Manufacturing Solutions
As Sage Software and Bennett/Porter has been serving manufacturing clients for over a quarter century, Sage Software has developed manufacturing-specific solutions for some of there product lines. It's crucial that your manufacturing business is ready and able to deliver when demand hits. Bennett/Porter can provide you the tools to keep production running smoothly and efficiently, including powerful inventory management tools, job costing tools and much more. These advantages make the Sage Software manufacturing products the ideal solutions for today's manufacturing companies.
MAS 500 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, 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? 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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 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 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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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, MAS 90 and MAS 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, MAS 90 or MAS 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 MAS 90 and MAS 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 MAS 90 and MAS 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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Sage FAS Fixed Assets gives you total control over your fixed assets throughout their entire lifecycle. Based on an easy-to-learn, intuitive user interface, Sage FAS Fixed Assets is the most comprehensive fixed asset management solution for asset depreciation, inventory tracking, and custom reporting — all at a price your business can afford.
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