ERP for Fashion Industries Features and Functions
The Discrete ERP Knowledge Base will help those involved in manufacturing and other industries, research vendors that support a range of production capabilities such as production planning, shop floor control, and product costing. The knowledge base also provides information on financials, human resources, and other enterprise management modules.
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Financials
Financial system modules for bookkeeping and ensuring accounts are paid or received on time.
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Human Resources
Human Resources encompasses all the applications necessary for handling personnel-related tasks for corporate managers and individual employees. Modules will include Personnel Management, Benefit Management, Payroll Management, Employee Self Service, Data Warehousing, Health and Safety, Workforce Management, Training, and Product Technology
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Manufacturing Management
Kanban is a method of Just-in-Time production that uses standard containers or lot sizes with a single card attached to each. It is a pull system in which work centers signal with a card or other device that they wish to withdraw parts from feeding operations or suppliers. The Japanese word kanban, loosely translated, means card, billboard, or sign, but other signaling devices such as colored golf balls have also been used. The term is often used synonymously for the specific scheduling system developed and used by the Toyota Corporation in Japan. Point-of-use storage/floor stock—keeping inventory in specified locations on a plant floor near the operation where it is to be used.
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Inventory Management
Solutions for inventory management are used for the record-keeping of goods that are warehoused, and managing the movement of these goods to, from, and through warehouses.
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Purchasing Management
Purchasing management encompasses a group of applications that controls purchasing of raw materials needed to build products and that manages inventory stocks. It also involves creating purchase orders/contracts, supplier tracking, goods receipt and payment, and regulatory compliance analysis and reporting.
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Quality Management
Quality management refers to the set of actions taken by an organization to ensure that it creates and delivers high-quality products. In order to do so, organizations must comply to national and international rules and regulations related to product quality, but they often also create and use internal requirements for quality control. Specific procedures need to be set up in order to ensure that the end products comply to internal or external quality standards. All these activities need to be well documented in order to provide the information needed when customers are not satisfied with the quality of the products received. Government agencies may also require this information for control and verification.
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Sales Management
Sales Management encompasses a group of applications that automates the data entry process of customer orders and keeps track of the status of orders. It involves order entry, order tracing and status reporting, pricing, invoicing, etc. It also provides a basic functionality for lead tracking, customer information, quote processing, pricing & rebates, etc.
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Product Technology
This group of criteria defines the technical architecture of the product as well as the technological environment in which the product can run successfully. Criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance on the product technology criterion. This apparently lower importance is deceptive because the product technology usually houses the majority of the selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which generally include server, client, protocol and database support, application scalability, and other architectural capabilities. The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of potential vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection criteria.
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Process Manufacturing Management
Process Manufacturing Management covers specifics that are applicable to process type of manufacturing. Formulas and recipes, modeling of process using formulas and routings, process batch control and reporting, conformance reporting, process manufacturing costing, process manufacturing-related material management are the major functional areas of this module. It also provides a consolidated view of the production situation using extensive multi-level reporting capabilities.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Features and Functions
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