I think we will still use paper workorders for a while also. The
quoting, invoicing and the billion pieces of informantion attached to
each order to get it printed is what we need boxed up.
Thanks for your input...
Mike
Cheryl Rotter wrote:
Mike,
We still shuffle paper to an extent. The printers still need a paper
print out because they can't go to a digital file and look at the
design. I think part of this is that our owner really isn't of the
digital age. He thinks everyone still needs a piece of paper for
everything. Since everyone else uses paper, I have to also. Someday, I
may try to win him over. All I really need is single piece of paper with
the job numbers that have been checked in and I could totally run my
department from the software.
Our receiving dept still has to check in from a paper receiving summary.
It's a shame, but he's the boss... To stop the paper shuffle, I think,
and to make it worth your while, the computers have to easily accessible
for each department and you have to "retrain" the employees to think of
digital files displayed on monitors, instead of paper designs. We have
run network ethernet out to the receiving area, but he still insists on
paper.
I haven't heard of T quoter, but I bet it's nice. I think shopworks is probably more than what we need, but the owners son in law talked him into the "biggest and best" and therefore the priciest.
Cheryl Rotter Team Sports Ink 5111 Grumann Dr. Ste #1B Carson City, NV 89706 775-884-3550
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Garber Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:30 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Shop Software
I've looked at Shopworks but the price stopped me. I have a demo of T-quoter coming. Have you heard of it? We are very tired of the paper shuffle and are thinking software might be the answer.
Mike
Cheryl Rotter wrote:
We use Shopworks for our screen printing dept and our embroidery dept.an
Its pretty nice, but expensive. We are a medium sized shop with screen
print and embroidery all in house. I guess it saves time for the
bookkeepers and the salesmen seem to like it. There's some issues that
we haven't solved for my division yet. Because I am not a vendor, but
in house division, we haven't figured out how to query the cost that I enter for emb on the orders. I have to keep a spread sheet for costs that my production costs are reconciled with. So I have to enter everything twice. It is a nice program and I do enter all my thread colors and jpegs of my designs.
Cheryl Rotter Team Sports Ink 5111 Grumann Dr. Ste #1B Carson City, NV 89706 775-884-3550
-----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Garber Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:01 PM To: amayausers list Subject: [amayausers] Shop Software
Is anyone out there using shop management software?
Mike
