Integrations: A Case Study in Nesting Software

Genius has been around for 30 years. Started as consulting for the manufacturing industry, but it quickly led into the computer or the software world, where Genius ERP started appearing probably 25 years plus ago. And it became what it is today. And we’ve been running our name for about 30 years in the business. We went from… I think I was the 46th employee eight years ago, and it grew to more than 100 employees. That was about three years ago. We are probably hitting 120 something today. We have 10,000s of users across the board, and we’re allowed to say we have a 96 % retention with our customers. So people joining genius are sticking around. They like the software. They keep using it. So we’re very, very Very glad about these numbers, loving our customer base, and happy to share. You can see on the left-hand side, our footprint is all across North America. We’re starting to have some dots across the board somewhere else, but really, our focus is on North America. We have a 25 % compounding growth yearly for the last…

I’ve been seeing this number for three years, and I didn’t see a change. There’s a bit of fluctuation. We might be 1% or two % above or or below, but it’s right across that number for at least three years. We can go to the next slide. Thanks. Let’s brag a bit. What you can see here is different badges from different selection website, meaning a website you can visit to go and select which ERP is best for you to use. And in some of these websites, for example, on the Garner chart, that’s a pretty red on one, you can see here on the right-hand side, the satisfaction rate plus ease of use of the system. And we rank pretty high in there, even compared to, not going to name them, but a few bigger competitors in the market that might not be suited for all businesses. Not our ERP are suited for manufacturers or for custom manufacturers, for example. But still we’re making our way into this list pretty high ranked. So pretty proud of that one. We’re looking forward to seeing new tags. How do we call them? Anyway, badges for the next year. Thanks.

All right, let’s move to the next one. So what’s genius and what makes it unique? Why choose us? If you are on the market for an ERP, well, definitely we are focused on manufacturers, but not just manufacturers. Engineer, configure it order, make the order, custom manufacturing. So if what you’re making is definitely unique each time it gets out the door, you’re looking at the right place. Because of With that, we’re going to have features that are really tied to that market. For example, the engineering integration that we have with the different 3D modeling software. I don’t want to get too much in integration. Pascal is going to talk about it. It’s her topic today, but Just so you know that we have really need connection with some of the drawing tools. Because of that also, we have leading industry scheduling software in our system in a way where it can accommodate for a lot of these discrepancies where you have different, unique project all the time that you need to line up together. So we come up with a lot of different features to help you with that. Business intelligence across the board, how can you dig into that information where everything is so often different, again, while having access invisibly to your data will help the great lot.

So again, some of the features that makes us unique and speaks to the fact that we target engineering, configure to order, or make to order type industry. So This page is meant to show you a little bit of the content of the ERP. Genius has a lot to offer. Under the hood, if we look at this, within the offering, you’ll have everything to manage customer, vendors, manage items for sure. Do your quotes, funnel through a project, manage your milestone payments and stuff like that. Now, everything down to you can read through the list if you want an accounting suite. I don’t like the name suite. Make it sound like we have a bolt on or something, it is really part of the same ERP offering. And if you keep reading, we have different technologies in there. The database is built on SQL framework, but there are things we can integrate to very easily through our REST API. And again, this is something I’m going to leave out to the topic for today for integration. Left-hand side, you can see latest release. This is a bit old. It just tells you that we keep We’re reinvesting in the system yearly.

This is probably two or three years ago where we had improve our field service. We had done a dealer portal. I don’t like the word dealer. It’s more of a customer portal where your customer can log in and put in their own request or check on to states of things in their orders, for example. Warranty management, quality control, and most recently, we’ve added a whole lot of web tools for people on the shop floor for a shop floor interface that is completely paperless with stuff for quality, stuff for viewing, attachment, stuff like that. So again, complete offering. If you would like to have genius How can you install it? How can you own it or rent it or subscribe to it? There’s different methods. So the first one where you can buy or subscribe, it is basically where you get the software, you install it to your servers, might there be at your site, your building, or if you host them through the cloud, whichever way you buy a rent and you put it on there. The third method is a cloud method where we host it and you subscribe and get an access to go and interact with the system with the cloud offering.

