About Global Shop

Global Shop Solutions, the only provider of One-System ERP SolutionsTM designed to streamline operations, has helped hundreds of
discrete manufacturers increase sales, improve quality and on-time delivery, and lower costs.
Global Shop is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, with offices in major cities throughout the U. S. Global Shop serves customers
in a variety of industries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

The Global Shop Difference

Global Shop Solutions’ unique combination of manufacturing knowledge, software expertise and commitment to customer service has
produced more successful implementations than any of its competitors in the industry. For manufacturing companies that want to
provider better and faster service to their customers, gain more control over their business and accelerate growth and profitability,
Global Shop Solutions is the ERP software of choice.

Ownership
Founded in 1976 by Dick Alexander, Global Shop Solutions’ ownership remains in the hands of the Alexander family - an unparalleled
achievement in today's environment where software companies are bought and sold repeatedly. As a result, Global Shop Solutions
customers enjoy a level of stability unmatched in the software industry. Seven members of the Alexander family work in the company.
Alexander’s son Dustin, who has been with the company since 1990, became president in 2006. Dick Alexander remains active in the
business as chairman/founder.

Customers
Global Shop Solutions serves as the preferred management solution for a variety of industries, including aerospace and defense, sheet
metal fabricators and machine shops, screw machine shops, machine builders, repair facilities and electronics, wood shops, medical
instrumentation, stampers, store fixtures, and other discrete manufacturers. Global Shop Solutions customers include public and private
companies, which range in size from 10 to 500 employees.

Mission
Global Shop Solutions’ mission is to help manufacturing companies streamline their operations for increased sales, lower costs and
improved on-time delivery. Global Shop Solutions consistently delivers these results through One- System ERP SolutionsTM that
include unsurpassed levels of customer training, service and support. With a proven implementation process and Built-in
CustomizationTM, Global Shop Solutions provides a comprehensive enterprise management system that can grow with the size and
needs of its customers.

Employees
Global Shop Solutions has some of the most experienced and knowledgeable employees in the industry. Many of Global Shop’s
consultants and trainers have been with the company for more than a decade. In addition to their software training and expertise, most
have hands-on experience in a manufacturing environment. As a result, they understand the unique challenges, issues and concerns
facing today's manufacturing companies. Friendly, caring and hardworking, Global Shop Solutions employees are dedicated to making
each and every implementation a complete success.
Our Campus
The Global Shop campus encompasses two buildings on three and one-third acres in The Woodlands, TX, approximately 30 miles
north of downtown Houston. The site was chosen to provide Global Shop customers, consultants, and prospects with easy access to
Bush (Houston) Intercontinental Airport. The location also affords Global Shop’s visitors and employees with a wide variety of
restaurants and other amenities. Global Shop’s campus is constructed to state-of-the art technology requirements. It also houses Global
Shop University for new customer classroom instruction.

