Manufacturing

Sage 200 Manufacturing is a powerful manufacturing solution that enables you to manage your entire supply chain in detail, end to end, giving you the information needed to manage and control your business more effectively, whilst maintaining maximum productivity and increasing customer satisfaction and profitability.

Built on the latest technology and with configurable functionality, it offers the ideal out of the box solution to manufacturers with complex business processes:

Achieve optimum efficiency – allows you to track supply chain activities in detail and maintain maximum productivity with the ability to monitor issues on the shop floor; so corrective action can be swiftly taken to ensure efficient shop-floor management. The configurable functionality flexes the system to match the needs of your business so you can streamline production scheduling and gain more effective coordination of distribution channels, improved control of your production processes and improve on-time delivery of products.
Greater customer satisfaction – supports mixed-mode production environments helping to reduce lead times and optimise your internal operations, making it easier for you to monitor product quality so you always produce the highest quality goods.
Reduce costs – increases productivity with precision production floor processes, improved component tracking and turnover of finished goods. Sage Graphical Planner provides more accurate resource planning, helping you identify potential areas for savings and reduce the cost of production.

Core benefits – Sage 200 Manufacturing:

Optimum business efficiency – Sage 200 Manufacturing allows you to manage and control your business more effectively, increasing customer satisfaction and profitability. It enables you to track supply chain activities in detail, end to end, so you can maintain maximum productivity, giving you the ability to monitor issues and events on the shop floor so corrective action can be swiftly taken to ensure efficient shop-floor management. The functionality of Sage 200 Manufacturing can be configured to match the needs of your individual business, enabling you to standardise and streamline production scheduling and gain more effective coordination of distribution channels. This improved control of your production processes enable you to improve on-time delivery of products, a key performance metric for anyone in the manufacturing industry.

Achieve greater customer satisfaction – Sage 200 Manufacturing supports mixed-mode production environments including Job Shop, Batch and Semi-Process through to Project manufacturing, Make to Stock and Make to Order, all helping to reduce lead times and optimise your internal operations, increase quality and thereby boost customer satisfaction. In addition, Sage 200 Manufacturing’s certificates of conformity ensure your products are manufactured to ISO quality, making it easier for you to monitor quality standards and take the required actions to ensure you manufacture products of the highest quality, to meet the expectations of your customers at all times.

Reduce costs – Sage 200 Manufacturing increases productivity with precision production floor processes, improved component tracking and turnover of finished goods. Tight integration with a market leading scheduling solution from Preactor gives you Sage Graphical Planner so you can assess potential issues in production, produce optimised flexible schedules, identify resource issues easily and choose the way you wish to view completed jobs. More accurate resource planning helps you identify potential areas for savings and reduce the cost of production. In addition, Sage 200 Manufacturing also provides you with the flexibility to define different costing methods: standard, weighted average or actual, for specific products or families so you can choose and apply the relevant costing method to your operations.

Improve visibility across your organisation – Sage 200 Manufacturing enables visibility of your data in real time across your business. Your people will have access to accurate, timely information, from those on the shop floor to the procurement and accounting departments. With essential data flowing throughout the organisation you can achieve greater business efficiency, increased collaboration throughout your organisation and ultimately increase sales and profitability.

Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you to:

Meet delivery times
Manage your cash flow
Control product quality
Reduce costs
Optimise production
Save time
Stay on track at every stage of production
Share information
Accurately track deliveries

Manage multiple Bills of Materials easily

Multiple versions of a BOM can be stored and used, one of which is ‘live’ at a given time. With powerful version control, only one person can edit or change a BOM at any time, and other users are aware that a BOM is being edited. Full change history is stored for each BOM.

Flexible build options

The system can be configured to always build sub-assemblies, or always use from stock, or allow choice in each case. You can manage products with multiple units of measure.

Picking lists can be produced at the time of allocation or separately. Multiple finished items can be included in stock calculations and allocations to ensure finished goods that have similar constituents of another assembly cannot use each other’s raw materials.

Precise costing

Detailed costs can be built in for each unit or build run. You can assign labour and machine time for each assembly process to ensure accurate costing.

Additionally, you can allocate a proportion of a fixed cost/operating overhead to a run, based on an average number of units per run. If a component changes, the rolled-up costs can be calculated automatically if desired.

For components that do not use the standard costing method, the system will re-calculate the rolled-up cost of the finished goods upon allocation.

Full batch and serial number processing

If your processes involve issuing a batch number or serial number to finished products, our software can record this, enabling you to trace it to the customers who received it. The software automatically maintains essential quality standards and detailed traceability.

Produce quotes for multiple batch sizes

You can build up an estimate using a variety of quantity breaks. You can alter the quantity and quickly see how the totals are affected.

You also have the ability to cost the estimate and print the estimate details for any/all of the quantity breaks that you have entered.

Automatic creation of Purchase and Works Orders

The MRP recommendations to ‘make’ and ‘buy’ products can be amended, filtered and sorted, combined or spilt and then actioned to automatically create Purchase and Works Orders. This improves efficiency by saving time and eliminating the need to manually key data.

Powerful stock projection facility

View a list of predicted stock for all or a range of products in each time period. If Sage 200 is using multiple locations, you can also look at a range of products from an individual warehouse. You can see stock predictions for products below minimum level, those with negative stock, or those above maximum level.

Integrated with Sage 200 Graphical Planner

Working alongside MRP, Sage 200 shows graphically the schedule of work required to meet demands (i.e. works orders and MRP ‘make’ recommendations). It will allow your staff to create an optimised, achievable production plan and allows you to make the most efficient use of resources, whether it be machines or labour.