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Modules

Product engineeringItems, bills of material, routings and engineering change, with revision control on all of it. PlanningDemand, master schedule, MRP and capacity: from what customers want to what the plant and suppliers must do, with every planned order traceable to its demand. Shop floorWork orders, dispatch, operations, labour, material issue, scrap and completion, recorded where the work happens. InventoryWarehouses, locations, lots and serials, every stock movement, cycle counting and valuation that reconciles to the ledger.
PurchasingRequisitions, sourcing, purchase orders, receiving, three-way match and supplier performance, with approval where money is committed. QualityInspection plans, incoming and in-process inspection, non-conformance, corrective action, holds and certificates, tied to the exact lot or order. Costing and financeStandard costs, cost rollups, work-in-progress, variances and the journal entries that make every movement a posting.

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Processes

Plan to produceFrom a demand line to finished goods in stock: MRP, release, dispatch, execution and completion, with the gates where a person decides. Procure to payRequisition, approval, purchase order, receipt, inspection, three-way match and payment authorisation, with segregation of duties built in. Order to cashQuote, sales order, promise date, reservation, pick and ship, invoice and cash, connected to the plan so the date you promise is one the plant agreed to.
Quality hold to releaseHow a failed inspection is contained, investigated and closed, and how a held lot gets back into use or out of the building. Engineering changeChanging an item, a bill or a routing without breaking the jobs already on the floor or the stock already on the shelf. Period closeClosing a manufacturing period: open labour, work orders, inventory reconciliation, accruals, variances and the lock.

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Industries

Job shops and make to orderEvery order is different: quoting from estimated routings, job costing, and a schedule that changes daily. Repetitive and line manufacturingStable products in volume: rate-based schedules, backflushing, line-side stock and takt, with the ledger still exact.
Process and batch manufacturingFormulas instead of bills, yields, potency and shelf life, lot genealogy, and the batch record a regulator can read. Engineer to order and projectsLong-lead, designed-to-contract products: project structure over the plan, milestones, progress billing and cost to complete.

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Roles and permissionsWho does what: the roles, their records and the human decisions that require independent approval. Reports and dashboardsThe numbers a plant runs on, each with what it answers and who reads it, all built on the same postings as the ledger. Data modelThe tables, their keys and how they relate, written for the consultant or IT team that has to migrate into it or integrate with it.
IntegrationsWhat a plant connects to a manufacturing ERP, and how each connection works here: CAD and PLM, EDI, accounting, scanners, machines, carriers and e-commerce. ImplementationHow a plant goes live: mapping the operating model, configuring, migrating, rehearsing, and launching one process at a time. Agent and APIHow an agent runs Manufacturing ERP: identity, permissions, the calls it makes, and what it may not do without a person.

