March 26th, 2010
After a rigorous vendor selection process, Silveredge was selected to provide PRMS application support helpdesk services. We were selected over the incumbent firm as well as off-shore vendors.
We have retained this business for the last five years, due to a number of success factors.
- Clear definition of priority issues. We identify critical problems early and are committed to the services levels.
- Year after year budget reductions.
- Increased stability of the systems, substantial improvements each and every year.
- Highly defined methodology.
- Despite budget savings every year, clear service level improvements year over year.
- Customer enjoys “black box” solution.
We can send you a detailed slide presentation of this solution, which is appropriate to any ERP system.
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March 22nd, 2010
WordPress, according to Wikipedia, is an “open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL… It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.”
Our Director of Technology used WordPress to manage our web blog, which is running on our IBM i. WordPress and IBM i. You can do it!
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March 4th, 2010
Welcome to Silveredge Consulting’s blog. Let us know if you find informative content here. Our purpose is to have a searchable up to date portal of information for the Silveredge community. Our community consists of employees and clients as well as those of you sharing the same interest in IBM i. We will share business solutions as well as technology projects that may be something you can leverage in your business.
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March 4th, 2010
Silveredge has recently implemented a full warehouse automation solution custom designed by the client utilizing LANSA as the development tool. The wireless devices display html pages, which are easily understood by the warehouse staff. The pages are directly generated by the IBM i, without the need for additional hardware. The client utilizes this method for picking, receiving, shipping, and cycle counting. While this solution interfaced with the HFA ERP solution, the approach is universal.
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March 4th, 2010
Some of our customers are faced with fax orders that won’t go away. EDI just isn’t an option. Silveredge has created a solution that automatically converts fax documents into standard EDI documents suitable for order entry. The faxes are received on a network based fax server and retrieved. Using Optical Character Recognition technology, the faxes are successfully converted to files. Full success is achieved more than 90% with exceptions kicking out to the customer service department.
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February 22nd, 2010
Silveredge has again signed our partnership agreement for the next year. We look forward to working with LANSA products and have achieved a great deal of success with Visual LANSA, LANSA for the Web, and RAMP.
Tags: LANSA, LANSA Chicago, LANSA Illinois, LANSA partner, LANSA Ramp, Silveredge
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September 4th, 2009
Silveredge had the opportunity to aid the customer service department at one of our clients by enabling them to automate return merchandise authorization shipping labels via email. Utilizing the IBM i (System i AS/400), the system converted the RMA report into an HTML formatted email which is sent directly to the customer. As part of that process, the program calls a web socket utility at UPS ultimately resulting in UPS transferring GIF images of all labels back through the web socket. Those images are then stored on a server and the link is embedded in the HTML email.
The ERP software utilized is of no consequence; this approach can be utilized universally. Additionally, although this application was specifically for RMA’s, any application requiring shipping labels to a remote or customer/partner location could use this template solution.
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September 4th, 2008
Silveredge’s customer had a 30 page nightly run list for operations, and a monthly job run to match. The job stream had been developed over years of operations and was prone to human error causing significant impact to their business. We unraveled some 1,000 jobs, found the dependencies, and completely automated the batch processing using IBM Advanced Job Scheduler. The result is a much shorter nightly job processing window with consistent and stable results. The client has saved many thousands of dollars annually due to staff reduction. Additional savings due to business continuity and problem resolution are enormous.
Tags: IBM Advanced Job Scheduler
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June 4th, 2008
Silveredge is adept at utilizing freeware to convert spool files to pdf’s and emailing them out to appropriate users or customers. We utilize this facility internally and have implemented the solution at several clients. While not as robust or configurable as software products available for a fee, it gets the job done effectively.
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June 12th, 2003
Silveredge achieved tremendous success (and earned a great recommendation letter) by implementing SAP in an AS/400 shop. The project went in on time, under budget, and the client is able to manage their ERP system without expensive ongoing costs. An SAP high level project manager was engaged two months prior to cutover for a few days to verify the implementation met SAP’s project methodology and processes. The project plan and execution were approved by SAP to reassure management the project was on track. Silveredge handled legacy data loading, technical infrastructure, Basis and ABAP, and project management. We stressed the need for early conversion of master data for testing, ensuring data that was meaningful for the business. With strong existing knowledge of their business, that process was especially efficient and had early delivery. With early and strong involvement of the customer business owners, we were able to accomplish the task in less than a year and with a small budget for this mid-size manufacturer.
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