MRPs that can power GM are impressive, but even if you can afford them, they’re simply not a good fit for smaller manufacturers. That’s why we strive to be the “momma bear” of MRPs; Not too big, not too small.. just right.
Build to Stock with or without a Work-Order - From the Assembly/Finished Goods record (which contains the BOMs) you can instantly increase assembly stock based on buildable quantities of available materials. Build to stock with a work order will require the build process to go through the receiving and work order / WIP process before quantities are updated. Purchase orders can be generated from back-orders and matched within the purchase fulfillment process, so that stock received is reserved for builds they’re ordered for.
Build to Order - Create a work order from a new sales order (aka just in time manufacturing). While creating the order, you'll be able to see inventory levels, so that backorder delays can be dealt with as soon as possible. To this end BizAutomation let's you set auto-create purchase events from back-ordered inventory to expedite build dates (ideal when supply-chain lead times are short).
Manually adjust Finished Goods - Without affecting the inventory of related BOMs, you can adjust inventory levels manually just as you would any regular inventory item.
Assembly Items & BOMs - Can be multiple levels deep, and each item (part, raw material, etc..) can be sold individually as standard inventory with its own UOM. BOMs can also include non-inventory and service based items (e.g. maybe you want a fully burdened line item price with build-in fixed hours).
Disassembly - Ability to disassemble a Finished Good, after production, with all requisite accounting and inventory level reversals.
Item Configurations - Composite items (Items made up of other items) can be setup with complex configurations, and “IF / THEN” work flows that employ skip-logic, which is when down-stream items display based on upstream selections. These configurations can stay virtual (SKU only lives within an order for example, not in inventory) or can be used to add a new assembly SKU to inventory. The item configuration wizard you build, can be exposed to any BizCommerce web-site (doesn’t even need the “commerce” part, if all you want is a self-service configurator that auto-quotes your prospects).
Automatic planning and production scheduling is provided based on resource availability, which itself leverages existing workloads from other builds, projects, and scheduled tasks (H.R. enables an administrator to set daily hours worked, available, time off, and days available per week).
Color coding is used to visually communicate levels of availability both in the production schedule report and within a work order where the build manager needs to assign available staff to tasks, which is not only based on availability but skill rating as well.
Where procurement based demand planning is used to help you decide how much product to buy from your vendors (parts and raw materials for example), manufacturing demand planning helps you decide how much product you need to make (because you’re the vendor).
Work orders - also referred to as “build orders” generate on-order for the finished goods based on the quantities you need to build, and place BOM parts on allocation or back-order depending on the buildable quantity of the BOM at the time relative to the demands of the work order.
The WIP routing builder enables you to set the tasks, build duration, and assigned shop floor resources (which is optional), which can be based on skill grading. Resources can also be substituted at build time based on availability.
To streamline manufacturing operations, BizAutomation leverages other ERP systems on the same database (avoids the copy and paste duplication hairball of a stand alone approach).