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| Industry | Software |
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| Genre | Business software |
| Founded | 1982 |
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| Products | CGram Enterprise |
| Website | cgram |
CGram Software is a Swansea-based software authoring company established in 1982. It provides accounting software, enterprise resource planning (ERP), CRM, production control and supply chain management software for small to medium-sized companies, and has a long history in the UNIX and Linux commercial world.[ citation needed ]
CGram Software was founded by Emrys Jones and Terry Crook in 1982. [1] They started developing a Unix manufacturing system. Jones [2] was at that time being actively involved with UKUUG (the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group), becoming temporary chairman in 1982 and was Chairman of the European Unix User Group until 1985. [3]
CGram Software started shipping the first Unix Manufacturing system in 1984 written in 'C', [4] being sold on Plexus and Arete machines. These were Motorola MC68000 based machines. The problem with the MC68000 was that every manufacturer had its own system of memory addressing, which made portability a challenge for software add-on vendors. To solve this, CGram introduced their '68000Fix' product, which processed the relocation information in a program and converted the program to work on the required target. This allowed CGram to offer their manufacturing system on a variety of other MC68000 systems, such as Fortune & Sperry.
This system implemented a just-in-time business model with Supplier Chain management for synchronous supply in 1987. The implementation at Ikeda Hoover was the subject of a case study into manufacturing for synchronous supply in 2002. [5] It was later extended with a full Kanban system for final assembly in 1990.
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