U.S. Tsubaki User Group Conference

Subsidiary of Tsubakimoto Chain Company Founded in 1917 as a manufacturer of bicycle chains Stopped bicycle production in 1928 to focus on industrial chains In 2001, built the most advanced chain production facility in the world in Kyotanabe, Japan Global market share leader in industrial chains Annual sales over $1.7 billion 5800 employees world wide

Engineering Chain Plant Conveyor Operations Div. U.S. Tsubaki Facilities Roller Chain Plant Holyoke, MA Ballantine Facility Anoka, MN KabelSchlepp Div. Milwaukee, WI Automotive Div. Chicopee, MA HEADQUARTERS Wheeling, IL Engineering Chain Plant Sandusky, OH Philadelphia, PA Conveyor Operations Div. Portland, TN Rialto, CA Atlanta, GA TSUBAKI BRAZIL Production Facilities and Divisions USTP Warehouses

U.S. Tsubaki Business Units Power Transmission Automotive Conveyor Operations

U.S. Tsubaki Environment QAD Customer since 1990 Auto timing systems – QAD 2011SE Industrial Division – QAD 2010SE Currently upgrading to 2016EE

Our 1st Challenge Defined Minimum Requirements Daily Sales 30 salespeople in the country How to get them their territory information Current Situation – Monthly report Defined Minimum Requirements Daily Sales Daily Bookings Daily Quotes Cannot allow salespeople access to others data

How we going to do this? Answer Is: Cyberquery!

Planning Team reviewed the current needs and future needs Input screens to be consistent Nomenclature to be consistent Security must be implemented to avoid data leaking Email distribution User log in

Consistent Screen Layout Consistent Nomenclature

Security/Distribution We built it in QAD Can also be managed in Cyberquery

And within a few weeks… We went from Monthly Sales updates to Daily Sales updates

Daily Sales, bookings and Quotes Report Delivered Daily at 4am to every salesperson’s inbox

Within 1 year Expanded into a full sales reporting tool

Canned report for Customer Visit

Expansion to others departments

Additional Items of Interest

Cost Control Actual to Budget Variance Delivered Weekly to Plant Supervisors

Daily orders Configuration Department Currently developing by Operation in Manufacturing

Shipping Department Order Consolidation

Housekeeping Ever in a meeting where data is presented is incorrect? People in the room are making decisions from incorrect data points Your saying that does not look right! US Tsubaki has elected to manage access to query writing very closely Limit only power users to write their own queries Trained power users how to test the results prior to publishing If information is being communicated to the masses we will audit the information in IT

Technology and Time permitting Live Demo