Manufacturing Management Functions & Features

Manufacturing Management covers discrete manufacturing and provides the ability to plan production at various scales, rolling high-level plans down into daily schedules of individual machines and workers, and tracing real-time situations on the production shop floor and in planning to control manufacturing, and thus ensuring manufacturing facilities follow production plans in an accurate and timely manner, as well as providing the ability to alter manufacturing schedules and current operations as required. It involves product configuring, work centers and machines dispatching, all aspects of work-in-progress management, and comprehensive product costing functionality. It also provides a consolidated view of the production situation using extensive multi-level reporting capabilities.. Manufacturing Management Functions & Features are an important module of the comprehensive ERP RFP Template for Discrete Manufacturing.

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The Manufacturing Management Functions & Features comprise the following elements:

Field Service and Repairs
Field service and repairs administers installed-base service agreements and checks contracts and warranties when customers call for help. Field Service and Repairs, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Product Costing
Product costing analyzes product costs related to overhead, labor, material, and manufacturing costs. It provides a variety of costing approaches such as standard, actual, and average. Product Costing, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Production Planning
Production planning performs capacity planning and creates a daily/weekly/monthly production schedule for a company’s manufacturing plants. It involves forecasting, production scheduling, and material planning. Production Planning, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Project Management
Project management monitors costs and work schedules on a project-by-project basis. It usually includes the following sub-modules: project control, project analyzer, project budgeting, project timekeeping, project billings, contract management, and a workflow communicator. Project Management, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Shop Floor Control
Shop floor control is a system for using data from the shop floor to maintain and communicate status information on manufacturing orders and on work centers. Shop floor control can use order control or flow control to monitor material movement through the manufacturing facility. Shop Floor Control, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Product/Item Configurator
Planning bill of materials (BOM) applies more to family BOMs (for example, what perecentage of PCs with 20 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB drives will we make?). This is important during sales and operations planning, and forecasting phases. A software tool that simplifies order entry by asking which options the customer needs, then applies predefined rules to correctly configure the end products. The configurator populates the attributes of the newly configured item, tests for conflicts, and generates the appropriate BOM, routing, and price based on rules and calculations. Product/Item Configurator, Manufacturing Management Functions & Features
Product Data Management (PDM)
Product data management (PDM) provides the ability to integrate at the engineering level to ensure accurate updated product information. It involves bills of materials and routings creation, and engineering change management. It also provides a consolidated view of the product. Product Data Management (PDM), Manufacturing Management Functions & Features

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Manufacturing Management Functions & Features

Field Service and Repairs

Product Costing

Production Planning

Project Management

Shop Floor Control

Product/Item Configurator

Product Data Management (PDM)