Job Shop

By its very definition, a job shop is a flexible manufacturing operation that is often low in efficiency and high in flexibility. Rather than selling specific products, a job shop often sells its capabilities.

Our technology and process improvement solutions are geared towards maximizing the efficiencies of your shop, eliminating redundancies, and improving throughput along with your ability to serve your customer, better, faster and cheaper.

PSSI brings solutions for improved workflow to all the key job manufacturing requirements, including configurable bills of materials, efficient work center setups, better scheduling, improved MRP (material requirements planning) and material flow.

Additionally, our bar code and data collection solutions, often coupled with our popular warehouse management solution, enhance your ability to deliver more, faster, to your clients by automating all your key process and workflow steps.

In the end, we’ll help you boost sales and delivery capacity without the added costs often associated with doing so by leaning out your processes, automating all appropriate tasks, eliminating redundancy and waste and boosting the performance of your factory for an improved bottom line.

"Engineering To Order" manufacturers

Engineering To Order (ETO) manufacturers face business challenges that simply cannot be resolved by many ERP systems. These companies need to be able to provide accurate cost estimates to customer, manage all aspects of complex projects, deliver on time and on budget, all while keeping a close eye on cash flow. Pressure to reduce costs, shorten cycle times, and produce to high quality standards is never ending. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a robust ERP system which is designed to handle a broad spectrum of manufacturing requirements and includes several unique features which support (ETO) manufacturing environments. The attached brochure describes some of the ways in which Microsoft Dynamics NAV meets the needs of Job Shops and other ETO companies.

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"With [our system from PSSI], we’re putting out more quotes with fewer customer service reps than we otherwise could do.

“Today, we do 35% more business, using one production shift compared to the previous three shifts, with over 40% less staff.”

Bill Dawson

Vice President
General Manager
Clean Seal, Inc.
South Bend, IN
"PSSI has provided us with great customer service. They have helped us in many ways since we became partners with them. I would definitely recommend them to someone else."

Ms. Maria Grossman

VP & Controller
Indiana Municipal Power Agency
Carmel, IN
“We have gained more than a 25% increase in order ship rates while total warehouse staff has actually decreased.

“Without this software, our shipping could never have kept up with our sales increases.”

Eric Kronemeyer

VP Operations
Alpha Systems, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
“We have reduced paper invoicing and all those associated costs in paper, staff and postage by 75%.

“We can put in so many more orders so much faster, and the system has saved us from hiring more staff.”

Kent Dennis

President
St. Joseph Paper & Packaging
South Bend, IN
“Utilizing the software we got from PSSI fully yields big savings to us."

Dean Skwarcan

Vice President
St. Joseph Paper & Packaging
South Bend, IN
“We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.

“[With our system from PSSI] we produce more, with fewer errors, in less time. And we catch the rare mistake sooner.”

Doris Fletcher

Vice President Manufacturing
Union Products, Inc.
Cromwell, IN
“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

Connie Napier

Project Coordinator
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN
“Through it all, you guys always did the right thing.”

Lila Leonard

Vice President of Finance
Rollie Williams Paint Spot, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
“The PSSI staff helped us achieve giving our people the tools they need, and to keep us focused on doing even better in the future.”

Bill Dawson

Vice President
General Manager
Clean Seal, Inc.
South Bend, IN
“The system has really improved our customer service! We can take multiple orders simultaneously, check orders faster, know when incoming product is due, keep our customers informed and make better promises on delivery.

“We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.”

Justine Williams

Office Manager
St. Joseph Paper & Packaging
South Bend, IN
“It went brilliantly!

“I’ve been involved with many of these projects, both large and small, and this is the smoothest I’ve ever seen one go.

“It’s nice to have faith in your partners.”

Penny VanHorn

CFO
Trevco, Inc.
Troy, MI
“With [our new system from PSSI] we can do virtually anything. One person can handle multiple jobs and many roles.”

