ERP for Discrete Manufacturers
Two powerful ERP options for SMBs and SME sized discrete manufacturers
Solutions
SAP B1 & BEAS
End to end ERP for SMB manufacturers
Sage X3
For the unique challenges faced by SME manufacturers
Software designed to help manufacturers work more productively and to better utilize their available plants and equipment
SAP B1 & BEAS
The BEAS discrete manufacturing suite is a fully automated manufacturing resource management solution that extends SAP Business One with the concept of manufacturing resources such as work centers, tools and employees. These resources are implemented through the entire production process, from capacity calendars and homogenous resource management to automated scheduling, MRP2, delay management and manual or semi-automatic rescheduling.
BEAS Advanced Manufacturing comes with a Manufacturing Cost Calculation module. This highly flexible and integrated calculation engine can be used to calculate estimated (BoM-based) prices and actual production costs (production orders). The add-on is fully compatible with the make to order (MTO) planning solution of BEAS and can easily be extended by adding the shop floor integration solutions from BEAS.
The key product capabilities include-
- MRP2 with customizable fully automated resource scheduling
- Various scheduling methods including backward form due date and forward scheduling
- Operations integrated with SAP Business One standard production orders
- Parallel, overlapping, breakable operations are supported
- Allocation windows, setup, job, before and after times are supported
- Homogenous resource management
- One resource can be a member of multiple groups
- Multi-dimensional resource scheduling: machines, skill matrix of labor, and tool availability
- Cost calculation for BoMs and production orders
- Storage of BOM results of all calculations are automatically stored and ready for analysis
- Graphical job scheduling control panel for monitoring operations for different resources
- Drag & drop manual rescheduling, semi-automatic rescheduling
- Production management cockpit to release, close, reschedule one or an arrays of production orders with a single click
- Customizable job requirements report with barcodes
- ‘Available to Promise’ date calculation for sales orders
- Outsourced manufacturing are supported
Sage X3 Facts
• Sage X3 advanced business software incorporates out-of-the-box ‘best practice’ functionality designed for Discrete Manufacturers who assemble to order, make to order, make to stock, engineer to order, and, or who are mixed mode manufacturers.
• The second largest Sage X3 client segment is Discrete Manufacturing.
• Sage X3 software is used by high-tech, automotive and components, industrial machinery and the equipment manufacturing sectors.
• Sage X3 contains the sophistication to manage even the most demanding discreet manufacturing environment whether that be at a single site or across multiple manufacturing sites, in one or multiple countries.
Designed to Integrate
Sage X3 ERP was built to integrate seamlessly with other Cloud systems and smart machines. Typical Sage X3 ERP software integrations in the manufacturing sector include with CAD and MES systems (e.g. Lynq) These systems extend the reach of the Sage X3 ERP solution helping to reduce business overheads. Sage X3 also supports integration with smart machines such as Evocon an excellent OEE system.
Product Highlights
Sage X3 offers, as optional extensions, an advanced sales and manufacturing product configurator, a project management extension and a preventative maintenance management development.
The Sage X3 maintenance management development is designed to manage a manufacturers own plant and equipment assets. The goal is to maximize asset performance via scheduled preventative maintenance.
The configurator option is a rules-based system that simplifies creation of sales quotes and manufacturing orders with a view to quoting or building something that is impractical or simply won’t work. In building a proposal or work order the system steps through the various options (choices) which may be constrained by previous choices to arrive at a finished product.
Sage X3 helps you avoid recreating an existing product as new. Sage X3 sales configurator enables your sales and order entry team to firstly search for existing products in your item master file that meet the current sales order criteria and if no product exists for the given variables, a new item is created along with a new bill of material and routings (where manufacturing is required) based on the variable components entered.
The Sage X3 project management option for the Sage X3 manufacturing suite enables financial and operational management of manufacturing projects. It manages organisational breakdown structures (OBS) and Work breakdown (WBS) structures, in concert, and optimises production accordingly. The inclusion of mobile device on the shop floor further supports accurate picking for production and collection of information including time.
Sage X3 ERP Business Benefits for Manufacturers
Sage X3 ERP for Discrete Manufacturers suits entities with one or multiple manufacturing sites and businesses with mature and complex business system needs.
• With Sage X3 ERP, manufacturing isn’t an afterthought. Sage X3 ERP was designed and built to meet the needs of SME sized businesses who manufacturer goods. The system incorporates the accounting and operational aspects at play in a manufacturing concern.
• Sage X3 ERP is so much more than just being an ERP system. Sage X3 ERP becomes an integral part of a business’s technology ecosystem and helps companies thrive as a result. Sage X3 draws together systems and data and helps companies make better faster and more informed decisions.
• As a development platform Sage X3 ERP can be tailored to deal with your specific requirements leading to better staff engagement and improved data quality.
• Granular level user profiles, customized dashboards and data entry screens, and electronic alerts and workflows ensure system users can focus on the things that matter.
• For some but not all manufacturers, the optional manufacturing extensions add a level of system sophistication that is mostly missing from other SME systems.
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