products including gluelam, I-joist, truss systems
Pulp and paper, especially fiber procurement, and
Log procurement, including tagged hardwoods and softwoods, southern and western requirements

IBM Built On Express components:
IBM System i5™ 520 Express Edition
IBM TotalStorage® 3581 Tape Autoloader Express Model

Proven client success

A client of PSA needed an integrated solution that would help track lumber inventory from the ground to the final user, while keeping the sales force notified on new inventory.

The solution was designed around a System i5 Express Edition server, bundled with PSA’s WoodManager and WoodResource software. PSA then added the IBM Integrated xSeries® server running Oracle under Microsoft Windows, so all of the customer data resided on one hardware platform.

Using this highly integrated solution, the client now has the capability of providing their customers real-time inventory, pricing, actual cost of goods and shipment status. This allows them to spend less time looking up inventory, and more time providing their goods and services to their customer.

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