Truck Scale Software
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Truck Scale Software is a class of software pertaining to the collection of transactional scale weighment data. Specifically for truck scales used to weigh heavy truck
s, light trucks, or other commercial vehicles. The basic concept of truck scale software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
as one might expect. With consumers ranging from single-site low transaction "mom and pop shops" to multi-national heavy volume corporations; the various Truck Scale Software development companies have ample opportunity to differentiate by targeting the very different needs of the specific consumer types.
The basic concept of Truck Scale Software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
Today, scale vendors are still offering simple (usually quite limited) solutions with systems, sometimes in direct competition with the software developers who are creating much more powerful data collection packages and dynamic user-friendly interfaces. Many of the larger scale vendors however, have started referring to certain Truck Scale Software packages or directly reselling them (for turn-key solutions).
Sometimes, truck scale software is part of a much larger software (and is then sometimes referred to as a weighbridge). Many targeted ERPs
for industries like quarry/mining/agriculture contain interface module for weighbridges.
Some truck scale manufacturers develop and sell their own software for weigh system interfacing and data collection.
Everyweigh.COM has a scale management system that creates 100% electronic documents as well as a flexible interface to any ERP system. The Everyweigh.COM ERP interface is the first of its kind as it is a real-time bi-directional interface. The goal is to keep both the scale and the ERP system up to date all the time. Everyweigh.COM also offers a unique combination of OFFLINE/ONLINE remote site support that provides the highest level of UP TIME for remote sites. Remote sites with slow or unreliable internet connections still operate successfully with Everyweigh.COM
Everyweigh.COM has a scale management system that creates 100% electronic documents as well as a flexible interface to any ERP system. The Everyweigh.COM ERP interface is the first of its kind as it is a real-time bi-directional interface. The goal is to keep both the scale and the ERP system up to date all the time. Everyweigh.COM also offers a unique combination of OFFLINE/ONLINE remote site support that provides the highest level of UP TIME for remote sites. Remote sites with slow or unreliable internet connections still operate successfully with Everyweigh.COM
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...
s, light trucks, or other commercial vehicles. The basic concept of truck scale software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
Developers
The truck scale industry is not a highly vertical niche marketNiche market
A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing; therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact...
as one might expect. With consumers ranging from single-site low transaction "mom and pop shops" to multi-national heavy volume corporations; the various Truck Scale Software development companies have ample opportunity to differentiate by targeting the very different needs of the specific consumer types.
The basic concept of Truck Scale Software is to provide the end user with a means of collecting and organizing weighment information.
Vendors
Before the software industry found the Truck Scale niche (in fact before the software industry was even born) scale users would either have to come up with their own customized methods for tracking data, or require that the scale vendor provide one as part of the weighing system. This led to scale vendors needing to be able to provide data collection and management solutions in order to compete.Today, scale vendors are still offering simple (usually quite limited) solutions with systems, sometimes in direct competition with the software developers who are creating much more powerful data collection packages and dynamic user-friendly interfaces. Many of the larger scale vendors however, have started referring to certain Truck Scale Software packages or directly reselling them (for turn-key solutions).
Sometimes, truck scale software is part of a much larger software (and is then sometimes referred to as a weighbridge). Many targeted ERPs
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
for industries like quarry/mining/agriculture contain interface module for weighbridges.
Some truck scale manufacturers develop and sell their own software for weigh system interfacing and data collection.
Everyweigh.COM has a scale management system that creates 100% electronic documents as well as a flexible interface to any ERP system. The Everyweigh.COM ERP interface is the first of its kind as it is a real-time bi-directional interface. The goal is to keep both the scale and the ERP system up to date all the time. Everyweigh.COM also offers a unique combination of OFFLINE/ONLINE remote site support that provides the highest level of UP TIME for remote sites. Remote sites with slow or unreliable internet connections still operate successfully with Everyweigh.COM
Users
Within the consumer sector of the truck scale industry are several subcategories of end user. The consumers range from the single-scale "mom and pop shop" to multi-national corporations with hundreds or even thousands of scale sites some of them totally unmanned running on smart cards. Each customer is unique to the point where a "canned package" is almost out of the question. The market is highly service oriented with any final solution being somewhat custom tailored to the end user's needs. It is not uncommon for a software package to have an obscure feature only because one particular customer "had to have it and was willing to pay for it".Everyweigh.COM has a scale management system that creates 100% electronic documents as well as a flexible interface to any ERP system. The Everyweigh.COM ERP interface is the first of its kind as it is a real-time bi-directional interface. The goal is to keep both the scale and the ERP system up to date all the time. Everyweigh.COM also offers a unique combination of OFFLINE/ONLINE remote site support that provides the highest level of UP TIME for remote sites. Remote sites with slow or unreliable internet connections still operate successfully with Everyweigh.COM