Production Control & Scheduling

Take Control Of Your Production

By bringing your production planning and shop floor activity into one single system, you can optimise your production processes and resource allocation, creating previously unobtainable levels of operating efficiency.

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Bill of Materials (BOM)

E-Max’s bill of materials allows you to accurately define all the components, materials, parts, subassemblies and quantities required to manufacture a finished product. Starting with the finished product at the top, its hierarchical structure allows infinite multi-level BOMs of unlimited size. Save time by duplicating existing BOMs, use the tracking history to record revisions (ideal for audit purposes), and import BOMs from other software packages, including Excel and CAD packages. Included in E-Max ERP’s BOM is a standard item configurator.

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Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

E-Max’s MRP functionality is at the core of our cloud ERP software and is built upon our very successful tried and tested original MRP system. Utilise E-Max ERP’s comprehensive MRP to plan and control the materials you need for production. Calculate the precise quantities of raw materials, components, and finished goods required to meet your production schedules and customer demand. E-Max’s MRP functionality ensures you have the right materials available at the right time, in the correct quantities, and at the right cost to support production processes while minimising inventory costs and reducing waste and production delays.

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Shopfloor Management

Schedule and monitor your production activities on the shop floor. E-Max ERP tracks the progress of work orders, manages work-in-progress, and ensures that production processes are performed efficiently.

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Optimise Your Routing

Specify the tasks or operations and resources required for each job and the order in which these should be performed. With E-Max ERP you can create multiple route versions and add clear instructions and operator instructions on each route. Easily copy standard operations and routes from other parts. Store template routes and add different operations when required. Tests can also be assigned behind operations. Calculate planned labour costs and track set up times and run times, including cycle quantities and cycle time.

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Create Tasks Or Operations

Create a library of standard operations or tasks to quickly apply to a route. Assign key information to each operation including tooling costs and testing requirements. Resources can also be applied to operations with standard processes – apply skill levels to operations and ensure appropriate operators are allocated certain tasks or select individual resources and apply these when creating a route.

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Works Order Management

Generate works orders in a single click with E-Max ERP and keep your production moving. Guide your production team, coordinate your resources and ensure every job is manufactured to a quality standard and schedule. E-Max ERP supports multi-item works orders, allowing for nesting and by-products being returned to stock.

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Live WIP tracking

Know the actual value of your work-in-progress at any point in time. As materials, time and subcontract costs are booked to jobs, your WIP value will be re-calculated to incorporate these in real time. As soon as the finished items are booked into stock, the value of these is transferred to inventory.

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Backflushing

If the exact quantities required for a job are not known, E-Max allows the materials or items used in that job to be removed from stock, using the pre-defined bill of materials (BOM), after production is completed or the finished item(s) receipted into stock.

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Item Variants

With E-Max ERP you can store multiple manufacturing versions and routes for an item. Ideal for companies that offer customisable or configurable products to meet diverse customer needs. E-Max also offers ECN and change control options.

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Manage Subcontract Work

Get clear visibility of your subcontract costs and allocate these costs to the correct job.

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Document Management

Use the flexibility of E-Max ERP to link any type of document against any transactions in E-Max, including sales orders, works orders, invoices, expenses, etc. Link critical documents like drawings, test results, procedures, images, instructions, and even chemical analysis to any job or operation and access every related document easily and quickly from anywhere within E-Max.

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Identify Your Available Capacity

Maximise your machine usage by understanding when your machines are running operations or not, allowing you to take on additional work without increasing capacity.

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Multiple Traceability Options

Track items or raw materials throughout their journey through your production facility and onto delivery using one of E-Max ERP’s traceability options. These include Batch, Serial, First in First Out (FIFO), Last in First Out (LIFO) and Use by Date. Finished goods that are serialised can also be allocated serial numbers automatically.

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Factor in All Key Information to Improve Output

E-Max ERP includes individual schedules for each machine to ensure that both employee and machine downtime is minimised. Specialist skills of employees are also taken into account as are known bottlenecks in production. This improved planning and resource allocation also improves output levels.

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