TMS Functions

The following functions are supported by the TMS

• Multi-species support.

• Recording all hide receivals along with associated hide source information.

• Batching of hides for fleshing.

• Salting of green hides.

• Recording sundry inventory items (i.e. bought in product)

• Weighing and grading of hides during fleshing and automatic allocation to bins.

• Recording tattoo numbers for trace-back of hide to source. (see related site)

• Control of conveyor system for placing hides in bins.

• Full tracking of fleshed hide bin inventory.

• Automatic allocation of fleshed hides to tanning batches or orders.

• Tracking hides through short-term preservation process and recipe selection.

• Shipping fleshed hides to clients.

• Allocation of hides to tanning batch.

• Allocation of recipe to tanning batch.

• Tanning and Short Term Preservation process run sheets.

• Validating the recipe is correct for the hides about to be tanned.

• Logging of hides through the tanning process.

• Chemical usage reports.

• Grading of hides through the sammying process.

• Can collect any hide attribute. All attributes user definable.

• Can configure system for any number of data collection terminals.

• Collects hide tattoo to facilitate trace-back from sammying, to fleshing, to supplier.

• Automatic grading based upon hide attribute information.

• Keyboard and touch screen input.

• Interface to area and weighing devices.

• Automatic allocation of hides to pallets based on user definable criteria.

• Automatic allocation of pallets to physical inventory locations.

• Printing of bar coded pallet labels.

• Tracking of activity by shift

• Tracking station manning with user definable time periods.

• Regrading of pallets.

• Processing of hides through splitter.

• Automatic pallet allocation for grain and drop hides at splitter.

• Full tracking of all wet blue inventory, down to the individual hide.

• Creating of orders and allocation of pallets to orders.

• Automatic allocation of pallets to orders.

• Shipping of hides locally and overseas.

• Cancellation of shipment.

• Wide range of production reports.

• Wide range of inventory and shipping reports.

• Analysis of production from fleshing to sammying.

• Every hide tracked individually through the system.

• Knowing what hides are where at any point in time.

• Can correct information (individual and group) post production with associated audit log.

• The TMS can provide activity and process information for your ISO quality system.

• Long term (5 plus years) database of every hide processed through the tannery.

• The TMS is highly generic and is not limited to the tanning industry.

Need More??

We don't know what the future holds, but we can be sure it involves doing more with less and that industry regulations will change over time. The TMS was built with this in mind.

• Change the way you pack and grade product - Easy!

• Change the data you collect at the hide and batch level - Easy!

• Add new product types - Easy!

Flexibility to evolve as your business evolves is built in to the TMS.