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In today’s fast-paced manufacturing landscape, efficiency and agility are paramount. For manufacture-to-order workshops, where customization is key, automation can be a game-changer. By leveraging The Power of Automation technologies, workshops can streamline their processes, reduce lead times, minimize errors, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction. Let’s explore how automation is revolutionizing manufacture-to-order workshops.

1. Demand Forecasting and Order Management:

Automation begins with accurate demand forecasting and efficient order management systems. Advanced reporting can analyze historical data, market trends, and customer preferences to predict demand accurately. Integrated order management systems then streamline the process from order placement to fulfillment, ensuring seamless communication and coordination across departments.

2. Production Planning and Scheduling:

Efficient production planning and scheduling are critical for meeting delivery deadlines and maximizing resource utilization. Using these tools you can view capacity planning of your Artisans, making sure work is spread evenly across the workshop workforce By optimizing production sequences and allocating resources efficiently, workshops can minimize idle time, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance overall productivity.

3. Manufacturing Execution Systems

Manufacturing Execution Systems play a crucial role in automating shop floor operations and ensuring quality control. With JobPRO Manufacturing you can view the status of your jobs from start to finish, create job packs including the job card and all relevant documents attached digitally to the system. With features like automated data collection, process visualization, and performance analytics, JobPRO enables workshops to identify inefficiencies, optimize workflows, and continuously improve operations.

4. Supply Chain Integration:

In manufacture-to-order workshops, supply chain integration is essential for timely procurement of materials and components. Automated supply chain management systems facilitate seamless collaboration with suppliers, enable just-in-time inventory management, and mitigate supply chain risks. By automating procurement workflows, workshops can reduce lead times, lower inventory holding costs, and ensure a steady supply of materials to support production operations.

5. Integration Automation:

The automation journey doesn’t end with product delivery. With a holistic integrated solution you can create seamless and accurate quotes directly from the shop-floor. Retrieving the latest price lists, BOMs and inventory holdings. You will be able to create Purchase orders linked to the job card, seamlessly working with the back office accounting system. With a fully Automated system you will now be able to see cost and profit per job allowing you to tweak your production for maximum efficiency and profitability.

Power of Automation

Conclusion:

Automating manufacture-to-order workshops offers numerous benefits, from accelerating product development to improving production efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction. By embracing automation technologies and integrating them into every aspect of their operations, workshops can stay competitive in today’s dynamic market environment and position themselves for long-term success taking the full potential of The Power of Automation to level up your work Shop.

In a world where customization and agility are paramount, automation is the key to unlocking the full potential of manufacture-to-order workshops. Speak to us for a solution that will bring your workshop into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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]]> What is the Best ERP Solution? https://jobpro.web.za/what-is-the-best-erp-solution/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:37:38 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=4257 Overwhelmed by ERP Solution Choices? As a Make-to-order manufacturing owner, it can be hard to find the Best ERP solution for your operations. There are many offerings but many if not all fall short in assisting niche operations in dealing with workshop automation and ticking all the right boxes. In search of the Best ERP solution, your are overwhelmed by […]

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As a Make-to-order manufacturing owner, it can be hard to find the Best ERP solution for your operations. There are many offerings but many if not all fall short in assisting niche operations in dealing with workshop automation and ticking all the right boxes.

In search of the Best ERP solution, your are overwhelmed by many choices and the complexity of these ERP solutions. Many business owners are not sure how to choose the Best ERP Solution for their manufacturing operations. Where do I start?

List Your Pains!

We have listed but a few pains that make-to-order Manufacturing companies struggles with, and i am sure there are a lot more we can identify.

How To Identify!

Many manufacturing owners have been doing the work manually and have not explored better options. Some operations may not have the ability to see short comings in the shop-floor processes and need assistance from a certified business partner that can assist them in identifying key areas that need attention and then propose the correct solution to meet your needs.

