Excel with Excel and Power BI - Aug 9 Webinar

What happens when you take your favorite business productivity tool (Microsoft Office Excel) and connect it live to a data set that merges information into logical words and meaning? Then with the click of a button deploy it to your phone to get the answer to any question about your business, from anywhere in the world? Growth, success, and a competitive advantage, powered by Microsoft Power BI, Excel, and Cortana (Microsoft's most powerful AI assistant).

What's the benefit of using Microsoft Excel and Power BI?

  1. Everyone understands how to use it
  2. It can be accessed from anywhere in the world
  3. Everyone can use the information, not just licensed ERP users

Excel is more than just a spreadsheet for many business owner, typically it’s used to display financial information, but more powerfully it’s capable of display trends, providing insight into problems that might not have been noticed and performing what-if modeling. In this webinar will we show you how to use Excel to increase profit, identify business process problems, create interactive dashboards for your phone and query Cortana on the fly to get an immediate answer to any question.

Some of the areas we will discuss:

  • Power BI
  • Excel Power viewer
  • Excel Analysis
  • Jet Reports
  • Flash Reports
  • Audit/Control Reports
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Statistical Analysis
  • And more…

Bring Your Data to Life - Microsoft Power BI in 2017

It’s about time you tapped into your organizations most valuable resource, your data. Today’s industry leaders use their data and analytics tools to drive strategy and transform daily operations. Use Microsoft Power BI to connect your data, analyze and model it to uncover insights, and track that data as it changes over time to help you make better business decisions. It’s time to bring your data life

Agenda

  • Your whole business on one dashboard
  • Creative stunning interactive reports
  • Consistent analysis across your organization
  • Easily embed BI and analytics in your app

Windsor | Microsoft Dynamics

Join us in person, or online, for the Windsor Microsoft Dynamics presentation and User Group Meeting on February 27th from 1:30 to 4:00 PM where we will demonstrate the modifications we have done on Microsoft Dynamics NAV to support the manufacturing industries in Southwestern Ontario.

Microsoft Product Partners and Vox ISM staff will be on-hand to answer all of your questions and teach you how to increase productivity and capacity with real-time access and visibility to data.

Microsoft Dynamics Windsor

We have developed a complete business solution to meet the needs of manufacturing businesses based here in Ontario. Our integrated solution using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics NAV with our Vox ISM Vertical Accelerator reduces implementation time and cost which means our customers are up and running with less risk to them. What differentiates us from our competitors is our constant attention to our base customers through direct contact, User Group Meetings, and training webinars.

We have gone one step further and have tailored the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 ERP system specifically for the automotive stamping, mold and injection molding industry in Southwest Ontario. This will provide a systematic approach to manage your jobs dramatically by improving your efficiency, productivity and profitability.

Rebirth of Oldcastle Ontario

Three of our new customers are blocks away from each other in Oldcastle Ontario. This town is the tool and die center of Ontario and supports the automotive industry in Detroit. Everywhere you go now in Oldcastle the parking lots are full and manufacturing is booming and capacity is low.

We know old technology can have many businesses feeling unprepared to keep-up with increased production demands. Luckily for southern Ontario manufactures, the Yves Landry AIME and CME SMART funding are back. And we can help you with application so you can take advantage of these programs so your business can adopt new technologies and improve your competitiveness.

“Since the financial collapse of 2008, the companies that survived have retooled and refocused on creating increasingly sophisticated component parts and molds and are leading a manufacturing comeback,” says Robert Cattle, executive director, Canadian Tooling and Machining Association

Capital Spending

gdpBusiness capital spending in Ontario and the United States of the US on machinery and equipment has increased dramatically. Many of our latest customers make industrial equipment. As business spending on machinery grew and the US dollar went up they had a great year and were looking for a software solution that could handle the complexity of designing product, manufacturing and installation

Windsor | Microsoft Dynamics Presentation and User Group Meeting

WHEN: February 27th, 1:30 – 4:30PM
WHERE: Ciociaro Club | 3745 North Talbot Road, Oldcastle, ON N0R 1L0
REGISTER HERE 

AGENDA

Software for Mold Shops
From estimating to tryout, Vox ISM supports you with proven industry standard practices to deal with the challenges you face every day. We’ll demonstrate how others in your industry are improving their sales, managing job documentation, communication and progress with their customers, integrating the BOM’s with CAD software, managing the crib inventory, subcontractors and scheduling the CNC’s, gun drilling and mold making departments. The accounting software handles progress payments, milestones, holdbacks and the management reporting provides three sets of numbers – how you quoted, designed and made the mold for job-by-job profitability. We know your industry and have been implementing in the Windsor and Oldcastle area for many years. Come see us and benchmark yourself against the competition, see how new technology can improve your business and provide value to your customers.

