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Product Management

Whether you manufacture complex solutions or simple products, you need strong production control in order to build a competitive advantage. As the global marketplace continues to shrink profit margins and customers become more demanding, businesses are looking for agile solutions that can provide the infrastructure they need to respond quickly and efficiently. Epicor offers a comprehensive solution for make-to-order, mixed-mode, make-to-stock, engineer-to-order, and configure–to-order manufacturers; including light assembly features for distribution businesses. Modular in design, the production control suite of modules include Job Management, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Quality Assurance, and Advanced Quality Management.

Job Management

Job Management is a comprehensive production control solution designed specifically for the planning, routing, scheduling, costing, and tracking of products; including assembled, manufactured, and semi-finished products. It includes innovative tools for better planning and costing with historical run analysis that compares estimates to actuals on a run-by-run basis. With Epicor Job Management, users can more easily identify wasted processes and continuous improvement opportunities on the production floor for
maximized profitability.

• Planning Workbench
• Job Manager
• Production Planners Workbench
• Job Costing
• Order-to-Job Linking
• New/Change Order Notifications
• Drag-and-Drop Interface
• Planned Overproduction of Assemblies
• Yield Scrap
• Assemblies
• Scheduling
• Backflush
• Job Tracker
• Productivity
• Quality Control
• Material Shortage Indicator

Advanced Production

Advanced Production deploys batching technology that enables users to group multiple parts or operations together for key production processes. The result of this batching process is a single reporting entity or job for simplified scheduling, tracking, and reporting of labor and materials on the plant floor.
The functionality of Advanced Production is available in the job planning and resource scheduling functions within Epicor. Both planned and “on-the-fly“ grouping provides powerful flexibility to end users. Additionally, users can select to plan sequentially—one operation after another or concurrently—operations to be complete at the same time for nested operations.

• Support For Co Product Production
• Support for Nested Product Production
• Part and Operation Batching
• Visibility of Production Batching
• Accurate Cost Control
• Simplified Plant Floor Interface
• Concurrent or Subsequent Flexibility
• Single or Multiple Operations

Lean Productionl

With increased global competition and the demands of an online supply-chain, customers have more influence than ever before. Customers are, demanding greater product flexibility, smaller, more frequent deliveries and higher product quality, at a lower price.
Businesses are widening the scope and focus of lean principles to encompass all processes that contribute to the bottom line. The true benefits of lean thinking will only be fully realized when the entire enterprise adopts the lean ideology. Specific functionality has been developed in Epicor for plant floor operations that are adopting work order less Kanban manufacturing strategies in part or fully to pull rather than push products through the manufacturing process. Epicor
Lean Manufacturing Kanban functionality supports this.

• Manufacturing without Work Orders (Kanban Flow)
• Cell-based Inventory
• Real-time Manufacturing Kanban
• Manufacturing Flow Kanban
• Real-time Stock Replenishment Kanban
• Real-time Purchase Kanban
• Automated Material Flow
• Support for Hybrid Approaches to Lean

Manufacturing Execution System

The Manufacturing Execution System is an easy-to-use, online system for the plant floor that allows plant-based transactions real-time visibility throughout the Epicor solution. This easy to use interface is developed for end users and offers options of
deployment that include touchscreen monitors as well as bar coded enablement to simplify data entry while
reducing mistakes.
Epicor MES provides accurate labor reporting, a vital concern in job costing and job status. Online transaction tracking gives management a current picture of what is occurring on the plant floor by employee and job.
Integration with Epicor Job Management, Scheduling, Quality Assurance, and Advanced Material Management
eliminates dual entry and provides online, real-time
views of the latest plant floor scheduling priorities.
In addition, integrated document management allows
plant floor access to needed documentation
including product drawings, process documents
—even multimedia videos of difficult to explain processes.

• Flexible Data Entry Technology
• Document Management
• Work Queue
• Multiple Languages
• Distributed Hours
• Quality Reporting
• Shop Warnings
• Grace Periods/Multiple Shifts
• Trackers in the Plant
• Shop Tracker
• Shipping and Receiving
• Inventory Management
• Material Handling

Quality Assurance

Extending your solution with Quality Assurance ensures that complete visibility of quality operations including visibility of items in the quality process. Accurate costing demands that products moved through quality accurately reflect their value and are removed from appropriate WIP. Additionally, this
module includes processes for supplier returns with links to Accounts Payable for automated debit processing; closing the loop on traceability of products in and out of quality within the plant.
Tie together all quality functions, whether it’s scrapping end parts, rejecting raw materials or tracking first article inspections. Inspectors have queues of items to inspect with full disposition and corrective action follow-up. Plant floor employees
can flag parts as nonconformant, which moves
them into an inspection queue. Parts that fail inspection may
be flagged for review by a material review board.

• Inspection Workbench
• Nonconformant Records
• Non-Netting Bins
• Discrepant Material Report Processing
• Corrective Action
• Material Review Board
• Cost of Quality
• Packing Slips
• Debit Memos
• Audit Trails
• Certificate of Compliance

Advanced Quality Management

Epicor Advanced Quality Management (AQM) provides the foundation for significant productivity improvements and cost reductions across your entire enterprise. This solution includes Product and Process Documentation, Customer and Supplier
Management, Nonconformance and Corrective Action
capability. These modules provide a complete framework for compliance with regulatory and industry standards, including ISO, automotive (TS), aerospace (AS), and FDA (21CFR 11) requirements.
At the same time, you can manage financial processes for warranty issues, audit results and approval trails, which are reporting requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley and TREAD Act compliance.

• AQM Core Solution Set
• AQM Compliance and Audit
• Document Management
• AQM Data Collection
• AQM Equipment Management
• AQM Product Launch

For further information, please contact us at (852) 2581 9373 or email at salesenquiry@polyasia.com

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