In practice, many companies have large seasonal fluctuations in production and weighing needs can vary widely at different times. Company needs, such as those related to load handling, production processes and reporting, can change at different times. In different business sectors, there are manufacturers or downstream processors with weighing needs that are sporadic or cyclical in nature.
When incoming loads of raw materials oroutgoing truckloads offinishedproducts are irregular or infrequent, it is not practical or difficult to justify the purchase of a new truck scale. Issues may arise that make it very difficult or even impossible to carry out weighing elsewhere or manually. If you look at the operators in one logistically concentrated area, where there are dozens of weighing needs on a calculated weekly or even daily basis, the investment in a single weighbridge and the mScales weighing service is avery justified and reasonable purchase. We use the term " multi-enterprise environment solution"for such a mScales weighing service.In this case, weighing is done by each user as a fully self-service and/or all weighing is done by one scale operator.
Once connected to the mScales service, it is possible to subsequently open a company-specific account for each user,with each company having its own products,customers, transporters, orders, users, stocks and electronic documents. The service sends weighing receipts to the necessary parties and the customer, supplier, haulier or other partner in the network can see up-to-date weighing information and reports only for themselves. An unlimited number of companies can be connected to the weighing service and each of them can use the scale as their own and only pay for the use of the service.
Additional company-specific modules can be added and exchanged as required. For example, boom opening, electronic transport documents, warehouse management and weighing offline. Production can also be given a separate loading authorisation and real-time transfer of weighing events to ERP systems and invoicing. This allows the weighbridge to be managed by more than one company. In addition to the above, the weighing service can also be connected to other customers who can use the scale with their mobile weighing codes.
The mScales serviceis safe and secure as users from different companies only log in to their own company accounts with their own personal IDs and do not see each other's data and transactions. For example, if there is a company responsible for security in the area, the scales services can also be managed so that they act as users for each company and can serve their customers on a company-by-company basis. Information sharing is controlled.
It shouldalsobe mentionedthat additional customer-specific parameters can be set in the mScales software as required and are not visible to others. The scale owner only sees the registration number of the truck, the weight of the load and the time stamp, i.e. how many weighing operations have been carried out. It can be concluded that the multi-company environment built into the mScales weighing service is a sharing economy at its best, creating a win-win situation for users. Examples of such customers include logistics and warehousing centres, port areas, business parks and industrial estates.
Read how our customer Metsäsairila has used the shared use scale.
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