BellHawk Systems specializes in providing cost-effective solutions to a wide range of operational problems. These include:

1. Warning employees when they are about to make an operational mistake. By having employees record their actions using barcode scanning or keyboard data entry BellHawk is able to warn employee's when they are about to make a mistake. Examples of such mistakes include using the wrong materials to make products, mixing the wrong quantities of materials and shipping the wrong materials to customers.

2. Gathering tracking data in a database so that the source of problems can quickly be identified. BellHawk can track materials, including vendor supplied material, inventory and work-in-process, employees, equipment, quality control and test data, documents, process control data, as well as related data from accounting, ERP and CRM systems.

3. Gathering traceability data in a database so that defective materials can be traced from their source (such as a vendor) to their current location or destination. This includes tracing what materials went into which finished goods and which customers these were shipped to. This enables recalls to be limited to the effected materials, thereby helping avoid the costs and business risks associated with major recalls.

4. Enabling managers, supervisors and customer service people to track the status of customer orders in real-time. This enables our client's to ensure customer orders get delivered on time without excessive overtime or the costs of expedited delivery. BellHawk also helps avoid the costs of penalties due to late or incorrect deliveries.

5. Enabling inventory managers to track the state of their inventory in real-time. This includes tracking the status of vendor purchase orders and the receipts of materials. It also enable inventory managers to predict when they need to reorder materials and to track work-in-process and scrapped and defective materials.

6. Gathering tracking and traceability data in an electronic database for mandated compliance with regulations from US Government agencies, such as the FDA, as well as mandates from customers. This includes assisting clients with required electronic interchange of this data over the Internet.

7. Gathering activity based costing data. This typically includes data about the cost of materials, labor and equipment time consumed in some activity, such as processing materials. This data is typically exchanged with Accounting or other financial systems. It is also uses for ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, especially in areas such as accurately accounting for the cost of work-in-process.

8. Gathering data that can be used to detect employee theft or fraud. Here BellHawk is able to track materials, tools and supplies and to detect abnormal and suspicious activities.

BellHawk software is used by organizations such as manufacturers and distributors of medical products, biotechnology organizations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and food processors, as well as manufacturers of automotive, safety and aerospace components and products. It is also used by converters, mineral extractors and producers of packaging materials whose products can indirectly impact human health and safety.

BellHawk is used by service organizations, such as those performing DNA testing and those performing critical repairs, such as to aerospace components. It is also used in major construction projects to track critical materials and by the producers of these materials to prove quality.

BellHawk is used by organizations that, while not making or processing products that involve human or animal safety, are still subject to substantial penalties or negative business effects if they produce defective products or their employees make errors in the contents or timing of customer order shipment.

BellHawk is used by organizations that need to accurately track and account for customer owned materials and the processing or servicing of those materials or equipment. It is also used by organizations that need to accurately track the detailed cost of each operational activity. 

BellHawk is also used by organizations, such as jewelers, that deal in high value products. Here BellHawk can be invaluable in detecting when there are problems with theft. BellHawk can also be very useful in situations involving products which have a high value due to their trade-mark. Here BellHawk can help identify the introduction of substitute products or materials of lower quality or value.

BellHawk tracks materials from the time they are received to when they are shipped to customers. It tracks work-in-process and what materials are used in making other materials. It also tracks which employees performed which processes and tracks test and quality control data. BellHawk also tracks related documentation received from vendors and produced within the organization.

BellHawk tracks the receipt of materials from vendors by container, lot and serial number and can track the batch, system, or products that the vendor materials were used in making. To facilitate this process BellHawk can import the open vendor purchase orders from an external accounting or ERP system and can export the resultant receipts back to these systems.

BellHawk tracks multi-step jobs in real-time, including materials consumed and produced, work-in-process, who worked on each step, which equipment was used and any scrap or rework operations performed. BellHawk can be integrated with weighing scales, test equipment and other process control control equipment to form complete end-to-end traceability records.

BellHawk tracks which containers of finished goods were shipped to which customers and when. It can import customer orders from customer relations management or accounting systems and use this data to record the picking, packing and shipping of customer orders. This can include preventing errors, such as loading materials onto the wrong trucks.

BellHawk specializes in providing tracking and traceability solutions "within the four walls" of processing plants and distribution centers. It can be integrated with solutions that track the production and shipping of raw materials to the processing plant. BellHawk can also be integrated with logistics and retail distribution systems that track the flow of processed or manufactured to the point where they are consumed.

BellHawk can be used to collect and integrate tracking and traceability data from multiple processing plants and distribution centers. It can also be used to track materials in outdoor spaces such as yards and construction sites.

BellHawk can also be used as the basis of specialized tracking and traceability solutions such as those involved with the tracking of important documents, hazardous materials, and precious metals or gemstones.

BellHawk is not a warehouse management system (WMS), although many clients find that they do not need a WMS system in addition to the materials tracking capability of their BellHawk system. BellHawk is not a job shop tracking system although many clients find that they do not need a job shop tracking system in addition to Bellhawk.

Clients who need a simple WMS or job shop tracking system will find many lower-cost solutions in the marketplace. But for clients who need the combined production and inventory tracking capabilities that tracking and traceability solutions demand then our clients find that BellHawk is a very cost effective solution.

BellHawk Systems specializes in providing tracking and traceability solutions for mid-sized processing, manufacturing and distribution facilities. BellHawk based tracking and traceability solutions typically cost from $10,000 to $200,000 with a median cost of around $50,000. This includes software, equipment and implementation support services. There are other competitive organizations that provide similar solutions to "Fortune 1000" companies. These companies typically charge from $300,000 to several million dollars for their solutions.

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