Manufacturing Management

Inventory Management gives you more control over your inventory by providing greater accuracy and visibility to inventory information throughout the organization. It forms the core of the manufacturing, distribution and accounting facilities and is designed to integrate with all the major functions of the systems and to provide flexible reporting on inventory holdings.

Bill of Materials (BOM) is designed to provide your organization with complete control over the product structure by ensuring that engineering, production, purchasing and order processing are utilizing the same information. BOM is defined by the manufacturing process and includes: work centers, labor, tools, dies, inserts, fixtures, raw materials, packaging, scrap rates, setup times, yields and equipment.

Work in Progress module is the cornerstone of the system’s Manufacturing Solution. It allows you to issue work orders, develop schedules, and track costs associated with the manufacturing process. This solution provides you with complete control of the manufacturing process and the ability to see up-to-the-minute, work-in-progress information.

Factory Documentation facilitates clear and accurate user-defined shop floor documentation for production operations to be performed and materials to be issued, thereby enabling accuracy and efficient control of production processes.

Product Configurator provides a rules-based system, which enables on-the-fly configuration of highly customizable and dimensional products via a straightforward question and answer evaluation. Through the standardization of this process the configurator can be utilized by multiple people across the organization.

Lot Traceability, also known as Batch Traceability, provides instant access to all the critical information required to track manufactured lots, batches and serialized units. It includes materials consumed, warehouse information, inspection information, quantities and control dates. Lot Traceability assists in identifying root-causes for defects, leading to effective containment and resolution.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) assists in managing the balance between supply and demand. MRP uses projected and actual demand and supply to assist in planning and creating realistic production, purchasing and supply transfer schedules. It also identifies capacity constraints and maintains optimal stock holdings in a multi-site and multi-warehouse environment. It therefore helps reduce inventory, increase manufacturing productivity, and ultimately facilitates cash flow.

Projects and Contracts facilitates accurate profit reporting for long-term projects which require analysis of costs and revenues for multiple sections and levels.

Activity Based Costing

Engineering Change Control (ECC) allows for product design tasks to be assigned to specific users or transferred between users. Users are notified of new tasks and reminded of outstanding tasks. It also allows for engineering design changes to be signed off electronically.

Activity Based Costing (ABC) allows for the accumulation and recovery of costs associated with the purchasing, manufacturing and selling of items, thereby facilitating accuracy in calculating product profitability. ABC is not another inventory costing method (e.g. Average, Standard, FIFO, LIFO and Last) but, rather, it provides a different method of calculating these costs.