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Modules
Product engineeringItems, bills of material, routings and engineering change, with revision control on all of it.PlanningDemand, master schedule, MRP and capacity: from what customers want to what the plant and suppliers must do, with every planned order traceable to its demand.Shop floorWork orders, dispatch, operations, labour, material issue, scrap and completion, recorded where the work happens.InventoryWarehouses, locations, lots and serials, every stock movement, cycle counting and valuation that reconciles to the ledger.PurchasingRequisitions, sourcing, purchase orders, receiving, three-way match and supplier performance, with approval where money is committed.QualityInspection plans, incoming and in-process inspection, non-conformance, corrective action, holds and certificates, tied to the exact lot or order.Costing and financeStandard costs, cost rollups, work-in-progress, variances and the journal entries that make every movement a posting.
Processes
Plan to produceFrom a demand line to finished goods in stock: MRP, release, dispatch, execution and completion, with the gates where a person decides.Procure to payRequisition, approval, purchase order, receipt, inspection, three-way match and payment authorisation, with segregation of duties built in.Order to cashQuote, sales order, promise date, reservation, pick and ship, invoice and cash, connected to the plan so the date you promise is one the plant agreed to.Quality hold to releaseHow a failed inspection is contained, investigated and closed, and how a held lot gets back into use or out of the building.Engineering changeChanging an item, a bill or a routing without breaking the jobs already on the floor or the stock already on the shelf.Period closeClosing a manufacturing period: open labour, work orders, inventory reconciliation, accruals, variances and the lock.
Industries
Job shops and make to orderEvery order is different: quoting from estimated routings, job costing, and a schedule that changes daily.Repetitive and line manufacturingStable products in volume: rate-based schedules, backflushing, line-side stock and takt, with the ledger still exact.Process and batch manufacturingFormulas instead of bills, yields, potency and shelf life, lot genealogy, and the batch record a regulator can read.Engineer to order and projectsLong-lead, designed-to-contract products: project structure over the plan, milestones, progress billing and cost to complete.
Reference
Roles and permissionsWho does what: the roles, their records and the human decisions that require independent approval.Reports and dashboardsThe numbers a plant runs on, each with what it answers and who reads it, all built on the same postings as the ledger.Data modelThe tables, their keys and how they relate, written for the consultant or IT team that has to migrate into it or integrate with it.IntegrationsWhat a plant connects to a manufacturing ERP, and how each connection works here: CAD and PLM, EDI, accounting, scanners, machines, carriers and e-commerce.ImplementationHow a plant goes live: mapping the operating model, configuring, migrating, rehearsing, and launching one process at a time.Agent and APIHow an agent runs Manufacturing ERP: identity, permissions, the calls it makes, and what it may not do without a person.
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Manufacturing ERP Modules
Purchasing5 of 7
  • Product engineering1 of 7
  • Planning2 of 7
  • Shop floor3 of 7
  • Inventory4 of 7
  • Purchasing5 of 7
  • Quality6 of 7
  • Costing and finance7 of 7

Purchasing

Requisitions, sourcing, purchase orders, receiving, three-way match and supplier performance, with approval where money is committed.

Purchase Orders PurchaseOrders → PurchaseOrderLines released orders keep the revision they started on
Product engineeringPlanningShop floorInventoryPurchasingQualityCosting and finance
  • PO-0442 · PRD-2041 FinishedGood1 EA
    • PRD-3310 Raw2 EA
      • PRD-5107 SubAssembly0.8 KG
    • PRD-5140 SubAssembly6 EA
PurchaseOrderLines · QuantityOrdered
Records in this module
  • Requisitions
  • Suppliers
  • SupplierItems
  • RequestsForQuotation
  • PurchaseOrders
  • PurchaseOrderLines
  • GoodsReceipts
  • SupplierInvoices
  • MatchExceptions

Requisitions

A requisition is a request to buy: item, quantity, need date, cost centre and reason. Planned purchase orders from MRP become requisitions on release. Expense purchases are keyed by hand. Requisitions above a threshold route to an approver before a buyer can act.

Pending PO ApprovalsPurchaseOrders
approval waits for the approver
Approval conditions

The assigned Approver reviews submitted requisitions and POs, records the decision in Approvals, and approves the purchase (Status: Submitted → Approved).

Submitted
  • PO-55389 VND-020 8 d
  • PO-89371 VND-208 9 d
  • PO-68571 VND-238 8 d
  • PO-24669 VND-207 3 d
  • PO-82651 VND-231 4 d
PO-55389
Vendor
VND-020
OrderDate
09 Sep
RequiredDate
15 Sep
TotalAmount
9,911.53
Buyer
TL

Approval waits for the approver.

Purchasing →

Suppliers and sourcing

The supplier record holds contacts, terms, currency, lead times, certificates and the approved-item list with agreed prices. Requests for quotation go to several suppliers and the comparison lands on one screen. Blanket orders fix price and terms for a period and let releases be called off against them.

Incoming Inspection QueueGoodsReceipts
Approval conditions
Approval conditions

Visible to: Buyer, Quality Inspector. Visibility does not establish approval authority.