We can get the next slide. So Genes doesn’t stop to the software. We are one stop shop, meaning that there’s no resellers, there’s no second service company that will come and implement. It is our team that comes to you. That helps you out. I’m sorry. Finding a bit of a cold here. What I’m trying to say here is we’ve built knowledge into our system. We’ve built knowledge into a platform where you can go and train yourself. In there, we’ll have a path of knowledge. For example, you have a new purchaser that comes in. You can get on board this and view a certain path of things you need to learn. How to create a vendor supplier, how to structure items to link them to your vendors, maybe put in their lead time, stuff like that. So there is a path to learn how to do things when you’re a purchaser. So with everything we’re living through today with high roll out of employees, turnaround, I should say, or new hires to onboard, this is a It’s a pretty neat tool we’ve been leading and reinvesting in for at least three years now. On top of that, you’ll find that with that platform, you get access to a whole source of other knowledge, meaning that we have a knowledge base you can search through and get information on.

We get some repeated questions every week. We’ll go and add a little article on there so you can find your way through some typical issues or typical challenge that people are trying to do, might not find their way through the system. The other thing is This is probably the preferred one right now where people can join us three times a week. Sometimes it’s Pascal, sometimes it’s me, but we have some of our senior person attending these meetings where people can just hop on and ask their question. A mixture of I don’t remember, how do I change my exchange? Oh, that’s exactly the example here. How can I change my exchange rate? Or how can I change the cost on this item? And then somebody will guide you through some of the steps, share a screen, and help you out. So again, it’s a great way And within about 48 hours, you get stuck on something, just hop on there, ask your question. We’ll have somebody available. So that’s the offering, what you’re stepping into dealing with genius ERP. Now, give the mic back to Pascal for today’s topic.

Thanks, Frank. So thank you for the introduction. So we are going to go right into our subject. First thing we want to see is the current market challenges. I just want to introduce a little bit why we might need an integration. So we’re going to talk a little bit more about the manufacturing challenges, so the challenges that really concern you, and also the type of software. So mostly the diversity of software that is available right now. So how to navigate through all of those and why it could be complicated. So first thing we’re going to look at to manufacturing challenges. There’s a lot of things that I could have talked about to justify to do an integration. There’s a lot of reason to do an integration, but I just decided to focus on those two subjects. The first one will be the fact that scaled labor is more and more rare and hard to find. And also So the fact that access to data is important to reduce the risk in your company. First one, what I mean by scale labor, I just want to just let you know first that it’s not just because of COVID, it was there before, and it will be an issue for a long, probably a long time.

Well, that’s what the statistics say, at least. So for this year, there’s a lot of statistics that say that, yes, it will be an issue for more than 10 years. So it’s something that is going to still be an issue or might be an issue for a long time. It might be an issue for you guys. So what we want to do is to try to optimize more and more your process to make it more efficient, more simple. We want to reduce the multiple data entry. Even though we might have multiple systems, then we don’t want to double the a double the operation, just so that everything is there into the system. We wanted to try to do some more automation.

Eliminate redundancy.

Oh, thanks, Frank. I was wondering why you were popping up. So redundancy. Sorry about that. We’re going to try to try to do that to just add some automation into your process so it will be more efficient. Another thing, the next thing I want to say, so the fact that I say access to data to reduce the risk of your company. What I mean by that, I just want to have maybe more of an introduction that subject. What I want to say is, for example, I’ve seen a lot of company because I was doing a lot of implementation, and it happened a lot that there’s always one person who knows everything. So it’s like the go-to person. But that person often have decision based on more of a feeling and his knowledge than on the data and the information into the system. So that person, it works well, but that person has often been there with the company for so long. And it’s really hard to train other people to know those type of decision because it’s always based on a feeling. And sometimes those people have been there for so long that they are going to leave.

