Manufacturing Orders

Create and maintain manufacturing orders. May contain multiple lines. Manufacturing order lines is for work centre or specified routing consisting of potentially many operations in different work centres. Manage material requirements per manufacturing order line. Costing per manufacturing order line.

Manufacture at planned cost, and optionally revalue manufactured cost upon closing of manufacture order.

Work in Progress

Manage work in progress on item/order line detail level as well as on ledger level.

Manufacturing Operations

Use manufacturing operations as per specified routing, and can be customised per manufacturing order line. Maintain planned time and cost, and collate actual time and cost either by batch capture or by real time capture from shop floor. Has ability to calculate operation times and cost per serial number.

Project Work Breakdown Structure

Define project, including milestones (can also be payment milestone) and other tasks. Define teams and roles for project.

Budgets

Maintain turnover and cost (material and labour) budgets for projects, either consolidated or per financial period. Compare budgets to actuals. Rolling up of budgets and actual.

Time and material billing

Convert timesheets and other expenses automatically to accounts receivable invoices using a user defined billing rate matrix.

Timesheets

Book time against billable and non-billable projects, or fixed price contracts. Approval and analysis of timesheets. Recover labour and overhead cost using individual or expense class rates.

Repetitive Billing

Use project management to control repetitive billing using different billing frequencies and escalation policies.

Fixed price contracts and projects

Manage fixed price contracts and project.

MRP

Use the MRP engine to calculate potential stock shortages, and to suggest replenishment orders (purchase and manufacturing orders). Perform MRP runs globally, per business unit or per item.

Landed Cost Tracking

Perform landed cost tracking using cost elements as defined by the user. Include cost elements from various suppliers.

Stock Reorder Interface

Use the simplified stock reorder interface if the environment is not yet ready for MRP, or if the integrity of planning data is being verified. Automatically create purchase and manufacturing orders based on supply and demand parameters.

Sales Orders and Quotations

Capture and manage sales orders and quotations. Use stock sales order lines, non stock sales order lines and manufacturing sales order lines. Include transport and delivery charges. Use link sales order lines for dependant supply. Put sales orders automatically on hold should credit limit be exceeded. Link sales order line to project and/or predefined equipment.

Bulk Sales Order Activate

Use the bulk sales order activate functionality to activate quotations and orders on hold in bulk.

Credit Management

Apply credit limit checking on individual organisation or on organisation group level on order entry.

Purchase Orders and Request for Quotation

Use purchase orders and request for quotation to procure stock and non stock goods. Manage subcontract processes, integrated with work in progress and inventory management, as well as repair purchase orders.

Job Card

Use job card for the repair, enhancement or manufacture of items, including serialised items. Manage loan units to a customer or replacement of existing units. Include material and labour/overhead cost in job card. Use the cost estimate functionality to determine price based on planning and specified margins. Track planned versus actual cost on a job card.

Financial Calendar

Define financial calendar as per company policy. Open and close financial calendar per transaction type, retaining complete history.

Permissions

Define permissions per individual user or for permission templates, which may be linked to users in turn. Retain complete history on permission changes. Choose to apply additional permissions to cashbook transactions (cashbook that a user may transact on, as well as transactional and daily limits), stock transactions per warehouse and reporting views.

MS Office Suite

Utilise the native integration in MS Office components.

Data Migration and Consolidation

Use the migration functionality for controlled migration of take-on data as well as periodic take-on of data generated externally. Use the consolidation to create export files, and to synchronise different Forward ERP databases.

Batch and Serial Numbers

Use the batch and serial number control in stock transactions, work in progress and inventory figures.

Item Structure Costing

Perform simulations on item structure costing, including different scenarios for imported materials. Compare item structure costing of various items on consolidated and detail level, exposing cost and quantity differences.

Bin Locations

Use predefined or dynamic bin locations. Enforce item bin location definitions if required. Linked items to warehouses. Optionally manage bin capacities or bin capacity per item.

Stock Count

Use the stock count system for period, perpetual or cycle counts. Retain full history of stock count detail indefinitely. Use mobile scanning devices for real time counting. Optionally use a second count, and always have ability to amend counted quantities until count is approved.

Item Structure

Maintain item structures and bills of material. Keep history of various versions of an item structure. Include manufacturing operations and its cost in item structures.

External Tracking

Track location and history of serial and batch numbers at client or supplier sites. Maintain serial number structure of stock external to Forward ERP.

Stock Transactions

Use stock transactions such as Stock Transfer, Stock Issue, Issue to Order etc. to manage inventory. Use integrated barcode scanning and/or radio frequency scanning device system to capture stock transactions in real time. Use stock precedence policies such as FIFO, LIFO or bin alphabetical.

Customer or Supplier Owned Stock

Manage stock owned by customers and suppliers, and use such stock in other stock transactions.

Dispatch Management

Cater for dispatch warehouse, utilising integrated picking slips for picking to dispatch. Cater for pick waves based on various criteria. Can enforce dispatch verification before delivery note is released. Picking and dispatch can be performed using mobile scanning devices for real time verification and transacting.

Warehouse Transfer Requisition

Use the warehouse transfer requisition to control transfers between different premises, keeping complete detail of the transfer. Optionally add transfer cost to inventory transferred between warehouses.

Delivery Tracking

The delivery life cycle can be controlled using the user defined delivery workflow, with specific data requirements per status within the workflow. Capture the number of boxes and weight per box, the delivery agent and documentation particulars. Record image of proof of delivery, which is linked to source data on Forward ERP for simple and easy location and sending upon request.

Report Screen

Use the report screen formatted reports, containing both standard reports and custom reports as required by the client.

Data Grid

Use reports presented in dynamic and flexible spreadsheet like interface to allow for further manipulation and sophisticated analysis. These reports can be printed or exported for further analysis.

Customers and Suppliers

Maintain record and trading attributes for customers and suppliers, including credit management if required.

Contact information

Record and maintain particulars on contact persons for external organisations. Use these particulars to email business documentation directly from the system. Capture details of contact events.

Shop floor stations

Use the touch screen, fingerprint identification and serial scanner enabled shop floor interface to view and record order lines, materials and operations. Retain complete history on material issues and returns, and operation times either by virtue of clocking on and off operations, or by elapsed time per operation (from start to end).

Integrated RF Scanner System

Use the integrated RF Scanner System for stock transactions. Transactions performed on the mobile RF Scanners are permission based, and the user and timestamp of transactions are recorded in the system in the same way as other stock transactions. These transactions are subject to the same validations and control as other transactions.

Configurable Menus

The RF Scanner System provides for a graphical user interface, with configurable menus by user.

Integration

Seamless integration is provided for with system functionality. In fact, transactions performed on the mobile RF Scanner devices are integrated and recorded in the same way as other transactions in the system.