Materials Management for SYSPRO

Bill of Materials

SYSPRO Bill of Materials facilitates accurate expected costs against which actual production costs can be tracked. The complete bill forms the basis for material and capacity planning, shop floor control, and costing. Create and maintain a model of your manufactured and assembled products to improve efficiencies as well as generate what-if-costing scenarios.

Factory Documentation

SYSPRO Factory Documentation facilitates clear and accurate user-defined shop floor documentation for production operations to be performed and materials to be issued, thereby enabling accuracy and efficient control of production management processes.

Product Configurator

SYSPRO Product Configurator provides a rules-based system of multiple configuration options via a web-based interface, enabling the efficient and accurate configuration of products for enhanced customer service and operational efficiency. 

Ideal for the engineer-to-order and configure-to-order environments, it enables manufacturers to differentiate their product offerings by customizing products to meet customer specifications and can help reduce configuration errors, while reducing the involvement of experts in routine transactions. 

Quotations and Estimates

SYSPRO Quotations provides the flexibility to produce quotes with multiple offers on stocked and/or customized (estimated) items for existing and prospective customers. The power of this system becomes evident when one or more stock items must be specially made, in which case a supporting estimate can be created. This, in turn, may have one or more special parts, which again can be supported by an estimate, and so on. This process can be extended to 14 levels that are rolled up to complete the quotation’s top-level costing.

Work in Progress

SYSPRO Work in Progress enables you to minimize job costs through the efficient utilization of production resources. It allows you to accurately control costs of work orders currently in progress and manage the performance of the shop floor by tracking material, labor, and resource utilization as well as the activity and efficiency of manufacturing processes.

Inventory Management

Inventory Control

SYSPRO Inventory Control provides greater accuracy and visibility of inventory information throughout the organization. It forms the core of the manufacturing, distribution and accounting facilities and is designed to integrate with all the major functions of the systems and to provide flexible reporting on inventory holdings.

Optimization and Forecasting

SYSPRO Inventory Optimization (IO) takes a holistic approach to balancing the supply chain by providing visibility and understanding of the different parameters that create and shape inventory. The IO module allows users to create policies that determine how a change to these parameters impacts target inventory levels. This enables the best mix of services to the customer at the optimum cost of inventory to achieve that service. Seasonal and trend factors can also be incorporated.

SYSPRO Inventory Forecasting enables your team to create accurate and credible forecasts along with the tools for efficiently managing, monitoring, and improving your forecast process. It offers an ABC Analysis that can rank any element of your business — such as items, customers, or product families — to help you identify profitable opportunities and weed out under-producers.

Inventory Families and Groupings

Families and Groupings is essential to an organization in a demand-driven environment and serves as input to MRP. SYSPRO Inventory Families and Groupings provide the tools to arrange ​‘collections’ of stock-keeping units (SKUs) into families and groupings of similar items.

These collections provide a high-level view of items at which sales forecasts can be produced and the quality of the forecast measured. A significant feature is the ability to group warehouses for purposes of forecasting at a regional or territory level for logistical or supply chain purposes. Forecasts can also be generated at a brand level to facilitate a clearer marketing picture.