Production scheduling
Provides multiple planning methods to fit requirements. For repetitive manufacturing shortage analysis and/or priority analysis methods of pull planning can be used. MRPII is also supported, with order proposals prioritised down to lowest component level, to forecast on fulfilling demand in the right order.
Manufacturing alternative products (co-Products)
Accommodates alternative products, or co-products, in response to orders. Alternative products are defined in the manufacturing structure file as possible items to be produced, as a specified percentage or quantity that can be produced as an alternative product. The manufacturing reception function is used to define whether the product is the planned end-product or an alternative that should be received to stock.
Manufacturing orders
Multiple order creation methods for flexible set-up and performance
Graphical planner view
Information is presented via a graphical planning interface through which updates can be performed, including refresh pull-planning proposal; change proposal; create order (manufacturing and/or purchase order); change manufacturing order quantity, start/completion date, order priority/sequence; open a closed manufacturing order; change manufacturing order operation priority, sequence or work centre; print manufacturing order operation cards; reschedule operation; reset operation; manufacturing operation reporting; manufacturing order reception; change work centre capacity; and change proposal.
Preventive maintenance and service integration
A fully integrated solution for proactive internal maintenance and preventive service on machines (work centres) and tools that connects service objects to work centres or tools. Proactively reduce the capacity for works centres when planning preventative service and automatically create service orders when a tool that is being calibrated reaches its calibration point.
Rough-cut disposal check on Material and Capacity at Order Entry
Checks against normal stock and adjusts for exceptions, calculating ‘best delivery date’ if stock/capacity is not available within the item’s planning timeline.
Tools and fixtures
Plan better with auto allocation of tools for manufacturing order operations. Including the ability to calibrate a tool when it has been used for a specified number of orders, produced pieces or hours.
Subcontract operations
Support external production within internal processes by defining operations as subcontract, creating a purchase order and connecting it to the manufacturing order from the subcontract operations.
Internal order replenishment (stock requests)
Visibility of stock across distribution centres and the ability to create internal replenishment orders, rather than ordering stock from a supplier, increases group inventory turns. All intercompany accounting is handled via internal purchase orders and internal sales orders.
Manufacture order reporting
Multiple reporting options such as PC, workshop terminals or bar code readers and shop floor reporting including used, produced and scrapped quantities, reason codes, person-time used, machine resources and other cost elements. Automatically ‘un-book’ allocated materials and/or operations, whereby pre-calculated values will be used. WIP can be analysed online including material, time used and other costs to uncover deviations between pre-calculated and actual values and take appropriate action.
Quality control
Obtain quality control reports during the manufacturing process, at manufacturing reception or for stock items. Quality reporting set-up is based on conformity groupings connected to one or many products, with criteria used to define the values to be used for reporting different processes, such as manufacturing operation reporting. Results are stored in a history file, and can be queried for analysis. Non-conformity certificates are created for quantity reported, for example outside a defined criteria or value
Manufacturing order block order handling
A ‘contract’ or ‘repetitive manufacturing flow’ that enables the creation of daily, weekly or monthly manufacturing orders with some default values, as well as the ability to create simple reception reports with backflushing for both material and operations.
Activity oriented product costing
Flexible and efficient cost control and follow-up is performed with a wide spectrum of options to fit different manufacturing environments. Compute variations of material, machines and labour overheads with cost price simulation functionality. Use alternative manufacturing routes or bills of material while still achieving accurate product cost calculation and follow-up. Enter any element of a cost calculation either manually, by individual algorithm, or from cost tables. ‘What if’ analysis is reported performing cost simulations on-line, and entry and calculations for extremely low-cost products is possible, as is the ability to base calculations on standard quantities for product costing on produced items for better accuracy. Saved current and previous product costs and simulations include total bill of materials (BOM), bill of routing (BOR) and overview presentation, for greater visibility of how it was constructed. BOM/BOR (quantities and times) can be updated from actual manufacturing order statistics (average values), and there is a detailed audit trail to track all BOM/BOR changes.
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