GreetingsA lot has happened here at FASCOR since our last newsletter. In addition to welcoming a number of new clients, we’ve made some key additions to our staff while continuing to enhance our core WMS and TMS solutions. We’re excited to announce the additions of Bryan Jones, Mitch Proctor nd Beu Brown to the FASCOR family. We believe these additions make our team mesurebly strong and will impact FASCOR and our clients in lots of positive ways.

In this issue we’ll introduce you to our lead developer for WebTools™, Josh Orndorff. You’ll read more about our WMS solution for manufacturing; and you’ll learn how teaming FASCOR WMS with our Transportation Management Software (FASCOR TMS) can deliver some huge cost savings. And speaking of transportation… we’ll soon be seeing some radical changes hitting the shipping industry. Inside is more information on digital tracking and the game-changing effect it will have on warehousing and distribution.

John & Andy Klare

Our address has changed:

FASCOR 11260 Chester Rd Ste 100

Cincinnati, OH 45246

Welcome Aboard!We’d like to welcome our newest team members.

Bryan Jones is FASCOR’s new Chief Financial Officer. Bryan received his

undergraduate degree and MBA from Indiana University. Bryan joins us from Intelligrated and brings with him a wealth of industry and business experience

Mitch Proctor joins our services team where he’ll work on enhancing our core products, provide customer support and assist with software implementation. Mitch is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati.

Beau Brown is our newest tem member joining us as Director of Professional Services. In this position, Beau assumes leadership of project implementations,

support, and customer communications. Beau joins FASCOR from the VoCollect division of Honeywell where he spent the last six years.

Manufacturing Inventory Management

For manufacturers with the added demands of managing raw materials and related inventory, storage, and distribution -- access to real-time information is critical. FASCOR WMS for Manufacturing delivers everything you need to manage today’s complex

manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution processes.

FASCOR WMS allows manufacturers to manage a broad range of steps, processes and tools:• Raw Material Procurement• Inventory Control• Bill of Materials• Shop Floor Scheduling• Shipping & Product Delivery What does Digital Tracking mean to you? You may have heard that there’s a radical change on the horizon for the trucking industry. While today most drivers log time manually, a new government mandate will require trucks to be digitally tracked – taking control and subjectivity out of the hands of the driver.

Companies exceeding time limits will face strict penalties; and because the clock is always ticking, delays and downtime are no longer acceptable. Consequently truckers can longer afford to idly sit at the dock waiting for you get your shipping/receiving act together. Warehouses risk late deliveries, excessive charges, or being labeled as liabilities among the transportation industry.

“Predictability” will soon be the keyword throughout the industry; and this is exactly what your FASCOR WMS is designed to provide. We allow you to fill and process orders more efficiently and more precisely schedule and maximize shipping efficiency.

Read our article or contact us to learn more about digital tracking and our warehouse management and shipping solutions.

FASCORNEWSLETTERFall 2017

Case Study: Gorilla Glue ManufacturingResults• Manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution keeping pace with double-digit growth while lowering operating costs

• WMS scalability, flexibility, and reliability provide the confidence to anticipate and support growing needs and changing requirements for years to come

• More efficient production runs with lower scrap rates

• Visibility across all supply chain functions with access to real-time information

Gorilla Glue, Inc. manufacturers, warehouses and distributes nineteen distinct product lines including glue, tape, sealant, wood bond, skin care, and more. As growing demand exposed the company’s inefficient paper-based data management system, it was apparent that an automated solution was needed.

Growing Pains

“We knew that we had pallets of material somewhere,” explained Vice President of Manufacturing, Rob Gruber. “We were literally sending people out to locate what we had and where it was. Too often we had no clear picture of what raw materials we had on hand, where it was, or even how much we had.”

Because Gorilla Glue was along-time user of Microsoft Dynamics GP, an initial automation attempt was made leveraging a kitting feature found in the ERP system. While some incremental improvements were achieved, responsiveness would require a more advanced and robust supply chain-focused solution.

