"Plante & Moran is pleased to form this alliance relationship with Plexus as we believe its solutions are truly impacting the supply chain and helping to improve business processes around the globe,” said Doug Wiescinski, a partner in management consulting at Plante & Moran. “Plexus’ deep industry and vertical focus will benefit our customers
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
On-Demand ERP Is Here
This is an article from: http://www.autofieldguide.com/articles/010807.html
Look what’s gaining traction in enterprise resource planning: A new way to run it offsite. By Lawrence S. Gould, Contributing Editor
The article mentions Plexus Online in a few places. This is my favorite cut from it. Version control is easier in a SaaS setup. Plexus, for example, has only one version of its software on a single infrastructure. “We don’t have to cast about through a thousand different client-server configurations before shipping a patch with new features. Instead, we roll out new features every day."
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Look what’s gaining traction in enterprise resource planning: A new way to run it offsite. By Lawrence S. Gould, Contributing Editor
The article mentions Plexus Online in a few places. This is my favorite cut from it. Version control is easier in a SaaS setup. Plexus, for example, has only one version of its software on a single infrastructure. “We don’t have to cast about through a thousand different client-server configurations before shipping a patch with new features. Instead, we roll out new features every day."
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
7 Things you may not know about Plexus:Software as a Service (SaaS)
Here are Seven more things you may not know about Plexus. This is an continuation blog related to the 11 things you may not know and 9 things you may not know.
1. Matt Harrell, the Chief Security Officer at Plexus, holds a black belt in Shorin-Ryu karate.
2. Ctrl-P will bring up the printer dialog to print the screen.
3. There is free food and soda in the break rooms at Plexus.
4. The Maintenance System allows you to define specific machine parameters. These measured values can be graphed over time and used for Predictive Maintenance.
5. The Plexus Sales and CRM system can take many forms, depending on the specific requirements.
6. Plexus Systems owns the registered trademark for Scanban® —the concept of a bar coded Kanban Card that is tracked electronically through the shop.
7. Dealer direct shipments are processed by populating the order number and dealer number on page 3 of the customer release.
1. Matt Harrell, the Chief Security Officer at Plexus, holds a black belt in Shorin-Ryu karate.
2. Ctrl-P will bring up the printer dialog to print the screen.
3. There is free food and soda in the break rooms at Plexus.
4. The Maintenance System allows you to define specific machine parameters. These measured values can be graphed over time and used for Predictive Maintenance.
5. The Plexus Sales and CRM system can take many forms, depending on the specific requirements.
6. Plexus Systems owns the registered trademark for Scanban® —the concept of a bar coded Kanban Card that is tracked electronically through the shop.
7. Dealer direct shipments are processed by populating the order number and dealer number on page 3 of the customer release.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Plexus Online Customer Tomasco Wins 2007 Progressive Manufacturer Award
Plexus customer TOMASCO mulciber Inc. is a winner of the 2007 Progressive Manufacturing 50 Awards sponsored by industry trade publication Managing Automation. At the annual awards program held this summer, TOMASCO was selected as one of eight high achievers, receiving top honors in the area of Operational Excellence Mastery.
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Monday, August 6, 2007
Plexus Systems to Speak on World Class Manufacturing
Plexus was invited to participate on the panel because of its expertise in offering Plexus Online, Software as a Service (SaaS) for lean manufacturing specifically designed for automotive suppliers and other high-liability manufacturers. Plexus Systems, born from a Tier 1 automotive supplier, incorporates processes based on the Toyota Production S
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Auto Tech Creating Supply Chain Value
AIAG AutoTech has been called the most relevant conference in the automotive industry. It is THE event for suppliers at all tiers to receive ISO/TS 16949:2002 quality updates first-hand, straight from those who developed the guidelines and standards. It's also the only venue where the collaboration between OEMs and suppliers is showcased through executive conferences, educational sessions, product and service exhibits, demonstrations, and networking opportunities.
