Production Management for Process Manufacturing ERP Ross Edition

Process Planning

The Planning module provides you with the capability to develop Production Plans based upon Demand (Sales Orders and/or Sales Forecasts) and Supply (Inventory balances, Jobs, and Outstanding Purchase Orders). Production Planning (MPS/RCCP) and Material Planning (MRP) are included with the ability to review and create Planning Jobs, Production Jobs, Purchase Requisitions, and Purchase Orders. Optional Advanced Planning and Scheduling module can plan production based upon material, equipment, and labor availability and optimize schedules based upon sequencing and changeover rules including allergens.

Process Manufacturing

The Manufacturing module is based upon scalable Recipe/Formula based model to support manufacturing requirements that a traditional Bill of Material does not support. This includes scalable recipes/formulas with minimum and maximum Batch Sizes, Potency and Dependency formulas for Inputs, Miscellaneous non-inventory inputs, interstage outputs/inputs between stages to link recipes/formulas with multiple outputs for co-products and by-products. Allergen Control, Yield Management and Quality Tests are also available.

Process Manufacturing defines the production processes, calculates and tracks product and job cost, and records all of the activities to manufacture products. Multiple Recipes/Stages of the manufacturing can be consolidated into a process flow for streamlined production. In addition, Campaigns of similar products can be setup and managed. Cost rollups of the recipe are compared to standard job cost for each lot or batch produced. All manufacturing-related activities (including issue of materials which automatically decreases inventory balances, recording of production outputs which increase inventory balances) are tracked and charged to a Job, thereby determining actual job and lot cost with variances. General Ledger journal entries automatically created for all transactions and the lot trace information is recorded from the manufacturing activities.