Global Shop Solutions ERP Software Applications

Global Shop Solutions ERP manufacturing software disciplines your business through detailed job costing scheduling, tracking,
inventory management solutions, agile project management, effective quality management, CRM, and all other shop control aspects.
Global Shop's One-System ERP SolutionsTM streamlines for lean manufacturing in make-to-order, make-to-stock, mixed-mode,
engineer-to-order and project management, and government contractor manufacturing models.
• GS Advanced Planning and Scheduling (GS APS)
Global Shop's APS offers scheduling accuracy and improved efficiency, while simultaneously maximizing shop capacity
planning and flexibility.
• GS Customer Relationship Management (GS CRM)
Know what's going on with your customers and prospects for improved responsiveness. From job quoting to tracking job
shipping, opportunities to customer preferences, Global Shop offers the most thorough ERP CRM software in the
manufacturing industry.
• GS EDI
Building efficient communication between you and your customers, that's what GD EDI is all about. Through the exchange of
routine business transactions in a computer-processable format, Global Shop's EDI translation software is the foundation of
your efforts in building a value-added network.
• GS Financial Solutions
Stop the wasted time of entering your manufacturing financial data twice-integrate your complete business for single-point real
time data flow. GS Financial software ensures general ledger, payroll, accounts, and fixed assets are efficiently maintained for
accuracy and accessibility.
 • GS Global Application Builder (GAB)
Global Shop offers GAB as a full-featured software development tool that allows virtually limitless ERP customization for the
reports, forms, and functions you need.
• GS LabelWriterTM
It's never been easier to create shipping labels, material handling labels, PO receipt labels, bin labels, and bar-coded labels than
with the GS LabelWriterTM. Use one of the thousands of templates, or design your own.
• GS Materials Solutions
Whether your ERP needs are for an online project management software that handles immense amounts of custom BOM
details, or simple short-run stamping jobs of reoccurring jobs, all aspects of manufacturing inventory control are always at your
fingertips with Global Shop Solutions.
• GS Online System/Time and Attendance
In today's manufacturing economy, it is not so much a question of how many widgets you've sold, but how closely you've
maintained-or reduced-your costs in producing them. Reduce direct and indirect costs by accurately tracking employee time and
attendance.
• GS Preventive Maintenance
Manufacturing capacity planning is directly related to strategic maintenance scheduling. Global Shop ERP software helps
sustain maximum machine performance and maintenance predictability.
• GS Project Management
Engineer-to-Order (ETO) projects often involve your shop on many levels simultaneously, and with a degree of detail that can
include thousands of parts on a single BOM. Global Shop's Project Management software is unsurpassed in controlling major
projects through a variety of factors(scheduling, reporting, financials, cost accounting, etc.).
• GS Quality
As your customers see it, quality production is assumed. Therefore, your profitability comes from the merging of on-time
performance and cost maintenance. Save money by closing the loops in your quality processes by engaging rapid engineering
change controls and a robust cause and corrective action regimen via GS Quality.
• GS Sales Solutions
Manufacturing sales order maintenance and reporting involves an ever-increasing need for integrated dataflow. Funnel your
sales-related information into one easy to manage, always ready, ERP software application.
• GS Shop Management Solutions
It's a new day in manufacturing planning software with Global Shop's One-System ERP SolutionsTM shop management system.
From estimating to post-production analysis, you are in control through complete operational visibility.
• GS Technology Suite
Wireless connectivity, automated e-mail messaging for events notification, business intelligence, dashboard business metrics,
built-in Excel integration, and document control managers. With Global Shop Solutions, you get the complete ERP
manufacturing software package-without the unnecessary, and costly, bells-and-whistles.
• GS Advanced Planning and Scheduling (GS APS)
• GS Customer Relationship Management (GS CRM)
• GS EDI
• GS Financial Solutions
• GS Global Application Builder (GAB)
• GS LabelWriter™
• GS Materials Solutions
• GS Online System/Time and Attendance
• GS Preventive Maintenance
• GS Project Management
• GS Quality
• GS Sales Solutions
• GS Shop Management Solutions
• GS Technology Suite

“Global Shop is so important to everything we do here, it's hard for me to put to my finger on any one aspect as being more
important to us than the other. Each module is so integrally tied together with the others, so functionally efficient in this
regard, and it is this quality of the Global Shop system that really helps us most in our day-to-day operations.”
Scott Franklin
Vice President of Operations
California Gasket and Rubber
“I still look around at Global Shop's other competitors in terms of features, and Global Shop is by far the best, the most
competitive, and still the best value around in ERP software. Global Shop is a valuable tool for us, and that's why we've been
with them for many years and will continue to grow with them in the future.”
Emilio Ortega,
Quality Director
Solar Spring and Wire Forms

Manufacturing Control Software for Every Industry, Every

Niche
Flexibility, speed, accuracy –– terms unfortunately flouted by many in promise, matched by few in practice. When you make the step
toward enterprise control solutions, empty promises are not what you're looking for. You need an ERP software system built to both
anticipate and react, one that operates reliably and in real time.