Best ERP Solution

Automating your shop-floor to your back office accounting solution, is now more important than ever. From inconsistent quoting, wrong costings and duplicate work, many manufacturing operations are working like this with manual job cards and error prone excel worksheets to manage, quote and track work on the shop-floor, allowing for multiple errors such as inconsistent quotes going to customers, tracking the quality of work is non-existent and jobs completed long after the due date. This has a tremendous impact on your operations, losing customers, under or overquoting on jobs and ultimately losing profit.

The Best ERP Solution ?

With UniSource’s JobPRO Manufacturing we can assist in meeting all your manufacturing work-shop pains. With a dedicated and experienced team we can work with your business and identify your weak points in your shop-floor processes.

We have over 30 years experience in the ERP games and over 15 years experience in the Job-Shop manufacturing world. With our Expert advise and Job-Shop Software solution we will give you a holistic solution the meets all your requirements, improving quality of work, Consistent quoting, easily view your job statuses and deliver your jobs on time.

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]]> ERP Secrets You May Not Know https://jobpro.web.za/erp-secrets-you-may-not-know/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 10:29:24 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=4224 An In-depth Look On How An ERP Solution Your ERP Is Central To Running Your Business Effectively An ERP system helps to streamline business processes by automating manual tasks and improving inventory management. Enterprise Resource Planning is a tool to manage your accounting more efficiently and effectively, making sure your debtors and creditors are correct and up to date. An […]

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Your ERP Is Central To Running Your Business Effectively

An ERP system helps to streamline business processes by automating manual tasks and improving inventory management. Enterprise Resource Planning is a tool to manage your accounting more efficiently and effectively, making sure your debtors and creditors are correct and up to date. An ERP is a great application for real-time data giving your reports on vital departments, such as Sales, Debtors and Inventory. Many ERPs today like Sage Accounting Platforms offer additional modules, that can help you improve other departments processes and reporting, like Manufacturing, Bill Of Materials and Sage Intelligence Reporting.

ERP Solutions give you the ability to track costs and profits, whilst improving inefficiencies, improving your margins and cash-flow.

In todays world ERPs are getting even more powerful, with the ability to integrate with 3rd Party Vendors, companies with niche requirements can now improve in their area of focus, such as a Job Shop Business.

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Become A Paperless Environment

With so many benefits of using an ERP to track your business performance, moving your operation into the Fourth Industrial Revolution has many other benefits, one of which is moving your daily operations into a paperless environment. Digitally send invoices and Quotes directly from the ERP application, setup customized visual reports and dashboards and customizable Reports with Sage Intelligence. With an integration partner you can integrate your shop-floor with your accounting system, allowing you to create virtual job cards and track jobs digitally with all information attached to the job card, such as failure reports, test certificates and more.

Get An Accurate View Of Your Activity Based Costing

With A fully Integrated Holistic ERP solution, you can bring many of your departments into one holistic view. Many Manufacturing Owners have asked the question how do I track my jobs, view actuals vs budgets and get an accurate costing of job activities. JobPRO takes the uncertainty of inconsistent quotes, lost information, missing documents and continuous jobs that are overdue, by automating the process and giving the owner full control of their operations.

With an automated process you can track actual times spent on a job allowing the business to quote time more accurately and making more money while growing your customer base.

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Full Integration

With a powerful ERP system you can integrate 3rd Party applications to your accounting software, doing this you get a powerful solution that will get your operations into the new revolution(4IR). Many niche operators such as the make-to-order and manufacturing businesses, do not have solutions to cater for their specific requirements. An ERP has a very powerful accounting foundation, but does lack some features that manufacturing businesses require. Where accounting software works well, especially in the back office and reporting, many business owners and foreman’s, struggle with pre-shop floor and shop-floor processes. From consistent costing issues, continuous quality inspection rework and not able to deliver on agreed times, hurts the business from lower orders and expensive rework costs. An ERP solution like Sage 200 Evolution integrated with JobPRO Manufacturing allows the business to take control of their work shop.

