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Where can it be used?

 

The Plastic Products Manufacturing Equipment Manufacturer ERP Package can be used in the following market segments:

• Manufacturers of the following machines and molds:

  • Plastic Injection molding machines

  • Plastic blow molding machines

  • Plastic extrusion machines

  • Injection molds

  • etc

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Applicable manufacturing processes

 

The Plastic Manufacturer's Equipment Manufacturer ERP Package can be used to manage the production in the  following manufacturing processes:

• Engineer to order

  • The CAD drawings have still to be made. The CAD drawing data could be imported into the Bill of Material (BOM). This can be accomplished by the ISV application of Cadtalk that is integrated the Acumatica Cloud ERP, as you will see in the video below. This BOM will be used in a production order. 

• Make to order

  • The product is already engineered, and just needs to be manufactured or assembled. In the Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, a Sales Order can be converted into a production order as can be seen in a video below.​

• Project Centric manufacturing​

  • A large machine or equipment needs to be made eg. an injection molding machine. A project is set up with tasks, people, tools and machines. A project quote can be submitted to the customer for approval. Once approved the project quote can be converted into a project. The Acumatica Cloud ERP has a project accounting application where a project quote can be created, and upon approval by the customer be converted into a project. The major task and part in this project will be a machine to be manufactured. The Acumatica Cloud ERP enables you to convert that major part into a production/work order. A Bill Of Material will have to be made for this major part. Since such a machine needs to be made according to the specs of the customer sales order, the manufacturing will only start when the customer order is placed. Therefore the Make To Order (MTO) manufacturing method will be used. Details about the Manufacturing Management Application will be discussed later.

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The equipment manufacturer may make a one of or a few machines of the same type. The manufacturing time for one machine can be a week to months. It is crucial to have all the right material on time else, the whole production could be put on halt. Therefore procurement planning is very important. Other requirements specific to this industry are as follows:

• Customer specific quoting & job orders – One off to repeat orders

• Ability to purchase material specific to job(s) and inventory

• Flexibility with changing customer due dates and job schedules

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Components of ERP Package

 

The Plastic Products Manufacturers ERP Package may consist of the following components:

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• Acumatica Manufacturing Edition

  • Acumatica ERP Foundation:

    • Finance suite and Distribution suite

    • Monitoring and Automation

    • Acumatica Standard Manufacturing application: BOM, MRP and Production Management

• Optional Acumatica ERP Foundation applications

  • CRM Suite

  • Project Accounting​

  • Fixed Assets

  • Customer Portal

  • Acumatica Warehouse Management

• Optional Acumatica Advanced Manufacturing Edition applications

  • Product Configurator​

  • Estimator: The Estimator may be very useful to estimate the cost of manufacturing an equipment before it is engineered for the specific customer order. The Estimator builds a BOM for the equipment to be manufactured.

  • Advanced Planning and Scheduling

• ​Optional integrated Independent Software Vendor (ISV) applications:

  • ISV applications for addtional features of an existing Acumatica ERP module/workspace

    • Finance

      • ​Advanced Financial Reporting: FYIsoft, BI360

      • Sales tax Management: Avalara Tax, Vertex Sales Tax Solution

      • Human Resource Management including payroll: InfinityHR, PCBennett payroll, ..

    • Distribution

      • ​Inventory Management :NetStock, EazyStock, ..

      • Sales Order management: 

        • ​Customer payment processing: American Payment Systems, Century Business Solutions (EBizCharge), Kensium AcuCharge

        • EDI gateway: B2BGateway, SPS Commerce Fulfillment, EdiSoft

        • Shipping application: StarShip, AcuShip, OZLink, ..

      • Purchase Order management:​

        • ​Advanced Purchase Order management: Paramount Workplace

        • Vendor payment processing: AvidXchange, Artsyl, uplevl

        • Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP): Sourceday

        • Container tracking for:

          • Purchase orders: IIG AcuTrack 

    • Contract management with customers: MaxQ Technologies​​​, 

    • Fixed asset management: Bimser Beam, 

    • Project Management: SmartSheet, Spitfire, 

    • Document Management Systems:

      • Document scanning and repository: SDSI Unform, 

      • Signing documents electronically: Adobe  E-Sign,

    • Quality Management

      • Bimser International: QDMS​

    • Click here to to see the webpages of all above ISV applications.

  • ISV applications for providing specific industry applications

    • Warehouse Management:

      • Product scan application ( Savant, FusionScan,..)

      • Warehouse Management System (WMS): Fusion WMS, Savant, HighJump, RIC Group WMS

    • CADTalk: to transfer data from the CAD/PLM/PLD application to the BOM in the Acumatica Manufacturing Edition​

    • Arena Solutions Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) application that helps your company design, produce and change products faster

    • Enterprise Facilities Management system from Corrigo

    • Click here to to see the webpages of all above ISV applications.

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