Release 5.0 Highlights

Latest amendments are written in blue.

General

• New modern look.
• The Copy / Paste menu is now available also in the filter fields.
• External numbers now up to 20 characters.
• Date/time filter fields can be defined in filters sets using words like today, yesterday, tomorrow, start / end of week, month or year.

Basic data

• Article identification up to 30 characters; Free choice for shorter display name.
• Powerful search of expressions inside article, parts list and article extensions.
• Easy renaming of existing articles.
• Basic data check to verify completeness according to predefined or customer specific criteria. Incomplete articles are marked with traffic light colors.
• New universal structure for all kind of articles.
• Standard and article specific work plans including work plan variants for all kind of articles.
• Efficient propagation of changed settings from standard to article specific work plans.
• Universal parts list depending of work plan including raw material variants.
• Hierarchical structure of articles to reflect different stages in production.
• Detailed history for modifications in basic data.
• Save document files (certificates, instructions etc) linked to articles inside the database (document management).
• Multiple language support for articles.
• Article and data type specific attributes to defined customer specific settings.
• Product specific article extensions for classification of articles.

Partner & Contact Management

• Detailed history for modifications in partner & contact management.
• Save documents files (certificates, instructions etc) concerning the partner or contact inside the database (document management).
• Topic related flexible fields to attach specific information to the partner / contact.

Document Management

• Import of document files into the database for permanent storage.
• Export of documents from the database.
• Document viewing out of the database.
• Link imported documents to partners, contacts, articles, orders and items.

Item Management

• New item management for all kind of items like pieces, warps, yarn-units, weaving reeds, beams, dyestuff chemicals etc.
• Powerful search of expressions inside items, dependent items, orders and articles.
• Numerical and graphical tracing capabilities.
• Save document files (certificates, protocols, reports etc) linked to items inside the database (document management).
• Detailed history for modifications of items.
• Empty beams can be put into the warp warehouse.
• New enhanced functionality for inventory taking.

Purchase Module

• Order request, purchase order, incoming invoice with automatic derivation from the former document.
• Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
• Order state indicated by traffic light.
• Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
• Goods receipt.

Sales Module

• Offer, confirmation of order, invoice, delivery note with automatic derivation from former document.
• Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
• Order state indicated by traffic light.
• Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
• Obtain of goods.
• Triggering of purchase orders for purchase articles / raw material.
• Triggering of production orders for articles to be produced.

Costing

• New costing application introduced. Costing is a new LOOMDATA Software option.

Maintenance Tool

• New enhanced maintenance tool for machines and devices introduced.

Production Order (former Customer Order)

• Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
• Order state indicated by traffic light.
• Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
• Universal production order for all articles / departments.
• Proposal board for production orders based on open orders.
• Obtain of raw material.
• Receipt of produced items.

Improvements in Reports and Dialogs

• Report headers and data with word wrap.
• Colored rows to show special states.
• Thousand separator for numerical values.
• Missing fields are marked by a special color.

Ticket Print Dialog

• Preview of the ticket in the object navigator.

Machine Layout

• New tab Shift book in machine detail with all entries of the machine.

Weaving Tracker

• Visualization of shift- and shift-less time in the background of the machines.
• Improved refresh performance.

Preparation

• Option Force P-Order entry in A3 replaced by new option Allow entry of P-Order. See Options Preparation for details.

Forecast Calculation

• Back scheduling in weaving preparation based on the nominal start or nominal end date of the weaving order the warp(s) belong to.