Stop by the Plexus Online exhibit floor booth #205, we will be glad to answer questions and give you a demonstration of Plexus Online tailored to your specific needs. It's also a great place to catch up with the following Plexus employees: Mike Solomon, Tim Burke, Brian Gillespie, Patrick Fetterman, Alison Hess and myself (Kim Hayward) If you're planning ahead, and would like to schedule a meeting with any of us at AutoTech, just post a comment here.
Barrie Vince of Plexus Systems, Inc. will be a recipeint of the INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, at the 21st annual AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award Ceremony on August 20, 2007 at The Henry Ford Museum.
The theme of this year’s AutoTech is Co-opetition: Creating Supply Chain Value. The conference features more than 50 sessions in 11 subject areas, OEM and keynote sessions and product demonstrations and case studies.
The exhibit floor includes leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as well as service and technology providers displaying tools to help improve industry processes in automatic identification, collaborative engineering, e-commerce, business-to-business, supply chain management and quality. Register at www.aiag.org.
Stop by the Plexus Online exhibit floor booth #205, we will be glad to answer questions and give you a demonstration of Plexus Online tailored to your specific needs. It's also a great place to catch up with the following Plexus employees: Mike Solomon, Tim Burke, Brian Gillespie, Patrick Fetterman, Alison Hess and myself (Kim Hayward) If you're planning ahead, and would like to schedule a meeting with any of us at AutoTech, just post a comment here.
Barrie Vince of Plexus Systems, Inc. will be a recipeint of the INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, at the 21st annual AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award Ceremony on August 20, 2007 at The Henry Ford Museum.
The theme of this year’s AutoTech is Co-opetition: Creating Supply Chain Value. The conference features more than 50 sessions in 11 subject areas, OEM and keynote sessions and product demonstrations and case studies.
The exhibit floor includes leading automotive manufacturers and suppliers, as well as service and technology providers displaying tools to help improve industry processes in automatic identification, collaborative engineering, e-commerce, business-to-business, supply chain management and quality. Register at www.aiag.org.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Software Delivery: ERP SaaS May Finally Be Ready for Prime Time
Manufacturers also balked at the abridged versions of ERP applications available via SaaS, as software vendors decided to offer only the modules they believed were of greatest interest to SMBs. "Glovia and Plexus are both full-function ERP, but do they have every last module and feature of an SAP? No," Jutras says. However, she says, reduced features also decrease the complexity of applications that some companies find unwieldy.
Others argue that SaaS offers greater flexibility than packaged applications for SMBs that want to establish links to global suppliers. "We have supply chain capabilities in our product and a multi-language interface into the database, so a Chinese supplier can enter data in Chinese while an American customer is looking at the same information with an English interface," says Mark Symonds, CEO of Plexus. "All the Chinese supplier needs is a Web connection to be able to get to the application."
Manufacturers that are happy with their on-premises ERP system can extend its capabilities by adding shop-floor components and other modules using a hybrid SaaS approach, he adds. "We use XML to transfer data [between the two systems]. It's real- time, lightweight, and it's becoming the industry standard," Symonds says. Plexus can exchange data in batches at pre-set times if the legacy application doesn't support XML, he adds.
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Others argue that SaaS offers greater flexibility than packaged applications for SMBs that want to establish links to global suppliers. "We have supply chain capabilities in our product and a multi-language interface into the database, so a Chinese supplier can enter data in Chinese while an American customer is looking at the same information with an English interface," says Mark Symonds, CEO of Plexus. "All the Chinese supplier needs is a Web connection to be able to get to the application."
Manufacturers that are happy with their on-premises ERP system can extend its capabilities by adding shop-floor components and other modules using a hybrid SaaS approach, he adds. "We use XML to transfer data [between the two systems]. It's real- time, lightweight, and it's becoming the industry standard," Symonds says. Plexus can exchange data in batches at pre-set times if the legacy application doesn't support XML, he adds.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
ERP Selection - Plexus Online Customer Feedback
I do have an infrastructure team as well. Our primary focus is on network (includig significant redundancy to the internet), file/print/e-mail, desktop mgmt, barcode and rf scanning hardware, telecommunications, plus the other apps we run in-house (payroll, fixed assets, sharepoint, pdm). I am fully aware of other smaller Plexus customers who...
