| COSS Manufacturing Software delivers the benefits of ten years' experience and inputs from the shop floor. Manufacturing and shop floor solutions with a performance-to-price. Our understanding of the realities of manufacturing environments helps us better serve our clients and quickly deliver results. COSS develops integrated manufacturing and ERP solutions for small-to-mid-sized job shops, aerospace, tool & mold, and discrete manufacturers. |
Manufacturing and shop floor solutions tailored for small
manufacturers.
Regardless of size, manufacturers face exacting demands for performance, cost, and delivery. To help you gain a competitive advantage, COSS offers feature-loaded solutions for small-businesses, as well as for manufacturers with more extensive requirements. Job shop aerospace, tool and mold, make / engineer-to-order, sized-mode and discrete manufacturing. COSS pairs its years of experience solving manufacturing concerns with a solid technology foundation based on the newest development tools. COSS continually enhances its solutions in response to customer demands and keeps in step with the rapidly changing manufacturing markets. Our experience extends from our roots in the aerospace and tool and die industries through to markets such as printing, furniture and machine building. Whether it's material calculators, or real time data collection, we continually improve our products to deliver workable solutions to manufacturers. Full-featured and flexible products to improve internal operation link to other resources and enhance customer communications. Our wide-ranging array of features includes: estimating and quoting, work order, process planning, job tracking, job costing, data collection, bar coding, machine utilization, along with a full reporting system. |
Front-to-back integrated manufacturing and ERP solutions.
Having company information readily can speed decision-making and allow companies to react quickly. In this way, integrating data throughout an organization streamlines the company and contributes to successful growth and management. Our development philosophy at COSS centers on strong manufacturing anchored by strong account, with smooth links to other resources that provide a front-to-back integrated manufacturing or ERP solution. This approach supports the trend towards more open environments, freeing you from the drawbacks of highly proprietary solutions, yet giving you out-of-the-box flexibility to accommodate your unique requirements. Product breadth, depth and stamina on a foundation of leading technology. COSS deliver solutions that solve immediate issuers and concerns. At the same time, we provide you with the technology foundation to develop, grow, and stay ahead of changes in data interchange and communication. Because COSS is scalable from Simply Manufacturing to COSS/SQL, we can easily accommodate the changing needs of a growing company. Whether it be the client, Internet or your internal network, data accessibility and flow are key elements of our systems. Tailored implementation to deliver payback and return. A network of head office and local support is focused on getting you up and running and earning the payback on your investment as quickly as possible. At COSS, we believe services are as important as software. Our Products are developed and refined with input from the shop floor, so we continually improve our software to meet the real demands manufacturers face. |
Estimating & QuotingOur fully integrated estimating module captures the pertinent details needed to define your customer's requirements and assist as you scope the bid. Our estimating module provides you with the necessary tools to define processes, calculate costs, and track your communications with a customer. Status setting assist with the estimate workflow, while statistical data provides the answers required for strategic decision-making. With estimate based, customer-related notes, your company can greatly improve customer negotiations and integrations. Estimating acts as the backbone of the manufacturing process: information is transferred automatically to the work order and process plan, eliminating data duplication.FeaturesTemplate quoting and copy and paste from other quotations or templates allow you to quickly generate quotes.Explorer-like overview allows you to see details including material, operations, specifications and pictures. Gross margin tracking and estimate amounts can be quickly recalculated online to determine impact to changes in values. Extensive quotes management and tracking allow you to monitor quote status and provide hit/miss ratios in percentage of quotes and values. Integration with purchasing allows for accurate, up-to-date material costs. |
Work OrderCOSS is known for its feature-rich work order module that accommodates both make/engineer-to-order as well as make-to-stock discrete manufactures. Our work order module fits seamlessly with our other modules, allowing for a smooth flow of information. The work order module includes many of the advanced features typical of COSS software, such as the flexible user interface that has been developed to fit naturally into the manufacturing environment. The module was also designed with customer-driven performance demands in mind. These include the flexibility to make-work order changes on the fly, the ability to access specification databases, and the tractability required meeting your customers' exacting demands. COSS prides itself on it's cutting edge approach to software design and its ability to understand the continuous changing business needs of it's customers.FeaturesAutomatic transfer of information for the estimating module , or a sales order eliminates duplication of entry.On-the-fly work order with true revision tracking and ability to change at any point during the manufacturing process allows for flexibility. Project control allows you to manage profitability reporting. Specification library, accessible for all operations, allows standardization and quick entry. Multi-level jobs and BOM with multi-level allow for standardization and quick entry. Multi-level jobs and BOM with multi-level allocations are automatically created with job numbering schemes. Jobs can be entered and immediately assigned an active status, or entered for planning purposes. |
Data Collection & Bar-codingCOSS Manufacturing Software provides access to vital information through its data collection module. As a tool; for improving workflow and monitoring a wide rage of manufacturing information, data collection provides the company with means to respond to customers instantly. COSS delivers the company feedback you need to run your business effectively in a competitive marketplace. Quick and accurate information about jobs on the floor are delivered in real time, providing manufacturing with costing, scheduling and customer service status information. This up-to-date data can be used to improve performance at the core of your business. Included with the data collection model is a full-fledged time and attendance package that provides instant access to employee information. The time and attendance package is designed to allow for flex shifts, automatic downloads to the payroll module, plus many human resource reports.FeaturesReal-time updates of job status and job history include actual logged time.Data feeds into job costing, scheduling, and time and attendance directly from the shop floor. Subcontracts/outside operation can be monitored along with estimated return date and all vendor information. Payroll hours can be generated off the floor and automatically downloaded into internal payroll systems or external payroll services like Certain and ADP. Discrepancy reports can be produced for all employees who have a difference between job hours and payroll hours. Simultaneous machine time can be tracked along with set-up and run times and qualities tracked form the shop floor. Machine times and costing can be calculated for unattended machines. Company-wide messaging provides tractability of the heat number assigned to a particular job. Scannerless software has been designed for loading on machines that run a Windows platform. |
Job Costing & TrackingCOSS allows your company to access the right information at the right time. By providing you with access to real-time job status and online shipping reports, COSS opens the door to improve customer service and communication. Information can be viewed in detailed and summary formats, giving you a range of reports to stay on top of your business. COSS's main objective is to provide relevant reporting when you require it - equipping you with the management control system you need to run your business.FeaturesOnline updates from the shop floor deliver real-time job costs and tracking. This information is available to the customer service department.Data can be collected in real-time off the shop floor or entered manually through time cards. Single-screen checking allows you to view the status of jobs and time remaining at each operation. Overhead rates can be set by machine hour as a percentage of labor worked. Operational note tracking stores pertinent data based on inspection and records all issuers pertaining to the operation. These notes are stamped with the date, item and name of the operator who recorded the data. |