Make to Order Manufacturing

Solarsoft provide you with the tools to control and manage your inventory ensuring that capital is not tied up unnecessarily and protect production should problems arise with the supply chain.

Made to Order

In today’s supply chains, collaborating with trading partners, optimizing internal processes and controlling costs have never been more critical and challenging. Suppliers face high customer expectations- particularly in on-time order fulfilment and order accuracy – and pay a high price for failing to meet those expectations.

Solarsoft allows you to vertically integrate your supply chain, so every change in your customer’s business immediately and seamlessly ripples through your and your suppliers’ enterprises. That level of supply chain control is a function of the amount and quality of the information collected, analyzed and shared within your enterprise and with your trading partners.  Solarsoft provides that control with a robust and integrated ERP solution designed specific to the made to order manufacturing industry.

Features and Benefits

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.

Detail

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

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