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Plexus Online Customer Feedback on ITtoolbox
Plexus is a full ERP/MES/CRM/SCM package. Yes, there's lot traceability as well as long term forecasting (whether sales based, quantity based, MRP based, or capacity planning). It replaced many integrated systems in our environment and consolidated us down to very few. The only business applications outside of Plexus for us are payroll, fixed...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
2007 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100
Adaptable. Agile. Customer-focused. Global. Scalable. A modern supply chain must have all these characteristics (and more) as the "push" economy of yesterday gives way to the 21st century's demand-driven "pull" economy. To compete successfully in this new reality, enterprises of all sizes are turning to technology and service providers to help them enable their "21st century supply chains."
Supply Chain Infrastructure & Integration/ERP
Leverage solution capabilities beyond immediate needs: TOMASCO mulciber INC. used an Internet-based system from Plexus Systems to meet its OEM customer's requirements for EDI, but the company leveraged additional capabilities to gain greater shop floor control, traceability, quality management and accounting. Results: Met customer's requirements and ISO certification, inventory reduced over 20 percent, WIP reduced over 40 percent. Plexus Systems, Inc. (1995; Auburn Hills, MI; http://www.plex.com/)
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Plexus 2007 Company Picnic
The 2007 Plexus picnic was great fun. The only question that remains: DOES ONE STILL HAVE A JOB, if you block the CEO’s (Mark Symonds) spike, when playing volleyball? Sorry Mark, but it does give me bragging rights. :)
Perfect weather, great food, good prizes and a lot of family fun. It was nice to see all of the “growing” Plexus families out and enjoying the picnic together. Wow, has this company grown.
The Chief Engineer, Jerry Foster and his wife Angie won the three legged race. I’m sure this win is going to cause a new Plexus policy to be invoked. It’s going to read something like this: "If you don’t finish the race with all of the clothing you started with you’re disqualified."
I’ve never seen an egg tossed as far as they were being tossed today! Congratulations to the winners, JR Kirk and Dan VanBrocklin! Plexus is one competitive company one can even see the competitive drive in an egg toss! There were at least a dozen teams left when the distance had grown at least thirty feet. The eggs were flying.
There were many painted faces running around the park, thanks to Brittany Hayward. Good luck to all of you parents. I’m thinking we should start a contest to see which child will go the longest before they will allow their face painting to be washed away. Photos can be found here. (hit refresh if they don't start)
The event was topped off with what I’m going to call a rigged up Sponge Bob piñata, every kid in the place took three swings at the thing. Some were very determined swings, bats were just a flying. Nothing gave way, that’s not quite true, his arms, hands legs and decorations went flying. The lucky swingers got to keep Sponge Bob’s body parts, that is, if their swing caused the amputation.
Once it was proven no child was going to crack that piñata, the Plexus Online employees were given a swing at him, Mike Hart, Alison Hess and many others failed. That piñata was just not going to give up the goods. Leave it to one of the new guy’s on the Plexus implementation team, Daniel Czaja, he came at the beaten Sponge Bob piñata with the hammer from a smaller version of the old-fashioned "ring-the-bell" carnival midway game. That worked and the kids swarmed and quickly collected the goods.
A big thank you, to everyone involved for making the 2007 Plexus Company picnic a great success! My family had a great time.
Perfect weather, great food, good prizes and a lot of family fun. It was nice to see all of the “growing” Plexus families out and enjoying the picnic together. Wow, has this company grown.
The Chief Engineer, Jerry Foster and his wife Angie won the three legged race. I’m sure this win is going to cause a new Plexus policy to be invoked. It’s going to read something like this: "If you don’t finish the race with all of the clothing you started with you’re disqualified."
I’ve never seen an egg tossed as far as they were being tossed today! Congratulations to the winners, JR Kirk and Dan VanBrocklin! Plexus is one competitive company one can even see the competitive drive in an egg toss! There were at least a dozen teams left when the distance had grown at least thirty feet. The eggs were flying.
