AIRFLOW CAST SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE LICENSE

Subsequently, today, the AFR sales department uses the Configurator exclusively for all sales order transac-tions. The first step, Andersen says, was to incorporate the entire AFR catalog product line into the SYSPRO Product Con-figurator.

AIRFLOW CAST SOFTWARE FOR MOBILE LICENSE

Additionally, he purchased a five-user license for SYSPRO Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.

The solid endorsements by the users along with the in-depth evaluation of several competing ERP vendors made the choice easy, so Andersen chose a twelve-user license, basic account-ing and MRP modules, as well as Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) and the SYSPRO Product Configurator. He started an evaluation process that included talking to ex-isting SYSPRO users. The SolutionĪndersen learned about SYSPRO enterprise software through internet search systems and was intrigued by the modules offered and the integrated nature of the solution. “A production schedule is good only until its been run, and then everything immediately changes after that,” he says. Relying on his extensive background with MRPII, Andersen felt that AFR needed an ERP solution, but one that offered a Product Configurator, to assist in order placement and ensure parts compatibility, as well as Advanced Planning and Scheduling. “We needed a ‘womb to tomb’ capability,” he says, noting one of his first challenges was to locate and evaluate new software vendors.ĪFR had been using a simple accounting package, but, as Andersen points out, the software lacked the ability to communicate with the shop to determine if schedules were being met it generated limited bills of material and provided no shop routing capability. He immediately recognized the need to control the actual flow of product within the shop to maintain product delivery schedules. In 2003, AFR General Manger Carl Andersen was brought into the company to help enhance overall operational efficiency. AFR manu-factures the cylinder heads from raw aluminum castings, performs the CNC porting and assembles the finished heads for sale to the general public and a variety of stocking distributors throughout the U.S. (“Porting” opens up, re-configures and re-surfaces the ports of cylinder heads to enable engines to breathe easier and more efficiently and therefore produce more power.) The company also pioneered the recent introduction of high performance Gen-2 LS1 aftermarket heads. AFR, in fact, pioneered the CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) porting of Small block Chevy and Ford heads as well as big block Chevy heads. (AFR) has been defining technology leadership in cylinder head manu-facturing and flow dynamics.

– Carl Anderson GM, Airflow Research The Companyįor more than thirty years, Pacoima, Calif.-based Airflow Research Heads, Inc. “Thanks to the SYSPRO software, we now have measurements on how good we are…We never had the visibility before.”

Airflow cast software for mobile