Evolution

Evolution is an enterprise software solution serving manufacturing and distribution markets companies seeking enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities to resolve unique business issues and maintain competitive advantage by leveraging improved and more effective business processes. With broad functionality, high scalability, and strong personalizing features, Evolution provides businesses with a solid platform for improvement and growth.

What makes Evolution stand out is its focus on customers’ business goals. To help customers achieve those goals in today’s hyper-competitive global environment, Evolution provides strong Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities. With these tools, manufacturers can better leverage their business processes, building competitive advantage throughout divisions, departments and supply-chain partners. Removing the walls that separate transaction-based systems, BPM saves time and money, while adding value to the enterprise.

Manufacturers create, test and implement processes that will provide an edge over the competition. Evolution enterprise software helps manufacturers leverage those processes to maintain competitive advantage. Whether companies are seeking to implement a full ERP suite, standardized business processes or industry-specific functionality, SoftBrands offers enterprise software and services to help achieve company goals.

Manufacturing consists of four basic functions: purchasing, production, sales and accounting. But the processes that control these functions can vary greatly between companies and change over time. Evolution operates at a strategic level helping companies leverage improved processes and making the inevitable changes easier to implement.

Improve processes and implement changes more easily with Evolution.

Evolution achieves this result using browser technology and a component toolkit and methodology that allow companies to tailor the application to fit each business while giving each user the freedom to personalize their desktop, showing those functions, reports, etc. they use frequently.

The Evolution ERP solution embraces the following business functions:

• Planning and scheduling management
• Production management
• Inventory management
• Product engineering design, prototype and release management
• Manufacturing execution
• Finite and infinite capacity and materials planning
• Order handling
• Lot tracing and serialization
• Product configuration
• Shop floor reporting
• Workflow
• Event management
• Co-product and by-product planning
• Scrap and yield planning
• Operational equipment (OE) interfaces
• Barcoding
• RFID
• Detailed reporting