And then that leaves your company at risk because there are no one there to be able to understand all of that process and to be able to do those quick decision making. So that’s why we wanted to just focus on the fact that data is important, and it’s important to have efficiency in decision based on the right data and on those real time information into the system to make sure that you can take quick and efficient decision. Those are those two challenges that you might face or you might be facing in the next years or so. So next thing I said, we want to talk about the fact that there’s multiple types of software. I just wanted to let you know, well, you probably already know, but there are several different specialized software, and they all have their own objective and purposes. What I mean by that is, for example, we are a Genes. It’s It’s an ERP. Even though it’s an ERP, it’s specialized in a specific type of user. Like Frank said, we are specialized in custom making manufacturing. Even though it’s in the same type of software, there’s also different specification. So it’s the same case for all of those other type of software.

So for example, a CAD software. So we have a CAD integration with SolidWorks, and The fact is, you are doing custom works, you need to do drawing, and we are not a drawing software, and we are not specializing that. So that’s why we came up with an integration so that both of us, both of those system can focus and improve and develop in their own purpose. So that’s just an example of types. So e-commerce, for example, CAD, any type of software that can be there. That’s just a small amount of examples. So you understand there’s a lot of complexity out there. Then what can we do with that? That’s where we are going to go into more of an integration, so we can really take advantage of all of those solution that there is out there. That’s the principle behind Industry 4. 0 that we’re going to look at. Also, I will show you maybe a little bit of an example of the integration that we did with genius, and also how How can we connect and how can we do those integrations? So like I said, we talked about the fact that there’s a lot of software.

And why is that? Is software development is happening faster than ever, and the technology is also developing so rapidly. For example, with machine learning, internet of things, cloud computing. There’s so much more technology. We just want to be able to have a an ecosystem so that we can allow people to have access to the data that they need in real-time. So just to be able to connect that information so that everyone can see and have data transparency on information that they need. I didn’t really plan on talking too much more about Industry 4. 0 because Frank already did a webinar on this subject. So I don’t know if you want to add anything on that.

Well, you’ve already talked about how data merged together and have access to decision making and all that. So it touches on what we need to know for today. But if you are interested in knowing more, we did do, like you said, a webinar about two years ago. If you go to our website and look for 4. 0 in the in our section, you’re going to find something from 2021 that was really talking about each of the revolution of the industry, where how come we are in the numerization phase of, and that’s the 4. 0 phase of the industry revolutions. And if you look at more of the one from last year, it was more focused on our shop floor tool that we brought to the table that really connects the front end of the ERP, like office workers with everybody else on the groundwork. So That’s pretty much what you can find on our website. I’m not going to linger too much on that and let you continue with your topic.

Thanks, Frank. If you are interested, you can just go into our website and go and look at it. So next thing I wanted to show to you was the integration. So some example of integration that we did with genius. Those are not the only one that we’ve done. It’s really just an example. Just because it’s not there doesn’t mean that we cannot do it. We really want you to understand that we can do some integration in that we will want to work with you to be able to do that project with you, to be able to integrate with the system that you might need. So just an example of type of integration that we did. Those are more for CAD software. Like I’ve talked about, we already have SolidWorks and Inventor with CAD2bom. But even though our CAD2bom doesn’t have those three other software, it’s still possible, and we still did an integration with those. We also are integrate with the Microsoft Office, and we We also did with accounting. Those are some example of accounting. Even though genius does have accounting in it, you can also link it with another software if you wanted to.

Avalarah here is more for tax information. We also did some integration with Carrier, for example, FedEx. So something that can be done that we’ve done before, for example, to be able to have the tracking number sent and linked into the shipping module in genius, for example, or maybe to know, Oh, the packages arrive at that client, just to be able to follow, to track that package images. Those things that we can do. We also did… Those are more for payroll software. We also have for smart machine, and here it’s more for electronic document management. We also those are for CRM, so those for more sales. We do have our own CRM with Genius, but if for any reason you prefer using another one or you are used to the way your business run with one of your CRM and you don’t want to change it, then it’s still possible to integrate with it. Type of integration that we can do, for example, that I’ve seen with So it will be maybe to once you create a client and it’s more than a lead, you want to quote it, then you can just send all of that information back into genius.

