Factory Orders

Multiple options save time and optimise processes

With Greentree’s Bill of Materials module your production process is not locked into rigid Bill of Material structures. Your production team has the ability to include additional materials during manufacture or replace defined materials with alternatives, ensuring production completion in the most time and cost effective way. Factory orders can include unlimited production notes to assist shop floor staff with set-up instructions.

Initiating a factory order is straightforward with all options automatically defaulted. However you can override these to change the destination location for the finished goods, the location to select materials from, as well as whether to commit or backflush materials for the production run. Factory orders can also be adjusted to reflect rejects and to return un-commit or write-off materials not used in the manufacturing process.

A picture is worth a thousand Bill of Materials lists

If you’re a “draw me a picture” type then Greentree provides you with a graphical representation of the bill of materials. This graphical view adds shape and flow to a seemingly complex Bill of Materials structure.

Visibility, management and control of costs and processes

Costs are managed and calculated automatically and there are multiple options to ensure that all costs associated with the planning and production process are included in the final production figure. For example, the BOM’s module Factory Orders offers a variance report comparing actual against receipted costs at any time.

Keeping a close eye on items as they progress through the production cycle to ensure timely customer delivery is all taken care of with the help of a route plan attached to the BOM. The status of all orders, including Factory Orders, is updated automatically by the system so you can always tell what stage any order is at. And to ensure you get the most accurate timeframe for the end-to-end process, lead times can be assigned to each work centre and again are automatically calculated. You have the reassurance of knowing that the delivery times you’re giving your customers are provided with a good level of certainty.

Real-time availability of inventory and in-production items

Sales orders can be linked to Factory Orders so that as soon as a manufactured item becomes available. It’s immediately allocated to the originating sales order. There is no risk of an item being re-directed to another order. This ensures your priority customers get their priority orders without fuss.

Ordered, committed and in-production items are always displayed in real-time and updated to the inventory module at every step of the production process. You always have the absolute up-to-the-minute picture of exactly what is available and where it’s located.

Make sound decisions based on true costs and filtered reporting

Real-time viewing and updating of every facet of the production cycle, coupled with a number of checks, balances, controls and options, ensures the quality and integrity of the data being accessed through Greentree’s powerful enquiry options.

A wide range of reports and filters ensures that managers and planners get exactly the information they need to make fully informed and reliable business decisions about the BOM & Factory Order processes. Reports include identifying which specific raw materials are used in finished goods, detailed cost analysis of work-in-progress issue and receipt transactions, through to final cost variances. These reports provide up-to-date information for both production and management personnel.

The Manufacturing Planning Board ensures optimum sequencing and scheduling of production

For short term production planning, the Planning Board offers total visibility and flexibility, allowing the planner to drag and drop Factory Orders so they are in the optimum sequence for any given set of conditions. To ensure you squeeze every possible production minute out of the day, production can be scheduled right down to minutes within each hour so production capacity runs at its absolute optimum. And, as the planning board is automatically updated as orders are created and receipted, it always reflects the latest situation.

The ability to then export updated schedules to Excel for further notation, analysis and printing, gives a simple easy means for pushing the production schedule to factory floor personnel, ensuring everyone is working to the same plan.

Integration with other Greentree modules

Greentree’s modular system builds upon and integrates with all other modules to ensure that every drop of business intelligence is extracted from every transaction right across the business – nothing goes to waste. This translates into aggregated business value and you need only purchase the modules that best fit your business.

The Bill of Materials module integrates with Inventory on-hand quantities and product costs. General Ledger balances are automatically updated through Factory Order issues, receipts and adjustments. Sales Orders can be linked directly to Factory Orders to manufacture goods on demand. Greentree’s Forecasting and MRP modules offer powerful capabilities to optimize production requirements and inventory levels.

Key features

• Multi level bill of materials
• Graphical view of BOM structures
• Batch sizes
• Fixed and variable costs
• Visual Production Planning Board
• Powerful Reporting
• Integration with Excel