The combination of SAP Business One and Advanced Production offers an unparalleled combination of functionality for organizations with a focus on discrete and repetitive manufacturing. Advanced Production has been specifically designed to meet the demanding requirements of these organizations. The result is a flexible and tightly integrated software solution, with rich functionality, that is very easy to use.

Quotation & Sales Control Improve quoting and order management in your company. Using the robust calculation tool price calculations are fast, flexible and dependable. With the

fast MRP calculation you can see the production time of an item, based on the current capacity. For standard items you can work based on “Available to Promise”.

Bill of Resources Different types of material and operations form the basis of the Bill of Resources. Work centres are integrated in operations and capacity information is transparent (setup times, job times, teardown times etc.).

Calculation Bills of Resources and Production Orders can be calculated in various ways. You can easily create multiple Cost Schemas, at your own definition with any formula. This offers a rich and flexible calculation of costs. Based on the Cost Schemas you can define Price Schemas. Based on the various Lot Sizes you can calculate costs, prices and process them into Price Lists.

Outsourcing Powerful and easy to use outsourcing. In the Bill of Resources you can define what amount or % should be outsourced and to what supplier.

Make To Order The standard production system works with traditional MRP II runs to take care of all production and purchasing needs. But if your business requires a more customer-specific approach then there is the MTO capability. Here you can define per product how “deep” this MTO effect goes through the Bill of Resources and you can make separate MTO MRP runs to see the production and purchasing needs based on sales orders. Production Planning Automatic production planning in minutes. With powerful and flexible algorithms the system plans everything on an MRP II basis. This proven method ensures smooth operation and optimal use of all of your valuable resources. The Production Planning is supported with a graphical Plan Board from which you can drill down for additional details.

“With the advanced production planning for SAP we have been able to significantly reduce our planning cycle times responding quickly and accurately to

customer demands” - Bev Turns, Production Planner

Sheppee International Ltd

Production Data Collection To get the real value of the system the PDC is a very powerful module. Here you can enter, in a very simple way, all the necessary data (start job, stop job, setup, break-down, complete, partial, etc.). This data entry can be done in different ways, so it meets your business requirements. Available for terminals or web based.

Procurement & Inventory Comprehensive material planning and procurement functionality. Based on Sales and Production needs, the system can generate all relevant procurement orders.

Service Manage the maintenance and repair of either your own machines or your customers. Service contracts and Customer Equipment cards are a solid basis for reliable and profit-able business.

Finance Completely integrated financial administration that gets fed from all relevant ERP components. Automatic payment, ex-tensive reporting and easy to work with: everything you need for your financial management.

Flexibility Because of its modern structure SAP Business One for discrete manufacturing is easy to implement and offers lots of flexible possibilities. And, even more important, it is adaptable during the complete life-cycle. As in time business processes change, the software can be changed as well. SAP Business One for discrete manufacturing ensures optimal business support for many years.

Production Planning & Scheduling (PPS)

Step 1 Define operations Operations are the kernel of the BX production system. Predefine them with the different work centers, day shifts and shift plans. Add how many minutes the operation will take, with setup and teardown and safety time. All necessary operational details can be added.

Step 2 Bill of resources Define the Bill of Resources (BoM+) per end product or sub-assembly. Use different types of material and pre-defined operations. Specify the needed time for each operation, depending on different lot sizes. Add outsourcing and routing information.

Step 3 Calculation For each Bill of Resources or production order you can do in depth calculations based on different cost and price schemas. See the differences in lot sizes and add or update the various price lists. Recalculation is easy and flexible.

Step 4 MRP II Perform real MRP II planning for your production and purchase needs. The system can generate the orders automatically. If you use the MTO functionality you can work with order-specific MRP II planning. You can use different MRP scenario’s for simulating. The system plans in detail of minutes.

Step 5 Planning The graphical plan board shows the planned and/or released production orders. You can see what operations are pinned to a certain date and double click for operation details. You can select work centers, employees and tools to have a complete over-view of your capacity and needs.

Step 6 Production Data

Collection Enter the production data very easy. Every step in production can be selected for detailed production progress overviews. The production data can also be entered on web terminals. After entering the production data you have a perfect insight in the differences between pre and post

Bills of resources are easy to use and duplicate. This makes recalculation easy and lets you try out different product configurations. Pre-define outsourcing in your Bill of Resources and easily change it there or in production orders. This in case of any acute planning or delivery problems. Calculate in different ways with different lot quantities. Depending on a customer’s request you can calculate costs and profits and update your customer’s price list. From the graphical plan board you can “pin” different operations to fix the production order. Other operations will be automatically adjusted to these “pinned” opera-tions.

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Work with production orders from the Cockpit. Here you can make various changes in production orders and see which orders have problems. Extensive PDC (Production Data Collection) makes it easy to enter time, material use and finished and rejected end products. Also available as a web version for ultimate flexibility, it is an easy to learn and easy to use system that brings your business to the next level.

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