For today’s manufacturing businesses it is critical to make sure you have adequate raw materials, collate ‘like’ orders for efficient production, assist in production both with Bills of Materials (kits, ingredients) and production steps to meet production and QA needs. Print production labels if required to help with batch tracking of your finished goods.
Infoware’s manufacturing component can perform a range of tasks to add efficiency to your manufacturing business.
Infoware Manufacturing Business Benefits
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Infoware Services, in addition to our easy to use Manufacturing solution includes all our accounting components as well. No third party software and integration costs. Infoware provides full accounting through to financials, BAS and STPV2 compliant payroll –even includes a Fixed Asset and Hire Purchase register
Bill of Materials (kits, ingredients)
The core of any manufacturing process is the Bill of Materials (BOM) required to produce a product. The product itself may be a component in another Bill of Materials or could be the finished product.
It is critical to include all costs (materials, expected labour usage, and any other recovery that is required). If you do not know your full costs then how can you know your bottom line for selling?
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Production steps for Quality Assurance procedures of a BOM can also be generated.
You can have a range of recovery costs labour; electricity; gas; general packaging and then compare the amount recovered against your actual costs to know if you are recovering enough costs in your boms
How do you determine quantities to produce?
This is not such a simple question when you have a number of products across lots of orders with common sub BOMs (components) plus many finished goods products.
Infoware keeps online daily Production Tallies at your fingertips.
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Daily production batches as produced can be progressively entered or integrated during the day
What if my production is not made to order today but requires a production queue?
Infoware includes a production planner where you can schedule customer or stock production orders together. These can be grouped together by product type (or machine type). Daily shift production can be entered against each production order until complete.
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In addition to being a tool for your production team; this provides visibility to the rest of your team to production progress without interrupting the production team.
How do you maintain raw stock levels when production changes every day?
Predictive Purchasing reduces SOH requirements by purchasing based on weeks of stock on hand plus forecasts, rather than let static out of date minimum / maximum reorder levels consume your overdraft or your capital; or doing manually and let your process consume your time.
Alternatively you can use Infoware’s scan Kanban approach that as you transfer stock to production then a PO is raised i.e. Basing your stock needs on replenishing actual usage.
Did you know?
Kanban replenishment scanning was developed by Toyota in the 1940’s as part of their lean manufacturing processes.
i4 purchasing component is another best of breed design where all things purchasing are one click from the purchasing hub – from 24 months sales history; actual transaction history to flagging product codes as run out codes; indent orders and much more.
What if actual orders are under/over forecasts?
If you have production forecasts, especially if you have long lead times for some raw material lines from overseas, Infoware can generate alerts warning you if actual sales are above predicted forecast so more stock may be required to be purchased to cover production in the months ahead.
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You can create your own alerts in Infoware to highlight any important exception automatically
Time Saving
You too can achieve major time savings with production planner information shared across production, customer service, stock control and management teams. Combine with flexible reporting to further increase your savings.
- Everyone has access to production planner for consistent information throughout all sections of your business, saving duplication of staff effort and reducing errors.
- Shift production is recorded against each works order showing balance to be manufactured, giving your customer service team up-to-date information for customer queries.
- Order shortfall reporting for sub components or raw materials requirements further freeing procurement resources.
- Full integration of production, stock control, purchasing and accounting provides a consistent view across your business and simplified and quick management reporting, even full daily financials. No more time-consuming end of month processes.
- Option to automatically replenish raw materials as consumed. Using lean manufacturing techniques, Kanban cards are scanned for replenishment and automatic re-ordering. Reduce inventory requirements for just-in-time manufacturing and remove procurement resources. Even let your suppliers view their expected orders directly when desired even though only ordered weekly to further reduce lead times and improve supplier relationships.
Value & Service
Dramatically reduce your IT costs while enjoying enhanced functionality and efficiency. For a low monthly subscription, you get the full Infoware business management solution, data hosted in a secure environment, Infoware updates plus included support and more.
“The Kanban Card Scan System allows stock to move from warehouse branches to production branches with limited computer interaction. The scan adds items to open orders at the same time, which are confirmed and automatically sent at 10am every day to suppliers. This has virtually eliminated run-outs and has saved us in excess of 1-2 hours labour per day. We would not be able to run as efficiently as we do now, without this tool.”