SYSPRO ERP Manufacturing

Bill of Materials

SYSPRO’s Bill of Materials solution facilitates an accurate expected cost against which to track actual production costs. The complete bill forms the basis for material and capacity planning, shop floor control and costing. You can create and maintain a model of your manufactured or assembled products as well as generate what-if costing scenarios.

Key Functionality:

• Support planning bills, phantom parts and sub-contract operations
• Plan for co- and by-products, apportioning costs accurately
• Calculate manufacturing lead times
• Define components as quantity per, percent of parent or specific quantity regardless of batch
• Validate structures and operations and provide notification of potential problems

Material Yield System for SYSPRO

Provides manufacturers and distributors in the cut-sheet plastics or metals industry with the ability to maximize yields, minimize waste, and return tracked remnants to inventory.

Key Functionality:

• Presents optional yields from existing inventory, another locations inventory and/or purchasing from a vendor
• Intelligent part numbering enables automatic tracking of off-cuts (remnants) with or without associated value
• Create a yield calculation while processing a quotation or a sales order for cut sheet, rod, or tube products
• Allow sales persons to be in complete control of the actual items selected for order processing
• Assign new stock codes automatically based on dimensions and assigns heat number

EDI for SYSPRO

To facilitate the mapping/translating that is required to exchange large batches of business transactions automatically and electronically in the traditional standardized formats between trading partners.

Key Functionality:

• Support just-in-time (JIT) ordering objectives
• Accommodate complex requirements of specific suppliers in standardized formats
• Shorten the order/shipping cycle with rapid electronic processing of documents between trading partners
• Increase accuracy by eliminating unnecessary manual data entry
• Cross references used to store required system information regarding qualifiers for incoming and outgoing documents

Product Configurator

SYSPRO Product Configurator offers multiple configuration options to customers in a controlled, cost-effective and user-friendly manner in order to maximize customer service and operational efficiency.

It enables manufacturers to differentiate their product offerings through the customization of product to meet customer specifications and can help reduce configuration errors, while reducing the involvement of experts in routine transactions.

Key Functionality:

• Improve order entry by being able to configure complex products on the fly
• Maintain a library of common configurations to easily recall repeat orders
• Develop component dependencies based on options
• Base costs on bill of material or inventory cost

Factory Documentation

SYSPRO Factory Documentation enables better management of factory production by providing factory production staff with clear and accurate user-defined shop floor documentation regarding the tasks to be performed and the materials required.

Key Functionality:

• Provide visibility of expected start and completion dates for each operation within a job
• Inform the production staff of the next operation to be performed (for routing)
• Print barcodes on documents for use with automated data collection devices
• Include operation instructions, technical notes and material notes on documentation

Requirements Planning

SYSPRO Requirements Planning uses projected demand and supply to assist you in planning and creating realistic production, purchasing and supply transfer schedules. It also identifies capacity constraints, and maintains optimal stock holdings in a multi-site and multi-warehouse environment.

Key Functionality:

• Calculate material and capacity requirements under an infinite or finite capacity assumption
• Control inventory levels by identifying potential oversupply
• Avoid bottlenecks by reviewing average queue times
• Generate supply chain transfers from suggestions for transfers between warehouses
• Define planning frequencies, lead times and planning horizons for time fence indicators

SYSPRO ShopClock

SYSPRO ShopClock captures employee time on job/operations quickly and accurately in real-time using scanning technology. Track employee time and attendance with flexible setup options by configuring shift rules to match your shop floor labor policies.

Key Functionality:

• Capture labor on job/operations in ‘real-time’ and provide excellent production status ‘visibility’
• Automate the posting of labor transactions to SYSPRO ‘Work In Progress’ (WIP) in either traditional batch mode or instant labor posting
• Use SYSPRO ShopClock as a labor data collection system for job costing & tracking, or as a time & attendance solution, or both
• Assign non-productive reason codes/descriptions in SYSPRO and capture as it happens on the shop floor

Forecast Pro

Forecast Pro provides fast, easy and accurate forecasting of sales, revenues, demand for service or any other important variable in order to allow better decision making

Key Functionality:

• Instantly provides graphing and report generation to illustrate forecasts, historic data, confidence limits and safety stocks
• Gives results in clear, understandable business terms, eliminating the need for specialized training or a background in statistics
• Adjusts single points, ranges or totals, using percent ages, increments, or by entering new values
• Automatically adjusts all appropriate levels of a multiple level hierarchy when a value at any given level is changed

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 by tracking the material, labor and resource utilization and activity of the manufacturing process, while managing the performance of the shop floor.

Key Functionality:

• Track and manage material and operational costs per job
• Analyze efficiency and utilization of shop floor elements
• Identify overloaded work centers
• Determine standards for machines and employees
• Calculate due dates on a forward, backward, finite or manual basis