Formulas/Recipes Features and Functions

• Alternative batch assignment


• Calculates ingredient quantities for simulations


• Set total costs is used as a criteria to change ingredients


• Measures ingredients using percentages and totals


• Calculates or recalculates the total weight or volume or ingredients


• Uses what-if scenarios to determine if a work order or PO can be fulfilled


• Specifies the percentage or number of items used in the manufacture or assembly of an item(s)


• Formulas can be extracted from routings to generate production models or from production models to create routings


• Production model or routing can be copied to create formulas


• Stores formulas created and used in manufacturing processes, automatically


• Property calculations


• Formulas and critical paths are used in cumulative lead-time calculations


• Ingredient and product process quality characteristics, expected results, tolerances, and testing procedures are definable


• Fixed and scaleable ingredients


• Validates formula and production model and routing


• Workbench tools can create formulas


• Reports formulas by component and item number


• Stores laboratory, costing, production, planning, customer, historical, packaging, and other formulas


• Manages and maintains regulations governing formulas including organization, date range, quantities, formula type, reference, and customer


• Defines formulas, recipes, and percentage of ingredients for variable formulas and process routings for different batch sizes


• Provides for variable formulas and process routings for different batch sizes. Ingredients should be definable as a fixed quantity per batch or as variable quantity per unit of process end product


• Processes disposable or reclaimable by-products


• Product structures and production models list hazardous materials


• Each formulation can list an unlimited number of co-products, by-products, ingredients, and instructions


• Lists more than one substitutions for each process step


• Instructions by ingredient or item


• Least cost batch analysis


• Alters corporate formulas to create local ones


• Enables local formulas to automatically be modified from the corporate formulas


• Identifies the discrete compounds in formulas, so all formulas sharing the same discrete compounds interface into the same module


• BOM includes tolerances and limits


• Expiration dates of perishable ingredients


• Industry-specific, predefined formula attributes and calculations are recorded


• Calculates the standard run time to produce a batch


• Determines whether raw materials are available when creating a batch recipe


• Least cost and maximum profit analysis used when creating recipes


• Stores and maintains recipes based on specifications and grade analyses


• Calculates resources and item quantities so they are proportional to the batch being produced


• Batch simulations include inquiries, and checks or generates reports on ingredients


• Single and multilevel formulas include ingredient requirements and processes


• Displays information on co-products, by-products, intermediate, and final products on one screen


• Standard and theoretical yields for products


• Standard variations for a specified product


• Automatically adjusts batch recipes based on testing results


• Uses potency as a UOM


• Formula attributes and calculations can be defined by authorized users


• Ingredient proportions are used to create changes ingredient lists or batch bills


• Standard batch sizes can be changed and their corresponding formulas can be revised


• Defines the maximum and minimum amount of scrap that can be returned in a process


• Product grade and attributes


• Expected shelf life


• Calculates shelf life expiration dates using item-dependent variables


• Specifies handling requirements


• Balance on hand resources and non-stockable resources


• Measures and records the combined potency and concentration of products


• Calculates lot potency and percent concentration


• Classification of finished goods, such as marketing class, product line, and category


• Inventory reporting as aged by class


• Keeps information on generic resources


• Classifies inventory as on-hand, consigned, on order, costed, work-in-progress, lot controlled, and available-for-planning


• Attributes identify whether lot control information is required at each resource level and inventory class


• User can define a hierarchy of resource attributes and characteristics for each lot


• User can define a hierarchy of operational and financial resources


• Multiple inventory codes can be entered in a BOM to create circular bills, by suspending the BOMs loop-detection capability


• Inverted bills (disassembly BOM)