The good news is that SAP Business One’s Sales Analysis capabilities enabled us to evaluate the results of that campaign and then make adjustments for future promotions. Specifically, we can check the number of transactions, discount levels and net gain or loss per promotion and per location. We have to be very careful with how we spend our precious marketing dollars and the new system gives us the tools to optimize our investment in that area.
Manufacturing is a competitive business from fluctuating customer demand and shrinking product life cycles, to increasing global competition and regulation compliance. Manufacturers are under pressure to increase efficiency, differentiate products, and keep up with regulatory mandates. The SAP Business One application is a Manufacturing ERP Software that provides greater control over manufacturing operations by increasing visibility into the supply chain, automating key production processes, tracking compliance, and making it easier to focus on innovation and speed to market.
SAP BUSINESS ONE WORKS WITH MANUFACTURING
SAP Business One simplifies definition and management of production, assembly, sales, and template bills of materials (BOMs). Manufacturers will store BOM numbers, descriptions, warehouses, and item compositions seamlessly, while recording per-item quantities, production issue methods, prices, and comments at each level. When you add a bill of materials to purchase, production, or sales orders, pricing and quantities are automatically recorded for both the product and its components. SAP Business One supports standard, special, and disassembly production orders. BOM can easily be entered into production orders so that item availability, warehouse location, and issue method are automatically recorded. By storing a production due date, production scheduling can be managed using alerts management in SAP Business One.
Material requirements planning (MRP) in SAP Business One allows you to plan material requirements for complex, multilevel production processes. Using the MRP wizard in SAP Business One, you can create scenarios specifying planning horizon, items, and data sources. Once defined, these scenarios can be saved and reused for subsequent planning phases. The MRP functionality will automatically generate production and purchase orders needed to manufacture a final product in the quantities and time specified by Costing methods, such as FIFO, moving average, and standard, are fully integrated. Inventory valuation and last purchase price per item are automatically updated after each transaction.
Manufacturing ERP Software Improves Production Scheduling
Production Scheduling To Purchasing & Logistics
Streamline the entire manufacturing process, from production scheduling to purchasing and logistics, so you can outperform the competition.
- Manage planned losses and yields
- Gives you a way to better identify actual production variance
- Visibility into (process / fulfillment / product) output to better plan in order to meet demand
- Manage multiple recipes or bill of material configurations
- Historical Reference
- Building new product or managing seasonal product components
- Comparative Cost Analysis of BOMs and Recipe
Manufacturing ERP Software Streamlines Production & Planning
Manage Material Requirements For Multilevel Production Processes
Manage material requirements for multilevel production processes; create manufacturing resource planning scenarios to forecast demand and generate automatic replenishment orders to avoid production material shortages.
- Production & Demand Planning Forecasts
- SAP’s Intelligent Forecasting
- Use statistical methods to analyze past data and provide estimations for demand based on historical trends. For example, seasonal peaks which recur annually lead the forecast to suggest higher demand for these periods
- Available in SAP HANA, intelligent forecast offers users a graphical user interface to visualize the information in your specified range. These charts are a hallmark of SAP HANA and its interfaces help the user to understand information briefly while being able to manipulate the data in real-time
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Build your production run automatically based on forecast or demand
- Manage your inventory stock levels with purchasing recommendations timed to your preferred stock levels
- SAP’s Intelligent Forecasting
Manufacturing ERP Software Optimizes Inventory Management
Track Inventory Levels & Stock Movements
Track Inventory Levels And Stock Movements in real time to minimize out-of-stock situations, increase goods availability, and reduce inventory-carrying costs.
- Shopfloor Data Capture
- Real Time Inventory When Recording Your Product’s Daily Activity
- Shipments and Receipts
- Cycle Counting
- Issue Materials or Report Production Completion Through Android Device or Terminal
- Available to Promise
- Set and Manage Warehouse Specific (Par / Minimum) Values
- Inventory Turn Analysis
- Real Time Inventory When Recording Your Product’s Daily Activity
Manufacturing ERP Software Automates Regulatory Mandates
Track, Manage, And Report on Compliance With Government Mandates
Track, Manage, And Report on Compliance With Government Mandates and industry guidelines
- Quality Control
- Keep your products within spec by planning and performing quality checks throughout your process
- Certificates of Analysis
- Lot Trace & Recall Functionality
- From receipt, to usage, to delivery; Track the movement of your (lot / batch) managed or serialized products
- Trigger customizable recall notices, or send vendor notices when you find an issue
- Lock down your materials across the production (process / chain) when you find an issue
What our customers say
Denise Ost, Chief Operating Officer, Goodwill Industries, San Joaquin Valley
Jason Dugan, CFO, Trudeau Distributing Company
Softengine has been a key contributor to our rollout of SAP Business One. The company’s consultants were excellent and helped ensure that we had a successful implementation.
Leonard Kang, Operations Manager, Christopher Lena
We decided to find a partner we could put our trust in. Softengine is very experienced and systemized in its approach. We were very confident we’d made the right choice. Small businesses might be intimidated by SAP software. What they don’t realize is that SAP offers solutions designed specifically for small to midsize companies like ours.
Ray Lacorte, VP of Operations, Choice Organic Teas
We feel like we are in great hands with Softengine and the SAP Business One system they installed. It’s nice to finally put all those unreliable ERP systems and redundant procedures in the rear-view mirror.
Justin Ku, Administration & Operations Coordinator, Swabplus
The Softengine team was able to tailor SAP Business One to deliver all the traceability Swabplus needed, including all the applicable reports. Softengine enhanced the core system to enable creation of new batch numbers if components don’t already have them and the option of batch-costing. They also added fields for escalation dates, expiration dates and additional inspection data (e.g., who inspected and when), which could be incorporated into each Certificate of Analysis.
Virginia J. Gregorian, COO, Turbo Wholesale Tires
Our experience with Softengine has been extremely positive. Any time we call for assistance, they always assign someone who’s highly professional and gets the job done quickly. Interestingly enough, I’ve become so much more educated about IT-related matters since working with the Softengine team on this project. Every time we need to upgrade the system, they walk me though all the steps to make sure that I completely understand what’s happening, which contributes to the overall success of the upgrade. It’s been a pleasure to work with them.