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ePLUM - Enterprise Scale Management

Key Features & Benefits

ePLUM puts everything your support personnel need right at their fingertips through its unique Enterprise Scale Manager interface. From a central location, you can monitor and manage all the scales in your enterprise, view scales by store or department, check pending batches or any in-progress scale actions—and be alerted to any scale transmission errors. To make it easier to find critical information, ePLUM gives you the ability to sort event log records by scale, batch, and configuration.

The solution that communicates

ePLUM manages serial and TCP/IP scale information in real time. It makes status information accessible centrally from the Enterprise Scale Manager, remotely by cell phone or in-store through a Web browser, a Web-enabled PDA, or even one of your own weigh-scales.

By default, the Enterprise Scale Manager checks each scale’s on-line status regularly over your network. You can configure how often status checks are performed and disable displays of the latest status temporarily while performing other functions. What’s more, ePLUM proactively notifies you of problems before they occur. Because your staff have more important tasks than monitoring a computer screen 24/7, ePLUM automatically informs support staff by e-mail or pager based on error severity. If the page or e-mail is not received, ePLUM displays previously sent messages when the application is accessed.

Adaptable to your needs today… and tomorrow

ePLUM is a flexible software solution designed to run on most configurations and platforms. Depending on your needs, ePLUM can be run entirely from a central location or provide in-store functionality and redundancy running on the hardware of your choice: the Invatron Serial Gateway Server, a PC, or most in-store processors (ISPs). It can be run on multiple application servers to facilitate effective load balancing. Further, it can interface with item management systems such as Invatron’s PLUM Host. As your needs change, ePLUM can evolve in harmony with your evolving store systems strategy.

Built with your scales’ future in mind

ePLUM is a powerful tool to not only manage and deliver item data to scales but also to better manage the scales themselves. It’s already delivering much more information than price—there’s firmware, graphic binary images (logos), and label formats, to name only a few. We foresee a future in which scales will become multi-function devices, potentially supporting such diverse file formats as streaming audio and video, advertising information, and production and replenishment data. Whatever data you’ll need to push to your scales tomorrow, ePLUM will be poised to deliver it easily and efficiently.

Today ePLUM already delivers the first essential ingredient to any fresh item management system: data integrity. With so many grocers now realizing they need software to help them better manage produce procurement and meat and bakery production, note that ePLUM integrates seamlessly with Invatron’s PeriScope Decision Support System, sharing architectural and database components.

  • Powerful Operational Intelligence (OI) - network highway for Benchmarking Shrink/OOS, Production and Operation totals, Audit Data
  • Enable Poin-Of-Scale coupon and media solutions - robust chain deployment permits more media
  • Re-deploy scarce Operations and IT personnel - no clerical, low-value PLU admin required
  • Unmediated TCP/IP access to Scale Network - no in-store processor required
  • Low TCO File Updates - no in-store manual labour required
  • Shrinks window of opportunity to download - enables parallel multi-threaded data traffic
  • Device and Data Agnostic - ALL TCP/IP devices, ALL Data types