Production control

The system takes account for over and under production, prompting you to take advantage of economies of scale while ensuring your stock records remain accurate. Utilise back-flushing for any or all of the goods used within your manufacturing process and for a kanban supply system if required. Damaged materials and unfinished goods can be written off. Certificates of conformity can be configured and produced on demand and tailored to reflect your own quality standards and those of your customers.

Issue/return of components

You have full visibility and control of which orders should be undergoing or awaiting manufacture. Each works order shows whether components have been allocated to the order and whether or not they have been issued to the factory floor.

Generating a picking list enables the components for each job to be gathered together and taken to the specified production area. When components are moved to the factory floor, this is reflected in your accounts; the value of your stock decreases and the value of your WIP increases.

Controlling priorities

You can assign a production priority number against each works order. This ensures that rush jobs and priority customers have their goods manufactured first. These default priorities can be over-written for individual works orders, and the authority to do so can be limited to specified members of staff.

The system works out the latest start date for each job by considering the requirement date on the sales order and the production lead time.

Factory routing

You define the routes that products will take around the factory in order to be completed. This gives excellent visibility of the overall job progress, enabling you to take action on bottlenecks before they affect delivery dates.

Set defaults for goods that always have to take the same route, and where production can be fulfilled in a number of ways, balance the workload by setting multiple and/or alternative routes. Free-format notes can be associated with each route so that supplementary instructions can be applied where necessary. 

Stage progression

Definable user profiles allow you to grant your staff the privileges needed to progress jobs through the factory. Only staff with the assigned access levels will be able to progress the job, enabling your production manager to accurately track the production process. If it suits your way of working, you can assign the responsibility and control of stage progression to your factory staff - ensuring up-to-date information at all times.

Production status

Generate a 'work to' list, showing which stage of the build a works order has reached, and its production progress to date. Use it to make sure completed orders will arrive at the shipping bay in time to meet their promised delivery dates.

Tracking WIP and estimates

A cost estimate is automatically created when you raise a works order and is then tracked against actual costs as the job progresses. Based on your BoM, it includes both the anticipated component usage and cost of labour required. You can run profitability reports at any time, showing information grouped by product type, customer and time period. In this way it is easy to understand where you need to make improvements in manufacturing processes, or re-negotiate pricing. Once an order is complete, you have the true job costs needed to drive future decisions with increased accuracy and precision.

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