Manufacturing Suite

Alpha Production Module is flexible, easy to use and covers many of the functions used by the manufacturing sector. Alpha Production Module is an integration interface between production and warehouses.

 

The program covers many of the functions performed by the industrial sector and is characterized by high flexibility especially in the stages of production implementation. Some if its features are :

1- Full coverage of a product tree

2- Determine the necessary data for operating centers, machines and labor.

3- Coverage of the different stages of production.

4- Making production orders for different groups of products.

5- Monitor the implementation of the production stages of production orders.

7- Industrial costs.

Production Order

Production Control

Production Planning

Production Costing

Production Order

General Features
  • Defining unlimited number of production order types; based on jobs, customers, projects, re-work …
  • Capability to modify both the product BOM and/or router for that particular order.
  • Applying forward or backward planning types to compute the estimated end or start production order date.
  • Reporting good & rejected quantities allows reworking.
  • Provides snapshot of BOM, router, and Co/Bi-product to production order & allowing modifications.
  • Variance reports to show actual versus standard times deviation.
  • Full control of production order status: new, released, completed, closed & cancelled.
  • Linking the routers to the MPS and MRP planning modules.

Production Control

BOM Features
  • Linking any product to its Co-Products and/or By-Products.
  • Replacement item(s) by another in rang of BOM and product.
  • Defining a scrap factor per BOM component.
  • Linking the BOM to planning modules: MPS, MRP & CRP
  • Unlimited number of BOM levels.
  • Defining multi BOMs per product.
  • Copy BOM to any type and any product.

Routers Features
  • Defining multi routers per product.
  • Breaking down the router operations into tasks.
  • Copying a router of one product to another & allowing modifications.
  • Following up various production stages: reporting operation.
  • Defining the overlapping (minutes or percentage) between the routing.
  • Operations to compute the starting and ending times of execution & help in MPS and CRP calculations.
  • Optionally linking routing operations with BOM components to control material issuing.
  • Linking the production cycle with the stock to issue materials and receive products for costing purposes.
  • Linking the routing to the MPS and MRP planning modules.

Shop Floor Features
  • Defining a hierarchical structure of work centers for the production lines.
  • Categorizing work centers into main, branch, & subcontracting.
  • Classifying work centers into machines based & labors based.
  • Establishing any number of shop floor calendars
  • Providing utilization percentages for both resources and hours per day.
  • Determining work center production capacity per day.
  • Allocating the work centers to the production calendars.
  • Allocating the labors & machines to the work centers.

Production Planning

Master Production Scheduling (MPS) is designed to improve production planning and rough-cut capacity planning. It uses forecasts and planning information at the end-item level to improve master scheduling.

MPS: Master Production Schedule
  • Viewing MPS plan with drilling-down capability on MPS quantities, supply quantities, or demand quantities to echo the source of computations.
  • Capability to apply automatic demand/supply curve smoothening along the time-series periods by forwarding, back warding or canceling the MPS-Planned Orders.
  • Capability to transfer MPS planned orders into real orders.
  • Unlimited number of Time-Series definitions for planning periods (Patterns): Daily, Weekly, Monthly & User Defined.
  • Forecasting the demands per planning periods.
  • Copying forecasts from product to another & allows changes.
  • Unlimited number of MPS definitions.
  • Making decisions about MPS supply inclusion: work orders, purchasing orders, MPS firmed planned orders, stock on-hand quantities & surplus quantities from previous planning periods.
  • Making decisions about the MPS demand inclusion: forecasts, sales orders, and safety stock.
  • Applying “What-If-Analysis” to run MPS several times with default & customized parameters to agree upon planned orders.

MRP: Material Required Planning
  • Unlimited number of time-series definitions for planning periods (Patterns): Daily, Weekly, Monthly & User Defined.
  • Unlimited number of MRP definitions.
  • Making decisions about MRP supply inclusion: work orders, purchasing orders, stock on-hand quantities & surplus quantities from previous planning period.
  • Making decisions about the MRP demand inclusion: MPS item plans, sales orders, & safety stock.
  • Applying “What-If-Analysis” to run MRP several times with default & customized parameters to agree upon planned orders.
  • Viewing MRP plan with drilling-down capability on MRP quantities, supply quantities, or demand quantities to echo the source of computations.
  • Capability to apply automatic demand/supply curve smoothening along the time-series periods by forwarding, back warding or canceling the MRP planned orders.
  • Capability to transfer MRP planned orders into real orders.

CRP: Capacity Resource Planning
  • Graphically representing the production line (group of work centers)
  • Capacity versus production loading over the time-series periods.
  • Drilling down to show the production loading for every Work Center of a production line over the time-series periods.
  • Applying “What-If-Analysis” by allowing calendar update and/or orders update.
  • Updating production order allows changing routing, dates and/or quantity.

Production Costing

General Features
  • Keeping both actual & standard cost updated per product.
  • Unlimited number of overheads definition.
  • Calculating product actual cost using inventory transactions and production order reporting.
  • Calculating product standard cost using standard BOM, ROU & overheads ratings.
  • Allowing follow up of costing on operation level
  • Applying costing buckets; standard & actual, on products for grouping purposes.
  • Reporting to management by standard & actual costing per production order