Manufacturers reap the benefits of PRO:MAN in make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, or blended environments. PRO:MAN's Manufacturing Control module includes Purchasing and Shop Floor Control subsystems. Manufacturing Resource Planning and Job Shop options are also
offered.
Purchasing
- Maintains detailed Vendor information
- Automatically or manually assign vendor numbers
- Automatically or manually assign purchase order numbers
- Supports multiple items per purchase order
- Supports multiple deliveries per item
- Track outplant operations on work orders
- Allows for purchases to inventory, work orders, or general ledger accounts
- Prints purchase orders and purchase order changes
- Allows for drop shipments
- Prints aging or dollars committed on purchase orders
- Prints purchase part status by part or vendor
- Has on-line inquiry of purchase order status
- Shows all open lines for a purchase order and allows receipts against any item
- Supports purchasing in any unit of measure with conversion factors
- Allows for short close of line items on purchase orders
- Reports past-due orders by part number or vendor
- Supports purchase order receipts with inspection option
- Warns for early purchase deliveries and over-shipments
- Supports unplanned receipts
- Applies purchase receipts to outstanding deliveries
- Tracks vendor performance
- Displays vendor quality parameters (dollar volume, on-time, rejects, late deliveries, etc.)
- Allows history by user defined period. Option to roll/refresh vendor quality with user defined periods
- Provides for formal inspection of purchased parts
- Reopens purchase orders when parts are rejected
- Automatically maintains average and last costs for parts
- Allows for material burden for purchase order receipts
- Creates receiver records for purchase order receipts to be processed by accounts payable
- Can automatically put payable on hold if variances are over specified dollar or percentage threshold
- Purges closed/completed purchase orders to history file on disk or to tape (provides an audit report of records purged)
Shop Floor Control
- Real time data collection
- Produces shop packet including pick list and route sheet
- Supports forward or backward scheduling of work order operations for work center loading
- Shows on-line dispatch list and work order status reporting
- Scrap reporting by operation
- Allows splitting of work orders
- Updates work order with move tickets or labor reporting
- Supports off-loading work to alternative work centers
- Prints a report of value added to a work order by work center, comparing standard to actual for a specified date or a range of dates