PLUM

PLUM - System Software that makes all your scales more manageable with fewer resources. Originally developed by Bizerba.

Manage all your needs with ePLUM

You know that delivering increased value at a lower cost through all your activities, including scale management operations, is always a priority. We built ePLUM based on fifteen years experience supplying scale management solutions to over 10,000 grocery stores. With enhanced scale visibility from a central location and new automation options to simplify administration, ePLUM makes all your scales more manageable with fewer resources.

The money saving solution

Count the ways ePLUM can save you money:

  • ePLUM's components can be installed centrally, reducing or even eliminating the required investment for your in-store computing environments.
  • ePLUM is easily accessible from a Web browser, eliminating the need for expensive “fat-client” computers in the store for scale management.
  • ePLUM consolidates database management into a single enterprise-level database, improving database integrity and reducing your costs for system replication, synchronization and data maintenance.
  • ePLUM uses new firmware technology to interface with legacy serial scales, extending their life and saving on the cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining store software and hardware.

A ‘mission control center' for your scales

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 third party systems for item management 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.