ERP for manufacturing: production, warehouse and control in a single system
What an ERP for manufacturing companies needs to handle: bills of materials, routings, MRP, warehouse, quality, production costs and machine connectivity.
In a manufacturing company everything is connected: a customer order creates material requirements, materials have to be purchased and received, production has to be scheduled on the available resources, and at the end you need to know what the goods you produced actually cost. When this information lives in separate systems, you lose control.
The essential functions
- Bills of materials and routings: what is needed to make each item, and with which phases, machines and times.
- Planning and MRP: calculating material requirements and department capacity from orders and forecasts.
- Production orders and progress tracking: order releases, production reporting, consumption and scrap.
- Warehouse: stock levels, locations, lots and serial numbers, inventories.
- Purchasing and subcontracting: suppliers, outsourced operations, materials in transit.
- Quality: incoming and in-process inspections, non-conformities.
- Costs: standard and actual costs of products and jobs.
Why a single system
When production, warehouse, purchasing and administration all use the same ERP, data entered once is available to everyone. Sales can give realistic delivery dates, production knows which materials are available, and administration knows the real costs. There are fewer parallel Excel spreadsheets and fewer meetings to "reconcile the numbers".
Connecting to the shop floor
The next step is to bring machine data into the management software automatically: quantities produced, cycle times, downtime. This is what IMAS 4.0 does, connecting plant and ERP with an Industry 4.0 approach.
Our experience
Labinf Sistemi has been working with companies in the manufacturing sector for decades. We offer iDempiere with production and MRP, LIGEST and vertical solutions for specific industries such as rubber, plastics and precast concrete.
Want to keep production and warehouse under control? Let's talk.