PendingQC
  • GR-67393 PO-76934 5 d
  • GR-21462 PO-31733 13 d
  • GR-55779 PO-17489 14 d
  • GR-93355 PO-58041 13 d
  • GR-87386 PO-98542 13 d
GR-67393
PurchaseOrder
PO-76934
ReceiptDate
12 Sep
Warehouse
WRH-130
ReceivedBy
VJ
Status
PendingQC

Approval conditions.

Purchasing →

Purchase orders

Buyer converts requisitions into purchase orders, combining lines for the same supplier. A purchase order carries quantities, prices and required dates and moves through Draft → Submitted → Approved → PartiallyReceived → Received → Closed. The assigned Approver decides submitted purchases; additional approval thresholds are configured for the plant. Supplier dispatch and acknowledgement are integration events and must not bypass that decision.

My Purchase OrdersPurchaseOrders
You
Purchase Order NumberVendorOrder DateRequired DateStatus
PO-30529VND-13011 Sep15 SepDraft
PO-72869VND-22708 Sep16 SepSubmitted
PO-91794VND-17415 Sep23 SepApproved
PO-10329VND-10408 Sep15 SepPartiallyReceived
PO-15539VND-19113 Sep17 SepReceived
PO-17063VND-06513 Sep16 SepCancelled
Purchasing →

Receiving

Goods are received against an order line. Over-delivery tolerance, early-delivery tolerance and inspection requirement come from the item and supplier records. If inspection is required, the receipt goes to a quarantine location and a quality inspection is created; accepted quantity moves to stock, rejected quantity goes back or is scrapped.

Three-way match

The supplier invoice is matched to the purchase order and the goods receipt, line by line, within price and quantity tolerances. A match posts the payable; an exception goes to the buyer or accountant with the difference explained. Nothing is payable before it is received.

Supplier performance

On-time delivery, quantity accuracy, incoming inspection reject rate and price variance are recorded per receipt and rolled up per supplier, so the sourcing decision next quarter is based on what happened, not on the last phone call.

Modules

  • Product engineering
    SKUDescriptionItem TypeUOM

    Product engineering

    Items, bills of material, routings and engineering change, with revision control on all of it.

  • MRP DemandOpen
    Work OrderComponentQuantity RequiredQuantity Issued

    Planning

    Demand, master schedule, MRP and capacity: from what customers want to what the plant and suppliers must do, with every planned order traceable to its demand.

  • Open Work OrdersPlanned
    Work Order NumberProductQuantity OrderedQuantity Completed

    Shop floor

    Work orders, dispatch, operations, labour, material issue, scrap and completion, recorded where the work happens.

  • Inventory
    Warehouse CodeLocationWarehouse TypeManager

    Inventory

    Warehouses, locations, lots and serials, every stock movement, cycle counting and valuation that reconciles to the ledger.

  • Purchasing
    Requisition NumberProductQuantityNeed Date

    Purchasing

    Requisitions, sourcing, purchase orders, receiving, three-way match and supplier performance, with approval where money is committed.

  • Quality HoldsOnHold
    Hold NumberHold TypeLotWork Order
    Goods Receipt

    Quality

    Inspection plans, incoming and in-process inspection, non-conformance, corrective action, holds and certificates, tied to the exact lot or order.

  • Unposted Journal EntriesDraft
    Journal Entry NumberDateDescriptionTotal Debit

    Costing and finance

    Standard costs, cost rollups, work-in-progress, variances and the journal entries that make every movement a posting.

Reports

All reports

Supplier Performance

On-time delivery %, incoming-inspection reject %, and price variance per vendor.

Incoming Inspection QueueGoodsReceipts
PendingQC
  • GR-67393 PO-76934 5 d
  • GR-21462 PO-31733 13 d
  • GR-55779 PO-17489 14 d
  • GR-93355 PO-58041 13 d
  • GR-87386 PO-98542 13 d
GR-67393
PurchaseOrder
PO-76934
ReceiptDate
12 Sep
Warehouse
WRH-130
ReceivedBy
VJ
Status
PendingQC

Approval conditions.

