Advanced Manufacturing System

The Advanced Manufacturing System has a range of comprehensive, and yet simple to employ features. AMS includes functionality to bring depth and control over the manufacturing environment, providing the tools needed to understand and grow the business.

AMS seamlessly integrates with Advanced Business Manager (ABM) to combine accounting, production, ordering, and inventory management. Integration with ABM means there is no double-entry of information, as the system allows transactions made in AMS to be posted automatically into the business’s accounting system. Reducing the time it takes to manage your business’s financial information enables time efficiency within administration.

Extensive reporting functionality has been provided as powerful analytical tools for planning, managing and much more. AMS reporting system uses the Business Solutions Crystal Reports engine. The Crystal reporting engine delivers a great amount of flexibility allowing freedom in customising reports to requirements.

Available AMS Modules are:

• Bill of Materials (BOM): This is the foundation of the Manufacturing Suite and provides the user with a powerful and flexible BOM and production tool
• Extended Production: This module extends the production facilities provided in the standard BOM module to allow for multiple stages of production, outwork, and work in progress.
• Demand Analysis: Product demand is a requirement to provide goods. From an AMS perspective open sales orders, production runs, stock shortages, minimum stock levels can all produce demand. A work order/production is created in the Manufacturing System to manage the production of finished products from components based on anticipated demand for the product. The demand analysis module analyses product requirements in the accounting and manufacturing system by examining sales quotations, orders, deliveries, invoices, job quotations and other production runs to produce recommendations for required work orders.
• Supply Analysis: One of the most critical and time-consuming aspects of manufacturing is managing the task of maintaining sufficient amounts of raw materials and components at all times. Product supply is based on inventory stock levels, open purchase orders, lead times and components required. The AMS Supply Analysis module helps manage the material requirement planning process. The module simplifies and speeds up the work processes of purchasing by analysing component demand and taking into account lead times for an inventory item.
• Job Entry & Bulk Entry: The Job Entry module provides a very flexible interface for users who need to enter transactions against multiple production runs.
• Production Quotation: The module allows users to customise BOM information in response to particular client requirements and then provide a quotation to a client based on the anticipated costs of the customised bill of manufacturing.
• Forecasting: Forecasting gives users the ability to create models for determining future production, components and requirements.
• Materials Planning: Material Planning helps manage inventory levels based on current and planned production runs, forecast models, sales movement, and purchase movement. Material Planning works with similar information to the supply analysis functionality but displays the product information using a planning grid, right mouse menus and flexible on screen filtering.