Production Manager Overview

Job Costing is required for Make to Order and Job Shop environments as they need to track actual time and material cost by Job. As manufacturing of this type may only make a component or finished goods only once, there may be non-stock material that is purchased for the Job and should not have to pass through Inventory. Smaller Job Shops may not be able to establish a detail routing, therefore through the reporting of Labor; the actual steps are created. Many of the Costing reports may be run while the Jobs are in production, providing the ability to determine profitable or a problem in the estimated cost.

Shop Floor will automate manufacturing production control and aide in Production Scheduling and Planning for customer orders and stock requirements. You can manage the Production follow using Dispatch reporting and track the progress of work orders through manufacturing based on defined routings.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) can help manage your manufacturing process. Its goal is to help you meet these 3 Objectives: Ensure that materials and products are available for production and delivery to customers, maintain the lowest possible level of inventory and plan manufacturing activities such as scheduling and purchasing.

• Allows for Planned Orders that do not allocate material
• Automatic Release Job process
• Extensive drill down capability
• Full integration with Financials and Inventory
• Detailed Job Pick List and Traveler
• Optional Efficiency reporting
• Allows for production of non-stock items and non-stock components
• Optional Back-Flushing for Job Receipts
• Queue, wait, and move times may optionally be compressed during the process and Work Center Capacity overrides may be entered to reflect reallocation of resources
• Performs Shop Floor scheduling of each job step using either forward or backward techniques
• Extensive notes and comments
• Unlimited Job history
• Allows orders to be "open" where component parts are allocated to the job but production is not ready
• Allows orders to be "Released" at the appropriate time for production commencement on the shop floor
• Reports offer export to excel and email
• Holds completed orders on file with a "closed" status for additional viewing and history
• Fully regenerative MRP
• MRP provides the options to turn CPOs into live Purchase Orders and Production Orders
• Fully customizable Production Calendar
• Optional Forecasting tied into MRP
• Material Planning module allows ranking of planned job orders by a series of User selected priorities