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Pumps and Valves

A Perfect Fit for the Pumps & Valves Industry

It won't surprise you to know that iScala's customer list is well represented by the pumps and valves industry where our understanding of the issues facing this particular industry sector - and delivering the solutions they need - has made iScala software the choice for companies like ABS Pumps, ITT Flygt, Grundfos and other industry leaders.

If you need standard software that meets the specific functionality requirements of your industry, gives you an overall view of the business as it happens, and offers you innovations like supply chain integration, portals, and private exchanges - the new standards for competitive global business - then you need iScala software.

iScala software closely integrates three essential building blocks for helping you manage your business effectively -

1. Back Office Functionality: the key business processes that provide you with the ability to run your business.
2. Connectivity: the ability to connect to other software in your company and to other companies.
3. User Experience: the ability to make software work with people, automating tasks and providing an 'experience' of the software through any device they need.

iScala software automates tedious manual transactions to free up your staff time for added-value work such as after sales care, thus giving you the advantage over and above your competitors.

Business Benefits

iScala software can help drive your company's success, by helping you to optimize business processes and improve the integration of these processes, from the design, up to the installation and service of your products. Business benefits for your company include:

• Improve your after sales performance
• Fully support the life cycle of your product with service and maintenance
• Functionality that meets the requirements of your industry
• Low total cost of ownership
• High return on investment
• Fast implementation times anywhere in the world
• Multi-language software
• Supporting standard business processes
• Reduce inventory by consistent coding and structuring of important data such as stock items
• Simplified reporting to headquarters
• Easy integration/connectivity giving you data transparency

Key Functionality

The understanding of your industry is reflected in the functionality and features that we have developed into our software, which include:

• Serial number handling and lot traceability allowing you to locate pumps and trace products by location, from assembly through and to final product, for recall purposes, service maintenance and/or warranty purposes
• Multiple manufacturing types including make to stock, make to order and engineer to order
• Drop shipment allowing you to ship orders from locations other than the sales office (including third parties) with fully automated completion of the order and invoicing cycle
• Connectivity Solutions that allow XML based connectivity to other systems including suppliers, customers, and centralized back office systems or shared service centers
• Project Management for the support of site construction and/or installation
• Service Management for the ongoing maintenance and service of operational items
• Leasing and rental functionality allowing you to provide alternative flexible service offerings such as long term rental to very short emergency or service replacement contracts
• Set attributes for an item to enable special grouping of items
• Levels of product category used to group products in the Sales Forecasting/Budgeting routine and reporting
• Extended description information allowing an additional 500 characters of “extra description" to be held against an inventory item
• Simplified configuration assembly providing the flexibility to create configuration variances based on an original configuration and associated accessory lists