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Light
Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting |
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Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting 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 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.
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Advanced
Manufacturing |
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Advanced Manufacturing includes all of the
functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting 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.
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Co-products, By-products & Disassembly |
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One of
the unique features of 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. MAS 500 supports disassembly of
parent items into components and raw materials at standard costs.
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Advanced
Planning and Scheduling |
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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? 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. 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.
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Material Requirements
Planning (MRP) |
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Understanding material and distribution requirements
across the enterprise without advanced planning tools is impossible. MAS 500
uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily
understand current and future material and distribution requirements, and how
they will affect your business. 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.
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Estimating |
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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? 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.
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Shop Floor
Control |
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The Shop Floor Control system from Best 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. Users can log into or out of operations
manually or they can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work
order numbers and work order steps 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.
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Product
Configurator |
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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.
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Engineering Change Management |
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Quality control is one of the most important business
concerns for manufacturers. 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. 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.
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Project
Management for Manufacturers |
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Do you manage engineering or prototype production
projects? Do you install or service the products you manufacture? If so, the 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.
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