Global Shop Solutions has over 30 years of tested experience in providing robust ERP solutions for a wealth of manufacturing, job
shop, engineer-to-order, make-to-stock, and mixed-mode industries. We provide ERP software that is, in fact, flexible, accurate,
comprehensive, and fast, so you can do what you do best-manufacturing.

Improve your bottom line through a manufacturing planning software solution with a low cost of ownership, rapid ROI, and
tremendous scalability for your business. Browse through examples of the industries we serve, and afterwards contact us through our
convenient on-line form.

Global Shop Solutions. ERP software for every industry, every niche.
• Aerospace
Representing a diverse field of research, design, manufacturing, and operations, Global Shop has a long history of facilitating
those companies working in aerospace areas of commercial production, the industrial supply chain, and defense contracting.
• Automotive
With the ebb and flow of complex global automotive markets, producing parts and assemblies within the supply chain calls for
continuous cost awareness and on-time delivery. As the automotive industry evolves and even transforms, Global Shop
Solutions continues to prove its value as the perfect ERP software choice for manufacturers who are looking for the competitive
edge.
• Electrical
From wire production, wiring sub-assemblies, PCB assemblies, surface mount technology(SMT) for major project production,
motor manufacturing, and other electrical devices/parts, you need an ERP software application to build efficiencies into your
operations. Global Shop's many electrical manufacturing customers have seen this return on their software investment.
• Furniture Manufacturing
From large scale consumer products to custom made institutional needs, furniture makers find themselves in a state of transition
between the old and new ways of making things. However, one thing is constant: Profitability comes from anticipating
customer desires, and building efficiencies to reduce the overall cost of producing product to meet those desires. Find out what
many furniture manufacturers already know about building efficiencies quickly and easily through Global Shop Solutions One
System ERP SolutionsTM software.
• General Manufacturing
When your job types run the gamut day in and day out, your ERP shop control software had better be pretty flexible as well.
With advanced production scheduling, inventory management, wireless connectivity, and true cost accounting capabilities,
Global Shop Solutions can handle the rapid changes that come with operating a general manufacturing center.
• Green Manufacturing
More than simply operating with an environmentally conscious attitude, green manufacturers are responding to the emerging
market for manufactured "green" goods and services. From transportation to energy, consumer goods to heavy industry, green
manufacturers require an ERP system that sees the future the same way as they do. Global Shop Solutions is designed to meet
those visions right now.
• Machine Building
Whether you call it machine building or engineer-to-order(ETO), monitoring the enormous data contained in thousands of
BOM's and processes requires project management software that can handle the load. Global Shop Solutions is project
management software designed particularly for machine building operations.
• Machine Shop
From small-run machining to large order production, Global Shop Solutions has been the mainstay job shop control software
for thousands of successful traditional machining operations. Whatever your machining niche, for small to medium-size
companies, Global Shop ERP software can lean your processes and reduce your costs.
 • Medical
Advances in medical technology necessitate new tools, machines, and products for the medical industry. They also increasingly
require engineering changes to work in progress, unique inventory management solutions, and exceptional levels of customer
order tracking. With over three decades of producing ERP software specifically for medical manufacturers, you can trust Global
Shop Solutions to meet your requirements.
• Metal Fabrication
Maximize your capacity through improved forecasting capabilities and just-in-time procurement and production. Build a truer
picture of your metal fabrication operations through Global Shop Solutions, and monitor your hot and cold zones remotely
through your desktop Dashboard.
• Plastic/Rubber
Thermoset plastic products, elastomer or phenolic rubber, and molding by compression, transfer, and injection –– Global Shop
is experienced in estimating/quoting, scheduling, producing, and tracking all shop functions for the plastics and rubber
industries.
• Soft Material Fabrication
Wasted production stock due to scrapping or obsolete inventory is the foe of soft material fabrication. With many customers in
the industry of soft material fabrication, Global Shop Solutions can provide the control system to keep your operation
functioning smoothly and with reduced costs.
• Store Fixtures
Seasonality and consumer economics often play havoc on the production of store fixtures and displays. Robust forecasting and
procurement capabilities are paramount in order to stay on-time with customer orders. Whether you produce in lean cell
configurations or one-off custom creations in your store fixture and display business, Global Shop has experience in providing
the all-important linking of shop-wide data through a completely integrated ERP software system.
• Wood Products
Global Shop Solutions understands that keeping lathe's and mill's turning efficiently will result in improved profitability, and
more sales orders for wood products producers. With One-System ERP SolutionsTM software, Global Shop takes the guesswork
out of estimating/quoting, advanced planning, inventory management, quality, cost accounting, and shipping and receiving.
With numerous wood products customers, it's no wonder that Global Shop is the leader in ERP software development and
production for the industry.

• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Electrical
• Furniture Manufacturing
• General Manufacturing
• Green Manufacturing
• Machine Building
• Machine Shop
• Medical
• Metal Fabrication
• Plastic/Rubber
• Soft Material Fabrication
• Store Fixtures
• Wood Products Manufacturing

Global Shop Solutions: A World of Success

There are many measures of business success, but none are perhaps greater than what your customers have to say about you. Their
positive testimony comes as the mark of your ability to provide products and services that exceed expectations, and it is expressed by
their continued loyalty. Global Shop Solutions is unsurpassed in terms of customer loyalty and customer success. We take pride in the
fact that our One-System ERP SolutionsTM software is the result of over three decades of dedication to personal service to our
customers.

It is a world of success.
Read for yourself what our customers say of their successful integration of Global Shop Solutions ERP software in manufacturing’s
key industries. Afterwards, feel free to request even more information from us through our easy to use on-line form — and step into
your own world of success.
 • Adams Automatic
• Allstate Tool Die, Inc.
• California Gasket & Rubber Corporation
• Calnetix
• Concise Industries
• Corilam Fabricating Company
• Custom Rubber Products
• Eptam Plastics
• H&R Manufacturing and Supply
• Humanetics
• Impressions Marketing Group
• KPM Herkules Group
• Liberty Brass Turning Company
• M & H Engineering
• Martin's Wood Products
• Milcut
• Miller Welding and Machine
• Panoramic, Inc.
• Pazmac Enterprises
• Prompt Machine
• RAM Precision Industries
• Solar Spring
• Tru-Form Tool & Manufacturing
• Turbo Components & Engineering
• Wilshire Precision
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ERP Learning Center

What is ERP?
It's inevitable. Along with the growth of your company comes the need to centralize the increasing mass of data you produce. It's no
longer enough to have your department managers functioning independent of each other, and maintaining basic spreadsheets of old
information.

You need a single point of control-you need enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrated software that reduces input and time. ERP
software provides the level of oversight and control that is absolutely necessary for you, as a manager or owner, to make sure that all of
your resources are working towards the same goals.

All of your data needs to operate together in realtime, aware of each action, reacting (and enabling you to react) quickly, correctly, and
confidently.

Global Shop's Approach to ERP

Global Shop's approach to ERP begins with education about ERP, what it is, and how it works. Our ERP How-To Guides will give you
the background to understand ERP, how to plan and implement ERP, and even help you in choosing an ERP vendor.

As you pursue your ERP selection goals, you'll find these ERP How-To Guides helpful in creating the best ERP solution for your
company.

How-to Guides and White Papers

Global Shop's "how-to" guides and white papers are designed to give you an initial understanding of ERP. Choose one or all to get
valuable information about a variety of topics:

Click on your topic of interest below.

• How to Make Your Life Easier with ERP Scheduling
• Get ERP Right the First Time
• Demonstrating the ROI of an ERP System
• Building an ERP Task Force
• Streamlining Your Business with ERP
• The Nine Insider Secrets to Lower Your Costs and Compete Globally