Michelle Nordlof

General Manager
Aeronautical Electric Company
Chicago, IL
“You guys are always so quick to respond. Everything went really well during the upgrade process, despite staff changes at our end. I really have nothing negative to say.

“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

Connie Napier

Project Coordinator
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN
“E-Z WMS has eliminated the need to have paper in our system. We eliminate the paper chase, the hand-written confusion, the missed communications. At the same time it allows us to provide key employees with information on multiple work centers, thus allowing them to manage more work centers.”

Alan Wyne

General Manager
Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)
Goshen, IN
“[Clean Seal] now achieves 99.9% on-time shipments.”

Apryl Turczynski

Purchasing Manager
Clean Seal, Inc.
South bend, IN
“Now we can quickly look up customer history for things like pricing and purchases, when and how we shipped, quantities, order numbers, customer P.O.’s and much more, instantly.”

Cindy Borich

Customer Service Manager
Clean Seal, Inc.
South Bend, IN
“E-Z WMS allows us to run our business with as few as one-sixth the number of employees our competition uses.”

Alan Wyne

General Manager
Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)
Goshen, IN
“The speed at which our warehouse team was able to learn to use the system was another plus. I can teach someone all they need to know to use the system to pick orders in about fifteen minutes."

Alan Wyne

General Manager
Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)
Goshen, IN
“Once you know how to use the system, there isn’t anything you can’t get out of it. The system is really user-friendly and intuitive for our office users. The screens are well laid-out and consistent. But the real versatility shines through for the power-user, who can drill down to unprecedented levels to extract key data and trends from the system – it’s fast, simple and powerful.”

Lila Leonard

Vice President of Finance
Rollie Williams Paint Spot, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
“We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.

"With all the time and labor we’ve saved, we now devote more time to contacting clients and serving our customers.”

Justine Williams

Office Manager
St. Joseph Paper & Packaging
South Bend, IN
“This was the smoothest upgrade I’ve ever been involved with — and I’ve been through a lot of them in my career.”

Kent Deal

General Manager
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN
“E-Z WMS has eliminated all the spikes in our inventory counts. It has reduced mistakes, sped up shipping and made a major difference in our comfort level at year-end. It’s unbelievable the difference it has made in a year.”

Sandy Garver

Warehouse Manager
Alpha Systems, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
“In fact, you know the thing I liked most? That you got our ERP implementation done in a very professional manner, but we also had fun!”

Connie Napier

Project Coordinator
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN
"They have always been there to help me out."

Ms. Angie Hill

Accounting Supervisor
Computer Care Company
Adrian, MI
“The barcode and data collection systems have given us real-time inventory analysis. We’ve cut our number of inventory counts in half already. It’s real-time from the shop floor straight to the balance sheet.

“Our inventory accuracy has been dramatically improved, and that’s been a huge payback, in addition to improved reporting.”

Connie Napier

Project Coordinator
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN
“I’m a firm believer in working smarter not harder, and [our software from PSSI] does just that for us.

“The project was on track for the agreed upon cost and schedule. We searched a long time for the right system… we checked references, and it was clear that PSSI was at the top of the list.”

Bill Dawson

Vice President
General Manager
Clean Seal, Inc.
South Bend, IN
“We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.

“The system has eliminated purchasing pressures. We can plan now.”

Doris Fletcher

Vice President Manufacturing
Union Products, Inc.
Cromwell, IN
“EZ-WMS has virtually eliminated our mis-shipments. The discipline required by the system in picking, packing and shipping makes the process faster and provides a much higher degree of accuracy than was possible prior to the deployment.”

Alan Wyne

General Manager
Berry Plastics (formerly Rollpak)
Goshen, IN
"Your group was great through the entire process — always professional, friendly and quick to respond.

“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

Connie Napier

Project Coordinator
Glunz & Jensen / K&F, Inc.
Granger, IN

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"With [our system from PSSI], we’re putting out more quotes with fewer customer service reps than we otherwise could do.

“Today, we do 35% more business, using one production shift compared to the previous three shifts, with over 40% less staff.”

