Globally, SAP Business One is known for its phenomenal capabilities that help SMBs, whether healthcare or retail, textile or manufacturing, operate and grow seamlessly.
However, each business is unique and so are its complexities.
Manufacturing, in particular, assembles a set of various intricately intertwined tasks. From procurement and production to inventory, it involves multiple activities that demand attention and meticulous planning.
Thus, you need more than just SAP Business One. You need an extension, an ERP software for manufacturing companies.
This is where MFG Pro steps in. An add-on, MFG Pro, enhances SAP Business One to help companies manufacture more seamlessly. Let’s see how.
What is MFG Pro?
MFG Pro is an add-on that helps enhance SAP Business One. It features robust tools to manage every aspect of production, from automatic order generation and managing shifts to optimal resource allocation and tracking rejections. Therefore, MFG Pro doesn’t merely work as an ERP software. Instead, it empowers small and medium-sized manufacturers to plan, manufacture, and deliver more seamlessly.
Features of MFG Pro
MFG Pro has some standout features that precisely serve the manufacturing industry. It touches several small, yet crucial aspects that have always been a challenge in modern manufacturing for years. Let’s look at the distinct features of MFG Pro.
- Automatic Order Generation
The time gap between sales orders and production orders often proves to be the reason for delays in several manufacturing companies. However, MFG Pro bridges the gap between both by automating the process. The ERP automatically creates production orders from sales orders, creating a seamless workflow and reducing manual effort. The result is reduced delays due to order creation. Once the sales order is generated and validated, the system generates a production order to fulfil it.
- Control Center
Often, manufacturing companies struggle with a centralized, real-time visibility and control over their operations. Such a lack of visibility can affect production operations and project deliverables. In a situation like this, manufacturers wouldn’t have a single point of control over the various stages of manufacturing. This can create a disconnection between them. But MFG Pro enables you to monitor and manage each production order through a single, unified system. It provides real-time visibility into the current status and progress of each order, helping you manage each efficiently.
- Subcontract Management
Manufacturers usually deal with multiple vendors at a time. Whether raw material, third-party contract manufacturers, or logistics, the process involves different vendors working together to fulfill a particular project’s requirements. MFG Pro brings them all under a single centralized system. It streamlines vendor operations by helping you efficiently handle the issuing and receipt process for subcontracted activities.
- Routing Workflows
Production involves several sub-processes. Each one must be defined and mapped accurately across its respective stage of the production process. MFG Pro helps you do that. It defines and maps every stage of the production process, creating detailed routing for each. The result is improved traceability and control for each process.
- Shift Operations
Distributing and tracking production volumes across each shift is yet another crucial task for manufacturers. As a manufacturer, you would want to ensure that each working shift you assign to a particular project is optimally loaded with work. However, managing this complex task manually often leads to uneven workload distribution. Let alone track and record the operations of each shift. But MFG Pro tracks and records operations on a shift-wise basis. It helps you distribute, track, and record workloads optimally, thus paving the way for better production planning and performance analysis.
- Resource Allocation
In manufacturing, each resource counts. It has a certain cost and utility value associated with it. Therefore, every activity, whether planning, actual production, or packaging, must have optimal resources to ensure appropriate and complete fulfillment.
MFG Pro helps you assign, monitor, and optimize resource use across each production task. This helps you use every resource efficiently, while minimizing wastage and achieving full value for every resource you’ve invested in.
- Rejection Tracking
Rejections often cost companies millions of dollars, while causing (sometimes irreparable) reputational loss. While dealing with rejections and rework, many companies fail to identify and analyze the reason behind the rejection. As a result, they may frequently end up doing costly rework that hits their profitability.
MFG Pro helps you identify, analyze, and understand the root cause of rejection. When you know what went wrong in a particular order, you can rectify the error, control, and minimize production losses.
Benefits of MFG Pro for Manufacturers
MFG Pro empowers you with several measurable benefits that include:
- Reducing manual effort and streamlining workflows with automation efficiency
- Achieving better operational control by optimizing shift-wise operations and stage-level operations
- Providing comprehensive insights into production stages through a single, integrated control center
- Optimizing resource use to drive higher productivity
- Simplifying subcontract management by improving coordination and accountability
- Identifying and analyzing the root cause of rejections to minimize defects and take informed corrective actions in the manufacturing operations.
- Maintaining process transparency via detailed routing and workflow mapping
Prepared to Transform Your Manufacturing Operations with MFG Pro?
Technically, MFG Pro is an ERP software for manufacturing companies. However, broadly speaking, it is a significant strategic addition to your manufacturing ecosystem.
By enhancing the capabilities of SAP Business One, MFG Pro can help you achieve an up to 40% improvement in real-time, shop-floor visibility, 30% reduction in planning time, and an up to 25% increase in operational efficiency.
So, stop struggling with your manufacturing operations.
Connect with Accelon to integrate MFG Pro to truly transform the way you manufacture and drive continuous operational improvements.
Email us at sales@accelontech.com to connect with our product experts.