Aventis Pharmaceuticals Selects Casco Development's ShopVue System for Realtime Attendance and Activity Reporting.Business/Technology Editors PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 Casco Development, Inc., a provider of real-time solutions that optimize shop-floor production efficiency, today announced that Aventis Pharmaceuticals has implemented its ShopVue system to track Time & Attendance and Activity Reporting in the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Industrial Operations manufacturing facility. "The impetus for this project stemmed from the need to minimize clerical activities required of the supervisors to review, approve and manage from the existing manual system", Pat Urnise, Aventis Manager, Applications Development. "With ShopVue in place, supervisors can devote more time to their primary responsibilities of managing and directing the associates that report to them. We anticipate increased accuracy and significant time savings for each supervisor in preparing labor, attendance and payroll reporting." The process of entering attendance and labor information into ShopVue is simple and straightforward and be accomplished via ShopVue's "Time/Activity Card" for after-the-fact reporting and by ShopVue's "My ShopActivity" for real-time reporting. "We'll provide Aventis the best of both worlds- the ability to maintain their current combination of realtime and honor-based reporting." Richard Deeran, President Casco Development. The ShopVue database is integrated with Aventis's SAP host system so that work order and labor activity information is shared between the two systems. ShopVue's Order Management Module provides an onscreen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. "Readylist" of appropriate work orders for Aventis Associates to use in guiding their daily activities and reporting their completed assignments. "ShopVue goes beyond our original requirements to automate the existing system by providing a means to organize attendance and labor and allowing a rich graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to for Associates to see all available orders and get comprehensive feedback from their transactions" Pat Urnise. "Currently, there is a high percentage of labor and machine time that is unaccounted unaccounted Adjective unaccounted for unable to be found or traced: four people were killed in the floods, and eleven remain unaccounted for unaccounted adj . The goal with ShopVue is to reduce this to below 5%." About Casco Development New England-based Casco Development provides highly configurable software solutions that maximize workforce productivity and production efficiency. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , ShopVue, allows factory managers to collect data from the factory floor to optimize utilization of labor, equipment and materials. Casco distributes its products directly throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to Fortune 2000 job-oriented manufacturers in industries as diverse as automotive accessories, electrical equipment A piece of electrical equipment is a machine, powered by electricity and usually consists of an enclosure, a variety of electrical components and often a power switch. Examples of Electrical Equipment
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