So you don’t have to retype that information and create a double data entry. So it will just be done automatically and maybe even create that quote automatically with that link. So that’s some type of example that we can do with a CRM. We We’ve also done it with… That’s our ACH bank transfer. Those are some example of nesting software. We are going to look at a specific example for SigmaNes. In a couple of seconds. Last thing I wanted to talk about was more of the type of connection that we can use with Genius. It doesn’t mean that it’s the only one. It’s just some type type of connection that we can do. And I don’t want to go into more of it too much technical information. I just want to let you know, tell you about it just really quick. So if you want to go and do more research on those information, then you will be able to do so. So we do have an API connection. So it’s API means application programming interface. So basically allows to link between software And with our new version, we do have more of those API connection.

We also can create an integration with SQL. That’s like Frank said, is what we use for a database, but we can use it to do some integration. And we can also use EDI that will be used mostly for creating automatic sales order, for example, or shipping document, or those are Those are some type of example that we can create with EDI. So there’s also the thing I wanted to focus more about was the fact that we can have different type of connection that can be automated or they can be manually triggered. So what I mean with the automated connection, that will mean, for example, when a type of action is done in any system, there is a trigger, and it will automatically do another action in another system. So for example, if you are doing e-commerce and you are selling on your website, and someone is buying, purchasing from your website, then that will be the trigger, and you want to automatically create, for example, a sale order in genius. So you can track that information and be able to manufacturing it, to do some manufacturing on it. So that will be more of a automated connection.

It could also be manually triggered, so that will mean that someone will need to click on a field or select something so that the transfer can be done. So why we will want to do a manual trigger, that will be more for if you want to have more control on the data transfer. And basically, that will be the reason why we will want a manual trigger. You will see EBM use a a manual trigger just to have more control on what is sent into the next thing somewhere. So then we can go We’ve seen the current market challenge. We’ve seen some solutions, so some type of integration, what we’ve done before, what we can do. We can go into the IBM case study just to see how they’ve done it. Just so you know, this is really just an example. We can do it differently. It really depends on your process and on your goal and what you are trying to achieve with that integration. Sorry, Frank, I don’t know if Have you seen it. I’ve just seen that there’s a question here.

Yes, I’m answering live, but we can always… You know what? I’m going to still send it out, but I can answer it right away. The person was asking, interesting to know that genius might have an in-house CRM. We do have an in-house CRM that we can offer. And no, you wouldn’t have. And the question goes as far as would we have to integrate to ours? Absolutely. Or genius has something to offer outside of the typical customer quote management. Yes, we do I have, and we could sidebar. I’m just asking. That person shows up as Eric, one of our colleagues that changed the link to the session just prior. So we have a few person logged on as one of our colleagues’ names, so we don’t know who you are. So if you could just say, Hey, it was me asking the question with your name. I’ll I’ll follow up with you afterwards. Yeah.

Thanks, Frank. So yes, we do have CRM, and we do have an integration that already exists between our two systems. So if I just come back into the case study, I just want to let you just introduce a little bit. So IBM Lazard is one of our clients. So they are a machine shop, and they are producing a lot of different and really custom parts for a different type of customer. So it’s always, well, pretty much always custom parts that they need to do. And there’s a lot of laser cutting in their process. That’s why they need SigmaNest. So SigmaNest, for those of you who don’t know, it’s a nesting software. What does that mean? It’s basically a system that will optimize the way that you need to cut your plate in to minimize the raw material waste. So that’s what SigmaNest will do for EBM. So just a little bit of a scenario before we go into more detail. So what was their issue? What was their goal with that implementation? So first thing, EBM was managing a priority for their parts based on paper. So you see that pile of paper there. It was colour-coded, and it was also localization-coded.

