Manufacturing
Sage MAS 500 manufacturing software provides
manufacturers with the flexibility and expanded capabilities to
meet the diverse business requirements of varied industries,
including industrial, automotive, high tech, electronics,
consumer packaged goods, and other industries. One of the key
advantages of the suite is its streamlined integration of
routings and bills of material, which allows for improved
lead-time calculations, more accurate material plans, and better
resource allocation.With the nine Sage
MAS 500 manufacturing software modules, your operations become
optimized for maximum productivity and provide a real-time
business picture that gives you vision to manage profitability
with insight.
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Advanced Manufacturing
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Advanced Manufacturing includes
all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced
Kitting module, as well as enhanced work orders, and labor and
production reporting, which are essential requirements for
assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment
manufacturing. The system provides shop floor visibility to
your entire enterprise, including which employees are
currently on the clock in any production facility. With a few
mouse-clicks, customer service can quickly view the status of
a customer order without having to interrupt the shop
supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps you
identify which manufactured items are generating the most
profit and which are costing you money. You will be able to
spot production bottlenecks and respond in real-time to
last-minute engineering changes and high-priority orders.
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Advanced Planning and Scheduling
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Do you have problems scheduling
production? Are orders late because someone forgot to schedule
an operation? Did you ever lose a good customer because
production fell behind their required deadline?
Sage MAS 500
includes one of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced
Planning and Scheduling systems available today. The
industry-standard scheduling rules automatically schedule
production based on advanced algorithms and mathematical
calculations. Sage MAS 500 includes a drag-and-drop schedule board
that takes into consideration real-world concerns. The
schedule board displays all system-generated operation
schedules, but it allows supervisors or production scheduling
personnel to tweak the schedule to fit in high-priority orders
or to move scheduled operations to a different machine when
another breaks down.
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Engineering Change Management
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Quality control is one of the
most important business concerns for manufacturers.
Sage MAS 500
can help you control production costs by tracking constantly
changing labor operations and material items as new items are
developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using
newer equipment. Consequently, it is more important than ever
before to standardize your engineering change management
process. Sage MAS 500 integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM)
with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and
standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material
changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing and bill
of material is cycled via e-mail to members of an approval
group. Engineering Change Management is crucial to quality
control and is a requirement for ISO and QS certification.
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Estimating
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Do you know if a new part is
going to make you money or cost you money? Do you lose
business to your competitors because your estimates are too
high? Sage MAS 500 provides detailed estimating capabilities to
help you increase business while improving your bottom line.
Estimates provide more than an educated guess regarding total
cost of production because they include materials, outside
processing and labor, as well as overhead rates, and one-time
charges for tooling and engineering. Estimates can be
converted to a customer quote or directly into a sales order
with a simple mouse-click.
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Light Manufacturing / Advanced Kitting
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Light Manufacturing/Advanced
Kitting is the perfect product to help you manage production
and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or
material issues. The streamlined manufacturing system
integrates with other optional Sage MAS 500 manufacturing modules
and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and
other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical
business issues without getting tied up in complex
manufacturing processes. Traditional manufacturers may need
the Advanced Manufacturing module.
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Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
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Understanding material and
distribution requirements across the enterprise without
advanced planning tools is impossible. Sage
MAS 500 uses historical
data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more
easily understand current and future material and distribution
requirements, and how they will affect your business.
Sage MAS 500
provides single-screen planning that provides up-to-date item
statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase
orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that
affect planning decisions. The planning activity provides
insightful information to help you make purchasing and
production scheduling decisions based on industry-standard
practices and flexible, real-life circumstances.
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Product Configurator
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The Product Configurator module
was designed for use in either distribution or manufacturing
environments. The rules-based Product Configurator configures
sales orders and routings/bills of material for a finished
part based on a variety of features or functions. Customer
service personnel benefit from an easy-to-use interface for
quick feature/option selection of configured parts, and
integration with Sales Order entry. New items can be created
on the fly using customized item masks, new long and short
item descriptions, and other options. The Product Configurator
also builds the item cost and suggested price. The advanced
Product Configurator is easy to setup and maintain. Popular
configurations are saved and reused as standard parts.
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Project Management for Manufacturers
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Do you manage engineering or
prototype production projects? Do you install or service the
products you manufacture? If so, the Sage
MAS 500 Project
Management solution can keep all of your project managers
informed and equip them with the tools they need to profitably
manage these projects.
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Shop Floor Control
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The Shop Floor Control system
from Best provides real-time labor and production reporting
for online production visibility throughout the enterprise.
The module was designed for use with bar code and touch-screen
technology, and can run on a terminal or from a remote
handheld Windows CE device. Shop Floor Control provides access
to all of the activities that generally take place in the
shop. Users can log into or out of operations manually or they
can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work
order numbers and work order steps for automatic logins. The
shop floor menu is easily customized to include virtually any
activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to
run your shop floor.
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