Beas Manufacturing

Materials management:

• Many models of material requirements created in accordance with the expectations of customers and the optimization of warehouse space.
• Backward postings based on job demand.
• Extended batch and serial number processing.

• Data collection on mobile devices for warehouse / storage locations.
• Additional goods receipt control options, including blocking a selected batch, part of a batch and release for production.
• Unplanned postings based on labor requirements.
• Extended inventory management.

The versions may differ from each other not only by changes in the bill of materials but also in the route. An important feature is keeping the main material index unchanged and the ability to copy it to the next version and introduce only the necessary modifications in line with the customer’s expectations.

The versions can be controlled at the BOM level, but also the routes at any number of levels in the product tree structure.

Option to view information about the variant:

• active,
• inactive,
• released,
• blocked,
• change history.

Requirements are calculated for a specific production order and electronic documents are generated, e.g. purchase orders or batch acceptance to the warehouse.

Of course, production orders can be generated automatically using the MRP II function.

A production order may be:

• generated on the basis of sales analysis
• generated from a sales order
• generated manually directly by the system operator

A production order may be modified at any time,

which means great flexibility in managing its course in time. It is possible to add new raw materials or replace the existing ones, remove raw materials, add an additional quantity needed to complete production, change the route (add or remove technological operations) or the tools used.

From the production order, the operator can see

what operations have already been completed and what materials have been reported as used, what shortages or waste have arisen. Important information available on each production order is the resource load and whether a given operation is started, paused or completed.

Quality control can be qualitative or quantitative

• Qualitative – it comes down to describing the controlled raw material / semi-finished product / finished product with a set of descriptive features or technical parameters, taking into account the standards / tolerance ranges which may or may not be used for further processing or sale.
• Quantitative – entering information in the form of a selected measurement unit, e.g. items with the possibility of conversion into alternative units.

Quality control can be inter-operational, final, ad-hoc, i.e. triggered at any time and performed on mobile devices, such as e.g. a tablet.

The module includes, among others

• Management of quality control plans – the ability to create plans for selected key customers or products that determine the company’s income and the quality control process is critical.
• Quality control for orders, from receipt of goods, through production and delivery
• Expiry date monitoring
  Approved / blocked for checking, batch and serial blocking for parts
• Receiving and analyzing complaints about customers, suppliers, internal production

The maintenance functionality allows you to:

• Management of the resource base and tools
• Planning service activities in a manual or automated manner
• Planning the wear of tools and ordering them at the right time with the possibility of automatically generating a service order for tool replacement or its calibration.
• Recording failures and downtimes and informing responsible persons using various communication channels such as e-mail, information on the user’s screen or SMS.

Some of the most important planning features:

• Possibility to choose which production orders will be planned, which are frozen for planning, i.e. without the possibility of changing their deadlines.
• Possibility to manually change the order of order execution through the dragging mechanism.
• Various ways of organizing and planning the sequence and optimization, e.g. by business partner, delivery date, with / without limitations of production capacity limits.

• Possibility to create your own planning scenarios for the selected type of production, e.g. MTO (production to order), MTS (production to stock), ETO (production according to customer specifications), ATO (assembly to order).
• Include dependencies in multi-level procurement with cross-check of delivery dates.
• Simple selection or replacement of resources such as machines or tools.
• Integrated material availability calculation can be turned on or off, and reporting will automatically inform you what parts are missing during each planning and scheduling process.

The user should be traceable

using dynamic Gantt where there are delays in implementation with the possibility of manual change / postponement of operations in time Scheduling can be simulated for production resources and technological operations.

Important

The way in which the production technology is built has a great influence on the scheduling process. If we can plan the process in such a way that the tree consists of semi-finished products, then we will achieve greater flexibility in terms of planning and scheduling.

MRP allows you to automatically generate purchase recommendations (internal demand), purchase orders with the possibility of consolidation to a selected vendor or production orders with the possibility of manual editing.

Comprehensive planning and implementation of external production (cooperation) and parts delivery.

Flexible reports and charts provide the necessary transparency to get the right tasks right at the right time.

With MRP II, resources can also be included in the calculation.

In addition to stock levels and available sales orders or framework agreements, MRP II also allows you to take into account resources and their availability. This allows you to more accurately estimate the date of delivery of raw materials for production than in the case of the MRP method, because it takes into account the availability and workload of resources at the time of planning and for the future. This saves storage space and does not involve excessive amounts of funds. On the basis of the MRP and MRP II algorithms, it is also possible to create the main schedule of MPS production and plan the financial resources necessary for involvement in a specific time perspective.

Production reporting is the basis for the planning and scheduling process.

It takes place with the help of production terminals available in the production hall with the use of any device because the application is browser-based, which means that it can be run on any device. It is enough that the hall has access to the Internet from the WI-FI network.

Job information:

possibility to work in a factory without traditional paper documents

From the terminal level, you can report:

• Start and stop the production operation
• Number of good and defective pieces produced and waste
• Failures and downtime of resources
• Inter-operational or final quality control

The terminal also allows you to use additional functions:

• Calling up a demand for additional raw material for an order
• Moving the raw material from the raw material warehouse to the production warehouse
• Addition of a production operation by the operator
• Preview of production documentation – simple opening / reading of shared documents or photos.

All of the above functions are based on the authorization policy, which allows you to control the data that can be reported by the operator.

Each enterprise has its own model of calculating production costs. Beas allows you to create your own pre and post cost calculation models taking into account:

• Raw materials and materials
• Technological operations
  Fixed costs and variable costs
• Faculty costs
• Management costs
• Margin on operations

The calculations can be additionally made real by using price lists or groups of discounts for customers, which will allow for realistic estimation of the planned production margins.

The configurator’s functionality offers several benefits to the company:

• The customer chooses a set that is possible to produce and has been provided by designers, which guides the customer and does not force the production of very non-standard versions
• The customer can visualize the product and on this basis decide whether it suits him or not, which eliminates the level of possible dissatisfaction
• In the background, when selecting the next options, the production technology is created (it can be used to start a production order and the price for the customer) – this significantly reduces the customer’s waiting time for product delivery

The BEAS configurator for SAP Business One is also used for production variants.

If the customer needs a special version of the product purchased so far, it will be possible to quickly prepare it using the configurator.

Important: Building a new version of an existing product does not duplicate the index in the database again. The advantage of the solution is the ability to create multiple versions / variants of the same product without the need to duplicate it multiple times in the index database.

The configurator allows you to create multi-level decision structures with variables, formulas, rules, signs, graphics, etc.

In an inquiry or sales order, the user is guided through a user-friendly questionnaire that will begin the process of configuring, calculating and integrating products after answering. The structure of the bill of materials is based on master data, indexes, bill of materials (BOM) or technological operations. It can be used outside of production as a standalone tool while you are working on a quotation or when processing a sales order in SAP Business One.

Thanks to the integration with the nesting application, it is possible to send production orders for semi-finished products so that the nesting application plans their cut.

Return to BEAS returns the list of cut components with assigned index numbers and possible scraps. However, precise information is always provided on exactly how much waste we have and in what pieces, which allows for better planning.