Manufacturing Module
Manufacturing ERP Module
Why do you need our manufacturing ERP module? It can help you manage the materials used, optimize your production and plan your resources.
Bill of materials
The bill of materials module lets you determine which materials are used in your product, how the products are made and what it costs to manufacture them. It also helps you orchestrate planned changes to product designs thanks to planning each change at the date it will take effect. Operated together with the inventory system, the bill of materials system uses three integrated modules to determine the manufacturing process of finished products and components: bill of materials, standard cost evaluation and routing setup.
- Establish the standard cost of purchased parts for the next period and determine the cost of manufactured items.
- See the effect of price increases/decreases before setting the price list.
- Access accurate information at the right time thanks to live processing.
- Document bills of materials centrally to improve communications.
- Keep a history of item manufacturing using revisions and effective dates.
Production
The production module is operated together with the planning, inventory and bill of materials modules to track manufacturing activities from the issuance of work orders through to their completion. Create work orders using the standards established in the bill of materials module to provide the shop floor with accurate documentation, thereby minimizing paperwork.
- Increased productivity: see which materials have an abnormally high scrap factor and assess the performance of employees and their supervisors, the direct labor/overhead ratio as well as variances by workstation or operation.
- Reduced clerical staff costs: there is no need to re-enter shop floor transactions to obtain accurate cost accounting, accurate performance calculations and to track inventory.
- Increased quality: centralize bills of materials with routings automatically transferred to work orders and printed with an unlimited number of instructions. Effective communication means fewer errors and immediate corrective actions.
- Increased customer satisfaction: know which work orders are overdue and inform your customers of task status.
Planning
Closed-loop MRP II technology is at the heart of the production resource planning module. Information from the forecast and routing files and the capacity requirements plan, as well as from the inventory, procurement, bill of materials and production systems, is analyzed together with the master production schedule to produce a time-phased material requirements plan.
- Increase your sales by spending more time selling and less time expediting or apologizing for promises that were not kept.
- Reduce your safety stock at every level (raw materials, components and finished products) when you operate by plan rather than by crisis.
- Eliminate the inefficiency and downtime caused by poor planning.
- Reduce the number of last-minute orders, which translates into better negotiations and lower costs.
- Plans can communicate at all levels with a realistic schedule.
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