Bill Dawson

"PSSI has provided us with great customer service. They have helped us in many ways since we became partners with them. I would definitely recommend them to someone else."

Ms. Maria Grossman

“We have gained more than a 25% increase in order ship rates while total warehouse staff has actually decreased.

“Without this software, our shipping could never have kept up with our sales increases.”

Eric Kronemeyer

“We have reduced paper invoicing and all those associated costs in paper, staff and postage by 75%.

“We can put in so many more orders so much faster, and the system has saved us from hiring more staff.”

Kent Dennis

“Utilizing the software we got from PSSI fully yields big savings to us."

Dean Skwarcan

“We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.

“[With our system from PSSI] we produce more, with fewer errors, in less time. And we catch the rare mistake sooner.”

Doris Fletcher

“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

Connie Napier

“Through it all, you guys always did the right thing.”

Lila Leonard

“The PSSI staff helped us achieve giving our people the tools they need, and to keep us focused on doing even better in the future.”

Bill Dawson

“The system has really improved our customer service! We can take multiple orders simultaneously, check orders faster, know when incoming product is due, keep our customers informed and make better promises on delivery.

“We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.”

Justine Williams

“It went brilliantly!

“I’ve been involved with many of these projects, both large and small, and this is the smoothest I’ve ever seen one go.

“It’s nice to have faith in your partners.”

Penny VanHorn

“With [our new system from PSSI] we can do virtually anything. One person can handle multiple jobs and many roles.”

Michelle Nordlof

“You guys are always so quick to respond. Everything went really well during the upgrade process, despite staff changes at our end. I really have nothing negative to say.

“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

“E-Z WMS has eliminated the need to have paper in our system. We eliminate the paper chase, the hand-written confusion, the missed communications. At the same time it allows us to provide key employees with information on multiple work centers, thus allowing them to manage more work centers.”

Alan Wyne

“[Clean Seal] now achieves 99.9% on-time shipments.”

Apryl Turczynski

“Now we can quickly look up customer history for things like pricing and purchases, when and how we shipped, quantities, order numbers, customer P.O.’s and much more, instantly.”

Cindy Borich

“E-Z WMS allows us to run our business with as few as one-sixth the number of employees our competition uses.”

Alan Wyne

“The speed at which our warehouse team was able to learn to use the system was another plus. I can teach someone all they need to know to use the system to pick orders in about fifteen minutes."

Alan Wyne

Lila Leonard

“We’re far better organized today as a result of implementing our system.

"With all the time and labor we’ve saved, we now devote more time to contacting clients and serving our customers.”

Justine Williams

“This was the smoothest upgrade I’ve ever been involved with — and I’ve been through a lot of them in my career.”

Kent Deal

“E-Z WMS has eliminated all the spikes in our inventory counts. It has reduced mistakes, sped up shipping and made a major difference in our comfort level at year-end. It’s unbelievable the difference it has made in a year.”

Sandy Garver

“In fact, you know the thing I liked most? That you got our ERP implementation done in a very professional manner, but we also had fun!”

"They have always been there to help me out."

Ms. Angie Hill

Connie Napier

“I’m a firm believer in working smarter not harder, and [our software from PSSI] does just that for us.

“The project was on track for the agreed upon cost and schedule. We searched a long time for the right system… we checked references, and it was clear that PSSI was at the top of the list.”

Bill Dawson

“We would need a lot more people on our staff today if we did not have this system.

“The system has eliminated purchasing pressures. We can plan now.”

Doris Fletcher

“EZ-WMS has virtually eliminated our mis-shipments. The discipline required by the system in picking, packing and shipping makes the process faster and provides a much higher degree of accuracy than was possible prior to the deployment.”

Alan Wyne

"Your group was great through the entire process — always professional, friendly and quick to respond.“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”

Connie Napier

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"Your group was great through the entire process — always professional, friendly and quick to respond.

“I’ve worked with your team several times over 15 years, and I wouldn’t have felt comfortable with anyone else. As always, you were on-time and on-budget.”