ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments Features and Functions
The ERP for Mill-based and Material Converting Environments knowledge base focuses on a range of industrial activities that add value to raw materials by processing them into a form suitable for further manufacturing or for immediate end-use. These activities include traditional mills that turn grain into flour or extract sucrose from sugar cane; the spinning and weaving mills of the textiles and carpets sectors; the rolling plants of steel, aluminum, and other metals semi-fabricators; to the continuous outputs of paper and board mills.
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Financials
Financial system modules for bookkeeping and ensuring accounts are paid or received on time.
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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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Material Converting Manufacturing Management/Mill Industries
A mill is a factory where value is added to raw materials by processing it into a form suitable either for further manufacturing or for immediate end-use. Outside the food industry, where traditional mills turn grain into flour or extract sucrose from sugar beet and cane, other processes comply with the foregoing definition. Milling applies to a wide range of industrial activities. These include the spinning and weaving mills of the textiles and carpets sectors to the rolling plants of steel, aluminum, and other metals semi-fabricators, to the continuous outputs of paper and board mills. There are several broad categories of non-food mills:1. Metals--typically rolling cast steel or aluminum into sheets and coils or extruding profiles that are sold either to manufacturers or to distributors2. Plastics--similar to metals, these may also be thermally extruded and formed 3. Paper--products usually delivered direct to printers and packaging manufacturers or to wholesalers and distributors4. Packaging--heavier paper-based products such as foil and plastics that mostly go direct to manufacturers across all sectors; deliveries must align with users' production schedules5. Textiles--woven fabrics produced mostly for apparel manufacturers and the décor trade, but also for the retail sector6. Carpets--supplied to the retail trade cut-to-order for commercial and domestic applications; some specialist mills make-to-order (MTO) for corporate applications such as store chains, hotels, cruise liners, and major companiesOne thing all of these mill types have in common is that they have few input materials but there are many variations in what they output. An aluminum ingot, for example, could be rolled to plate inches thick or foil measured in microns--and everything between. A plain clothing fabric could be printed with hundreds of combinations of colors and pattern. This complicates conventional forecasting and planning below the generic level.
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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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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Features and Functions
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