Detailed Manufacturing Features
Bill of Materials (Kits)
Unlimited items per kit
All kits can contain an unlimited number of items whether they are stock or nonstock items.
Unlimited levels of sub-kits
Each item within a kit can itself be a kit, comprised of a bill of materials. There is no practical limit to the number of levels of sub-kits.
Multiple occurrences of same item code in a kit
You can specify the same item code on multiple lines of a kit. For example, a kit that contains 4 bolts can have 4 entries for a single bolt, each with a separate position and assembly notes.
Comprehensive version history
Each time you change a kit’s bill of materials, a change is recorded within ACCENTiS Enterprise and the version of that kit is incremented. You can enter comments about the change and ACCENTiS will then maintain a complete Bill of Materials of every version of the kit that ever existed. You can even build prior versions of a kit.
User-definable versions
ACCENTiS maintains strict version ordering and control to ensure database integrity, but you can provide your own version numbering scheme each time the version of a BOM changes.
Superior Bill of Materials management
The ACCENTiS Enterprise Bill of Materials management form is second to none. It provides a simple yet powerful mechanism of managing your bills of materials, whether a kit has 10 components or 1000 components.
BOM version analysis facility
Imagine being able to graphically see the differences between different version of a Bill of Materials? ACCENTiS shows just this, highlighting the items that were in one version but not another and vice versa, and also highlighting differing quantities. Any versions of a BOM can be compared using this facility – even the very first version and the most recent version.
Global search and replace of components
When you need to replace one component with another in a number of kits (due to component being end of life or requiring better specifications), ACCENTiS Enterprise provides a convenient function to do it in a single step. Simply specify which component to change and what to change it to, and tick the kits that you want the change to occur in and ACCENTiS Enterprise will do the rest – replacing all occurrences of the first component in the specified kits with its replacement.
Library kits
Kits can be designated as “library kits”. These are kits that don’t actually exist as a physical (built) item but are included in other kits as a common group of components. This is particularly useful when creating base kits on top of which variations are added to produce a final item.
User definable BOM fields
You can specify your own fields to store information about items in a kit. For example, as well as assembly notes for each component item, you may want to store machine coordinates, special handling requirements or even part code alternatives if the item is not available.
Import BOMs – replace undefined item
Your Bills of Materials can be imported from a spreadsheet or design program and undefined or unlocatable part codes can be assigned a new part code automatically. This affords you the flexibility of designing your BOMs in any program you like and then exporting directly from a CAD or design program.
Work centres and routing
Unlimited number of workcentres
A workcentre (or resource) is an area of your manufacturing that performs a certain task or has particular capabilities. You can define as many workcentres as you like, and each workcentre has an optional link to a fixed assets code as well as a picture of the workcentre.
Workcentre groupings
You can create an unlimited number of workcentre groups, which provide a convenient way to categorise your workcentres when performing manufacturing and routing tasks.
Workcentre-based time parameters
Each workcentre can have defined various time and costing parameters, such as Time before start (warmup time), Time after finish (warmdown), maximum and minimum operating times as well as maximum and minimum idle times.
Workcentre-based costing parameters
Each workcentre can also have defined costing parameters such as overheads per job and running cost per hour.
Comprehensive routing for each kit
ACCENTiS Enterprise allows you to define a complete routing schedule for each kit in your inventory, specifying all of the information required at each stage such as the workcentre involved, time required, number of operators and an optional next route.
Full timesheet linking
Every timesheet entered can not only specify a workorder, but also the route on which the employee was working. This gives you complete reporting regarding who works on which routes and for how long.
Decommission a work centre
A work centre can be flagged as temporarily or permanently unavailable, allowing you to reschedule jobs onto other work centres. An expected availability date can be recorded so that anticipated scheduling can be calculated.
Workorder management
First-class graphical manufacturing management console
ACCENTiS Enterprise is equipped with one of the best manufacturing management tools available, allowing a Gantt-chart based view of your current workorders with full drag/drop and graphical manipulation capabilities. See all of your workorders/routes in any configuration you require, complete with scaling, zooming and X/Y panning capabilities.
Routing can be changed per workorder
While you are able to define a complete routing schedule for a kit item, when the item is manufactured, you are able to completely change the routing just for that workorder without affecting anything else.
Direct BOM modification W/O
You can change the bill of materials just for a specific workorder without changing the base BOM for the item being built. This is perfect for special orders or minor changes that need to be made or when building a up a new BOM directly on the workorder form.
