Production Management:
A solution for your industrial production management
Effectively track the development of your business.
With ProConcept's production management, you can reach your full potential in planning, execution, control, and monitoring of your production.
ProConcept's ERP can cover all production processes, from creating product sheets to production planning, including MRPII requirements calculation, capacity scheduling, production management, and cost control.
Rich in functionality, it provides all the necessary procedures and settings for production management: management of bill of materials and standard routings, cost forecasting calculations, management of manufacturing orders (MO), production tracking, manufacturing cost price, scheduling under constraints, and more...
In addition, the Production management solution is perfectly integrated with the entire ProConcept ERP system (finance, logistics, etc.) and incorporates a wide range of existing market tools, such as planning tools, IT storage tools (e.g., Kardex), and standard time management tools.
Planning at the service of industry – Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Industries are faced with a very complex situation: on one side, as true craftsmen, they start with raw materials to create products, with constraints of costs and planning; on the other side, they must promote these products with strong marketing efforts to meet the demands of discerning customers.
To address the increasingly complex needs of medium to large enterprises, ProConcept SA has developed its Sales & Operations Planning solution.
Delivery times are shrinking rapidly.
This situation has become the critical point, further emphasized by seasonal fluctuations.
For companies facing this challenge, the only solution lies in taking risks by anticipating demand, either through a Commercial Plan that will allow them to establish the Sales & Operations Planning.
Some key strengths:
The S&OP is the "ideal tool" that enables a company to reduce delivery times. It is also an essential tool for achieving objectives such as:
- Cost reduction: Forecasting the volume of raw materials or components allows for negotiating framework agreements with suppliers.
- Capacity monitoring: Forecasting whether production capacities are sufficient or if it's necessary to plan for peak overloads.
- Creating coherent budgets: The foundation of budget management is knowing how much to invest based on sales volume.
- And more.
Compared to traditional methods, ProConcept's approach has the advantage of integrating demand into the logistics network while managing restocking based on forecasted data, not just historical data.
The Sales & Operations Planning of ProConcept in four key points
1. Ability to work on forecasts using multiple structures: Reports can be organized by customer/product or sales representatives/customer/product. Additionally, there is the option to decentralize data entry by exporting to multiple Excel files for each customer, for example.
2. Ability to work on forecasts for products or product families with macro-bills of materials
3. Flexible configuration of forecast initialization formulas and calculation formulas
4. Tracking of actuals and visualization of the ongoing orders portfolio
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Master Production Plan - Master Production Scheduling
The Master Production Scheduling allows, based on supply forecasts derived from the commercial plan or defined directly, to generate purchase and manufacturing schedules (proposals). This is done by considering or not considering ongoing orders, and according to stock coverage policies, economic lot sizes, etc.
It also enables the visualization of forecasted loads, with the detection of overloads on resources.
Key highlights:
Regarding supply management based on sales forecasts, the use of the Master Production Scheduling (MPS) allows for:
- Defining forecasted supplies based on:
- Sales forecasts by product, derived from the S&OP.
- Considering or not considering ongoing orders (customer orders, ongoing supplies, stock levels).
- A forecasted stock coverage policy, economic lot sizes, etc.
- Configurable supply calculation formulas.
- Visualizing forecasted loads, with detection of overloads across all resources or only on bottleneck resources.
- Viewing previous forecasts.
- Generating manufacturing and purchasing proposals derived from the forecasts.
MRPII Requirement Calculation, the cornerstone of production management
The requirement calculation must take multiple dimensions into account: in addition to technical aspects, economic and strategic considerations, stock and logistics management, quality, and maintenance are central to ProConcept’s requirement calculation. Whether it's for production, purchasing, or subcontracting, everything is set up to respond efficiently to each customer request.
The MRPII requirement calculation tracks stock quantities, commitments with suppliers (pending orders), ongoing subcontracting and manufacturing orders, and compares them to the actual needs expressed by the customer order portfolio.
The result in ProConcept: action proposals that can be sorted for the buyer (e.g., by product), for the shop manager (e.g., by various workshops), for subcontracting, and more.
Each proposal is presented in an intuitive way:
- The requirement calculation can be performed for one, several, or all products of a company, or only for the needs of a specific project or order.
- The requirement calculation is highly customizable (global or stock-based calculation; regenerative or difference-based mode, with or without consideration of minimum or maximum stock levels, reconstruction of allocations, etc.).
- Definition of MRPII requirement calculation launch profiles, very useful for users.
- The recovery of manufacturing/purchase proposals derived from the MRPII requirement calculation is simple, with all desired options (grouping of manufacturing orders, etc.).
- The MRPII requirement calculation can be launched automatically whenever you want (batch mode launch via Microsoft Scheduler).
From simple planning to advanced graphical planning
Planning your production is nothing more than organizing the use of company resources transparently and efficiently, down to the completion of the various tasks they must perform, while considering their availability.
ProConcept's graphical planning tool allows you to visualize your planning using graphical representations (GANTT charts), create multi-level planning that takes supply chain management into account, include simple scheduling with limited constraints (finite or infinite capacity), and customize the display of screens according to your needs.
From simple planning to constraint-based scheduling
ProConcept allows you to clearly visualize a given production situation, simulate, reschedule, and validate everything within the ERP, with immediate updates based on modified data: operator availability, tooling, purchased materials, variable preparation times, load leveling, graphical visualization of workloads, overloads, capacities, etc.
Advantages of load analysis tools and constraint-based scheduling
- Extended integration tailored to your budget
- Consideration of constraints (operator, tooling, machine availability, etc.) and rapid simulation of their impacts.
- Control and reduction of lead times, leading to an increased number of orders delivered on time.
- Productivity gains, reduction in manufacturing cycle time, optimized workforce, and inventory reduction.
- Reduced administrative burden for planning.
- Immediate query of loads and overloads, with graphical visualization.
Analyze the performance of your production activities
What was once a headache becomes simple and transparent with controlling management. ProConcept provides you with all the tools necessary for analyzing your industrial policy, optimizing production tools, break-even points, inventory optimization, cost of goods sold, and more.
Base your decisions on reliable data
- Flexible configuration of periods and analysis reports
- Management reports from various perspectives: For example, cost of goods sold, analytical breakdown by product or segment, significant variances in variable costs, etc.
- Key performance indicators (KPIs) across four areas: Business volume, margins and results, operating cycle, production cycle.
- Immediate accessibility via the portal.
ProConcept, an ERP solution tailored for Industries
In this brochure, you will find all the detailed elements of ProConcept's ERP solution for Industries, divided into different chapters: an ERP suited to the needs of the industrial sector, an overview of the solution & a breakdown of its features, the technology & methodology used to successfully carry out your "Industry 4.0" project, and the benefits of ProConcept's solution.
ProConcept supports you in managing your business.
Find out more about our different domains of expertise:
- Industrial production planning
- Industrial production management
- Logistics management (stock & sales)
- Human Resource management
- General ledger and accounting management