So to be able to decide what parts to cut before and what parts to cut later on the week or on the same day or so on. So that was going pretty good at the beginning, but as they grow, then it was getting a little bit too complicated to manage that decision decision based on paper. And there was a lot of risk of late delivery, because sometimes they were losing some paper, it was hard to find, they were forgetting one. So because of that manual process, there was a higher risk of late delivery. Also, there was no material reservation before nesting. In genius, before they did the nesting, they didn’t really know what was the material that they are… What was the quantity of material that will need, they will be able to have in inventory. That means that they were buying more than what they need to be able to have that raw material and not be late because of purchase. Closing. So that was also something that they wanted to improve. There was also the fact that the process was… The process was complex. It was a bit too long. And that made the fact that there were were often detected too late in the process.

So there was a lot of cost of non-conformity with some of the parts. And that was also something that they wanted us to help with. Also, there was a lot of double entry of data, like you can assume. So there was some information that needed to be filled in Genius, but also in SigmaNest, so that they can be able to do the nesting. So the process was not efficient. So what they did, I’m just going to show an example here. I just want to let you know it is in French. I’m sorry, because we were working with that client, and they are working in French. I did put a lot of English text, and I will guide through the process, but I’m sorry for all the French information in there. But just so we understand each other, so that is genius. So we are into the work order management. And the sales order have already been done, and there’s a lot of jobs or a lot of parts that needs to be done. So that’s where the process starts for ABM. Then once there’s that operation, so that’s a start of production operation, basically, when that operation is completed, it, they are going to send the information through the nesting software.

That’s what they are doing here. I told you that it was manually triggered. They say, Okay, we want to do transferring the task to SigmaNest. That’s what we do. We see here a list of all the work order and all of the parts that need to be transferred to Sigma-S. A good thing is Sigma-S is in English, so that will be a bit easier for you guys. Then we see the list of all the work order that needs to be done, so all of the parts that need to be produced. The list is from Genes here, and all the parts that need to be fabricated. I told you that EBM was prioritizing parts based on the delivery date, so they can still do that. But it’s way easier because now we can filter by date. They can also filter by raw material because they need to know on what plate they need to do their nesting on. Also, they can filter on clients. Really, it depends on how they want to prioritize, but all the information is in the system to help them with all of that. So once they decide what parts they want to do, then the system will do They will do the rest of the nesting.

So that’s an example of a laser cutting on one plate on all of those parts. If we click on parts, part parameters, we can see that there’s a lot of information that came from genius. So we know the work order information, we know the sales order information, we know the material, so that’s the material name. So we know all of that, and all of that information came from genius, and they didn’t have to retype it. What we are seeing here is basically a list of all of those nestings. So the plate and the list of all the parts that are going to be cut in the same metal sheet. And that list will then be sent into production. So production knows what they need to do and in what order. And we also know the detail of the raw material that will be used and also the quantity that will be needed of those sheets. Once everything is good on that software, then we can just update it and make sure that all of that information is back into Genius. So once the production is complete, we will be able to see that, yes, this operation.

So that’s a laser cutting operation that he’s clicking on, and we see that automatic time entry has been put into the system and it’s also been completed. So the operation is complete, but also the material consumption is done based on the quantity generated by Siemens. So they have real time information of inventory consumption in genius and also in SigmaNest. So that basically conclude the flow. I just want to come back here and just let you know that here is the list of all the material, basically, that it’s not only in ingenious, it’s also in segmented. And we can see how many material and sheet they have left in inventory. So what does that process have done for them? So just once again, it’s an example of a process, but it It has really helped with their problem. So they don’t have any paper, paper management. Everything is done in the software. Everything will be up to date. So if there’s something that changed, all that information is related to everyone that needs to know about it. And what does in more, well, more in statistics, so what does that mean? That means that they have a 35 and improvement on on-time delivery, and also that the purchase ratio went from 36 % to 26 %.

So once again, what does that mean is they don’t buy too much material that they don’t need. So they really reduce their inventory to be more efficient. And that really help also with their cash flow. And last thing, they also have a gain of 30 % in purchasing and planning process. So they have less costs, more efficient, and also less non-conformity problem based on planning and purchasing. Also, all of those statistics were provided by the EBM management.

There’s a few questions online, maybe before we wrap this up. Yeah, sure. Wait is asking, is the cut file saved in Genius?

