Increase profits INSTANTLY with Realtrac’s accurate, easy-to-use estimating program.

Increasing Profits With the Realtrac ERP System

Businesses only succeed if they make a profit. The REALTRAC ERP System helps companies boost profits by reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving operational efficiencies. Efficiency comes from doing more of what’s most profitable in your business and doing less of what’s least profitable. Realtrac provides immediate, enlightening analysis to give your company greater clarity and direction.
 

“We implemented Realtrac almost two years ago, replacing a different program that was too complicated and that required constant training (and training expenses). We immediately found the difference between the two systems to be night and day. Realtrac met their commitment to have us up and running in just a few days, and within a few more I found opportunities to improve our costs and throughput. In fact, I discovered I was actually losing money on a couple jobs I had thought were moneymakers. Realtrac’s easy and intuitive system helped me fix that. The Realtrac system, and the improvements we have made in our shop, has helped us grow and manage that growth effectively.“ Rick Dodaj, DPM Manufacturing, Wixom, Michigan

REALTRAC is a fast, real-time system that assists manufacturing companies in achieving their true employee, machine costing and overhead rates. This, in turn, leads to quicker estimating and the ability to quote more effectively and efficiently. We provide FREE and immediate labor, work center and overhead costing sheets upon implementation that analyze your labor, workstation and overhead costs and prices. We recommend implementing this practice periodically to confirm that your costs and prices are being used properly – which will help ensure your business’s success!

“Our company has multiple steps for job for costing, and Realtrac continues to work very well for us. We used to have a spreadsheet system that only worked sometimes, and we were always too busy taking care of customers to do a thorough cost analysis. Realtrac estimating with router forced me to set up precise costing in a simple way. I am not a computer geek, but with the help of Realtrac trainer Don Colley, I was up and running in just a few hours. Once I set up estimating, I found that many of our jobs were under market price. I increased prices without losing a single customer. In just 6 months, the Realtrac software had paid for itself. It is the best ERP software for our 15-employee company.” Jim Stutzman, Stutzman Plating Inc., Los Angeles, California

Realtrac is a fast and powerful system built upon excellent business practices. The easy-to-use platform allows you to run your software instead of allowing it to run you. The Realtrac team has created a completely integrated, state-of-the-art manufacturing ERP system that makes for a quick and easy transition while reducing the stress of daily business. Realtrac will assist your entire operation and make you more efficient by reducing your costs while optimizing your business’s performance.

Call us today at 734.793.3811, or email us questions or comments at sales@realtrac.com!

ATTN: Manufacturing Industry – Real-Time Job Tracking Critical for HIGHER Profits!

Realtrac's Real-Time ERP System

As we all know, the practice of tracking time on jobs is critical to ensuring consistent profits. We speak with many shop owners who are frustrated with their out-of-control shop floors. These shops are generally (a) not tracking their time at all, or (b) using older, time-consuming processes like Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, or Access databases.

Of course, the more time you spend recording time, the less time you have to physically run your shop floor. Also, this kind of manual entry (whether entered by a manager or employee) is often riddled with mistaken data. “Bad Data In, Bad Data Out,” in other words.

The Realtrac Shop Management system uses the “Shop Floor Client:” a real-time window into the shop floor that allows managers to see which employees are using which machines on each job. View each job’s drawing number, operation number, run status, estimated and actual hours, or your employees and their log-on times. Get detailed information about jobs, work center loads and previous work sessions - actual times are color-coded for easy description. Anyone in the shop will immediately know if a job is on time, falling behind – or if it’s already late!

Realtrac customers receive immediate access to full shop floor control with mobile-optimized touch screen technology for PC’s, iPads and iPhones. No hand scanners to aim, no paper routers to carry around, and no manual input needed to access employees, jobs and operations. That’s right - Realtrac users can simply press the touch screen to record time, without entering the job, operation or employee numbers! 

Other systems on the market claim to use similar technology; however, they require you to enter the employee, job and operation. Plus, they aren’t mobile-optimized! We estimate our shop client is up to 10x faster collecting shop floor labor time than some of our competitors!

Contact us today for more information on how to regain control of your shop floor - increasing your customer satisfaction and profitability!

Call us today at 734.793.3811, or email questions and comments to sales@realtrac.com!

About REALTRAC

Based in Livonia, Michigan, REALTRAC Performance ERP software is a manufacturing ERP software company specializing in ERP software for machine shops, job shops and make-to-order metal working manufacturers. The company was founded in the heart of a machine shop and has served the manufacturing industry for over three decades. The program is used by thousands of users across North America. REALTRAC 10 was released in March 2014.

Now, Where Did I Use That Material Again, Exactly?

Realtrac ERP Software Material Planning

Every shop owner in the manufacturing industry has faced the scenario of non-conformance material. Fortunately, Realtrac’s MRP function provides quick and easy answers to the what, where, when and how.

Thursday, 3 PM. Your best customer calls and says: “The part you just delivered? I had one shear in half. I think there’s a problem with the steel used in the part.”

Figure 1 - The Job that made the faulty part

You now have some questions to answer: What jobs on the floor use the same stock? Which customers have you already delivered parts to, using the same material? And, how long will it take you to collect that data? Fortunately, you can answer all these questions in under 2 minutes with the Realtrac MRP feature!

So, how can you tell what jobs and parts used the same lot of steel? Let’s walk through the three steps required to discover this critical piece of business information.

Step #1: Navigate to the original job with the material being returned.

 

Figure 2 - Lot information on the Material Usage tab

Step #2: Click on the “Material Usage” tab at the top of the screen. 

On my return, this shows me all the materials consumed in the production of the material. I used 18 pieces of 4140 that may be faulty, and I see the lot number that the material came in on.

Step #3: Click the “MRP” button, and type the beginning entries of the lot number.  

The Realtrac ERP Software search will instantly display the jobs and customers who are potentially affected by the non-conforming steel material.

Figure 3 - Searching the MRP feature for the Lot of steel

In just three clicks, I have a full report on all the parts, jobs and customers who might be impacted. I can reach out to those customers, see the status of each job and if they’re still on my floor, or I can continue to study the issue. What’s important is that I don’t need to go to an outside source, and I don’t need to contact my vendors or customers. I have my purchasing, inventory and true product and material tracking in one location. No more stress and anxiety for manufacturing shops using Realtrac!

Call us today at 734.793.3811, or email questions and comments to sales@realtrac.com!

About REALTRAC

Based in Livonia, Michigan, REALTRAC Performance ERP is a manufacturing ERP software company specializing in ERP software for machine shops, job shops and make-to- order metal working manufacturers. The company was founded in the heart of a machine shop and has served the manufacturing industry for over three decades. The program is used by thousands of users across North America. REALTRAC 10 was released in March 2014.