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Ask the Experts
 Does your company have IFS-related questions? Perhaps you are facing Manufacturing, Financial, or Distribution problems that are begging for a solution? Do you have a technical issue that needs to be resolved?
Here is your chance to ask IFS-related questions to our team of highly qualified experts.
Find the email link at the bottom of the Consultant's Corner or Technical Tips and Tricks. Our team of experts will get back to you with our best answer. If your question is featured in The Edge, we will send one of our favorite toys.
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Consultant's Corner
| Does your sales team know what they have sold?
In this article, Ken Burt discusses one of the powerful features that IFS offers called Customer Order Statistics. Ken says that in his experience only a small portion of IFS customers use this feature. Everyone has a sales team, and they constantly want to know how much they have sold this month, this year, and how this period compares to one last year.
Customer Order Statistics offers the ability to easily view Backlog of Orders, Invoiced Sales, Delivery Reliability, and Delivery Quality at a detail level and from an aggregated standpoint Invoiced Sales and Delivery Quality. There is a prerequisite: Use of the IFS Customer Order system cycle, nothing more, nothing less.
Click below to read Ken's comments about how to create reports dealing with backlog, invoiced sales, delivery quantity, and delivery quality. Ken also discusses how to aggregate these reports to develop even more meaningful sales statistics, and a "gotcha" you can overcome.
Read the full article here.
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Technical Tips & Tricks
 Oracle Locking
What's blocking my lock?Locks cause headaches for the IT staff, but they are a necessary evil! Find out why in this article by Alan Clark, Oracle-certified DBA. Alan explains what locks are, why they are used, and how to work effectively with them. Read about:
- Row-level locking
- Table-level locking
- Releasing locks
- Modes of locking
- Data lock conversion versus lock escalation
- Deadlocks
- Blocking locks
Read Alan's article here.
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Greetings!
Join us at the Summit!
Welcome to The Edge issue #2!
We saw tremendous interest in our newsletter with readership of issue number one surpassing our wildest expectations. The IFS user community particularly liked Consultant's Corner and Technical Tips and Techniques. In our second issue, we will continue our efforts to bring you valuable educational content and insight on the creative use of IFS.
The eNSYNC team is busy preparing for the upcoming InFocuS customer summit October 5th through 7th in Schaumburg. You are cordially invited to visit our exhibit (booth14) as we showcase three exciting new product extensions for IFS Apps. We'll be unveiling our new generation of our time-tested barcode data collection solution, ScanWorks7, a powerful EDI offering, eWorks, and our Web-based configurator, ConfigureWorks. Also watch for our breakout session entitled, "Work Smart With The Works for IFS" from 1:15 to 2:00 pm Tuesday, October 7.
We look forward to showing you "The Works for IFS" and finding a good home for our "Works" mascots, unique mechanical friends, named "Cranky," and "Zecar."
Please see here how you can own one of these little guys for yourself.
Safe travels. See you in Chicago.
Best Regards, Roger Resley
President & CEO
eNSYNC Solutions, Inc.
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The Company We Keep
 Summer Industries, located in Welcome, NC is a manufacturer of engineered paper cores and tubes. These products are used in a wide variety of industrial applications, such as construction forms for concrete, textile spools, and rolled products such as tape and plastic films. With three manufacturing sites in North Carolina and Florida, Summer Industries is a rapidly growing business with plans for further expansion.
Business Problem
Summer Industries selected IFS to run their growing business and provide the tools to better manage the anticipated growth. However, several months into the implementation they had reached a stalemate and were unable to move forward on the project. Rather than give up on the implementation, they called upon eNSYNC Solutions for an objective assessment and recommendation.
The changes recommended and implemented by eNSYNC enabled Summer to take advantage of a significant investment that had already been made and begin receiving a return on this investment sooner than expected.
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ScanWorks Scoreboard
Material control, from raw material issued to the shop floor to finished goods picked for specific customers, was critical to Contec's business.
Real time data entry and immediate validation with IFS as material moved within the plant was the only practical way to meet the demands on operations. Contec looked at the alternatives and selected eNSYNC Solutions as the provider of hardware, software, and services to deliver a complete turnkey system in time to meet their scheduled go-live with IFS.
Read the full article here.
ScanWorks™
is the leading bar code data collection solution for IFS on the market
today. Developed by eNSYNC Solutions, ScanWorks will allow your
company to unlock the power of IFS Applications and optimize your ERP
systems performance with real-time, accurate data provided by wireless
bar code data
collection.
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What's in "The Works?"
 Flowmaster,
based in Santa Rosa, CA, has gained national exposure and distribution
through Advanced Auto Parts and AutoZone, two of the largest auto parts
retail chains in the industry. To win these contracts with these
giants, Flowmaster had to employ an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
solution to enable them to transfer order information.
To
accomplish this, Flowmaster, eNSYNC Solutions, and EMANIO implemented
EMANIO's Trading Partner™ solution using its built in Wizard toolset.
Read the full article here.
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Coming Events
 InFocuS customer summit October 5th through 7th in Schaumburg.
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