WMS Selection

After evaluating multiple systems, FASCOR WMS proved to offer the best solution. “The program is accessible to or complete staff,” said Gruber. “FASCOR WMS is powerful, quick to learn and easy to use; and we were anxious to put it to work.” Because Gorilla Glue also stocks and distributes the products it manufacturers, FASCOR WMS could be effectively leveraged throughout the company’s extended supply chain.

Lower Operating Costs

With expanded markets, investment in new products and increased demand, Gorilla Glue continues an unprecedented double-digit growth rate. Yet, as other departments add staff, a more accurate FASCOR WMS-based process is enabling manufacturing, warehousing and distribution to keep pace while lowering operating costs.

Go here to learn more.

Webinar FASCOR WebTools: A New Era in Warehouse ControlReact more decisively, more quickly and anticipate changes on the floor with FASCOR WebTools. See how the pro-gram provides access to the most up-to-the-minute information and visibility across warehouse / distribution func-tions and departments.

• Delivers Detailed Real-Time Reporting • Is Flexible to Adapt to your KPI’s • Monitors Up-to-the-Minute Status of Data, Individuals or Workgroups • Integrates with Existing Programs

If you missed it, you can still view it.If you missed our webinar on Webtools, have any questions or want a one on one followup demo and converstion, contact Dave Tamburrino at dtamburrino@fascor.com.

FASCOR11260 Chester Rd Ste 100Cincinnati, OH 45246513.421.1777

4 Questions 4 Josh Orndorff

Josh is FASCOR’s lead developer for WebTools. He is also working on web integration for FASCOR TMS. We were able to catch up with Josh just long enough to ask four quick questions…

Can you tell us a little about yourself? I grew up in the Greater Cincinnati area, primarily southeastern Indiana, with my wonderful mother, father, and younger sister. I’ve worked on and off at FASCOR as an intern and was more recently taken on as an employee, becoming more involved in the development and maintenance of ongoing

projects. I enjoy composing music, singing, doing graphic design, making short films, preparing food, programming recreationally, making wood burnings and 3D prints, and sundry other activities.

What do you like best about working at FASCOR?

If I can list two favorite things … first, I enjoy being able to write code that improves and streamlines day-to-day operations, both for customers and internally. And second, I am grateful to be able to work in such an open and accessible environment.

Who are some people you admire and why?

One person I admire very much is my father; the reasons are too many to list, but to name a few … I admire him for his intelligence, his creativity, and his wit, but most especially for his care and love for our family. I also admire Bill Watterson, the creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. I admire him for his incredible work in creating the dynamic duo who build time machines from cardboard boxes and take treacherous, philosophical wagon rides. I also admire his dedication to his principles in refusing to let his characters be commercialized.

What’s something about you that not many people know?

When I was much younger, my family lived in Germany for six months. At one point while we were there, we had to leave our house by boat due to a flood!

Is Your TMS Shipping Money out the Door?

While it may just seem like a few dollars here and there, failure to leverage competitive rates along with hidden labor costs will quickly add up. In fact, unchecked shipping costs can consume millions of dollars in just a few short years. For one distributor an integrated WMS/TMS/ERP solution delivered annual savings of nearly half a million dollars in shipping and labor alone.

Read about it here.

WMS that Won’t Break the Bank

Small to mid-size companies face many of the same challenges as much larger organizations. Yet unlike their large counterparts they typically have neither the need nor the budget for all of the added extras (and cost) that generally comes with a large Tier 1 WMS. FASCOR offers a WMS solution with Tier 1 functionality at a comfortable price-point.

See what’s different about FASCOR WMS.

FASCOR TMS: WHAT’S IMPORTANT TO YOU?From quoting and carrier selection to routing, tracking, and WMS integration, transportation management is an increasingly complex and often costly process. FASCOR automates the process to streamline and simplify freight shipping.

As we work to develop the next release of FASCOR TMS we’ve got just one question: What’s important to you? Make your voice heard and tell us what features and functions you would like to see in upcoming versions of FASCOR TMS.

Contact us here to learn how you can participate.

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