Products : Document Management
In most metal centers, several different types of documents are required to transact business. Efficiently handling and transmitting these documents to business partners often presents significant challenges. MCMS software for metal service centers offers flexible solutions for producing, transmitting and archiving the business critical documents that are created by your company internally via MCMS (e.g. invoices, shippers, etc.), in addition to those generated by your business partners externally (e.g. supplier invoices and MTR's, customer purchase orders, part drawings, etc.).
A comprehensive document management solution would utilize the following modules from the MCMS suite: MC Forms, MC DMS, MC Fax, MC Net/Email and perhaps MC File (if material test reports are integral to your business).
MC Forms — provides printing of forms to multiple laser printers
MC Fax/Email — Transmit forms to business partners via the method of choice, right from within the application. MCMS forms can be faxed or emailed, one at a time or when interfaced with the MC Forms product, can be formatted to e-mail, print and fax automatically, based on your business partner's requirements.
MC DMS — archive all MCMS forms automatically as PDF files linked to key fields for future retrieval via a hotkey within the application. Also, allows archiving of external documents via scanning or importing.
MC File — archives Material Test Reports linked directly to specific heat lots identified through the inventory control and receiving modules.
MCMS steel, aluminum and metal distribution software also allows linking document retrieval to your website, providing your business partners the ability to review or retrieve documents directly as you allow. While these MCMS products offer significant benefits on their own, when used together they provide a comprehensive document management system that can streamline your operation, improve customer service, provide mission critical information quickly (no digging in file cabinets for misfiled documents), and reduce your overall paper handling requirements.