FCS

Factory Control Systems

 

Living and Dining Room Furniture Manufacturing System

Complete system for cabinet manufacture includes features for setting up options for door hading, different handles, cabinet finish, mirrors to be included. Lacquer calculator.

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Have Multiple lists of fabrics each with a different price, range of 'options' and different waste factor as appropriate.

Control movement between as many stockrooms or locations as your business requires.

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Facility to provide information on usage and suggested batch size on every item, along with abc analysis.

Facility to record stock in multiple rack / bin locations for each stockroom.

Features of Bills of materials:

  • Full database library for all components, items and services that the system needs to recognize, by item code and description, along with all the various operational 'flags'
  • Fully integrated multiple levels of the Bills of Materials, with full flexibility to go as 'deep' as you want to Labour and material percentage shrinkage / wastage features
  • Automatic calculation of any fluid applications such as lacquer / paint and associated cost, based on area plus values entered for density, coverage and number of coats
  • Facility to hold multiple operations, and the material and labour associated with each operation, at each level of the Bill Copy bill feature for fast creation of similar bills.
  • 'Fish' diagram of complete Bill of Material, with all components, sizes and formulae used at every level, that are automatically created for easy viewing to help to ensure the Bills are accurate and complete
  • Facility to enter product 'Options' e.g. Colour, size etc. against common or standard components, which can be stored in the products BOM set-up, and subsequently shown in the SOP module for order entry, customer quotations, and Costings for the product, and which can be entered without having to make a fresh BOM for each new product, on each occasion
  • Once a part number and description have been created, there is no more 'keying-in', just 'point and click'
  • Facility for entering automatic formulae for 'parametric' conversions, which will calculate and show the number and sizes of the parts required to make up a 'saleable' item, according to the size entered for the item on the order, and that then uses a common or standard BOM
  • Easy entry for additional new 'Options' for any items that have been set up as possessing a selection of colours / sizes etc. in order to allow a BOM to be quickly and accurately be put together.

Features of Costing:

  • Effortless calculation of selling prices
  • Can build up costs to any level of the Bill of Materials, and report on 'rolled-up' costs at each level
  • Facility for auto-calculation of costs working up the Bills using current or standard costs
  • Click on an item to pick up material and labour costs from the Bill of Materials, or enter an estimate and the system will automatically work out the portion of overhead to apply
  • Reporting of costs at current or standard as required, with facility to transfer current to standard at any time, for budgeting and variance reporting purposes
  • Global default Percentage figures for consumables, overheads, distribution costs and profit or specific item percentage values, can be set. The system will hold these percentages and re-calculate the values as costs fluctuate
  • Versatile options on costs generated by the BOM allows the user to build in specific operational overheads, to recover costs of capital equipment e.g. CNC machines
  • Enter a specific selling price, and the system will show the profit made at that price
  • Option to work from a fixed selling price with set increments for specific options (automatically calculated as options selected) -Or cost plus margin (global or specific) to determine the selling price. These costing rules can be set at item level as appropriate
  • Enter the profit, and the system calculates the selling price, ensuring overheads, as entered, are correctly covered
  • Facility to enter default percentages for consumables, distribution, and overheads, which are applied if there are no other fixed values specifically entered against an item
  • Simple entry and application of Standard Costs v Current Costs for easy viewing of variances

Features of Stock inventory control

  • Control movement between as many stockrooms or locations as your business requires
  • Option to set purchased product by daily / weekly / monthly policy, for efficient purchasing and cash allocation
  • Information on physical, allocated, quarantined and available stock routinely viewed on screen, or printed to hard copy
  • Facility to provide information on usage on every item, along with ABC analysis
  • Facility to record stock in multiple rack / bin locations for each stockroom
  • Option to automatically control stock re-order points by using minimum and maximum stock level parameters
  • Stock valuation report summarised at standard or current costs by stockroom, with an accompanying total for all stockrooms
  • Stock reports by item code / description given by stockroom highlighting stock levels as low, high, or OK, according to minimum levels and resource requirements, along with the various 'flags' and usages set against the item
  • Facility for taking on stock through Stock transfers, Stocktake adjustments, and Quarantine by just keying-in the quantity and clicking on the reason for entry, or by using the latest barcode technology for labeling and remote data capture units
  • Stocktake sheets printed out by stockroom name, to help in identifying what and where the stock should be, and to provide an 'easy prompt' for an entry
  • Facility for entering an EOQ (economic order quantity), to ensure internal and external orders are ordered in acceptable batch sizes
  • Easy viewing in tabular form, of all product 'Options' that have been set up and validated as being acceptable to sell to customers, and that have also been evaluated through a Stock Master 'cost roll-up'
  • Facility to 'auto-create' the Stock Room Master record without the need to individually set one up for each item
  • Option to set 'buy to order' for back to back purchasing policies keeping any buffer emergency stock.

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