Manufacturing Applications

  

Sage MAS 500's powerful manufacturing modules were designed for a variety of discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturers. Features include routings, bills of materials, estimating, shop floor control, product configuration, engineering change management, production scheduling, material requirements planning, and more. The base system is available in a light and advanced model depending on whether or not you choose to use Work Orders to track production and labor information. Click here to view the Manufacturing Overview brochure.

         Light Manufacturing

Light Manufacturing is the perfect product to help you manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. The streamlined manufacturing system integrates with other optional Sage MAS 500 manufacturing modules and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes. Traditional manufacturers may need the Advanced Manufacturing module. Light Manufacturing can be used to simulate a repetitive or lean manufacturing system because it provides one-step production entry without complicated work orders.

         Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing includes all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing module as well as enhanced work orders, and labor and production reporting, which are essential requirements for assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment manufacturing. The system provides shop floor visibility to your entire enterprise, including which employees are currently on the clock in any production facility. With a few mouse-clicks, customer service can quickly view the status of a customer order without having to interrupt the shop supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps you identify which manufactured items are generating the most profit and which are costing you money. You will be able to spot production bottlenecks and respond in real-time to last-minute engineering changes and high-priority orders.

         Co-products, By-products & Disassembly

One of the unique features of Sage MAS 500 is the system's ability to correctly manage and cost co-products, by-products, and disassembly of finished goods into component parts and raw materials. Co-products functionality is included in the Advanced Manufacturing module. The flexible production reporting and manufacturing costing system supports family molds, progressive dies, and other industries with co-products. Companies can identify scrap standards and quality control issues to specific parts. Different quantities and costs for materials, labor, outside operations, and overhead may be assigned to unique co-products or applied to all co-products proportionately. Sage MAS 500 supports disassembly of parent items into components and raw materials at standard costs.

         Advanced Planning & Scheduling

Do you have problems scheduling production? Are orders late because someone forgot to schedule an operation? Did you ever lose a good customer because production fell behind their required deadline? Sage MAS 500 includes one of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems available today. The industry-standard scheduling rules automatically schedule production based on advanced algorithms and mathematical calculations. Sage MAS 500 includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns. The schedule board displays all system-generated operation schedules, but it allows supervisors or production scheduling personnel to tweak the schedule to fit in high-priority orders or to move scheduled operations to a different machine when another breaks down.

         Material Requirements Planning

Understanding material requirements across the enterprise without advanced planning tools is impossible. Sage MAS 500 uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material requirements and how they will affect your business. Sage MAS 500 provides single-screen planning that provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions. The planning activity provides insightful information to help you make purchasing and production scheduling decisions based on industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life circumstances. MRP also provides Sales Order entry personnel with Capable-To-Promise features to determine how the quantity of an item that will be available by a certain date or the date that a quantity of items will be available. For example - How many can I have now and when can I have 50?

         Estimating

Do you know if a new part is going to make you money or cost you money? Do you lose business to your competitors because your estimates are too high? Sage MAS 500 provides detailed estimating capabilities to help you increase business while improving your bottom line. Estimates provide more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production because they include materials, outside processing and labor, as well as overhead rates, and one-time charges for tooling and engineering. Estimates can be converted to a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.

         Shop Floor Control

The Shop Floor Control system provides real-time labor and production reporting for online production visibility throughout the enterprise. The module was designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, and can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device. Shop Floor Control provides access to all of the activities that generally take place in the shop. Supervisors can use the Labor Assignments task to assign job tickets to shop employees. Workers can view their assigned job tickets directly from the shop floor. They can also log into or out of operations manually or they can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan job tickets or work order travelers for automatic logins. The shop floor menu is easily customized to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor.

         Product Configurator

The Product Configurator module was designed for use in either distribution or manufacturing environments. The rules-based Product Configurator configures sales orders and routings/bills of material for a finished part based on a variety of features or functions. Customer service personnel benefit from an easy-to-use interface for quick feature/option selection of configured parts, and integration with Sales Order entry. New items can be created on the fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions, and other options. The Product Configurator also builds the item cost and suggested price. The advanced Product Configurator is easy to setup and maintain. Popular configurations are saved and reused as standard parts. The Product Configurator can also be used to guide customer service through the selling process which may include up-selling, offering complimentary products (such as warranties, service plans, or accessories). Users can setup ranged options such as length and width. These ranged options can then be used in simple mathematic calculations to determine both material requirements and end-user pricing. Calculations are very useful for determining area, volume, and other dimensional quantities.

         Engineering Change Management

Quality control is one of the most important business concerns for manufacturers. Sage MAS 500 can help you control production costs by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Consequently, it is more important than ever before to standardize your engineering change management process. Sage MAS 500 integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to members of an approval group. Engineering Change Management is crucial to quality control and is a requirement for ISO and QS certification.

         Project Management for Manufacturers

Do you manage engineering or prototype production projects? Do you install or service the products you manufacture? If so, the Sage MAS 500 Project Management solution can keep all of your project managers informed and equip them with the tools they need to profitably manage these projects.