That’s a good question for the cut files. I don’t think in their case it is because I think that they just print out the information from SigmaNest, but I know that it is possible to bring back into Genius.

I know if customer did it. Yeah.

I don’t think for IBM, because I think they print that information from Siemens, but like I said, it is possible. No problem.

We have two other questions now. How does material get consumer genius with this process? Is the operator responsible?

In that case, no. So it’s really once the operation is complete, the consumption is done automatically based on the information of segmentists.

So what you’re saying is if we were cutting 10 different types of pieces in the sheet and it takes, I don’t know, two-thirds of the sheet to do a certain component for one job, it will know exactly which And the portion of that sheet goes to each.

It will also consider the information for over-material. So that’s all the scrap things. So that calculation is always from Siemenist. So if Everything is considered on that system, but it’s consumed automatically.

I’m marking these as answered as we go, but if we’re not fully answering your question, please feel free to just write a little something more in our Q&A. We’ll be more than happy to touch base with you again. If you still feel we didn’t answer, there’s going to be an email at the end here that you can always write to us and we can have a longer discussion about this if need be. There’s another question here in your demo example, is the data from genius push directly to SigmaNest database or is it exported to Excel spreadsheet and then were thus imported into SigmaNest afterwards in a two-step?

Directly into SigmaNest database.

Do to cut parts in genius need a work order? We’re getting specific to existing users now, but still.

I’m not sure if I Can you follow the question, Frank?

Well, I think the question is, if you have to laser-cut something, would it need a work order to have that happening?

Okay. No, you don’t have to have one in two, genius, but you can, if you need some information, really depend on the process.

Some people will define for each part a parent and child, but you don’t necessarily have to. All right. Okay. Still other questions coming in. That’s good. How does it And the leftover material inventory?

Yeah, that’s a good question. So leftover material inventory is in segmentus. If I understand the question correctly. So the- Remenence. Yeah. So the remenence will be in segmentus. So SigmaNest will know what to take so that information stay there because that system is really made for that to be able to optimize. So the person who create that nesting will be able to take that remnants in consideration.

And the biggest reason for that, usually, and the reason that we’re using that as a third-party system is the fact that the geometry of these remnants, we don’t have this as a functionality in If it’s a half moon shape, we won’t know. We’ll just know it’s a piece. Whereas in segmentation, it will have that detail of, Hey, it’s a, I don’t know, cat shape, whatever it will be. That information resides in segmentation as well, the remnants. So And so things are continuing to add.

I think I’m going to conclude. Yeah, and we’re going to go back into question then.

Yeah, we have two slides, and then we get into the question section, but I think you can conclude. Go ahead. Yeah.

I’m going to go fast because there’s a lot of questions here. Take your time.

We still have about 20 minutes to go, so you’re good.

Okay, we’re good. Perfect. So we conclude. So we talked about the current market challenges, the fact that still labor is harder to get by. Access to data is really important to reduce your company risk. We also talked about solutions. So the fact that industry 4. 0, it’s really there for integration and the type of integration that we did with genius and also the connection type, so how we can maybe do some integration with genius and other software. And we conclude with a one case study with EBM Lazzari So for example, the fact that they gain a 30% increase in purchasing and planning and also on on-time delivery. Also, I just wanted to talk to you about the fact that if you are interested interesting in doing an implementation, because I think that maybe some of you guys are interesting since we have a lot of questions there.

There is a question that is exactly where you’re going, I think. So one of the next question is actually somebody is naming another nesting software. I think it’s called BISOFT, if I read this correctly, saying it is a nesting software. So would BISOFT nesting software integrate with Genius?

Probably. But to be fair, I don’t want to say yes without knowing too much into that software. So I don’t know if, Frank, you’ve done it before. But what we do, there’s two way of doing it. So you can do it on your own. So if you have access to a REST API, you just need to purchase it and you can actually do that integration if you want to. Also, the other system, it really depends on the other system, if they have API or what will be their database or how can we integrate with them, basically.

