It's crucial that your manufacturing
business is ready and able to deliver when demand hits. Sage has developed
manufacturing-specific modules for their Sage MAS ERP products that are the ideal
solutions for today's manufacturing companies. These tools enable your
business to keep production running smoothly and efficiently, including powerful
inventory management tools, job costing tools and much more.
Sage MAS 500 ERP is a highly reliable, robust series of applications covering all areas
of business management. The product is designed exclusively for large-sized
mid-market businesses with 20 to over 1,000 employees. For manufacturers with
advanced processes, Sage MAS 500 offers a robust series of applications that provide
total control of your manufacturing environment. From work orders, engineering
change management and production scheduling to estimating, material requirements
planning and capable to promise calculations, everything you need for
streamlined manufacturing is right here.
- Advanced Manufacturing - 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.
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling - 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.
- Engineering Change Management - 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.
- Estimating - 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.
- Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting - 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 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.
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) - 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.
- Product Configurator - 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.
- Project Management for Manufacturers - 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.
- Shop Floor Control - The Shop Floor Control system from Sage
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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Sage MAS 90 is an industry-leading accounting and business management software
solution for small to medium-sized companies. Recommended by more CPAs than any
other application in its class, this product suite offers a broad selection of
feature-rich modules that empower managers with the information they need to
make profit and growth driven decisions. For manufacturers, Sage MAS 90 and 200
boast a fully-integrated manufacturing solution that positions you to achieve
greater control of your inventory and shop floor. By providing you with the
insights and intelligence behind your numbers, Sage MAS 90 and 200 enable you to
make informed decisions that improve the productivity and profitability of your
business.
- Bill of Materials - The Bill of Materials module allows you to
easily track the components and miscellaneous charges that make up your finished
items and assemblies. It also gives you accurate and informative reports
detailing bill structures, component requirements and production history, and
provides unlimited revision capability - up to 99 levels are supported. The Bill
of Materials module also includes a unique Bill Options feature, which allows
products to be customized directly from sales orders. Designed to accommodate
the after-the-fact recording of production, the component items used are
automatically relieved from inventory and the finished products are
automatically received into inventory. You can also control production costs
with the Engineering Change Control feature.
- Inventory Management - This module provides insightful data
pertaining to the receipt of goods, the movement of goods within or between
locations, the sale, removal or other disposition of goods, and the precise
valuation and status of goods remaining in inventory at any point in time. Fully
integrated with other Sage MAS 90 and 200 modules, Inventory Management is the
cornerstone of an effective distribution or manufacturing solution.
- Material Requirements Planning - The Material Requirements
Planning (MRP) module helps ensure that you have sufficient amounts of materials
on hand at all times. It simplifies work processes, eliminates purchasing and
scheduling problems, and allows purchasing and production managers to plan more
effectively. MRP looks at demand based on open sales orders and projections, and
also reviews supply based on inventory stock levels and open purchase orders.
Combining this information with product build times and lead times, you can
produce reports that advise the purchasing manager on orders that need to be
placed, revised or canceled.
- Purchase Order - The Purchase Order module organizes and
streamlines the important task of ordering products, and helps you keep accurate
records of these significant transactions. When this module is integrated with
Accounts Payable, Inventory Management and Sales Order, you will have a
comprehensive, fully integrated purchasing system allowing you to receive goods
into Inventory Management and post invoices to Accounts Payable in one easy
step.
- Sales Order - The Sales Order module gives you quick and
accurate access to product availability, flexible pricing including special
discounts, credit card limits and much more. You can also automatically generate
invoices and print daily backorder reports. The StarShip shipping system and the
Credit Card Processing module integrate with Sales Order to provide instant
history of online purchases and shipping entry.
- Work Order - The Work Order module is the cornerstone of the
Sage MAS 90 and 200 manufacturing solution. It lets you issue work orders,
develop schedules, track costs and maintain complete control of the
manufacturing process. Providing complete control over the manufacturing process
and the ability to see up-to-the-minute, work-in-process information, Work Order
is particularly well-suited for companies engaged in assemble-to-order,
engineer-to-order or make-to-order processing. Used in conjunction with Bill of
Materials, all of the required paperwork to move the job through the shop can
then be generated from each work order, including travelers, dispatch sheets and
operation tickets.
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Track your company's tangible assets (laptops, copiers and other business
equipment) and those responsible for them, while automatically calculating
depreciation - eliminating the need for offline spreadsheets. Sage FAS Fixed
Asset Accounting is automatic and can be completely customized. It integrates
with the Sage MAS ERP core modules, giving you comprehensive accounting
management performance.
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