Computer Software for Steel Professionals
Structural Material Manager Version 19.2 Upgrade
Ability to Delete Shipping Tickets: The optional Production-Control menu now has a "Delete Shipping Ticket" menu option. You always had the ability to pull up an existing ticket for editing, and that was useful if you simply needed to re-print a ticket whether with or without changes. Where that capability came up short, however, was when your intent was to delete EVERY item from a ticket. You were blocked from updating the Production-Control History after removing every item, as the old function's intent was to modify rather than delete a ticket. By contrast, the new function lists all of a job's historical tickets, and the selected one can now be completely deleted.
Situations of mid-point shipping (a.k.a. interim ship-points) will be much easier to handle under the new system. For example, let's say a Shipping Ticket was created to send a load to a galvanizer, and that shipment was stored in the job's Production-Control History. The problem under prior versions was that the items were considered already shipped; they were no longer available for ultimate shipping to the job-site, and you thus could not add them to a new Shipping Ticket. Under the new version, when the items are ready to ship to the job site, all you have to do is delete the ticket so as to once again make those items available for shipping.
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Next-Generation Programming Language Compiler: The programming language in which the software is written has constantly evolved since its introduction in 1983 (a couple years before Structural Material Manager itself debuted). Every so many years, the language makes a large leap forward in terms of performance, and such a major revision was released in late 2023. Structural Material Manager Version 19.2 was recompiled under the new language version for the best possible performance.
From a programming standpoint, Windows 10 and 11 essentially represent “moving targets” due to the manner in which Microsoft's constant updates introduce subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) behavior changes. Compiling Structural Material Manager in the latest language version guarantees not just great performance but also the ultimate compatibility with Microsoft's latest Windows updates.
Upgrade Price Quote and Ordering Info: If you are an existing customer with an older Structural Material Manager version, please e-mail us at Sales@ejeindustries.com to obtain a price quote on the latest upgrade. You can then use the Online Upgrade Order Form to conveniently place the order for the latest Structural Material Manager upgrade.
Other Upgrade Versions: This page specifically covers Version 19.2 upgrade features. For information concerning other upgrade versions, visit our main Structural Material Manager upgrade page which contains links to pages describing improvements in each software release from Version 10.1 (circa 2007) to the present.