Benefit from implementing lean principles in PowerERP

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At OmegaCube, we believe that success is a science. If the conditions are set, success will follow.

PowerERP can support lean and flow manufacturing philosophies. This provides an opportunity for manufacturers to gain considerable competitive advantage through increased productivity; improved quality and shorter production lead times. Some features include:

Kanban control - Logic to re-calculate the size and number of kanban bins required on an ongoing basis and to alert personnel to changes in the existing kanbans where physical kanbans are used or to automatically change electronic kanbans maintained within the system. Lean Purchasing (External Kanban) - Functionality to extend the pull concept up through the supply chain to suppliers and achieve the inventory reductions associated with lean manufacturing. Support for just-in-time procurement provides for frequent, flexible, small lot deliveries of parts and materials without the need for traditional purchase orders. Self Billing Invoicing - Functionality to automatically match invoice and process payments to a certified supplier without clerical processing. It is based on the agreement that the receipt of goods becomes an authority to pay. This functionality also applies to automatic invoicing at the time of shipment to customers. This prevents duplication of efforts and speeds up the invoicing process. Back to Back Ordering (manufacturing, Purchasing) - Functionality to generate manufacturing and purchase orders at the time of accepting sales orders. Product configurator - Applications designed to provide the flow logic necessary to determine the specific customer-ordered variations of product and key component requirements to provide real-time capable to promise, demand loading and line sequencing when products are configure-to-order. Tools to convert multi-level bills-of-material into flat bills with event sequencers - Functionality to eliminate traditional MRP-based indented bills-of-material that simulate the manufacturing process and establish start and due dates for each department in the process to perform time-phased and shop floor control routings and convert them into flat bills without sub-assemblies or parent assembly product routing. Electronic work method sheets - Graphical online instructions, lists of parts and tools required, and quality criteria for each specific operation. Production planning tools - Daily production planning tools to determine whether the proposed production can be achieved based on available resources and material. Scheduling is used to address production capacity constraints by slotting production into the most appropriate time slot. Sequencing tools help ensure that line balance is maintained. Demand smoothing tools to accumulate forecast and customer demand to provide a graphical analysis of daily production, including graphical time fence analysis and daily resource planning. Backflush capabilities - Routine transactions for material issues, activity reporting and inventory level updates are replaced by the performance of all inventory transactions upon completion of a single unit. Facilities to manage engineering change orders - Workflow to communicate engineering changes to the production line immediately since these often impact the work process as much as the bill-of materials. Daily and periodic performance reporting - Including backflush reporting, kanban shortages, material use variances, resource utilization, daily planned production, and actual versus planned supplier delivery frequency. Simplified product costing - New costing methodology that eliminates the cumbersome procedure of costing each work-in-process component.