Multi-phase workorders: entry, commit, start, finish
Work-orders (the construction of kits) are processed in multiple phases to allow for the realities of manufacture. A work-order can be entered and committed (required stock or components are flagged as being required), started (stock or components are removed from inventory into Work in Progress) and finished (final product is added to inventory ready for sale) independently.
Unlimited partial builds allowed
In a practical manufacturing situation, you may not have enough stock or resources to be able to build all the products required by a work order. ACCENTiS Enterprise allows you to commit, start or finish arbitrary quantities of product for a work order until all items have been manufactured.
Partial starts if no stock available, consolidate on finish
Most systems won’t allow you to begin a workorder until you have all items in stock however this is often not practical. ACCENTiS Enterprise allows you to begin a workorder and remove the items that are available and then remove the remainder when the workorder is due to be finished and the missing parts have become available.
Separate stocking and component warehouses: build from one into another
Because ACCENTiS support separate warehouses, it also allows you to specify from which warehouse your raw materials are coming and which warehouse the final product is being assigned to.
Link workorder directly to a Job or Sales Order
A particular work order for one or more items can be linked directly to the Job and/or the Customer for whom the product is being manufactured.
Workorders can be reversed to any previous phase or “un-built”
The processes within ACCENTiS are designed to reflect how you run your manufacturing operations. We allow you to not only reverse certain phases of a work-order, but you can also completely “un-build” an item if necessary. There is no action that can’t be reversed or removed within the manufacturing system, allowing you the flexibility to stop production of a quantity of itesm so that you can use the components to build a more urgent product.
Work orders can be requested by one user, built by another
It is important to track who is doing what within your manufacturing system, so ACCENTiS will track which users requested, started or finished various phases of a work-order.
Production notes for each workorder
Each work-order can contain an unlimited amount of text for you to enter production notes or memos about the product. This is particularly useful if the product has variations that should be highlighted.
Break down assemblies into their parts
After a product has been built, it can be “broken down” into its constituent components if ti is not required. While it is possible to reverse the original work-order on which the product was created, it is often important to retain the original information but just break a product down into its parts once again for re-use. Of course, you can select any quantity of product to break down into components.
Workorders use job WIP if one has been specified
Workorders can use the normal G/L Work in Progress account for the item being built or, in the case of manufacturing specifically for a job, all costs will be allocated to the Work in Progress account for that job
Memos and tasks for a Work order
Every workorder can have a list of memos or tasks assigned to it to record a complete history of every action or decision that has been taken about the progress of that workorder.
Automatic overheads calculation
ACCENTiS Enterprise can be configured to automatically add a specified overheads percentage to the total build cost of a workorder.
Create a work order directly from a sales order
A work order can be created directly from the information entered on a sales order for a customer. Special production notes are automatically transferred to the work order as is the date required for delivery and the job.
Repairs facility
Repairs facility
ACCENTiS Enterprise has an integrated Repairs facility, allowing you to allocate parts and labour used to repair items. You can specify the symptoms, problems and repair comments enabling analysis of which items have been requiring repair, how often and for what reasons. Full job costing against the repair is available.
Automatically generate an invoice from a repair
Sales invoices for repairs can be automatically generated at the click of a button using the parts and labour listed in a repair record for an item. Warranty repairs will naturally produce invoices $0 to which freight or other on-costs may be added at the discretion of the operator.
Warning if repair is going to use parts already committed
If a user attempts to complete a repair using the last of parts that have been otherwise committed to sales orders, a warning will be displayed to alert them.
Record warranty or non-warranty repairs
Within the Repairs facility, you can specify whether or not a repair is a warranty repair or non warranty (customer has deliberately abused or destroyed it)
Complete job costing integration for repairs
Each repair can have its own internal job costing record so that all activities undertaken for the repair can be accurately tracked, just like any other job. Purchases, labour and other expenses can be posted to the repair’s job to provide accurate costing and suggested billing for the repair.
Automatically generate a repair request from an RG
A repair request record can be automatically created directly from the Returned Goods form, providing a single-step process to accept goods form the customer and then create a repair requisition
Returned Goods item status updated automatically when repair complete
Once a repair to goods has been completed, the Returned Goods record on which the goods were accepted from the customer has it status automatically set to Repaired and will then await further action.
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