Software for Injection Molding
Are you TS certified but don’t have an integrated quality system? Are you having trouble tracking quality information, lot and batch? Do you need a shop floor barcoding system that generates labels real-time or is directly integrated to the extruders? Do you need to know how many shots go into the family mold, the cycle-time, scrap and costs per part? What about EDI, is your system complaint? Can you load in sales forecasts or calculate from history? Do you have blanket orders or purchasing contracts? Do you need to manage Gaylord’s, silo’s, railcars and convert seamlessly between LBS and KGS? If the answer is yes, come see what modern technology can bring to the table and how it can reduce your inventory, provide better product line profitability and reduce costs. Our system is affordable and tailored to your industry.

Software for Automotive Stamping
There are lots of automotive packages on the market, they do a good job but struggle to keep up with the pace of change in the automotive industry. Aggressive schedules, increasingly complex components, globalization, and cost challenges require a solution that is innovative and agile. From original equipment manufacturers to aftermarket parts suppliers, Vox ISM helps customers manage the demands of a modern automotive business with capabilities designed to meet the unique requirements of all industry segments. Manage the entire EDI-driven customer order and release update cycle with trading partner agreements. Automatically communicate new orders and release schedules to your suppliers through our portals. Multi-level BOM’s no problem, co-products (making a left and right part) no problem, automatic translation   to your customers part, UPC or competitors part … no problem. Come see our solution can improve your business and allow you to scale with the Big Three.

To register, please visit www.voxism.com or call us at 905-840-7477


Reduce Training Costs with Vox ISM Vertical Accelerator

“The reality is that the cost of implementing a mid-market to high-end accounting software system will typically range from 1:1 to 2:1 compared to the cost of the software.” ~ J. Carlton Collins, CPA 

Vox ISM Vertical Accelerator reduces implementation and training costs with software customized for the Canadian market by industry specific verticals.

Vox ISM Vertical Accelerator includes:

  1. Sixty-nine pre-written Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for every job and department within your company.
  2. Online training videos for each software module.

As a Certified Microsoft Dynamics Partner, we developed our Vertical Accelerator to shorten implementation time, reduce risk and optimize benefits to increase your bottom line.

Reduce Training Costs and Increase Productivity

One common truth that seems to play out time and time again in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations, training is squeezed into tight timeframes at the end of project with limited resources. Often this is the result of poor planning and project management of time, budget and resources throughout the life of the implementation.

Beyond the initial software training at the time of implementation, ongoing training should be offered to support staff turnover, software updates and general application erosion.

Voluntary Turnover Rates

According to the Conference Board of Canada, voluntary and involuntary turnover continues to creep upwards. The 2012-13 voluntary rate was 7.3 per cent, with theScientific and Technical Industry having the highest involuntary turnover rate at 6.4 per cent.

To learn more about changes in voluntary turnover rates over the years and for more breakdowns of voluntary and involuntary turnover by sector and industry download the Compensation Planning 2014 report.

Less known and appreciated by most organizations is “application erosion.” This is the slow deterioration of a solution’s value to a business over time. This can happen when the application is not being used as intended by the original design (garbage in – garbage out). This may be caused by:

  • Lack of system maintenance or poorly configured solutions which lead to ad hoc work-a-rounds, or
  • Poorly trained staff, often a result of high staff turnover.

Even if a system has a rock solid implementation, over time, use will eventually lead to the system’s demise if an organization is not aware of the role its own staff have on contributing to application erosion.

Application Erosion Error

Vox ISM Vertical Accelerator ensures that you are up and running within budget and on-time. Our online training videos provide comprehensive detail to properly train your staff to ensure they are using the system to its fullest capability. Training facilitates employee buy-in, reduces resistance to change (in most situations), and contributes to a smooth transition from current to state to an organization’s desired goal.

If you are considering purchasing software or increasing your user licenses in the next 6 to 12 months, now is the time to do it before the price increase. Learn more about how much you can save by purchasing before July 1st.