Job Costing

With a proper job costing solution you can get consistent and accurate quotes out quickly and easily, you can compare budget vs actual and view profit per job, view job statuses and give feedback quickly to your customers. Manage your documentation in one place, creating a powerful front end solution that permits access to all your jobs and associated information and attached documents, no more hunting for jobs on the shop-floor and having the confidence that all your important documentation is stored digitally to the job and no more lost paperwork.

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Payroll

You can integrate your payroll with your accounting system, no more having to do double work in two separate systems. Post directly to your GL accounts in your accounting platform. You can link artisan costs to your payroll and get a true view of activity based costing from your work-shop.

A solution to cater to your specific needs

Partner with a BP who knows your manufacturing and engineer-to-order struggles. With our help we can assist you into realising your business goals. Improve customer satisfaction and grow your profits.

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]]> Control Your Labour Costs https://jobpro.web.za/control-your-labour-costs/ Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:47:20 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=4206 How To Control Your Labour Costs Many manufacturing operators are struggling to keep labour costs in check from high purchasing costs to labour cost not been monitored or tracked. Business owners do not have the tools and are inefficient in the way they view labour costs. To control your labour costs means a better estimated quote and better cash flow […]

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Many manufacturing operators are struggling to keep labour costs in check from high purchasing costs to labour cost not been monitored or tracked. Business owners do not have the tools and are inefficient in the way they view labour costs. To control your labour costs means a better estimated quote and better cash flow in your operations.

How to identify and Control Your Labour Costs

There are many indicators that you can identify in your daily operations to improve your operations. Many manufacturing and fabricators ask the question, How do I reduce and control my labour costs?

Reduce labour costs

Questions you can ask which will help you Reduce Labour Cost

  • Are your estimates driven by excel?
  • Not able to track or check quality control?
  • Labour costs\time is not recorded or time is tracked on a job card by hand?
  • Artisans spend to much time looking for drawings and correct stock?
  • Jobs are over priced and we lose these jobs to our competitors?
  • Artisans do not know what the next operation is?

Are Your Estimates Driven By Excel

Many manufacturing operations currently use excel to drive their quotes or estimates. Excel with all it’s pro’s has many con’s, broken links and subject to many typo’s. Many business owners notice that they have high labour costs but the costs are not recovered properly, this can be due to the fact when compiling an estimate the artisan or foreman has forgotten to add labour items to the quote.

To reduce the risk of incorrect quotes, a manufacturing operation must consider an ERP integrated solution, which is driven by an accounting system with templates and correct pricing, giving quick turnaround and consistent quotes every time.

Not Able To Track or Check Quality Control

Many business owners and workshop managers struggle with tracking jobs and their statuses, this leads to time wasted hunting down jobs and ascertaining their status costing time and labour. Without a proper 4IR system in place keeping track of jobs and using tools to ensure business rules are kept, improving quality control and less Quality Inspection Rework, reducing labour costs and improving your underlining profit.

Labour Cost & Time Not Recorded or Recorded Manually By Hand

This approach is bad news for your operations not only are you not getting the correct time against estimates, with the manual process somebody is nominated as the Prefect and has to go and on a daily or even an hourly time basis go to each individual and make sure they are completing the time sheets and correctly. This way of doing things inherently adds unnecessary labour costs and you will not get an accurate activity based costing, which leads to poor recovery of costs.

Your also do not have the tools and information to estimate properly, which leads to either under quoted jobs or over estimates quotes and losing the job to your direct competition.

Artisans Spend To Much Time Looking For Drawings & Correct Stock

With a manual system artisans struggle to find or locate drawings, as there is no electronic link between jobs and drawings. This leads to costly delays and longer turnover of job delivery times.

Artisans are also running around hunting for stock items or do not know what stock is to be used against a specific job, with a manual system, no proper stock sheet is kept and picking slips are non existent, allowing for items to be allocated to multiple jobs, missing items and poor control of stock levels. This creates a bottle neck in the job process increasing labour costs and reducing productivity time.