What’s their technology stack? How do they offer to integrate with other software. We do have that capability with our stack of REST APIs that is growing as we move forward. Like with this IBM integration, we’ve added some APIs to make sure all this is working. But by having that offer on our end, we are open to be doing these integrations. Now, each of these software, I would guess they are capable of, but we probably need to verify with each of them on an independent basis.

The other way of doing it will be to… You can contact us, you can go to customer success, you can tell us that you are interested in doing an integration, and we are just going to do a project. We will do for any other project, training on genius or anything, we will start something with you guys and help you integrate, and we can make sure that we We do what you are looking for. Exactly. So basically talk to customer success if you want to start a project with us.

Exactly. And your first question could be to your supplier of the other system or to a service system is, what do you do to integrate? If my ERP system says they have REST API. Is that something you guys offer? And then come to us again to our customer success. We’ll guide you through that process.

I’m just going to let Frank Just maybe talk a little bit about the next webinar, and then we’re going to go into question.

Actually, I see there’s a lot of our existing customer online right now. So just so you know, this next webinar is probably more for people looking for an ERP. It talks about what What’s the consider for an implementation as far as budgeting? And that one is for June 15th. And FYI, we’ll have, it’s not announced yet on the website, but we do have version 15 coming out with a couple of neat new features. And we will be doing a webinar I’m proposing it’s still on the drafting board, but it will hit probably on June 14th, the day before this one, where we will do an internal webinar for our existing customers on the new version. So that’s what’s coming up on our side. We’ll probably take a break in June, but we never know. I think we’re in the habit of doing at least once a month, so we probably will pop something up. So if we look at questions, I think at this point. Oh, before that, I have emails.

No.

Okay. So you know what? Customer success all in one word at geniuserp is the way to go. If you need to inquiry about anything, whatever system, a third party, you’re trying to melt together with us and have work into that fluid way that Pascal was talking about, definitely the way to reach us. And let me go into some of the questions. So we do have a few good questions online. Let’s start with this one. This one. How does it handle automatic consumption? So clearly an existing customer here, of the material when we have multiple unit lot numbers or serial lots?

That’s a good question. At that point, probably into the nesting software, I told you that we can have the list of all the material. That list came from genius. So at that point, we will use the lot number. When they are going to use to do a nesting on a plate, they will select a specific plate, and that will be one way to be able to do that automatic consumption. Or we could also wait at the end so that the employee on production really tell us what plate that they use and then come back with the right quantity. Those will be on top of my head, those two way of doing it.

A good answer. Thank you, Pascal. How does genius keep track of remnant from the nesting software? And I think that question means, and again, maybe I’m just going to repeat what I said earlier, we won’t know if it’s a half moon or whatever. So depending how you’re counting or Yeah, counting is the right word. Are you counting your inventory? If we’re counting pieces of plate, well, if I have two half moon shapes, it’s one plate in genius. We won’t know the detail of what’s the geometry or what’s the shape of that remnant. So the information is to keep track as far as the detail of a remnant in the nesting software, but that’s also kept track in genius as well. Anything to add on your side, Pascal, or did you see different behaviors, perhaps? Because I know there might be some customers that don’t want to track remnants in genius.

Yeah, there’s the two way of doing it. So the other way will be that remnants are all just in the nesting software. For example, you’ve consumed them all into a job or value those remnants are consumed into the parts, and then those remnants are just extra into the nesting software. That’s two way of doing it, again. I’ve heard that- Really different from your process.

Yeah, I was expecting you to chime in because I figured I heard both ways. So it depends on your process again. And that’s the neat thing about integration. I mean, this is not something that’s fully defined when we’ll work with you on how you want it to work. Then we can define these limitations or way doing things in your process with the different softwares. And that would be answered. We have a template on how to set up jobs, work orders so they can be integrated with ProNest. That’s another nesting software.

We did do an integration with ProNest before. Well, I don’t know, Frank, if you want to-I am not super aware of it, but I know we- So like And so, as Lauren said, it’s not really something… If it’s not a defined integration with us, so for example, Cat2bomb or something like that, it’s really a customized integration. So it really depends on your process and what you need We do have some example of what we’ve done before, but we don’t have a specific template and something predefined because it’s really custom for what you need in your process.

