Production management

• Improve coordination of made-to-order requests.
• Simplify make-or-buy decisions.
• Modify components and operations as needed, even on released production orders.
• Plan product family orders that share the same routing to create efficient build schedules.

Bills of material (BOMs)

• Integrate different types of BOMs and customized definitions into manufacturing operations.
• Support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives.
• Create, track, and process multiple versions of BOMs and routings.

Graphical scheduling

• Access an overview of production schedules displayed in Gantt charts.
• Use drag-and-drop functionality to reschedule operations.

Order promising

• Promise orders more accurately with available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) insight.

Exceptions handling

• Quickly make exceptions and last-minute changes to meet customer needs.

Supply planning

• Plan from the sales order, production order, or purchase requisition, or use traditional master production schedule (MPS) or material requirements planning (MRP) methods.
• Facilitate materials flow through the supply chain with multilocation planning capabilities.
• Update and change all materials, costs, and operations simultaneously.

Demand forecasting

• Analyze sales patterns from multiple perspectives.
• Compare forecasted demand with actual sales.
• Consolidate and distribute demand plans with multiple stakeholders for collaborative planning.

Capacity requirements planning

• Implement realistic plans according to all incoming resource capacity demands.
• Redefine order modifiers and reorder policies as needed.
• Accommodate changing shop floor workloads.
• Simplify planning with calendars and machine center allocation tools.

Warehouse and inventory management

• Integrate manufacturing and warehousing functionality.
• Optimize warehouse layout and space utilization.
• Maintain up-to-date inventory information.
• Manufacturing costing
• Understand item costs throughout the production process, including inventory, WIP, and cost of goods sold (COGS).
• Manage sales and purchase prices with customers and vendors.
• Automated data collection system (ADCS).
• Collect and use accurate inventory data in real time
• Increase the visibility of accurate inventory data throughout your business.
• Improve warehouse efficiency.

Lean manufacturing

• Value-stream-mapping documents each step in the process, its inputs and outputs, across the entire supply chain.
• Analysis and modeling identify tasks that could be simplified or cut altogether.
• Implementation and continuous improvement actualize change on the plant floor.
• Management and reporting evaluates the results and begins the cycle again.