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Advanced Manufacturing |
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Advanced Manufacturing includes
all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced
Kitting module, as well as enhanced work orders, and labor
and production reporting, which are essential requirements
for assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment
manufacturing. The system provides shop floor visibility
to your entire enterprise, including which employees are
currently on the clock in any production facility. With a
few mouse-clicks, customer service can quickly view the status
of a customer order without having to interrupt the shop
supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps you
identify which manufactured items are generating the most
profit and which are costing you money. You will be able
to spot production bottlenecks and respond in real-time to
last-minute engineering changes and high-priority orders.
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Advanced Planning and Scheduling |
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Do you have problems scheduling
production? Are orders late because someone forgot to schedule
an operation? Did you ever lose a good customer because production
fell behind their required deadline? Sage MAS 500 includes one
of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Planning and
Scheduling systems available today. The industry-standard
scheduling rules automatically schedule production based
on advanced algorithms and mathematical calculations. Sage MAS
500 includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into
consideration real-world concerns. The schedule board displays
all system-generated operation schedules, but it allows supervisors
or production scheduling personnel to tweak the schedule
to fit in high-priority orders or to move scheduled operations
to a different machine when another breaks down.
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Engineering Change Management |
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Quality control is one of the
most important business concerns for manufacturers. Sage MAS 500
can help you control production costs by tracking constantly
changing labor operations and material items as new items
are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined
using newer equipment. Consequently, it is more important
than ever before to standardize your engineering change management
process. Sage MAS 500 integrates Engineering Change Management
(ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility
and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of
material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing
and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to members of an
approval group. Engineering Change Management is crucial
to quality control and is a requirement for ISO and QS certification.
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Estimating |
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Do you know if a new part is going
to make you money or cost you money? Do you lose business
to your competitors because your estimates are too high? Sage
MAS 500 provides detailed estimating capabilities to help
you increase business while improving your bottom line. Estimates
provide more than an educated guess regarding total cost
of production because they include materials, outside processing
and labor, as well as overhead rates, and one-time charges
for tooling and engineering. Estimates can be converted to
a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple
mouse-click.
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Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting |
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Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting
is the perfect product to help you manage production and
kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material
issues. The streamlined manufacturing system integrates with
other optional MAS 500 manufacturing modules and allows distributors,
assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers
to concentrate on other critical business issues without
getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes. Traditional
manufacturers may need the Advanced Manufacturing module.
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Material Requirements Planning (MRP) |
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Understanding material and distribution
requirements across the enterprise without advanced planning
tools is impossible. Sage MAS 500 uses historical data and advanced
replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand
current and future material and distribution requirements,
and how they will affect your business. Sage MAS 500 provides
single-screen planning that provides up-to-date item statistics,
including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work
orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning
decisions. The planning activity provides insightful information
to help you make purchasing and production scheduling decisions
based on industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life
circumstances.
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Product Configurator |
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The Product Configurator module
was designed for use in either distribution or manufacturing
environments. The rules-based Product Configurator configures
sales orders and routings/bills of material for a finished
part based on a variety of features or functions. Customer
service personnel benefit from an easy-to-use interface for
quick feature/option selection of configured parts, and integration
with Sales Order entry. New items can be created on the fly
using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions,
and other options. The Product Configurator also builds the
item cost and suggested price. The advanced Product Configurator
is easy to setup and maintain. Popular configurations are
saved and reused as standard parts.
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Project Management for Manufacturers |
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Do you manage engineering or prototype
production projects? Do you install or service the products
you manufacture? If so, the Sage MAS 500 Project Management solution
can keep all of your project managers informed and equip
them with the tools they need to profitably manage these
projects.
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Shop Floor Control |
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The Shop Floor Control system
from Best provides real-time labor and production reporting
for online production visibility throughout the enterprise.
The module was designed for use with bar code and touch-screen
technology, and can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld
Windows CE device. Shop Floor Control provides access to
all of the activities that generally take place in the shop.
Users can log into or out of operations manually or they
can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work
order numbers and work order steps for automatic logins.
The shop floor menu is easily customized to include virtually
any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you
need to run your shop floor.
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