Veteran ERP software company Epicor Scala continues to demonstrate its leadership in the manufacturing environment, with its iScala manufacturing suite which fully complies with international MRP II standards.
With an iScala solution a manufacturing company will have the peace of mind of being able to plan, control and execute all activities throughout the company supply chain, through a single MRP platform.
Tiaan Grobbelaar, general manager of Epicor Scala Africa, says: "The manufacturing environment requires constant control and checking, a glitch in a single area which leads to insufficient materials to complete a job could cost a company millions. It is with that, that investing in a system which ties in the production and businesses processes of an enterprise can drastically reduce costs, improve ROI and expose inefficiencies within the supply chain."
Epicor iScala can support batch through to engineer-to-order environments, with full MRP II support as well as all the shop-floor tools that are needed to quickly identify and eliminate bottlenecks. The iScala solution can assist a company in monitoring, measuring and improving manufacturing activities. In addition, inherent functionality that reduces lead times allows for better customer service by providing accurate information for on time delivery.
Features of the manufacturing modules of iScala suite includes: basic manufacturing data; actual and standard costing; master production schedule; material requirements planning; order planning; capacity requirement planning (CRP) and shop floor control (SFC); configuration tool; manufacturing application integration; and manufacturing value pack.
Through its CRP and SFC features, iScala is able to assist production staff in working within real-world limitations, enabling you to see capacity or resource shortages and directing and balancing production to available work centres. In addition to which it also supports both standard costing and actual costing, based on batch control or true FIFO (First-in Firstout) as required.
With add-ons to Manufacturing, like the value pack, iScala enables you to improve your staff's productivity by providing a graphical view of BOM with most production features available through just a few clicks of the mouse.
States Grobbelaar: "Most repetitive manufacturing and re-manufacturing environments are supported, from simple assembly through to complex production lines with multiple work centres. This can be evidenced through the combination of the many features including bills-of-materials (BOM) with multiple assembly levels and variants and multiple costing models, eg standard, actual, FIFO, etc.
"Costs can even be simulated depending on which routing, variants, work centres, etc, are selected. Epicor iScala Manufacturing includes integration to production systems through the Manufacturing Application Integration connectivity solution and can be enhanced with graphical capacity planning and other Epicor iScala tools."
Additional technical features include:
Basic manufacturing data
* Stock master file
* Bill of material
* Work centres
* Tool calendars
* Configurations
* Routings
Costing
* Actual and standard costing
* Batch or FIFO driven
* Material usage costs
* Scrap costs
* Sub-contracted costs
* Work-in-progress valuation
Material requirement planning
* Based on MPS
* Creates purchase and work order proposals
* Action list for orders than need amending
Connectivity
* Configure BOM
* Configure work orders
* Integration to production planning systems
* Check raw material/component availability
* Release work orders to production
* Receive details of actual production
* Receive details of actual material usage
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