Do you have visibility of your production assets?
The factory has been loaded with production orders, but there are several questions I may need to ask, for example:- Do I have visibility of how the resources (machines and tools) are being used? What if a production order has to be moved, is there enough capacity? Are there any alternative resources and whats the […]
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Scheduling – a solution for improving on-time customer deliveries
Improving on-time customer deliveries, creates happier customers and ultimately improves cash flow. Therefore when moving production orders to take in account changes to the planned schedule, it’s paramount to have the visibility if the changes will negatively impact the customers required delivery date. ProcessForce provides a simple but powerful scheduling solution to manage the production […]
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Percentage Weight based Recipes for the food and beverage industry
Would you like to define and enter your product recipes into your ERP system using % weight values ? Does your current ERP solution force you to enter the recipe as basic quantity values, because the system uses a traditional engineering based bill of material format?. Well ProcessForce, a process-oriented recipe-based ERP application provides you the flexibility […]
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What’s the business benefit of using batch properties?
Depending on your industry, business practices, and needs of regulations you may need to add and record characterstics or attributes (otherwise known as properties) to a specific batch record, for example:- Details of origin for caught fish and other seafoods Dimensions Results of quality control tests Active ingredient % for a drug By recording such […]
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Managing fixed batch size production processes
Across different industries there are many examples of fixed capacity batch size production for example:- Mixing Vessels for food preparation Aging Tanks for beverages Kilns for making bricks Non-continuous Ovens for bakeries Furnaces for melting metals These types of resource affect:- Process time for a manufacturing order Costing of resoMedia Libraryurces, fixed and variable overheads […]
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Do you have seasonal based recipes?
We’ve been in discussion with several bakeries over the last few months where they modify the recipe to manage seasonal adjustments of stabilizer to cater for products being produced during the summer and winter months. A ProcessForce solution would be to define two revisions of the same product, with different valid to and from dates. […]
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Customer complaints, the starting point for customer recalls
What’s the starting point of a product recall, bad press, regulatory body such as the FDA, end customer or distributor? Maybe your performing a product recall simulation to test you procedures? Normally it starts in the form of a complaint !. How do you track these today, offline database, post-its, or via Microsoft Excel?, Are complaints […]
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Top 10 ERP requirements for Process Manufacturers
If you’re a process manufacturer thinking of investing in a new business solution, due to your industry best practices and regulatory needs, you will have a list of critical requirements as listed below: Batch traceability – simple and easy to use forward and backward tracking to understand and answer all your batch related questions Batch […]
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The challenge of managing multiple production outputs
Depending on the production process or the materials being used or produced, from a single production order multiple products can be produced as part of the product process or at the end of the process. Industry examples include A single mould produces a left and a right hand part – Plastic Injection Moulding The extruded […]
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Managing scrap, yield and other factors
Process manufacturing enterprises are prone to planned and unplanned production variations, due to the characteristics of the materials being used and produced, the quality or grade of materials as well as the effects of the production process such as machine setup. To help in such environments to ensure enough:- Material is purchased, picked and issued […]
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