Productivity is the key to staying competitive in the marketplace. Because productivity tools are fully integrated with
the NDS ERP Solution, it's quick and easy to perform special tasks, saving time and increasing the efficiency of your
operations. In addition, NDS is continually building and adding new tools and features to help you keep that
competitive edge. Listed below are just a few of our tools that complement and enhance our already robust
applications, assisting in all aspects of your business functions and ultimately saving your company valuable time.
User Maintainable Menu System:
Because different users need quick access to different functions, NDS was created to be menu-assisted not menudriven.
With the NDS Menu System, individual user menus can be created, assigned, and displayed by user login.
The expandable/collapsible tree-style design facilitates navigation, and menus consist of metadata, which means that
custom modifications and additions are controlled by the data and not the programming.
User Definable Drill Down:
Ever want to view more information, but that information isn't contained in the current program? With NDS
Applications, the Drill Down feature allows you to access and run other programs from within the current program.
The data displayed on the current screen is carried forward to the target screen or report and used as the basis for
automatic query and display. A user can drill down through as many programs as they like. Drill down definitions can
be extended indefinitely by system administrators or end users with no programming at all, making it easy to access
as much information and as specific information as any user needs.
Auditing:
Need to keep close track of your data and the changes made to it? Audit trails can be set up to track any table or
column that exists in the system, including custom tables and columns. The system is shipped with a number of audit
trails already set up for critical tables, but these trails can be easily modified to suit your needs.
Key Field Renumbering:
Change is inevitable, and NDS makes it easy to update your data when it happens. Key information, such as item
numbers, vendor numbers, customer numbers, code values and many others can be changed in the system to a new
value using a single program. With a few keystrokes and the click of a button, the program scans the entire database
and changes all occurrences from the old value to the new value. It couldn't be easier.
User Utilities:
Your system administrators and programmers need access to more information than a standard user in order to get
their job done. NDS Applications includes utility programs and reports to assist programmers and system
administrators with troubleshooting, debugging, and gathering information to customize the system. The system
comes complete with cross references, where used data and other schema and program analysis tools.
File and Image Sharing:
An image is worth a thousand words, and with our file and image sharing features, users can get a clearer idea of
what they need to know. Files and images can be linked to records in the application and viewed later. You can
scan and/or store purchase orders, contracts, checks, drawings, specifications, photographs, conversations, emails,
etc. Anything you need to see.
Import/Export:
They say that you can't take it with you, but with NDS Applications, you can! Data from any table or view can be
exported to csv files for use in external applications, such as Excel. With the NDS Xephr software, you can expand
your capabilities to the web by exporting reports in HTML, XML, Excel or PDF form, and reading and writing
standards based web services.
Need to import data? You can! Data can be imported using csv files, allowing bulk inserts of important information,
although there are some limitations of the tables that allow imports to protect the integrity of your data.
Anytime, Anywhere Web Access:
Got an emergency call while you're on vacation? Need to get that report, but you're at home? With access any time
through an internet connection and a browser, you and your employees can manage the business virtually anywhere.
Workflows:
Having problems passing along important information to those who need it? NDS Workflows center on the idea of an
event, in which a document or piece of information needs to be communicated to a particular person at a particular
time or in a particular situation. These situations are configurable to be specific to your needs. In addition, workflows
can also be created manually and on demand by an employee, making it easy for your employees to communicate
important information to each other.
Email and Fax Capabilities:
Going green? Want to save money on paper and postage? With the NDS ERP Solution, supplier and customer
related documents, such as purchase orders, quotes, order acknowledgements, invoices and statements can be
emailed or faxed directly within the NDS application. These can be sent individually or by a batch process. Internal
workflows can be setup to send emails along with the internal notification or email only. The fax feature must be
integrated with a third-party fax software product.
EDI External Interface:
Do you interface with an external computer system? Do you need to transfer electronic documents from that
computer system to your internal system? Using the programs in the External Interface Module, the NDS ERP
solution can interface with external programs, sending messages (outbound processing) such as an order
confirmation through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or receiving messages (inbound processing) such as a sales
order through EDI. Once these transactions are available in the External Interface programs, the necessary
information can be transferred to NDS standard programs. The External Interface functionality supports the flat-file
structures required for EDI transactions and is designed with the flexibility to accommodate many different types of
data transfers.
(Since EDI can be transmitted using any methodology agreed to by the sender and recipient, NDS considers each
EDI transaction to be a custom fitted project.)
Customizable Reporting:
Because each company is different, in addition to the standard reports, NDS allows you to customize your own
reports. In order to address all the needs of your users, we offer basic to advanced report writing training. (Available
with the NDS Xephr software.)
API
Using standard protocols such as XML, web services provide a way to discreetly package business applications by
using API's (application programming interfaces) and make them accessible via the Internet to external databases
and other applications. Web Services lend themselves to the automation of inter-company transactions and solve
back-end integration problems.
Bar Coding/RF Capabilities
We understand the importance of knowing where your products are and where they’ve been in the supply chain at all
times. Our software incorporates Symbol scanning devices to accurately inventory, track, and trace a product
throughout its lifecycle, automatically capturing critical transaction data on the manufacturing floor. This solution
provides the ability to "scan" and "shoot" incoming raw materials and to track outgoing finished products.
User Security
Concern about security has never been greater, and with NDS ERP Solutions, protecting sensitive user information
has never been easier. In NDS Applications, security can be set up by user and user group, allowing strict control
over the modules, applications, programs, and data to which each user or group of users has access. By enabling
the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Features, users’ passwords have a limited life and are required to be ‘strong’.
Help Documentation
NDS Online Help is a resource provided by NDS Systems to assist users in running the programs present in NDS
ERP Solution. Accessing the NDS Online Help is as simple as pressing the yellow question mark button 
located
on the NDS toolbar, NDS Menu, and NDS log-in screen. It contains 8000 pages of documentation and help, from
program overviews to job streams to field by field definitions.
Now more than ever it is important to focus on saving time and increasing efficiencies of your operations. Now is the
time to use productivity tools to help create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise. Visit our website at
www.ndsapps.com or call us at 727-538-2250 for more information on how the NDS Solution can help cut costs and streamline your business.
