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Sage MAS 500 - Manufacturing

Sage MAS 500 offers a powerful and varied set up modules to meet your manufacturing needs:

Advanced Manufacturing - Advanced Manufacturing includes all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting module, as well as enhanced work orders, and labor and production reporting, which are essential requirements for assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment manufacturing. The system provides shop floor visibility to your entire enterprise, including which employees are currently on the clock in any production facility. With a few mouse-clicks, customer service can quickly view the status of a customer order without having to interrupt the shop supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps you identify which manufactured items are generating the most profit and which are costing you money. You will be able to spot production bottlenecks and respond in real-time to last-minute engineering changes and high-priority orders.
(Advanced Manufacturing spec sheet - .pdf)

Advanced Planning and Scheduling - Do you have problems scheduling production? Are orders late because someone forgot to schedule an operation? Did you ever lose a good customer because production fell behind their required deadline? Sage MAS 500 includes one of the most powerful and easy-to-use Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems available today. The industry-standard scheduling rules automatically schedule production based on advanced algorithms and mathematical calculations. Sage MAS 500 includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns. The schedule board displays all system-generated operation schedules, but it allows supervisors or production scheduling personnel to tweak the schedule to fit in high-priority orders or to move scheduled operations to a different machine when another breaks down.
(Advanced Planning and Scheduling spec sheet - .pdf)

Engineering Change Management - Quality control is one of the most important business concerns for manufacturers. Sage MAS 500 can help you control production costs by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Consequently, it is more important than ever before to standardize your engineering change management process. Sage MAS 500 integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes. Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing and bill of material is cycled via e-mail to members of an approval group. Engineering Change Management is crucial to quality control and is a requirement for ISO and QS certification.
(Engineering Change Management spec sheet - .pdf)

Estimating - Do you know if a new part is going to make you money or cost you money? Do you lose business to your competitors because your estimates are too high? Sage MAS 500 provides detailed estimating capabilities to help you increase business while improving your bottom line. Estimates provide more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production because they include materials, outside processing and labor, as well as overhead rates, and one-time charges for tooling and engineering. Estimates can be converted to a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.
(Estimating spec sheet - .pdf)

Light Manufacturing/Kitting - Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting is the perfect product to help you manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. The streamlined manufacturing system integrates with other optional Sage MAS 500 manufacturing modules and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes. Traditional manufacturers may need the Advanced Manufacturing module.
(Light Manufacturing / Kitting spec sheet - .pdf)

Material Requirements Planning - Understanding material and distribution requirements across the enterprise without advanced planning tools is impossible. Sage MAS 500 uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material and distribution requirements, and how they will affect your business. Sage MAS 500 provides single-screen planning that provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions. The planning activity provides insightful information to help you make purchasing and production scheduling decisions based on industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life circumstances.
(Material Requirements Planning (MRP) spec sheet - .pdf)

Product Configurator - The Product Configurator module was designed for use in either distribution or manufacturing environments. The rules-based Product Configurator configures sales orders and routings/bills of material for a finished part based on a variety of features or functions. Customer service personnel benefit from an easy-to-use interface for quick feature/option selection of configured parts, and integration with Sales Order entry. New items can be created on the fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions, and other options. The Product Configurator also builds the item cost and suggested price. The advanced Product Configurator is easy to setup and maintain. Popular configurations are saved and reused as standard parts.
(Product Configurator spec sheet - .pdf)

Project Management for Manufacturers - Do you manage engineering or prototype production projects? Do you install or service the products you manufacture? If so, the Sage MAS 500 Project Management solution can keep all of your project managers informed and equip them with the tools they need to profitably manage these projects.
(Project Management for Manufacturers spec sheet - .pdf)

Shop Floor Control - The Shop Floor Control system from Best provides real-time labor and production reporting for online production visibility throughout the enterprise. The module was designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, and can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device. Shop Floor Control provides access to all of the activities that generally take place in the shop. Users can log into or out of operations manually or they can use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work order numbers and work order steps for automatic logins. The shop floor menu is easily customized to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor.
(Shop Floor Control spec sheet - .pdf)

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