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GTS GlasPac LX Glazier Edition with Microsoft Dynamics GP, GTS Services LLC
September 2, 2010Five years ago, GTS Services LLC, Portland, Ore., made a strategic decision to invest in its products and services to meet the needs of the contract glazing market; the end result is the GTS GlasPacLX Glazier Edition with Microsoft Dynamics GP. The software provides contract glaziers with the traditional construction management capabilities required to manage the business, merged with industry-... -
May 19, 2010Whether creating a bid for a general contractor, or pricing a new window for a customer,estimating and quoting software provides users a host of tools to ensure accuracyand efficiency. Compiled and researched by the editors of Glass Magazine, thefollowing chart reviews the capabilities, requirements and costs of a variety of estimatingprograms available to the industry. Future charts will include...
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April 17, 2009An Enterprise Resource Planning system reaches into all areas of the business. It is a company-wide software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information and functions of a business from one central database of information. Implementing or replacing the system can open unlimited business opportunities for any organization. The cornerstone of a successful ERP deployment is...
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November 4, 2008
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Simple guidelines for diversifying businessMarch 1, 2007In today’s competitive auto glass market, more shop owners are looking to add new products or services to re-invigorate company profits. Diversification is happening across the board, at small single-site businesses on up to full-scale multisite enterprises. Business owners are looking to increase sales and profitability, and leverage their existing know-how, resources and capacity for...
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Annual updateAugust 1, 2006Contract glaziers, fabricators and glass-shop owners need comprehensive business software that keeps track of current and potential orders and manages resources on the back end. Most make do with a custom solution, or a series of programs that serves various purposes. Many readers call and ask for suggestions on where to get business and production software. To that end, Special Projects Writer...
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Online tool, a quicker way to get the numbersApril 1, 2006Ever increasing in popularity, minimally supported glass, such as glass canopies and balustrades, find their way into many commercial construction projects. These applications require designers to confirm that the glass meets the appropriate design loads. Whatever the situation, strength of glass plays an important role in choosing the best glass solution for a project. There are many references...
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Each improvement reduces costs, adds efficiencyJanuary 1, 2006Ordering glass has arguably become one of the most tedious and time-consuming activities for fabricators and their customers. Manually prepared purchase orders, either phoned or faxed to fabricators, have to be separately entered into the fabricators’ order-entry software, an error-prone process that takes considerable time. “Numbers can be transposed and if there’s a mistake,...
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January 1, 2006Glass fabricators respond to a multitude of customer questions every day and their ability to do so readily, easily and accurately comes down to the flexibility in their order entry and production software, contends Dennis Csehi, director of Atwood Mobile Products, Antwerp Operations, in Antwerp, Ohio. “Most companies have canned shop floor software packages that can produce various reports...
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January 1, 2006Like many industries in today’s global business environment, competitors in the domestic glass market have felt the pinch of overseas manufacturing. With lower labor costs, overseas manufacturers can produce more for significantly less. As a result, the price of glass has been driven down, leaving many suppliers struggling to survive. How do companies based in the United States, such as...
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Great Glazing: Custom interior officeThis commercial office space in Tulsa, Okla., features a 42-foot-long, custom, continuous art mural that spans 14 glass panels suspended from the ceiling. Created by Tulsa artist May Yang, the mural is based on local Oklahoma themes, transitioning from rural landscape to the Tulsa skyline. Great Glazing: Joliet Junior College Campus...
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Building on the success of the Top Glass Fabricators rankings introduced last year, Glass Magazine is expanding its coverage to include the Top Metal Companies, featuring the leading manufacturers and fabricators of metal products in the United States and Canada. The Top Metal Companies include those that manufacture, fabricate and sell curtain wall, storefront and entrance, commercial interior...
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In an effort to spotlight the people who make the Glass Magazine Award-winning products and projects possible, this year’s program included people-centric categories, for which the industry submitted their picks for best installer, production supervisor, project manager and sales rep.After narrowing down the nominations to three finalists in each category, the Glass Magazine editors asked the...
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