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Jobs Are Over Priced & We Lose These Jobs To Our Competitors

While we endeavor to get our quotes as accurate as possible we do struggle getting accurate and consistent quotes out to our customers with manual processes. One of our biggest headaches is, broken formulas and typos on excel spreadsheets. This leads to quotes going out wrong, and can be way to expensive to the customer and you lose the deal. Another reason business owners struggle with over priced estimates, is due to the fact that not only is your quoting manual, your costing has been run through a manual process so when estimating labour, you do not have an accurate idea of the true costs and therefore you generally either under estimate or over estimate.

Artisans do not know what the next operation is

How often do you sit back in your chair and ask yourself how productive your artisans are can you track productivity? Are they aware of all their duties planned for the day? Many business owners would say no to these two questions. Without a digital solution your artisan struggle to find their activities planned for the day and the associated documentation that belongs to that activity.

The Solution

Now that we have asked some very important questions, we now know, that we do not have a proper solution with the use of manual quoting and tracking processes.

With JobPRO Manufacturing we can assist you with improvements with all your pre-shop-floor and Shop-floor processes. Giving your correct costing and consistent quoting, delivering a competent estimate to your customers every time. You will never stress knowing if you have lost money on a deal or lost the deal to over priced estimate.

Give us a call today, we would love to meet you.

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]]> Manufacturing Environment Can Be Complex https://jobpro.web.za/manufacturing-environment-can-be-complex/ https://jobpro.web.za/manufacturing-environment-can-be-complex/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:50:56 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=4193 Manage Your Manufacturing Process Like A Pro Plan & Track Jobs Easily With A Business Tool Designed For Your Manufacturing Environment Many business owners struggle with planning and tracking of jobs statuses, this is true in the South African Manufacturing Environment, where the use of Excel and Sticky notes dominates the job process. This leads to late quotes, missing jobs, […]

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Plan & Track Jobs Easily With A Business Tool Designed For Your Manufacturing Environment

Many business owners struggle with planning and tracking of jobs statuses, this is true in the South African Manufacturing Environment, where the use of Excel and Sticky notes dominates the job process.

This leads to late quotes, missing jobs, late deliveries and inaccurate quotes going out to customers.

Many business owners have been asking the question how do I resolve these issues? With many business failing to improve Quality control, Consistent delivery dates, planning resources correctly and having the ability to give accurate and immediate feedback to their customers.

With a front end solution, that can track jobs by status, planning resources correctly and improving the customer experience will enable the business to remove old technology that is prone to error such as excel, sticky notes and the black book.

Know Your Costs & Profit

With the use of excel, many business owners struggle with consistent quoting. Excel with all its pro’s does have weaknesses. This leads to incorrect and poorly estimated quotes going out to customers hurting your bottom line.

With finger typo’s and broken formula’s many manufacturing operations send out quotes that are not quoted correctly or way overpriced, leading to poor cost and profit control, or losing your customer to the opposition due to an overpriced quote.

How can you resolve this? A front end solution that integrates with your ERP system, with fully customizable templates will help improve consistent quoiting and improve the turnaround time of quotes going out to your customers, ensuring a better chance you win the deal.

Manufacturing Process

Consolidate Your Manufacturing Process Into One Single Integrated Solution

With many manufacturing admin workers having to duplicate work, this leading to a lot of time and money wasted with double capturing from an excel document in an accounting system also having to go and hunt for jobs on the shop-floor to ascertain their relevant statuses. Without a proper front end solution managing your jobs their have been many instances of jobs having to go through quality inspection rework due to poor quality control and job management.

With JobPRO Manufacturing you now have control over your costs, tracking of jobs, consistent quoting, enforced business rules, quality control measures and improved cash-flow.

