Part of the Sage 200 Suite, the manufacturing software is built on the Microsoft® .NET platform and is a powerful manufacturing, financial and trading solution whether your manufacturing processes are simple or complex. Sage 200 Manufacturing offers the ideal ‘out of the box’ solution whether your manufacturing processes are simple or complex.

Integrated Operations for a Competitive Advantage

While efficient resource planning is pivotal to a successful manufacturer, being able to quickly analyze facts and spot developing issues can make all the difference to your profitability. While tracking costs across departments or planning resources, having integrated software would enable you to link your buying, finance, distribution and customer facing operations. By implementing the complete suite of Sage 200 software, your business would benefit from simplified ownership and a single point of contact and accountability. The components of the suite are designed to work together, minimizing interoperability issues. Think how implementing the Sage 200 Suite would put you firmly in control of your entire business.

Bill of Materials

The module is an integral part of the Sage 200 Manufacturing application, which enables you to:

• Avoid running short of materials by identifying shortages.
• Build products from multiple source warehouses.
• Manage all your machine, labour and sub-contracted operations.
• Plan your product build.
• Track build progress using the Operation Times module.
• Schedule your production with the Graphical Planner module
• Keeps track of complex costs including sub-contract, piece-work and tooling.
• Save time by creating purchase orders automatically.

Estimating

In today’s competitive environment, you need to minimize the time spent preparing complete and accurate estimates for your customers. The Estimating module in Sage 200 Manufacturing is a powerful tool that helps you achieve this and also track every stage of production. Designed to assist in the production of estimates for one-off items or non-repetitive batches, it provides accurate and timely quotations of work. You can also create works orders, BOMs or sales orders from your estimates.

The estimating module allows you to:

• Produce quotes for multiple batch sizes.
• Create accurate estimates quickly.
• Convert estimates into works orders with ease.

Planning

Master Production Schedule (MPS)

The planning features in Sage 200 Manufacturing provide all the functionality you need to control material, labour and machine costs in a busy mixed mode manufacturing environment. The MPS function will smoothly control production planning, works order processing and resource management, with full traceability for materials tracking. MPS reads demands and creates a master production schedule for production of finished items and sub-assemblies that are sold separately.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

MRP looks at stock projections in relation to demands and generates appropriate recommendations by exploding demands through the BOM levels to produce a series of ‘make’ or ‘buy’ recommendations. The MRP module makes recommendations after considering supplier and BOM lead times, stock levels, work in progress, on order quantities, minimum levels, batch sizing rules, locations of stock components and whether version control is being used.

Graphical Planner

Preactor International is the market leading specialist for planning and scheduling software. Working in partnership with Preactor, we have created a graphical planning tool that helps you to:

• Assess potential changes to production, by producing plans that show how, for example, adding overtime or extra shifts would affect deliveries.
• Produce flexible schedules that work forwards from a start date or backwards from a due date, to suit your needs.
• Identify resource issues easily and change plans to avoid hold ups.
• Choose the way you want to view completed jobs.

Works Order Processing

The Works Order module allows you to:

• Save time by creating works orders automatically from MRP recommendations.
• Avoid errors by automatically updating your stock levels when you allocate or issue stock against orders.
• Improve efficiency by creating picking lists, route cards, operation cards and job sheets.

Operation Times – Shop Floor Data Collection (SFDC)

Working alongside the Works Order module, the operations time functionality in Sage 200 Manufacturing allows you to work more efficiently. It can print barcodes onto items such as route and operation cards, so that operators log their jobs with a scanner and the relevant works orders are automatically updated.

Materials and Finished Product Traceability

Your customers are demanding products of an increasingly higher quality, and in many industries legislation and adherence to quality standards are becoming ever more important. All this requires complete visibility across the supply chain. Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you track material from receipt through your complete production process to despatch, no matter how many locations or components you use.