You might be putting some information in different places that other users of GS are using. Spec fields might be at a different place. I’m sorry if I’m talking very to existing users here. For some of the people that might sound like another language here and I might get lost in translation, but I think any GS users can know that there could be different process or way of using it or structuring your work orders.

Next one.

Do you want to take it?

Are there a picture or a model of their remnants saved with dimension. I think that’s really something it depend on the nesting software.

Again, it would be complicated to try to start managing that in genius. So again, this is probably why most of the customers we’ve seen are keeping the remnant management to the nesting software that’s built to do that for you.

Hopefully, that answer your question. I Next one, Frank.

Yeah, well, I think it might be for you that one. Where can we get a more in-depth walkthrough of how this genius, segmented plugin works?

I was the more in-depth walkthrough.

That was probably the more in-depth.

Maybe you can just send me an email and maybe we can take some time together and I can go into more detail with you because I don’t think we have anything more into detail than that.

But if you’re interested It’s Dustin on that one. We do have your name and everything. So I will leave that question open as unanswered, and we will follow through after this webinar so we can get in touch with you. Anybody that would like to have the same thing, please write right now in the Q&A. I’d like to be contacted after this or use that customersuccess@guCRP email. We’ll be more than happy to answer more of your questions. If you are thinking of a possibility or something that you have in your mind that could be an opportunity here, we’d love to help you. Do you need to use first allocated item to search for nested parts? That’s a good question. I think that Wade is referencing, we have a screen where you can create production lot, where often the only field available is that first allocated item or something like that for information.

Actually-i’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand the question. I don’t know, Frank, do you understand the I think I do, and it comes probably from something else I’ve seen before.

I’d love to have a side discussion, perhaps with you way directly here, because I think there’s maybe a confusion in where the information would be stored. Probably it would be on the top work order on the finished part that you’re trying to do that would go out in the next thing. It defines which raw material you need to use to do it. It probably wouldn’t be on the allocated part. It would probably be sitting on the parent item.

But again- At that point, I think it could. It just really depends. Okay, I think I understand with your answer. You’re looking for maybe a trigger or a way to identify those parts that will be nesting, that will be nested. If I understand that question, that’s something that can be defined, that can be different. For example, for ABM, it was a specific operation that tell them that it was going to be nested, but there could be different ways to do so. So if that’s the first allocated item, it’s something that could work for you, maybe that can be a way to go.

I think what I love to say here is we’re not trying to be blurry purposely. When it’s an integration like this, we’ll need to work and adapt to your process to that other software that doesn’t necessarily, because it’s two nesting software the same way both of them, we’ll adjust. So the information is stored in the routing for someone, in a parent-manufactured one for the other in a first allocated item. And there’s probably a reason why you have that specifically in mind, Wade. Again, if you’d like to sidebar, I’d love to have a discussion. We have another one.

I propose that this is the last one. That will be the last? Yes.

Do you have a common integration or software for handling simple linear nesting bar, structural shapes? Could we do it manually and looking for a better solution? Want to take that one?

You can go for it.

Most of the nesting software I know are sometimes perhaps more designed for plate. But as far as I know, a lot of them will also be doing linear. So is there one that’s better designed for it than others? That probably would be something you need to look into that market to find out. In any case, again, the integration on our part is very similar on how needs to happen. And again, we do have the API to go give the information and get the information back to GECR.

To be fair, I think, Sigmann, you could be able to do it with it. I think I’ve seen it before, but I don’t know if it’s the right or best software for linear nesting. I don’t know.

All right. I think… Oh, perfect. Wait, I saw that. So We’ll definitely reach out. Perfect. So one or two person asked for us to reach out afterwards. Again, if you’d like to relisten to this or have more information, the webinar is going to be posted on our website, so you’ll be able to see it, listen to the recording at your own experience. And if you need more information, don’t hesitate to write to us. We’ll be more than happy to. I just thought you were using my background with. It’s like a mirror. All right. Thank you for joining, everybody.

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