Automating Your Company’s Back Office

Your Company’s Back Office

Your back office personnel are the mechanism that helps your business run like a clock. They may not make the products on the production line, but they are vital for the business to function smoothly. Without them, the organization would come to a halt. Often their jobs involve performing a lot of routine, repetitive tasks, and they process huge volumes of data on a daily basis. There is a high degree of manual processing that is costly and slow, and it can lead to inconsistent results. Not to mention, the more people involved in processing all of that data, the higher the error rate.

Now we are in no way advocating doing away with these talented individuals, but rather automating many of their mundane tasks to free up their time for work that involves more critical thinking.

If Only There Was a Way

Oh, that’s code for fly in the consultants and assemble a team of IT, operations, and business-process experts and have them analyze your existing processes and after six months on the clock, they will come up with a million dollar solution, right?

WRONG!

The real answer is to find a solution that is already custom designed to your industry and subsector, which has built in flexibility and applications for your specific business, Infor SyteLine (CloudSuite Industrial), and then combine that with The Lake Companies ecosystem, which consists of a community of intelligent, interconnected enterprise software solutions.

Why does this make the most sense?

You are dealing with a superstar lineup of manufacturing industry specific software that is managed and deployed by a company—The Lake Companies—who has been helping businesses just like yours become more automated, efficient, productive, and prosperous for over 30 years!

What is The Lake Companies Ecosystem?

Simply, they are stellar software modules that compliment SyteLine (Infor CloudSuite Industrial) without mucking up the parade.

Shop-Trak

Shop-Trak replaces old style time clocks and paper-based schedules with a manufacturing execution system (MES) that integrates with all business applications resulting in brilliant communications between the shop floor and the rest of the business, ensuring that all of your front and back office departments and managers are up-to-date in real-time and working harmoniously.

Doc-Trak

We may never completely replace paper in the workplace, but you can come real close to it in your organization with Doc-Trak. Go green and paperless by shifting from paper to digital in everything from contracts, invoices, receipts, business checks, spreadsheets, punch cards, packing slips, purchase requisitions, bin cards, employee job applications, financial statements, mechanical drawings, specifications, product images, photographs, and much more.

Converting to Doc-Trak’s dynamic digital configuration means lost documents and error rates are greatly reduced or eliminated, finding and linking to documents and later returning them to secure electronic storage happens in microseconds, and you can take your old file cabinets and turn them into garden plant stands.

Fact-Trak

Fact-Trak is the magic chef of The Lake Companies ecosystem and it takes big data from your ERP database and stirs and whips it into an elegant buffet of substantial business intelligence that is pleasing to the eye, easy to digest, and will improve the health of your organization.

Beacon-Trak

As seen in the Wall Street Journal, Beacon-Trak harnesses the power of beacon technology and exhibits proximity-based information on mobile tablet computers for the convenience of a supervisor walking the shop floor. With the help of small broadcasting chip-like beacons placed strategically throughout your production facility, the beacons broadcast information about the machines and people within their designated zones. Now the entire shop floor is mobile and there is virtually no information that cannot be accessed in seconds.

Who is operating the machine? When does their shift end? When is their next scheduled break? What is the machine making? Who is the customer? What are the job specs? How is the machine performing? What are all of the production KPIs? When is the machine due for maintenance? Who is manning the machine on the next shift? When is the next change-over?

Beacon-Trak will provide the floor manger all of this information and more, automatically updating and repopulating as they wander about the floor.

So how do you enter into The Lake Companies ecosystem? Contact us today. We’ve been makings small and large companies happy and successful for more than 30 years. Now it’s your turn.