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Sage ERP X3 Manufacturing
Sage ERP X3 offers a choice of production management methods—by job, order, or inventory. Technical data can be defined by price lists, cost centers, and stations as well as a production process sheet management function. Sage ERP X3 also provides for monitoring of stock quantities, a management control function with calculation of forecast and actual costs, a finite capacity production scheduling function, a planning function incorporating a production coordination program, calculation of net requirements, and an overall production management function. Various performance indicators are available, ensuring optimum industrial production quality and traceability.
ERP X3 Manufacturing Features Include:
- Process Manufacturing
- Discrete manufacturing
- Parts lists/composition/formula management
- Work schedule management
- MPS/MRP
- Technical data configuration
- Link to weighing scales
- Cost calculation
- Quality assurance
- Capacity planning
Sage ERP X3 supports all of the planning, scheduling and production control activities for either process or discrete manufacturing, and adapts to different manufacturing modes, including make-to-order, configure-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock and mixed-mode environments. The manufacturing module is fully integrated with the Sales, CRM, Purchasing, Inventory and Finance components.
Comprehensive Technical Data
Sage ERP X3 provides a common repository for sharing detailed product information across sales, purchasing, inventory, and production. Various material tracking modes are supported by associating products with unique control attributes such as lot numbers, expiration dates, and QC technical sheets. Sage ERP X3 supports multilevel bills of material and usage controls for distinguishing prototypes, engineering bills, production BOMs, and sales kits. BOM usage is also controlled by validity dates and production quantities, which can be by unit, lot for lot, 100- or 1,000-unit batches, or fi xed quantities. Work and cost centers can be associated with machine and labor cost dimensions, resources, and factory calendars. A product can have multiple routings for manufacturing and subcontracting operations. BOMs can be associated with special routings that perform JIT material allocations when necessary. Routing operations are assigned fi xed and variable setup and run times and can accommodate forward and backward scheduling. Alternate work centers and material and labor resources can be identifi ed to handle overload situations. Technical sheets can be associated with routing operations to support manufacturing quality control.
Cost Accounting
Sage ERP X3 supports the ability to establish an annual standard cost, perform standard cost revisions, calculate multiple simulated standard costs with user-defi ned parameters, and develop cost budgets for planning standard costs for future periods. Costs can be attributed to materials, machines, labor, subcontracting, and overhead. Variances can be calculated on any two costs of the same type or between two costs of different types.
Planning
Multisite MPS for medium-to-long-term planning needs includes features for performing budget analyses and feasibility simulations. It also calculates net multisite requirements, generates replanning messages, and analyzes the impact of load demands. MPS makes best use of user-defi ned reordering parameters such as fi xed period coverage, seasonality patterns, and net reorder quantities. The planning horizon is user-defi ned with allowances for up to fi ve years. Sage ERP X3 supports fi nite and infi nite capacity requirements planning. Finite capacity planning can be done automatically by using a powerful, integrated optimization facility that helps resolve bottleneck areas according to user-defi ned constraints. Material planners can use an interactive drag-and-drop scheduling tool—in GANTT format—for manual viewing, simulation, and updating of outstanding work orders and routing operations. The capacity planning capabilities in Sage ERP X3 provide an ideal tool for planners to compare loads on work centers imposed by existing and proposed work orders, taking into consideration the associated capacity of each work center and work order due dates. Through either manual or automatic replanning, companies can achieve balanced loads in either overload or underload situations. Both forward and backward scheduling strategies are supported.
Work Order Release
Sage ERP X3 provides fl exible work order release management capabilities, allowing multiple items per production order and real-time material, machine, and labor allocations with reason codes. Work-in-process tracking, production status reporting, and a breakdown of actual production costs by shop traveler are also provided. Sage ERP X3 supports the ability to do rate-based scheduling with backfl ushing.
Decision-Making Tools
Sage ERP X3 provides material planners with an array of screens and reports in quantified form or pie charts, bar charts, and graphs to assist in making meaningful material and capacity decisions. Included are multisite MPS charts for product families, MRP schedules for products at single or multiple sites, bottleneck work center charts, and a planner's workbench. Timephased pegging ties requirements back to original demand sources. Sage ERP X3 calculates a variety of performance indicators including material, operation and production yield, capacity, and resource utilization rates.
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