ERP Manufacturing

Setting up your Manufacturing Software System

In order to ensure that your manufacturing shop floor is set up for efficient production, you’ll need a system in place that has the capability of managing, monitoring and tracking production at every phase of the production schedule. To do that effectively, requires a good manufacturing software system. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can supply such a system. It will manage workflow throughout the project, from manufacturing to distribution. Good systems management calls for a coordinated effort and enterprise software is designed for just that. It brings together accounting, sales management, quote and order entry, order status, contract management, shipping and tracking, returns/exchanges/warranty service and customer relationship management.

Supply chain management also plays a big role here, with the addition of inventory, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, logistics … All of these come together to support the manufacturing component.  Enterprise software supplies an integrated platform of applications that is automated as well for quick processing of business tasks. These applications can be stand-alone or bundled for greater convenience.

You may wish to bundle supply chain management, for example. Rather than have the applications for inventory, purchasing, warehousing and distribution placed as stand-alone, they can be bundled together on one module. This is the flexibility a manufacturing software system backed by ERP provides. And it does this by giving you an updated real-time view of operations at any given moment.

The enterprise platform not only gives you visibility within the company, but also externally, with connections to partners, suppliers and customers. The system will include added tools for the creation of reports, analytical projections and business intelligence for smart forecasting. It’s the most all-inclusive software system and it gets results. The ability to communicate with other sections of the business and to share information and data makes this the premiere software system of choice.

Enterprise software provides support at every stage of production and can save both time and money. It coordinates closely with accounting, inventory and purchasing, to ensure that everyone is working from the script. And the visibility it offers lets you see this happening as the production project takes its course. A key performance indicator (KPI) will monitor production cycles and give you a time schedule of the production’s duration.

By working with a manufacturing software system backed by ERP, you can view transmitted production data direct from the shop floor, and schedule tasks and times for positioning employees appropriately.

Written by :

Don Cooper