Managing works orders

See at a glance which orders are awaiting components and allocate from any of your pre-defined alternatives to ensure orders aren't held up. Instantly create back to back orders where you have shortages, subject to full purchase order authorisation. Pinpoint stock by multi-dimensional analysis and allocate serial numbers for traceability. Reversals are handled with ease so your shop floor and accounts are kept tidy and accurate.

Allocating stock

Allocating stock and components to orders, whether they're about to go into production or not, protects against other orders 'stealing' your stock, and ensures the order is ready to go ahead when confirmation is received. You can see at a glance and manage which orders are awaiting components and which have a full complement of parts. The latter can be automatically moved to your factory floor to prevent it getting clogged up.

Alternative items

If there are insufficient components to complete a works order, the system will prompt for your first-choice alternatives. You can specify any number of suitable alternatives, all of which are carried through to the picking list to ensure orders are not delayed.

Request to purchase

If there is a shortage of any component and/or its alternative, you can instantly create a 'back-to-back' purchase order (Request to Purchase) to source the required components from your supplier. You can also control spend on additional component stock by introducing multiple levels of purchase order approval.

Serial numbering

Serial numbers can be allocated to component stock, one by one or by bulk selection. These numbers will appear on the component picking list for the assembly, ensuring that the correct items are taken from stores. You can also assign serial numbers to each finished item, ensuring full traceability.

Sub-analysis

Items can have a further level of analysis to identify subtle differences for the same item where you wish to recognize all the subtleties within the same stock code. For example, pens with 4 different clip colours could be set up as 4 different stock items, or set up as a single stock item and sub-analysis used to specify the 4 different colours. Alternatively, sub-analysis helps you view component stock levels across multiple warehouses or view different locations within the same warehouse.

Reverse issue

Late changes to manufacturing requirements can be easily managed using a quick and straightforward process, ensuring your stock valuation is kept up-to-date.

Further information:

• Download a case study
• Contact us

Time to change your ERP software? - A guide for manufacturing organisations

This handy guide covers the end-to-end evaluation, selection and implementation process, raising all the key questions you need to answer before meeting with vendors. This guide also covers the key elements of any good ERP solution.
Find out more »