Roles and permissions

Production Planner

Owns MRP, work-order release, scheduling, and BOM/Routing maintenance.

Permissions and records
  • Manage Products, BillOfMaterials, BOMComponents, Routings, RoutingOperations, EngineeringChangeOrders, WorkCenters, Calendars, Shifts, Forecasts, MasterSchedule, PlannedOrders, MRPExceptions, WorkOrders, WorkOrderComponents, WorkOrderOperations
  • View Inventory, SalesOrders, SalesOrderLines, PurchaseOrders
  • Create Requisitions for planned supply
  • Run MRP
  • PurchaseOrders
  • Requisitions
Shop Floor Schedule (Gantt)WorkOrderOperations
StatusPendingInProgress
06 Sep07 Oct WC-130 WO-15343 · 20, 24 Sep to 03 Oct, Pending WC-110 WO-54773 · 10, 06 Sep to 08 Sep, InProgress WO-16425 · 70, 28 Sep to 07 Oct, Pending WC-150 WO-92810 · 20, 13 Sep to 21 Sep, InProgress WC-120 WO-60275 · 70, 14 Sep to 22 Sep, InProgress WO-83081 · 20, 20 Sep to 27 Sep, Pending WO-15343 · 20WO-54773 · 10WO-16425 · 70WO-92810 · 20WO-83081 · 20WO-60275 · 70 today · 17 Sep
  • WC-130: WO-15343 · 20, 24 Sep to 03 Oct, Pending
  • WC-110: WO-54773 · 10, 06 Sep to 08 Sep, InProgress
  • WC-110: WO-16425 · 70, 28 Sep to 07 Oct, Pending
  • WC-150: WO-92810 · 20, 13 Sep to 21 Sep, InProgress
  • WC-120: WO-83081 · 20, 20 Sep to 27 Sep, Pending
  • WC-120: WO-60275 · 70, 14 Sep to 22 Sep, InProgress
Buyer

Manages procurement of raw materials and components.

Permissions and records
  • Manage Suppliers, SupplierItems, RequestsForQuotation, Requisitions, PurchaseOrders, PurchaseOrderLines
  • View Products, Inventory, Contacts (Vendor), GoodsReceipts, SupplierInvoices, MatchExceptions, Approvals
  • Submit requisitions and POs for approval
  • Resolve assigned purchasing MatchExceptions
  • Requisitions
  • Suppliers
  • SupplierItems
  • RequestsForQuotation
  • PurchaseOrders
  • PurchaseOrderLines
  • GoodsReceipts
  • SupplierInvoices
  • MatchExceptions
Incoming Inspection QueueGoodsReceipts
PendingQC
  • GR-67393 PO-76934 5 d
  • GR-21462 PO-31733 13 d
  • GR-55779 PO-17489 14 d
  • GR-93355 PO-58041 13 d
  • GR-87386 PO-98542 13 d
GR-67393
PurchaseOrder
PO-76934
ReceiptDate
12 Sep
Warehouse
WRH-130
ReceivedBy
VJ
Status
PendingQC

Approval conditions.

Quality Inspector

Performs inspections and dispositions non-conforming material.

Permissions and records
  • Manage InspectionPlans, InspectionCharacteristics, QualityInspections, InspectionResults, NonConformanceReports, CorrectiveActions, QualityHolds, Certificates, Instruments
  • Update GoodsReceipts.Status after incoming inspection
  • Place WorkOrderOperations on hold
  • Approve quality release and record QualityHolds.ReleasedBy and ReleasedDate
  • GoodsReceipts
Incoming Inspection QueueGoodsReceipts
PendingQC
  • GR-67393 PO-76934 5 d
  • GR-21462 PO-31733 13 d
  • GR-55779 PO-17489 14 d
  • GR-93355 PO-58041 13 d
  • GR-87386 PO-98542 13 d
GR-67393
PurchaseOrder
PO-76934
ReceiptDate
12 Sep
Warehouse
WRH-130
ReceivedBy
VJ
Status
PendingQC

Approval conditions.

