glovia.com is designed to provide manufacturers with maximum supply chain and enterprise visibility. With more than 70 integrated modules accessing a single, real-time database, glovia.com is the perfect solution for discrete manufacturers who need to make important, customer-facing decisions based on the most, current actionable information within the mass of data their enterprise collects. The chief solutions within the glovia.com suite that aid in this mission are as follows:

• glovia.com Forecasting
• glovia.com Supply Chain Planning
• glovia.com Factory Planning
• glovia.com Order Management
• glovia.com Shop Floor Data Collection
• glovia.com ActionDesk
• glovia.com Publisher
• glovia.com Business Intelligence

Supply Chain Visibility
glovia.com helps manufacturers manage supply chains through a broad range of solutions that addresses the entire spectrum of supply chain management — from demand planning and management to enterprise-wide planning as well as factory planning and scheduling. glovia.com's supply chain management solutions include:

glovia.com Forecasting
glovia.com Forecasting provides manufacturers with a powerful and flexible tool for predicting future demand for their products and end-items. The module delivers sophisticated "what if" tools and pre-built models manufacturers need to characterize sales histories precisely and accurately, analyze recent demand trends, and transfer final forecasts to production planning.

Forecasting allows manufacturers to develop weekly or monthly forecasts and to divide product-demand history into smaller, more homogeneous demand streams. These demand streams can also be broken down by customer type, which simplifies the process of consolidating multiple forecasts into an enterprise-wide view of demand.

"What if" cycle iteration simulations can be explored to refine forecasting precision further. At any time, worksheet calculations can be frozen and a new cycle of forecasts run. Worksheets can be calculated, consolidated, analyzed, adjusted, or recalculated an unlimited number of times — and results of all "what-if" forecast calculations can be retained.

glovia.com Supply Chain Planning
glovia.com Supply Chain Planning enables manufacturers to synchronize enterprise-wide production and supply with enterprise-wide demand. The memory-resident solution allows manufacturers to aggregate total demand and plan centrally the production capacity and inventory required to satisfy that demand. Supply Chain Planning consolidates sales, production, inventory, and purchasing information to help companies become more demand-driven.

glovia.com Supply Chain Planning delivers substantial benefits to manufacturers including:

• Increased responsiveness to market changes
• Improved visibility into enterprise-wide demand as well as production and inventory
• Reduced inventory levels
• Improved customer service and on-time delivery performance
• Optimized supply to meet demand profitably
• Lowered inventory, distribution, and transportation costs
• Increased demand forecast accuracy with compressed planning cycle times

Total Visibility of Demand
Supply Chain Planning increases manufacturers' visibility into enterprise-wide demand by aggregating forecasts and sales orders into a single, unified demand stream. This demand stream can be organized in a wide variety of ways (by corporate entity, customer, customer type, product family, or end-item) to enable corporate planners to see when, where, and what kind of demand is being generated.

glovia.com Factory Planning
glovia.com Factory Planning is a memory-resident planning tool that simultaneously considers the constraints of capacity, inventory, tooling, and skills to generate an optimized production plan. Factory Planning supports advanced optimization algorithms that reduce set-up times and improve the flow of complex processes.

Factory Planning is a flexible solution designed to meet all planning needs. In a live environment, the application can re-optimize the production plan in response to machine breakdowns or unexpected inventory shortages. In a simulation environment, Factory Planning allows users to run and compare multiple plans to find the best solution that balances inventory requirements with actual planned operations.

Factory Planning delivers many bottom-line business benefits including:

• Higher machine and resource utilizations
• Less overtime and idle time
• Eliminated bottlenecks and repair/maintenance impact
• Reduced inventory levels
• Reduced cycle times
• Improved on-time delivery and customer service

Real-Time Planning
Factory Planning's memory-resident data model is a seamless extension of glovia.com's real-time database, so planning is always based on a single, up-to-the-minute data set. As events happen throughout your company — orders entered, work orders completed, inventory received — they are reflected in both the glovia.com database and the planning data model. This synchronization ensures that the data used to plan reflects your actual factory status, not an outdated snapshot.

Information Visibility
Factory Planning improves plant management and decision making by increasing information visibility. Plant managers can access critical information, such as available capacity for a given time period and loads on individual machines, to identify problem areas quickly and make informed decisions. Managers can run "what if" scenarios to determine the impact of any potential changes or events.

glovia.com Order Management
glovia.com Order Management enables businesses to commit to customer orders with confidence while keeping production utilization steady and inventories lean. The highly configurable solution helps companies automatically create stable, achievable plans while meeting customer demands. Order Management provides complete visibility into all glovia.com Sales Orders and glovia.com Sales Quotes, whether configured or not, as well as the supply and production orders required to complete the delivery.

