NAWLA Special Edition 2017

Mainland Sawmill

Mainland Sawmill Partners With TradeTec To Maximize Business Productivity From Log Procurement to Lumber Inventory, Mainland has relied on TradeTec to provide its essential inventory and sales tools to meet their demanding production needs. “Without TradeTec and TallyWorks we would not have been able to meet our business plan targets,” said Eric Calverley, Vice President, Manufacturing at Terminal Forest Products, Mainland Sawmills Division. TallyWorks ability to provide real time information regarding our inventory, sales, purchasing, shipping, and production, right back to the log level, enables the sawmill to focus on customer needs without worrying about “ Ensuring peak performance from all your working assets requires excellent preventative maintenance. “ Paneling Siding Trim Decking Industrial Sawmill Direct Siding Trim Paneling Forest Recovery Shavings Animal Bedding Pellets “ Visual MaintenanceMan automates the process, allows you to focus. production complications. Because TallyWorks is as much an accountability and communications system as it is an inventory management system, everyone in the mill is aligned with what is going on without the hunting and tracking down of people that is so often the case with high production. The shipper is able to see exactly what and when to ship, while Accounting can ensure the invoices are out seconds after shipment. Any time throughout the day, you know where you are, and where you have been. This confi dence in the TallyWorks Suite has allowed many sawmills like Morgan Lumber to expand their technology capabilities and implement TradeTec’s Asset Management system Visual MaintenanceMan. “With around the clock production, maintaining equipment is critical to the success of any business,” said Kerry Nelson, General Manager of Morgan Lumber. Ensuring peak performance from all your working assets requires excellent preventative maintenance. The task of manually controlling the preventative and corrective maintenance for thousands of pieces of equipment is daunting even for the best of teams; Visual MaintenanceMan automates the process allowing maintenance staff to focus on what needs to be done without the guesswork of the squeaky wheel. Visual MaintenanceMan’s portability in smartphones means millwrights and supervisors don’t have to run back to the shop to get documentation, fi nd part numbers, vendors or check stock levels for parts. It’s amazing how a small bar code attached to an asset can instantly look up service records, fi nd parts, locate vendors. The power of Visual MaintenanceMan is based on its ability to monitor in real-time Asset Telemetry and report when there is a problem or preventive maintenance is due, right to the exact person responsible, whether that person is an employee, and outside contractor or the owner. “Deployment was a snap,” says Twyla St Cyr. TradeTec provides all the tools you need to get up and running quickly. On-line videos and documentation allow you to go at your own pace. The ease of use of the software allows assets to be easily setup for preventative or corrective maintenance. Because Visual Maintenance- “ Man is a web-based application, it will run on practically any computer so there is no need to spend large amounts on new computer hardware. TradeTec can have your system running in a moment’s notice and provide you with trained professional personnel to get your assets loaded in the application with little interruption to your maintenance staff. TallyWorks Logs TallyWorks Lumber Visual MaintenanceMan For more information on Visual MaintenanceMan and the TallyWorks line of products, contact: TradeTec Computer System Ltd., 1010 Herring Gull Way, Parksville, BC, Canada, V9P 1R2; calling 800-278-1098; or by visiting www.tradetec.com. Please visit us at Booth #435. Page 16 ADVERTORIAL Wholesale/Wholesale Distributor Special Buying Issue

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