Accountant

Owns the general ledger, payables, and receivables for manufacturing transactions.

Permissions and records
  • Manage JournalEntries, JournalEntryLines, ChartOfAccounts, AccountingPeriods, CostStandards, CostRollups, SupplierInvoices, MatchExceptions, CustomerInvoices, CashReceipts, PaymentRuns, Payments
  • View all transaction tables and reports
  • Post period-close entries and lock AccountingPeriods after review
  • Match vendor bills
  • SupplierInvoices
  • MatchExceptions
Unposted Journal EntriesJournalEntries
Draft
  • JE-33179 Issue to WIP 14 d
  • JE-30548 Completion at standard 4 d
  • JE-69432 Goods receipt 12 d
  • JE-11285 Scrap 10 d
  • JE-29785 Bill match 14 d
JE-33179
Date
03 Sep
Description
Issue to WIP
TotalDebit
11,718.45
TotalCredit
11,718.45
ReferenceType
StockMovement

Approval conditions.

Operator

Executes assigned production operations; separately assigned receiving and stock-handling permissions cover warehouse work.

Permissions and records
  • View assigned WorkOrderOperations
  • Post ProductionLog entries for own operations
  • View own schedule
  • Record scrap with reason
  • GoodsReceipts
My Operations TodayWorkOrderOperations
Youdue todaynot Completed
  1. 10 · Cut to lengthWC-12017 Sep → 25 SepPending
  2. 80 · Weld frameWC-11012 Sep → 21 SepInProgress
  3. 40 · Drill and tapWC-11017 Sep → 20 SepPending
  4. 70 · DeburrWC-13015 Sep → 24 SepInProgress
  5. 50 · AssembleWC-12017 Sep → 22 SepPending
Approver

Makes assigned purchasing and control decisions independently of the person who requested or prepared them.

Permissions and records
  • View assigned Requisitions, PurchaseOrders, PurchaseOrderLines, Approvals, CountLines, EngineeringChangeOrders, MasterSchedule, SupplierInvoices, CostStandards, CostRollups, PaymentRuns, Payments
  • Decide assigned Approvals and record reason and decision date
  • Approve cost-standard activation after financial review
  • Authorise PaymentRuns only when neither preparer nor buyer
  • Requisitions
  • PurchaseOrders
  • PurchaseOrderLines
  • SupplierInvoices
Pending PO ApprovalsPurchaseOrders
Submitted
  • PO-55389 VND-020 8 d
  • PO-89371 VND-208 9 d
  • PO-68571 VND-238 8 d
  • PO-24669 VND-207 3 d
  • PO-82651 VND-231 4 d
PO-55389
Vendor
VND-020
OrderDate
09 Sep
RequiredDate
15 Sep
TotalAmount
9,911.53
Buyer
TL

Approval waits for the approver.

Related processes

Pending PO ApprovalsSubmitted
Purchase Order NumberVendorOrder DateRequired Date

Procure to pay

Requisition, approval, purchase order, receipt, inspection, three-way match and payment authorisation, with segregation of duties built in.

6 stages · 2 approvals

Open Work OrdersPlanned
Work Order NumberProductQuantity OrderedQuantity Completed

Engineering change

Changing an item, a bill or a routing without breaking the jobs already on the floor or the stock already on the shelf.

6 stages · 1 approval

Unposted Journal EntriesDraft
Journal Entry NumberDateDescriptionTotal Debit

Period close

Closing a manufacturing period: open labour, work orders, inventory reconciliation, accruals, variances and the lock.

6 stages · 2 approvals

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