advice needed please!

[leetaylor]

rsands, your system sounds great - anywhere I can see this website? Or even just screen shot of it?

[rsands]

i will see if i can get some shots tomorrow for you in work. (i can customise it to suit your requirements for a small one time fee if you are interested?)

[leetaylor]

i will see if i can get some shots tomorrow for you in work. (i can customise it to suit your requirements for a small one time fee if you are interested?)

I would be very interested to see some screen shots.

If it's what we need then yes we could do a deal.

[rsands]

I will try get a few screenshots over for you and others. its a nice system and very clean and simple..nothing fancy. We felt that a t-card system or dry wipe board is just to risky and people dont know who is doing what or who did what. the way we have it...if a member of staff takes off sick, we know everything that has happened to that job and what we have to do

[rsands]

I have a few screen shots below. We have covered over some parts as this is a live system and we have to protect our customers info, etc

It can be customised to suit your requirements and change status options, etc but it works well for us. You could have department options, etc tick boxes for plates made, etc

Entering the job details:




Jobs Overview:

[rsands]

Editing Job/Log:




If anyone wants to discuss further please drop me a PM


Thanks

Richard

[rsands]

We also have a "to be invoiced" page...so when a job is shipped and marked complete it goes over to a to be invoiced list...then the accounts department make the invoice and then update the job to say it has been invoiced. So that way we know instantly what has and hasn't been invoiced.

All notes added are recorded so someone cant type notes and then go back and try and change the notes they entered if a problem occurs

i forgot to include a login screenshot:

[dgraves@wendlingprinting.net]

Anyone make a FileMaker database program? That would be nice......to have.

[leetaylor]

All good info and a great insight into how work is tracked in everyones companies.

Keep the information coming guys.

So do the majority of you use a manual system or a computer based one to track the progress of jobs?

[Bondmaster]

Last oar I'll put in. rsands, your systems looks good and simple to use. BUT and maybe a small but, it is only a tracking system, right? - not a scheduling/planning system that leetaylaor said he needed at the outset. Who plans who does what, & when on a tracking system. Or is that another bun fight out on the floor? We use a tracking system of computer driven job bag that goes from the quote, prep, production and despatch and links to invoicing. End of month computer summaries must be satisfied to ensure no odd jobs escape invoicing as we do anything from a one to two letter size mounting pieces as as single job up to 80000 sheet runs etc. We are running 15 machines and 4-5 depts, so a planning system is essential and is seperate from a tracking system. So need to qualify the size of plant and average thru-put to a system supplyer to get a sensible solution. And without labouring the point -- and I have zip connection to T-Cards, but their site has a demo software model that can be played with that I'm actually very impressed with. And its all on computer- not on a physical board.