Order Management provides many lasting benefits to manufacturers, including:

• Accurate initial order promising and re-promising
• Reduced excess inventory levels
• Improved customer service levels
• Increased visibility into supply availability
• Increased on-time delivery performance
• Lowered transportation costs
• Improved responsiveness and compressed cycle-times

Total Visibility
Order Management provides companies with complete visibility into their operations, which helps them to make the right supply and production decisions while reducing inventories and improving customer service. The module provides online, graphical visibility into:

• Requirements and projected supplies for every Sales Quote and Order
• Available alternatives, including substitute products and their projected availability
• Order status and details, showing which orders will be on time, which will be late, and which cannot be automatically planned
• Details behind supply potential including what demands are consuming incoming supplies
• Order costs and margins, which enables manufacturers to understand the financial impact of substitutions and changed orders
• Projected inventory availability overlaid with projected utilization

glovia.com Shop Floor Data Collection
glovia.com Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC) is designed to provide a real-time, mobile, or fixed data collection interface to glovia.com. This solution supports radio frequency identification (RFID), radio frequency (RF) and hardwired terminals, laser and thermal barcode printers, fixed mount barcode readers, relays, reader boards and other serial or Ethernet devices. The power of the product is realized in the flexibility of device types, real-time data access, and the ability to handle multiple locations in variable configurations.

Shop Floor Data Collection benefits and features include:

• Help customers realize additional glovia.com benefits by increasing productivity, reducing errors, cutting inventory costs, and improving customer satisfaction
• Different devices may have different screens depending on functionality required
• Real-time validation on employee number, part number, job number, job operation, location, P.O. item number, lot tracking number, shipper line item and quantity on hand
• Supports a supervisor end-of-day feature that allows employees to clock out quickly
• Fully supports lot and serial control

glovia.com ActionDESK
glovia.com ActionDESK, through a very easy-to-understand graphical interface, provides each employee with an up-to-date snapshot that shows how current activities in the business affect his or her daily activities and priorities. ActionDESK provides an employee with an immediate list of what he or she should work on, what can be delegated, and what issues need immediate attention. From that list, the employee can then take action necessary to avoid any delay.

With ActionDESK, glovia.com delivers timely information about the exceptions within a business and puts the appropriate tools for resolution at the user's fingertips. The actions associated with each responsibility are user defined and can vary by the team role. Users can also have a personal set of inquiries and actions that follow them around in whatever role they are playing and whatever responsibility they are assuming. For example, even in the middle of resolving a customer complaint, a manager could temporarily switch to personal items to release an order on credit hold.

ActionDESK is flexible in design and can be set up according to a company's requirements. Users, teams, responsibilities and actions are not fixed by the system. They are all configurable to suit the business needs and the business flow of a company.

glovia.com Publisher
In today's competitive business world, every minute counts. Mission-critical business processes and customer and vendor relationships depend on the fast and accurate distribution of information. While this information might be stored in different formats and across different systems and applications, you need to ensure it can be personalized and rapidly communicated.

glovia.com Publisher improves the speed and quality of business communications by creating, managing, and publishing critical documents. The solution ensures business documents are successfully delivered to the right user, in the right format, regardless of the originating system or application.

Publisher provides the following business benefits:

• Increases information accessibility and accuracy
• Improves quality and professionalism of business communication
• Reduces both administrative and document management costs
• Increases productivity
• Decreases time wasted searching for documents manually
• Automates document management and distribution
• Provides document access to customers and vendors

glovia.com Business Intelligence
Who are my most profitable customers? What is my best selling product? What's my on-time delivery performance? Have inventory turns decreased? Have customer service levels dropped? Executives ask these and thousands of similar questions everyday to manage their business. glovia.com Business Intelligence take the volume of data your organization collects and stores and turns it into meaningful, actionable information. Our solution helps you improve your business performance and make faster, more informed decisions.

Glovia's solution helps you gain valuable insight into the performance of your business. Business Intelligence includes a powerful event and exception management tool, a web-based document management system and leading business intelligence applications from Cognos.

Business Intelligence benefits include:

• Decreases decision making cycle times
• Increases organizational responsiveness
• Improves decision making accuracy
• Identifies and tracks key performance indicators
• Manages critical business information and documents
• Improve information accessibility