Traditionally the move to ERP is a high investment proposition with investment in hardware, high end servers, connectivity, implementation charges, process change cost, change management & Training cost – ERP covers all this aspects at a very cost effective model.
ERP for industrial manufacturing, which has manufacturing Resource Planning module is a comprehensive approach for the effective planning of all this resources of a manufacturing organization.
ERP handles production and material planning effectively and efficiently, which is critical to the success of a manufacturing company. The manufacture module of ERP has proved to be an effective production and inventory planning system in wide variety of environments. The ERP, which is widely also known as ERP for industrial manufacturing comprises of three major kind of information.
MASTER PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
BILL OF MATERIAL
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
In the Master Production Scheduling module of ERP a detailed production schedule for finished goods or end items can be captured, that inputs extends major information for Material Requirement Planning in ERP for industrial manufacturing , with each finished product, a BOM is associated, which explains the demand relationships that is available among the various components like Raw Material, parts, assembles and sub-assembles etc comprising the furnished goods.
The logic of Master Production Schedule Management, BOM Management and the Inventory Control Management is used in ERP for industrial manufacturing that determines for all the components.
ERP for industrial manufacturing comprises of wide array of configuration such as:
Make to Order
Make to Stock
Assemble to Order
Engineering to order and
Consignee to Order
