Manufacturing Resource Planning
Objective:
Ensure materials and products are available for production and delivery to customers. Helps you maintain low inventory level. It can be used to plan manufacturing activities, delivery schedules, and purchasing activities.
Tools included:
- Inventory Control - Identify and track information on each material.
- Tracking Material Lots - Automatically track raw materials, sub-assemblies and final assemblies to their origins.
- Multi-level Assemblies - All assemblies within a job are scheduled to come together for final assembly, providing powerful usability for make to order manufacturing companies requiring true multi-level BOMs.
- Shop Floor Data Collection - Automate the entry and enhance the accuracy of your daily labor, inventory transactions, and shipping and receiving.
- Physical Inventory - Collect, reconcile and post count quantities against on-hand inventory balances and generate general ledger transactions.
Features:
General Features
- Automatic searching as you type or automatic pop-up list for selecting records anywhere a part number, item description, order number, customer or supplier is entered
- Print preview for all reports
- Built in Report viewer/print utility
- Output reports to other file formats such as Microsoft Excel, RTF, PDF, etc.
- Unlimited number of line items for Sales Orders, Sales Invoice, Sales Credit, Purchase Orders, Purchase Invoice, and Purchase Credit
Inventory Module
- Supports average, standard and last Purchase Order costs
- Stores price quantity breaks for vendors and customers
- Inventory Movement Report (Inventory value on any date)
Item Planning Parameters
- Order size modifiers:
- Minimum order quantity
- Order multiples
- Maximum order quantity
- Fixed order quantity
- Lead times:
- Purchasing lead time
- Manufacturing lead times: setup and runtime
- QC inspection lead time
- Intra-warehouse stock transfer lead time
- Planned order flag to exclude items from the planning run process
Demand Planning
- Demand based on sales forecasts, actual orders, or both
- Flexible sales forecast entry
- Enter sales forecasts by item or by product family
- Option to have actual orders consume sales forecasts
- Forward and backward forecast consumption logic to level-out uneven demand
- Option to skew monthly forecasts more towards the beginning of the month or end of the month
Planning Run Features
- Regenerative and net change planning run
- Time fencing that prevents order changes within a user-specified time frame
- Exception messages that show which firm or released orders are past due, or must be deferred, expedited, decreased or cancelled
- Progress bars to indicate duration and completion status while planning run is being performed
Bills of Materials Module
- Where Used, Pick Lists, Costed, Un-costed, Exploded Reports
- Unlimited reference designators per BOM items
- Step down into sub-assemblies and back-up when editing a BOM
Purchasing and Receiving Modules
- Automatically inserts vendor and part number information
- Individual Purchase Orders and Purchase Order Reports can be printed, displayed, exported or e-mailed
- Entering a Purchase Order automatically increases the on order quantities for each part number
- Entering a receiver automatically decrements the on hand and order quantities foe each part number
Sales Order and Invoice Modules
- Automatically inserts customer and part number information
- Individual Sales Orders and Sales Order Reports can be printed, displayed, exported or e-mailed
- Entering a Sales Order automatically increases the on demand quantity for each assembly
- Entering an invoice automatically decrements to on hand and demand quantity for each assembly
Interface
- Automatic conversion of selected planned orders to manufacturing orders or purchase requisitions
- Derives actual demand from sales orders in Order Entry and Billing Module
- Processes planned orders generated from the Master Production Scheduling and Distribution Requirements Planning modules
Accounting
- Debits and Credits and their amounts are automatically inserted to GAP Financial Solutions accounting transaction
Reports
- SAP Crystal Reports integrated
- Sales Forecast List
- Manufacturing Exception Report
- Purchasing Exception Report
- Month’s Coverage List