Process Manufacturing Requirements
Process manufacturing businesses often require:
- Catchweights
- Lot Traceability of ingredients on a multilevel basis, both backward and forward.
- Traceability must trace raw materials, packaging, and finished items.
- Formulas can include percentage of the total quantity.
- System will calculate the weight for raw materials based on the percentage.
- CAPA (Corrective And Preventive Action)
- Changing the batch size will rescale a work order
- Batches can be split into more than one finished item.
- Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
- Capacity Planning
- RMA Tracking
- Forecasting
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practices
- EDI
- Integrated shipping management
Discrete Manufacturing Requirements
Discrete manufacturing businesses often require:
MRP
- Make to order manufacturing
- Make to stock manufacturing
- Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
- RMA Tracking
- Assemble to order manufacturing
- Repetitive manufacturing
- Integrated shipping management
- Forecasting
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
- Scheduling
- Engineering change management
- Multisite production – plan across locations
Wholesale Distribution Requirements
Wholesale distribution businesses often require:
- Automatic back order fulfillment
- Picking optimization
- Purchase order consolidation
- EDI
- Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
- Integrated shipping management
- Directed picking and putaway
- RMA Tracking
- Scheduling
- Cross-docking management
