What industry needs
Drawing on more than 30 years of onsite experience, this full production ERP system has achieved an undeniable presence in the Swiss industrial landscape. The ProConcept Production is an ERP system that helps you optimize your entire manufacturing workflow, and includes a broad range of functionality that can be adapted to your unique business processes. Key features include network manufacturing, subcontracting, sales industry masterplan, production master plan, distribution planning, complete ascending and descending traceability, quality statuses, finite capacity scheduling, MRP II requirements calculation, post calculation, and a many more management controls that cover the needs of SMB manufacturers. ProConcept Production best fits discrete manufacturing environments with active subcontracting. The ERP system helps run some of Switzerland's finest watchmaking, machine tool, and med tech companies.
ProConcept Production can be implemented in small steps in order to immediately satisfy all the needs of your company without suspending current manufacturing.
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Why choose ProConcept ?
ProConcept production management provides you with rich ERP functionalities and all the tools needed to manage production: Bill of Materials and standard process plan management, manufacturing tracking, manufacturing cost price, scheduling, etc.
A totally integrated ERP system
Moreover, the production management module is in perfect harmony with all the other modules (finance, logistics, etc.) of the ERP system of ProConcept, and is seamlessly integrated with a large number of tools available in the market, such as IT storage tools (for example: Kardex), or standard time management tools in the market.
Sales management
The systemic vision integrated in the ERP software of ProConcept lets the seller have a complete vision of their customer from the CRM, regardless of their open entries, all the transactions carried out, discounts given, payment history, or various contracts made. This 360° view of the customer gives your sales department the information required to make the right, fact based, decisions.
Stock management
The stock forecast view, dependent on the entry and issue flows, shows the power of the integrated SCM implemented with ProConcept. In the blink of an eye, your logistics manager can detect unexpected events, missing forecasts, reserved or quarantined parts, etc. Numerous KPIs (rotation rate, mean price per period, rupture rate, ABC analysis, etc.) in the ERP software let you improve your stock replenishment settings, such as minimum/maximum stock, replenishment quantity, order point, and replenishment mode.
Procurement
MRP II calculations with multiple possibilities (by product, file, on sales order validation, etc.) let you to guarantee the just in time procurement flows, and therefore reliable delivery due dates. Due date calculation wizards in the ERP software, tools that let you make manufacturable product predictions, allow you commit to a delivery date for your customer using reliable, factual information.
Products
There are different ways to code goods (products and services) in the ERP software to respond to the varied requirements of companies: besides the unique main reference, you can use a secondary reference by supplier and by customer, etc. To standardize them, and help you when creating goods, you can define reference entry templates. You can benefit from the different types of descriptions provided in the standard ProConcept version: short, long, technical, purchasing, sales,etc. These descriptions can be in multiple languages, and can be completed by multimedia elements such as photos, drawings, sounds, or even videos.
Are your delivery due dates shorter than your production due dates?
The SIMP lets you anticipate the order from the consumption log (sales), and hence reduce the delivery time and costs (anticipating the purchasing volume lets you negotiate contracts framework with suppliers), supervise the production capacities, implement coherent budgets (investments based on the sales forecast), etc. You can also monitor forecasts (periodic revisions, comparisons, etc.) in the ERP system of ProConcept.
Requirements calculation (MRP II)
Requirements calculation is the keystone of your production management. In today's fast changing business world, requirements calculation must include multiple dimensions: technical, economic, and strategic aspects. The questions stemming from stock management to logistics, quality and maintenance find their answers in requirements planning in ERP system of ProConcept, regardless of whether it is production, purchase, subcontracting, etc. to help you respond efficiently to every customer order.
Subcontracting
A wide scope of functionalities in the ERP system allows ProConcept to fully integrate and supervise the production flows of sub-contractor partners using a tool for monitoring and supervising process plans and defining internal operations that let you have full overview of internal operations (conducted in the company's own workshops), and/or external operations (via subcontracting).
Constitutive and sales traceability
Managing batches and serial numbers (characteristics) lets you identify the units that you want to trace unequivocally and at the desired level. In this manner, you can provide information about the origin of various components of a product, and manufacturing batch of this product in the ERP system.
