Make to Order

Accelerate delivery and control inventory for maximum efficiency in custom manufacturing.

Success in make to order manufacturing starts with rapid and accurate quotation. Our ERP software for manufacturers of bespoke and custom made products is optimised for precise costing of customer specifications and intelligent scheduling of manufacturing and assembly. With flexible BOM configurations and a wide range of costing models, Solarsoft can help make to order businesses increase control and profitability.

Solarsoft allows you to integrate your supply chain, so every change in your customer’s requirements seamlessly ripples through your business and your suppliers. That level of supply chain control helps you deliver products faster and with fewer errors. Solarsoft provides control with a robust and integrated ERP solution designed for make to order manufacturers.

Key Benefits

Better inventory accuracy
Improved productivity and plant utilization
Seamless integration with customers and suppliers

Solarsoft offers a manufacturing method is a unique environment in which the traditional manufacturing routing, BOM, and tooling are married at each step of the manufacturing process. You can easily review a “super copy” overview of all aspects involved or associated with an item’s “manufacturing methods” in order to quickly analyze and resolve each constraint factor. It’s a very powerful, yet simple to understand tool, as it accurately presents the manufacturing process in a real world step by step method.

We take care of financials, production and inventory of course, but we understand the need to add value across all operations from quotations and configuration through to dispatch and delivery. With built-in support for shop floor data collection and supply chain integration, Solarsoft will help bring clarity and efficiency to all your operations.

Estimating and Quoting

Solarsoft’s software is designed for the demanding quoting requirements of made to order ( custom ) manufacturers. The system is intuitive, prompting users for the detailed information required to set up the item Master, Vendor Master, and Customer Master, Costing information comparisons are created between quote and actual costs.

Predefined (with overrides) materials, labor, burden, tooling, commission charges and mark-ups
Flexible copy functions throughout quoting and estimating
Detailed cost roll-up and unlimited volume pricing discounts
Full multi-currency processing
Aggregate rate/throughput calculation, based upon actual rates existing or created within quote
Simple creation of “new” required components in quoted items within quotation management – either purchased or manufactured
Auto notifies purchasing department of all new parts that require vendor quotations
Support for one-time flat charges, such as freight and engineering charges
Expiration dating and tracking of quotations
Integrated fax and e-mail support
Auto transfer of first-time quotation customers to standard customer master
Auto conversion of quotation to sales order, with integrated scheduling and release of work order when sales is taken
Automatically creates first-time customers and creates sales orders, work orders, item masters, and manufacturing methods (BOM, Routing and tooling)
“What if” analysis on material costs, rates of production, quantity breaks, one-time charges
Analyze win-loss ratios with user-definable loss reason codes
Order Revision control can be mandatory
Ability to generate detailed and refined quotes on new business and customer requested product changes (engineering changes)

Sales Orders

Our goal for sales order processing is to maximize the value of each customer contact. Rich order entry screens with catalogue images and data sheets and available -to-promise data for each line item help your sales team become expert advisers Rapid access to historic orders accelerates entry for repeat business while a product configurator allows make-to-order quotations to be prepared accurately and easily. Online account service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service using the Web Sales Option rounds out the full-service offering for your customers.

Smart product search for fast, accurate order entry
Flexible product configurator for custom builds and quotations
Multiple price books with flexible discounts and breaks
Forward stock allocation, delivery and drop shipment

E-Commerce & Supply Chain Integration

The traditional back-office focus of ERP is a thing of the past. Modern enterprise software must be open and easily connected to systems across the organization and up and down the supply chain. Solarsoft has deep experience in traditional EDI messaging which is built to our manufacturing software. What’s more, the open services architecture supports modern XML based web services for low cost and maximum flexibility. Our manufacturing software can be set up to automate supply chain operations including:

Catalogue feeds from suppliers and to customers
Supplier and customer order entry and confirmation
Invoice and payment confirmation
Advanced shipment notices
Statements and account enquires

Production Management

The graphical production planning workbench gives production managers a clear and accurate view of current and planned utilization across plants and cost centers:

Multiple capacity plans with drill down to individual machines and operators
Drag and drop control over production schedules
Multiple methods of manufacture and flexible BOM and Process Configurations
Touch screen shop floor data collection for accurate, real-time production reporting
Integrated barcode labeling and support for warehouse automation using wireless readers
Real-time machine monitoring options