- Multiple order types
- Identifies different types of work orders (such as stock, customer, expense, final assembly, detail parts, etc.) so they can be processed using specific requirements
- Sorts and categorizes manufacturing orders by type (e.g., custom order, replenishment, rework, stock, etc.)
- Batch and online access order headers that identify and detail manufacturing orders
- Work order contains information on the WIP account, cost center, and project
- Order status summary reports
- Splits and merges orders destined for production
- Manufacturing or work orders can be divided for production
- Accepts text and comments by users
- Manufacturing orders can be closed online
- Closes orders that have not been sent to inventory or which have been sent to inventory but will no longer be produced (close order short)
- Orders that are a part of a flow process are automatically closed by the system
- Completed units can either be sent to inventory for processing or moved into the next operation
- Flags material and labor discrepancies
- Displays in-process per-unit costs
- Assigns costs of a group of manufacturing or work orders to particular stations as each unit is produced
- Tracks the material and labor costs of a work order
- Generates reports based on design, plan, and actual building of products
- Closes work orders so costs, labor, or material cannot be added
- Generates reports on labor efficiency and material usage variances
- Automatically tracks and maintains inventory
- Items move from one operation to the next when a subcontract processing order is received
- Releases work orders as they are completed
- When an operation is complete, the product is automatically assigned to warehouse inventory, or reported to project or customer order as finished
- Records production variances in rate, usage, and method
- Automatically borrows or pays back material required to fulfill an order
- Records and monitors the material that was either consigned or borrowed for an order
- Moves items to the next phase of an operation, automatically
- Generates reports on operation yields, manufacturing time, and material efficiency
- Tracks and records operation transactions
- Uses subcontract PO receipts to log operation histories
- Generates detailed reports on the amount of time it takes for a work order to move through operations or the labor time involved
- Creates production reports by pay points
- Generates reports on hours worked
- Reports direct and indirect labor overhead costs
- Generates labor reports by shift, department, machine, and pay rate
- Labor time transfer to payroll, straight, OT, double-time
- Documents the actual material used in an operation and by lot
- Records material usage variance by lot and by operation
- Compares actual run time against planned run time, by order and workstation
- Reports setup, run, and rework times
- Units made
- Contract costs, earned value, and G/L data can be entered online
- Interfaces with data collection systems
- Collects data in real time
- Multiple data input options
- Generates report that specifies exceptions or discrepancies
- Generates reports on materials or productions that were rejected, by task, work center, or machine
- Monitors labor costs for rework orders
- Order cost variances by hours, materials, surcharges, and subcontracting
- Reports on the status of co- and by-products produced during any step in a process
- Provides standard production templates for reports
- Tracks and controls by- and co-products
- Calculates quantities produced at each step, regardless of their UOM
- Generates an edit report on shop floor transactions, including quantity variances, and quantity versus material received at a work center, and for an item, order, and operation
- Transactions are automatically posted to a work order header and operation detail records
- Records the standard, allocated, or actual hours involved in completing an order
- Documents and reports the number of planned, actual, and booked hours used by a work center or department
- Updates the labor costs of a current item, automatically
- Documents cost of overtime by department or work order
- Posts costs to G/L
- Posts transaction errors to error suspense file
- Posts transactions to history file
- Interfaces with cost accounting systems and documents production standards
- Generates reports on scheduling, production efficiency, downtime, and scrap
- Generates reports on production efficiency exceptions and work center utilization
- Generates reports on operation status, by manufacturing order
- Defines and assigns status codes for manufacturing operations
- Generates reports on transaction history
- Saves and stores errors in a file or database for later consideration and generates an error suspense file report
- Generates reports on production efficiency
- Generates reports on employee, work center, and work order efficiency
- Inquiries and reports on variances of queue inputs and outputs
- Documents the hours a work center is in operation
- Documents labor and overhead by calculating variance in rate, usage, and method
- Throughput calculations
- Calculates variances
- Generates reports on operation time lost due to maintenance, repair, or setup
- Compiles and details information on schedule performance, efficiency (production, exceptions), idle production time, and scrap yields by user-specified timeframes
- Archives production information for quality control or to rework products under warranty
- Reports aggregate estimated and actual results for product group histories
- Records the operation times of typical items
- Information can be converted and used by bar code interfaces
- Categorizes and identifies downtime, and scrap types and scrap yields by reason codes
- Items required for a work center or customer order can be moved to a bin on the line
- Documents the hours of milestone events
- Documents the hours of events during an operation
- Specifies consumption policies, including the delivery and use of materials (as outlined in the BOM) for continuous and automatic consumption
- Establishes consumption timetable as orders are completed
- Tracks, stores, and merges information on the movement of material that has been received and stocked
- Scrap or parts of scrap from a scrap transaction are removed either between or at count points
- Inventory is automatically reduced based on the configuration of an item, once the item is complete
- The labor and resources used in a routing is automatically recorded once the activity or process is complete
- Sends notification when over- or under-runs occur
- Generates reports when at a milestone, or when process is done
- Generates reports using item numbers or based on operations
- Raw materials and subassemblies are automatically deducted from inventory when an operation is completed
- Automatically deducts material from inventory (backflushing) on reaching a milestone or when receiving an inventory receipt
- Multilevel backflushing
- Defines milestones and count points
- Documents the use of unexpected material or labor
- Daily production schedule specifies when and where material will be used during operations
- Reschedules resources and operations based on capacity and work order
- Detail and summary views of work center loads
- Information can be displayed in graphical format, including tables
- Production rates and requirements, and capacity among other variables are used to create predictive production schedules
- What-if scenarios use finite forward methods to determine when a production run will end
- Production line runs are planned by using finite loading and forward schedules
- Changes in actual production and in the master schedule trigger changes to line and work center schedules
- Scheduling integrated to other planning and production modules
- Schedule and track engineering hours in the same manner as production work centers
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