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]]> https://jobpro.web.za/manufacturing-environment-can-be-complex/feed/ 1 Quote To Cash https://jobpro.web.za/quote-to-cash/ https://jobpro.web.za/quote-to-cash/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:07:57 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=4141 Improve The Quality Of Quotes & Improve Your Cash-Flow In many Job Shop Manufacturing operations many owners find it difficult to have a consistent quote to cash process. From inconsistent quotes to delayed quotes getting to the customer. What are the symptoms of these issues of poor performance in the quote to cash process? Inconsistent Quoting Make to order and […]

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In many Job Shop Manufacturing operations many owners find it difficult to have a consistent quote to cash process. From inconsistent quotes to delayed quotes getting to the customer.

What are the symptoms of these issues of poor performance in the quote to cash process?

Inconsistent Quoting

Make to order and repair to orders businesses are still running manual processes. This can comprise of excel spreadsheets for quoting and creating job cards, the problem with this method is errors can creep in, such as typo’s, broken formulas and general pricing note been up to date.

Delayed Quotes

With a manual quoting process, the struggle many foreman’s and business owners are experiencing delayed quotes getting to customers. How do you get the job when the quote takes time or does not even get to the customer? This has a huge impact on your Quote to cash process and leads to lower profits and may increase your costs because of non-existent job costing methods.

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Automating your Quote to Cash process

With an automated ERP solution you will have confidence that all your out going quotes are consistent and correct. With a tool to load and track all your jobs you can now monitor all jobs from quote to cash, no more lost jobs.

The real power of an ERP is the ability to provide data you need to make smarter decisions that are critical to your business.

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Make smarter decisions with our automated system

With JobPRO Manufacturing you are able to visibly track each and every quote you get for the pre-shop floor process to the shop floor, making sure quotes are sent out timeously and that each quote is follow-up and converted – Improving your cash flow.

With an automated system – Everything gets better

  • People & processes become more efficient
  • Operating costs and rejects go down
  • Meet your delivery dates always
  • Communication improved between departments
  • On profits go up

We can help you achieve consistent job costing and many more area’s which need attention.

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]]> https://jobpro.web.za/quote-to-cash/feed/ 1 Improve Job Shop Turnaround Times https://jobpro.web.za/improve-job-shop-turnaround-times/ https://jobpro.web.za/improve-job-shop-turnaround-times/#comments Thu, 28 May 2020 07:07:21 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=1261 Take Control of Manufacturing Lead Time With Job Shop Management Software Reduce Customer Lead Times Let’s look at the case of specialised hydraulics manufacturer receiving a repair request. The process from receiving the request to delivering the finished item to the customer and Improve Job Shop turnaround times. A Basic Info-Graphic To a Manufacturing Job Shop Work-Flow The management truism, […]

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Reduce Customer Lead Times

Let’s look at the case of specialised hydraulics manufacturer receiving a repair request. The process from receiving the request to delivering the finished item to the customer and Improve Job Shop turnaround times.

A Basic Info-Graphic To a Manufacturing Job Shop Work-Flow

Job Shop, Jo Shop Workflow

The management truism, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is especially true of Manufacturing Lead Time. Job shop management software when integrated with ERP enables the capture and measurement of every step in the process across all departments. Having all the steps captured in a workflow allows the business to monitor and measure progress each step of the way so that you can Improve Job Shop turnaround times

JobPRO provides integration, cross-department up-to-the-minute view on the progress of every step on every job. JobPRO shows shop-floor employees at each station what they need to do next, what parts are involved and how long they have to complete it. The warehouse, Planners, Foremen, Sales and Finance have the kind of overview that allows them to plan and when necessary re-plan efficiently. That improves the effectiveness of all communication with customers and suppliers alike.

JobPRO delivers hard information to assist in managing and reducing your manufacturing lead time.

