JOMAR in the Cloud

An innovative supplier of performance materials for the Military, Tactical, Fire Resistant, High Visibility and Commercial Industries continues to execute on its growth strategy acquiring new geographically dispersed facilities that are implemented in the JOMAR Private Cloud.

The company, a JOMAR client for 6 years, is in the process of implementing its seventh acquisition scheduled for the fall of 2021, a finishing operation that will serve external customers and function as a vertical operation to support the needs of the company owned manufacturing and converting operations.

Acquisitions are set up as a unique plant and configured with the required functions to support the specific products that they manufacture. The flexibility of  JOMAR Cloud ERP Solutions allows the company to acquire new operations that produce products and provides services that are complimentary to its existing lines or build new products and services to penetrate new markets.

A long term JOMAR client with five USA and seven Global locations has merged its new acquisition that has implemented the JOMAR Industry Specific and Advanced Textiles Performance Materials ERP Solution. The company is a worldwide market leader in the production of advanced laminate composites for the Automotive, Protective, Medical, Defense, Filtration and Performance Wear Industries.

The merger was the result of a long term collaboration with a Strategic Partner that serves the Automotive Industry. The Strategic Partner is also a long term JOMAR Global client with multi-site implementations of the JOMAR ERP Solution in the USA, China and India.

The ERP Suite was deployed in the JOMAR Private Cloud and connected with the company corporate network and hosting infrastructure that also supports the JOMAR On Premise implementation for its five USA and Global composite lamination operations. The complex multi plant manufacturing operations are supported by the Industry Specific laminating, composite, and Advanced Textiles multi plant functionality.

A deployment in the JOMAR Private Cloud was determined to be the most cost effective and quickest implementation method to meet the deadline to move off the divesting Strategic Partner corporate data center.

The Advanced Textiles implementation supports the company multi-plant vertically integrated sites and comprehensive product lines of Advanced Performance and Engineered Materials. The Textile Specific  functions were configured to support the complex production of roll goods cut and slit to variable widths and lengths. Filtration products such as bags required the ability to configure end items to meet customer specific dimensions such as height, width and diameter.

Its advanced materials are produced from a range of high performance synthetic fibers that are used to produce its protective, fire resistant and insulation, liquid and air filtration, environmental protective secondary oil containment systems and geotextiles materials.

Non-Woven materials are coated and finished with polymer resins and formulations that result in composites with abrasion resistance, anti-static, fire resistant, water, oil and dirt repellency physical properties that can be applied to a broad range of markets such as Automotive, Aluminum Extrusion, Building and Construction, Glass Manufacturing, Insulation and Metal Coil Processing.

The multi plant vertically integrated functionality combined with the Advanced Textiles specific  functionality that is flexible, configurable provides the company with the ability to engineer and develop new products and services to grow its existing markets, diversify and expand into new industries.

The company is a successful rapidly growing converter and distributor that works with over 100 active subcontractors in its supply chain. It is utilizing the flexibility and configurable functionality of the JOMAR Manufacturing Specific ERP to expand into direct manufacturing with its first acquisition less than 6 months after going live on the JOMAR Private Cloud in September 2020.

The initial site implementation was configured as a converting services and distribution supply chain operation that could deliver its quality products and services using any combination of its 100 active subcontractors. The JOMAR ERP processes support the full Supply Chain and Distribution cycle from Quotation, Sales Order Confirmation, Tracking of Subcontractor Manufacturing and Services through shipment to the company distribution center or directly to the end customer.

As a result of the rapid growth and success in the markets it serves management made a strategic decision to acquire its own manufacturing facility. The acquisition is being set up as a flexible manufacturing operation that can produce any of its current products, new products for any new market it targets and also function as a subcontracting operation providing services to other facilities.

An Electric and Water Utility selected the JOMAR Next Generation CIS/MDM after a competitive RFP bid process. The comprehensive CIS/MDM deployment on the JOMAR Private Cloud requires integration across a broad range of the Utilities critical assets, data driven network infrastructure, operational support systems, Energy and Water Regulatory Agencies.

The Utility serves a community of 183,000 residents with 66,700 Electric Smart Meters and 40,000 Water Meters. It maintains 32 substations and 1,600 kilometers of medium voltage distribution lines to deliver electricity.

The project requires full integration with the Elster Advance Meter Infrastructure (AMI), and a Customer Self Service Portal deployed in the JOMAR Private Cloud.

Energy Regulatory Compliance requires daily feeds of all electrical consumption based on real time meter reads from the AMI to a Provincial Energy Department Meter Data Repository and a Regional Government mandated data feed for all Water Usage to support its Water Conservation initiatives.        

The CIS/MDM is also integrated with the Utility Geographical Information System (GIS), Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR), Credit Card Payment Services, Bank EFT and Financial Systems deployed On Premise.

A Water Utility serving a community of 133,000 residents received formal City council approval to move forward with the full roll out of 35,000 Smart Meters.  The roll out supports the City Water Conservation Initiatives utilizing the JOMAR MDM integrated with the Sensus AMI.

The initial Pilot Project included deployment of Smart Meters at Residential as well as Institutional and Commercial locations. The implementation will include integration with the Utility Legacy CIS. The MDM real time alarm and event listener will be used to monitor water usage and identify leakage in the water distribution infrastructure.