Features Include:

♦ View current production order status, pick and putaway inventory lists, and KPIs, such as sales and profit margins ALL IN ONE SCREEN!
♦ Improve business performance from the shop floor to your bottom line.
♦ Role Centers provide you quick access to the data, reports, and tasks that are relevant to your job.
♦ Streamline your operations by automating manufacturing processes and gain greater visibility into all aspects of your operations from order entry to production, warehouse management, and delivery.
♦ Provide customers with information they can count on.
♦ Increase the accuracy of promised orders and respond quickly to customer queries about order status and delivery.
♦ Respond quickly to changing customer demands with agile manufacturing.
♦ Plan rush orders, make exceptions, and handle last-minute changes to your manufacturing processes with multiple planning options, tracking, and interactive action messages.
♦ Open your business to trading partners around the clock. Using a Web browser, vendors can manage catalogs, enter drop shipment orders, and maintain delivery dates.
♦ Work easily and reliably with Production Orders, Production Bill of Materials and Version Management of Bill of Materials.
♦ Capacity Requirement Planning made easy with calendars, scheduling, routing, subcontracting, machine centers and finite loading.
♦ Make informed Supply Planning decisions using order promising, intelligent MRP scheduling and demand forecasting.
♦ View key performance indicators (KPIs), such as comparing forecasted demand with sales, or use ad-hoc reporting to gain a real-time view of shop floor workloads and then share that data using Microsoft® Office Excel®.

  Operations Manager

1. Do you strain resource centers and overpromise on delivery dates due to poor capacity planning?
2. Could visibility into inventory supply data and sales forecasts help you to improve the accuracy of your manufacturing forecast?
3. Do component or raw-materials shortages impede your ability to produce goods on time?
4. Do you need to manage and plan machine-center capacity?

  Purchasing Manager

1. Could reducing manual intervention speed your process for authorizing vendor payments and result in more timely payments and possibly better credit terms?
2. Could you avoid having to compensate for poor pricing decisions if you had an insight into the fully loaded costs of your purchased components or raw materials, and could allocate additional costs such as freight or insurance?
3. Do you frequently have to expedite purchase orders to meet routine fluctuations in customer demand?
4. Do you often have to return material to your vendors or your upstream internal suppliers?
5. Are you missing opportunities to reduce costs because you are not identifying the best sources of supply and taking advantage of discounts?
6. Do ad-hoc purchase requests that require multiple approvals cause delays that impede your ability to fill customer orders quickly?
7. Do you need to track components or ingredients to the serial or lot number, or do you assign serial or lot numbers to your finished goods for quality assurance, warranty, compliance, or risk management purposes?
8. Do you sometimes issue inaccurate or incomplete purchase orders because you lack insight into all the right components?
9. Would a process that ties purchase orders directly to sales orders save you time and money by eliminating the need for manual intervention?

  Receiver

1. Does the need to manually credit sales invoices and Return Merchandise Authorizations (RMAs) when you receive returns expose you to errors and time wasted on handling exceptions?
2. Could you reduce holding costs and improve warehouse operations if you could more efficiently return items to the main warehouse?
3. Is it a challenge in your receiving process to accurately track components or inventory that is received across multiple distribution centers, warehouses, or service centers?
4. Do you receive goods in an order-by-order environment where warehouse employees can handle the put-away process for the entire order rather than by line item?
5. Do you need to be able to receive multiple orders on the same shipment and to inspect received shipments and identify opportunities to cross-dock your expedited raw materials?
6. Are your shop floor and warehouse integrated through pick tickets for each single production order?
7. Could you reduce operational costs if you automated your pick and put-away processes across multiple bins and zone?

  Production Manager

1. Does manually moving final engineering plans and requirements into production planning cost time and hamper your production planning?
2. Would being able to accurately schedule production activities, including capacity and materials requirements, help you to improve on-time delivery and resource utilization?
3. Could deeper visibility into material requirements help you reduce stock outages and inventory costs?
4. Do you need a more efficient and accurate way to manage and track job status and usage for fixed-price or time-and-materials jobs?
5. Could you better meet customer demands if you could automatically calculate a possible delivery date based on lead time or production time even if you have no inventory available?
6. Do you operate in a fast-changing environment where you need to capture accurate production data in order to streamline your production process and remain competitive?
7. Could you improve utilization of production capacity by using capacity-restraint data to level the load of production activities across multiple work centers?

  Accountant

1. Would your order and invoicing accuracy improve if you could quickly convert all relevant information provided in a quote to create an order with no manual reentry?
2. Do you need to offer line-item pricing or discounting?
3. Are back orders and exceptions reducing your profitability and your ability to fill customer orders?
4. Does the need to create a production order or purchase order directly from an overview of sales orders create complexity in your sales order process?
5. Is ensuring that all the right components are included in your sales orders an issue for you?
6. Would the ability to create production orders directly from a line or a sales order support your lean manufacturing process?
7. Could you reduce the number of days between sales order and shipping if placing a sales order for a customized item automatically triggered a manufacturing order?