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  1. The system provides notifications and reminders to the responsible parties when they have a task to complete so that work is not forgotten or unduly delayed.
  2. Customer satisfaction benefits from an integrated system measuring and monitoring each contribution to manufacturing lead time. Customers can be given realistic delivery estimates and be kept informed of normal progress or unexpected delays.
  3. The cross-company view of up-to-date labour and stock availability supports normal estimating and scheduling, as well as responding to changes.
  4. In the day-to-day of manufacturing things often go awry or don’t neatly follow the plan. The impact on manufacturing lead time of daily problems or obstacles that introduce delays is immediately visible to all departments.
  5. JobPRO allows the team to embed quality management checklists and quality incident reporting into the worksheets assigned to each station on the production floor.

With JobPRO you can get to know your manufacturing lead times and keep track of your manufacturing workflow across all departments from beginning to end.

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]]> https://jobpro.web.za/improve-job-shop-turnaround-times/feed/ 3 Why Integrate ERP Accounting With Your Shop Floor ? https://jobpro.web.za/why-integrating-your-erp-with-the-shop-floor-is-critical/ https://jobpro.web.za/why-integrating-your-erp-with-the-shop-floor-is-critical/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:33:25 +0000 https://jobpro.web.za/?p=891 Powering your shop-floor into the FUTURE! In order to remain competitive in today’s complex manufacturing industry it is essential for companies to integrate ERP accounting with the shop floor. This is necessary for the effective management of the supply chain and the improvement of business processes. It also enforces conformance to standards and regulations and will ultimately lower costs.  It […]

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In order to remain competitive in today’s complex manufacturing industry it is essential for companies to integrate ERP accounting with the shop floor. This is necessary for the effective management of the supply chain and the improvement of business processes. It also enforces conformance to standards and regulations and will ultimately lower costs. 

It is for these reasons that Job Shop owners are implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems within their organizations with the aim of achieving a competitive advantage.  Modern ERP systems now offer manufacturing capabilities. However, in the very specific and unique world of make-to-order, engineer-to-order and custom manufacturing industries, ERP systems are unable to handle the complex product batch runs that change constantly. This inherent inability of ERP systems to handle the real-world scenarios that custom manufacturing industries face every day has led to a divide between the Job Shop and the ERP systems. Integrate ERP accounting with the Shop Floor is critical to address this.

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Fitting a Round Peg in a Square Hole

Many manufacturing organisations have attempted to integrate the Job-Shop and the ERP system with varying results. In some cases, organizations attempted to develop extensions to their ERP system to make the latter system more suitable for make-to-order / engineer-to-order environments. As a result this often led to a more sluggish accounting system. Another impact was a time-gap between Job-Shop activities and the information being posted to the ERP system. This in turn meant that the information management received was often outdated and prevented accurate decision making.

In an effort to overcome the above challenges, manufacturers should aim to integrate their ERP with a modern and powerful Job-Shop System that integrates in real-time.  Management should be immediately notified of job shop changes; business intelligence tools should be used to increase visibility of the job shop.  Information about the status of a customer orders, inventory shortages or excesses and quality control deviations should be at management’s finger-tips.

Reasons to Integrate ERP Accounting With Your Shop Floor

Seamlessly connecting job shop processes with the ERP accounting system therefore requires a tightly integrated yet flexible solution that leverages the latest technologies. In a make-to-order or custom manufacturing environment it is also imperative to be able to handle the changes customers throw at you quickly and efficiently. To solve these challenges, any Job-Shop System should at minimum meet the following requirements:

  • Permit fast compilation of estimates & quotes that are reliably consistent;  
  • Offer full traceability and workflow visibility from inquiry through to dispatch;
  • Full real-time ERP integration must offer Inventory & Procurement Management for inventory replenishment and buy-outs respectively;
  • Failures detected by Quality Control (QC) auto-alerts management;
  • Automatic time capture of the shop-floor activities permits comparisons to the original job estimates;
  • Enable an holistic solution that provides a seamless integration between the Job-Shop System and the ERP.

It is clear from the above requirements that an organisation must implement a solution that offers end-to-end and real-time integration and Integrate ERP accounting with your shop-floor.

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