nMetrics 4C to Help Software One Customers Obtain Shop Floor Visibility

Provides Mid-sized Manufacturers with Real-time, Live Scheduling, Monitoring and Tracking of Manufacturing Status

nMetric has announced that it is partnering with Software One (Clawson, Mich.) to help mid-sized manufacturers proactively manage by integrating and coordinating scheduling with real time tracking and updating of all resources, materials, labor and capacity.

CLAWSON, MICH. - March 20, 2003 - nMetric today announced that it is partnering with Software One (Clawson, Mich.) to help mid-sized manufacturers proactively manage by integrating and coordinating scheduling with real time tracking and updating of all resources, materials, labor and capacity. With nMetrics 4C, Software One customers can leverage the systems they already have instead of investing in new systems to get a real-time view of scheduling.

Plugging the gap between scheduling and execution to obtain real time visibility is an effective way for our customers to increase their profits," explains Theresa Dunn, president of woman-owned Software One. By accelerating work and order flow, management fosters increased revenues. Inventories, WIP and otherwise, will drop as their shop floor visibility is enhanced. Optimizing manufacturing resources will also boost operational margins and delays capital investments."    

The technical staff and industry specialists at Software One have extensive practical experience and expertise in various areas, including manufacturing, supply chain management, financial and accounting management, automotive, EDI and e-commerce," reports Tom Carpenter, nMetric CEO. Now, they can show their customers how their present software can become the provider of data used by 4C@Site, affordably linking scheduling and execution to foresee potential production hotspots before they become problems."

With nMetric 4C, orders are continuously monitored at every moment throughout the production process in real time to assure status and provide notification to all members in the supply chain if delivery expectations are not going to be met. When and if resources or demands change or might change, 4C attempts to resolve any problems that could affect delivery dates and/or proactively notifies all specified parties so they are aware and can plan accordingly. If there are prospective large shifts in plans or resources, users proactively use 4C to manually determine the impact of various what-ifs" on present order dates in the queue. Management can then anticipate what the effects of each change will be before making them.

About Software One
In 1983, Software One, Inc. was founded to provide quality software services and products to users of IBM midrange systems. Headquartered in Clawson, Mich., with a remote location in Akron, Ohio, SOI has employees with extensive experience in software support, implementation, education and technical knowledge. This experience has been with clients in size from $20 million to divisions of Fortune 500 companies. By limiting its focus to the midrange marketplace and the manufacturing and distribution environment, SOI has been able to emerge as an industry leader. Phone is 248-280-0550 and website is www.swone.com.

About nMetric
nMetrics 4C system is the only software that provides mid-sized and smaller manufacturers with live scheduling, monitoring and tracking, messaging updates and analyses so that they can completely oversee all steps of their manufacturing process and proactively supervise the dynamics of their supply chain in real time to accurately predict what will happen. Company headquarters are at 3070 South Bristol Avenue, Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626. Phone is 888-561-9700. Website is www.nmetric.com.

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nMETRIC   
714-424-4400
tom.carpenter@nmetric.com

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