There were many painted faces running around the park, thanks to Brittany Hayward. Good luck to all of you parents. I’m thinking we should start a contest to see which child will go the longest before they will allow their face painting to be washed away. Photos can be found here. (hit refresh if they don't start)
The event was topped off with what I’m going to call a rigged up Sponge Bob piñata, every kid in the place took three swings at the thing. Some were very determined swings, bats were just a flying. Nothing gave way, that’s not quite true, his arms, hands legs and decorations went flying. The lucky swingers got to keep Sponge Bob’s body parts, that is, if their swing caused the amputation.
Once it was proven no child was going to crack that piñata, the Plexus Online employees were given a swing at him, Mike Hart, Alison Hess and many others failed. That piñata was just not going to give up the goods. Leave it to one of the new guy’s on the Plexus implementation team, Daniel Czaja, he came at the beaten Sponge Bob piñata with the hammer from a smaller version of the old-fashioned "ring-the-bell" carnival midway game. That worked and the kids swarmed and quickly collected the goods.
A big thank you, to everyone involved for making the 2007 Plexus Company picnic a great success! My family had a great time.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
AMR: SOA will kill ERP | Service-Oriented Architecture
A ZDNet.com Blog sees SOA, open source and on demand applications as the ERP killers by 2010. Let’s not give SOA all the credit for liberating our enterprises from the monoliths, however. There are other forces at work disrupting the ERP market as we now it. The growing volume of open source offerings in this space, such as Apache OFBiz, SugarCRM, Tiny ERP, and Compiere. Then there are the software-as-a-service offerings, from Salesforce.com for the CRM aspect to Plexus. (Oracle and SAP are already active in the hosted/SaaS space as well.) The Microsoft mass-market mid-market commodization threat also looms, via Dynamics GP/AX.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Technology Enabler Plexus Sytems, Inc.
The T&B Awards recognize manufacturers that have made their businesses succeed through innovation. The awards are open to any end-user manufacturing company that has been able to use technology to overcome a challenge or to solve a critical business issue through the use of technology.
Automotive/Transportation
TOMASCO, mulciber, Inc.
Technology Enabler:
Plexus Systems
“All of the companies that were named winners this year have become successful by implementing the correct technology solutions to adapt with the ever-changing industry.” said Michael Jarosik, editor of START-IT magazine. “These winning manufacturers and technology providers should be proud of the accomplishments they have achieved.”
Automotive/Transportation
TOMASCO, mulciber, Inc.
Technology Enabler:
Plexus Systems
“All of the companies that were named winners this year have become successful by implementing the correct technology solutions to adapt with the ever-changing industry.” said Michael Jarosik, editor of START-IT magazine. “These winning manufacturers and technology providers should be proud of the accomplishments they have achieved.”
Monday, June 18, 2007
Plexus to add 35-45 positions and grow client base
In 2006, the company grew 50% in revenue and 35% in staffing, to 100 employees. Fetterman expects the number of employees to grow another 35-45% this year. The growth is due to a continual addition of clients to its already impressive roster of manufacturers -- 350 across the globe, including American Axle & Manufacturing, Metaldyne and Oneda.
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Plexus Online Selected as Top Software Innovator by Sand Hill Group
Plexus was selected in the Software as a Service Innovation Showcasecategory. Software as a Service is being widely adopted by customers andSand Hill Group believes there will be several new industry leaders toemerge in this space.
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Auburn Hills Plexus on a roll, growth and jobs expected
Locally Plexus employs approximately 120 people and is aggressively recruiting both in-state and out-of-state talent. They are expecting to add 30 positions in the coming year. Most will be here in Michigan. To view open positions visit http://www.plex.com/company/employment.asp
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Managing Automation Announces 2007 Progressive Manufacturing High Achievers
Operational Excellence: TOMASCO mulciber, a metal stamping company, was recognized for its deployment of a Plexus on-demand manufacturing system that allowed TOMASCO to manage the entire manufacturing process, reduce inventories by more than 20%, and reduce work-in-process by over 40%.
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