Integrated Operations for a Competitive Advantage

 

Whilst efficient resource planning and production management are pivotal to a successful manufacturing process, being able to quickly analyze facts and spot developing issues can make all the difference to your profitability. Whether tracking costs on a works order or defining items on a bill of materials, having integrated software enables you to link your manufacturing and finance operations. This can help you gain that elusive competitive edge in the manufacturing business arena. Focusing on speed of implementation and ease of use, Sage has developed a range of solutions that avoid unnecessary complexity, and provide customers with rapid return on their investment, as well as a low cost of ownership. Sage’s business critical software enables customers to deliver high levels of service, with the ability to respond quickly to new business opportunities. Many manufacturers are able to reap the rewards that Sage solutions provide.

Sage Line 50 Manufacturing software provides the flexibility to meet specific user requirements throughout a wide range of manufacturing industry sectors. Those that benefit from Sage cover multiple production environments from discrete to agile, making standard or configured products. The specific needs of project based manufacturers are also covered.

  

Sage Line 50 Bill of Materials

  

For smaller businesses wanting to manage their bill of materials.

 

Sage Line 50 Bill of Materials follows your bill of materials process from beginning to end.

It breaks down the manufacturing operation into easy-to-access areas, including materials, labour, machines, operations and reports.

Vital information needed to control costs and maintain efficiency is available throughout the system, encouraging your business to work at maximum productivity and profitability. 

Features at a glance

• Unlimited components on unlimited levels

• Unlimited materials, labour and machine costs

• Unlimited sub-contract, piece-work and tooling costs

• Trial kitting facility

• Alternative supplier information

• Uses Sage Line 50 Financial Controller product files

• Operation templates

• Automatic purchase order processing

• Attach multiple documents /drawings to each BOM

 

Sage Line 50 Job Controller

 

For smaller businesses engaged mainly in one-off manufacturing.

 

Sage Line 50 Job Controller provides all the functionality required for manufacturing companies who operate within a jobbing or non-repetitive environment. A powerful estimating tool enables you to provide accurate and timely quotations for work. Stock is allocated and issued against jobs, instantly updating your Line 50 accounts. Invoices can be raised for all or parts of jobs, and to help manage your costs more effectively, you can see actual costs versus estimates. Furthermore, the profitability of each job can be

monitored continuously so you can keep full control of each job as it progresses.

  

Sage Line 50 Batch Controller

  

For smaller businesses engaged mainly in repetitive batch manufacturing.

 

Sage Line 50 Batch Controller helps Production Managers control materials, labour and machine

costs within busy manufacturing environments. The software helps manufacturers smoothly control production, works order processing and resource management, with full batch traceability for materials tracking.

With Line 50 Batch Controller at the heart of your production control and management system, you have a powerful system that integrates with the Sage Line 50 Financial Controller accounts package, to provide greater control of your business.

  

Sage Line 50 Manufacturing Controller

  

For smaller businesses engaged in repetitive batch and one-off manufacturing.

 

Sage Line 50 Manufacturing Controller combines all the capability of Batch Controller and Job Controller into one powerful product. Line 50 Manufacturing Controller also includes a powerful planning engine ‘powered by Preactor’.

It provides all the functionality required to control material, labour and machine costs in a busy mixed mode manufacturing environment. It will smoothly control production planning, works order processing and resource management, with full traceability for materials tracking.

  

Graphical Planner powered by Preactor

 

Preactor International is the market leading specialist for planning and scheduling software. Working in partnership with Preactor, Sage has created a specially configured integrated Graphical Planner providing a planning tool that enables you to calculate and run resource plans for all demands.

Different plans can be produced and saved for the same set of demands, so you can assess the impact on resources, for example, if adding overtime or extra shifts. Production can be sequenced and schedules may be produced based either ‘forwards’ from a start date or ‘backwards’ from a due delivery date. Resource bottlenecks can be easily identified and the plan manipulated as required. You can view complete jobs by operation or individual resource schedules.