Engineering and Build to Order Manufacturing

SAP Business One provides a solid manufacturing platform for simple manufacturing companies with final assembly and BOM requirements. For more information on this please see the Final Assembly section under SAP Business One.

For companies with more advanced manufacturing requirements, a SAP Business One and be.as solution provides an integrated system that is specifically tailored to the needs (and budgets) of small and midsize manufacturing businesses.

In an increasingly competitive environment manufacturers need to be responsive to the changing needs of their customers whilst at the same time reducing costs. The be.as manufacturing solution for SAP Business One provides tools to enable a small or medium sized manufacturer to deliver the best products at the best price in the fastest time to their customers.

The be.as manufacturing module SAP Business One offers the following features to a small or medium sized business (for more detail on each section, see down page):

  • Product configuration
  • Job costing
  • Capacity planning and scheduling
  • Shop floor data collection
  • Quality Control

Product Configuration

The be.as Product Configurator lets you or your customers administer product variants and select or configure them directly in SAP Business One or on the Internet.

The product configurator can be used to produce a simple SAP Business One picking list or integrated with the full be.as suite to produce a customized bill of materials and production order with full costing analysis.

Job Costing

Using the be.as costing module you can capture all costs associated with a particular job or production order. Drill-down through the bill of materials and it’s sub-assemblies to see all costs at every stage in the production process. The current versus actual cost accounting provides you with a complete inventory of goods in process, a planned versus actual cost comparison of a current order and the profit margin of a completed order.

Whether you want to prepare estimates for standard products with different lot sizes or calculate the cost of a customer-specific design – the be.as costing module makes this possible.

Cost can be estimated based on full costs, marginal costs or profit contribution enabling the small to medium sized manufacturer to have total visibility and control over their production costs.

Capacity Planning and Scheduling

Order times, cycle times, transit times, capacity load, resource availability and schedules are decisive indicators for optimal control and monitoring of a value-added manufacturing process. Up-to-date knowledge of the order status improves transparency and commitment quality for customers. Informative evaluations of the production process provide important insights for future improvement initiatives.

be.as APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling) provides a wizard based tool for order based or resource based planning. Using Microsoft Project for graphical display a user can perform drop and drop scheduling tasks based on resource contraints or delivery requirements.

The be.as APS tool provides the following benefits:

  • greater transparency in order progress in relation to capacity availability
  • quicker reaction to exceptional cases and therefore less stress situations due to rush orders
  • better resource application and therefore optimisation of the investment budget

be.as APS (APS) has been developed to support the implementation of precisely these types of requirements. The planning module has the following features:

  • Simple operation by means of a Wizard which guides the user through the functions
  • High transparency of planned work orders and resource utilisation through maximum use of the graphic user interface of Microsoft Office Project (Microsoft Project)
  • Drag & Drop manipulations of Microsoft Project objects
  • Cause-effect analysis to determine the effectiveness and urgency of counter-measures

Shop Floor Data Collection

To effectively manage the manufacturing process it is important to have the up-to-the-minute status of your production orders. If you want to reduce the cost of collecting operating data such as time, scrap quantities of finished goods then be.as Operational Data Collection is the right choice for you.

Linked to many of the leading shop floor data collection terminals using various barcode, swipe card and proximity card technologies it is possible to collect and transmit process data automatically to be.as

Shop floor data collection supports the automatic integration of the following data into SAP Business One and be.as:

  • Productive and unproductive time
  • Setup times
  • Stock issues to production
  • Stock receipts from production
  • Scrap

Quality Control

In addition to fulfilling high quality standards, most small and medium-sized manufacturing companies must also be able to document them. be.as offers functions for planning and recording required quality tests during the material flow from initial procurement through to delivery.

Different kinds of test processes can be assigned and recorded against external as well as internal working steps. Quality plans can be assigned to sub-assemblies, finished products or individual components and quality orders can be generated by production order, operation or batch.

be.as quality control is fully integrated with SAP Business One batch management enabling the release and block of different batches pending the completion of a quality order.

Best suited for companies that specialize in:

  • Engineering and make-to-order / projects
  • Assembly / configure-to-order / variant production
  • OEM / supply industry / automotive

In addition to SAP Business One, NAMMIS have a number of other solutions that may be of interest to our current and future clients. Please go to our Solutions section for more information on our other integrated products.

Please do contact us to discuss your needs in more detail – we’re sure we can help!