Sage 200 Manufacturing.

Sage 200 Manufacturing modular software that helps you manage your manufacturing processes more easily.

It forms part of the Sage 200 Suite that works across your business covering many activities including Accounts, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Support.

Sage 200 Manufacturing can help you solve your business constraints in a number of areas, with core functionality that will help you improve your competitive edge.

Sage 200 Manufacturing provides an ideal solution for established manufacturers to control every stage of the manufacturing process, from planning, materials and costs to tracking orders and collecting payments.

As an additional module to the Sage 200 Suite, Sage 200 Manufacturing component allows for integrated operations for a stronger competitive advantage.

Efficient resource planning is pivotal to a successful manufacturer, however having the ability to quickly analyse facts, recognise developing issues and react quicker, can make all the different to your profitability.

While tracking costs across departments or planning resources, the integrated Sage 200 software enables you to link buying, finance, distribution and customer facing operations.

Sage 200 Manufacturing will enable you to:

• Meet delivery times by helping you control the production process.
• Manage your cash flow by keeping track of stock and deliveries.
• Control product quality by tracking items throughout production and delivery.
• Reduce costs by becoming more efficient through improved planning.
• Optimise production by creating a lean supply chain.
• Save time by creating purchase orders and works orders automatically.
• Share detailed information to maintain control from start to finish.

Top features of Sage 200 Manufacturing…

• Manage multiple Bills of Materials easily with Sage 200 Manufacturing.
Multiple versions of a BOM can be stored and used, one of which is ‘live’ at a given time.
• Sage 200 Manufacturing operation templates and BOM copy function.
The copy option allows you to quickly create a Bill of Materials. Operations comprise the labour and machines processes required to manufacture a finished item or sub-assembly.
• Flexible build options in Sage 200 Manufacturing module.
The system can be configured to always build subassemblies, or always use from stock, or allow choice in each case. You can manage products with multiple units of measure.
• Sage 200 Manufacturing customised BOMs and ‘Specials.
Users can replace individual items, add new items or amend quantities of existing items.
• Precise costing using Sage 200 Manufacturing.
Detailed costs can be built in for each unit or build run. You can assign labour and machine time for each assembly process to ensure accurate costing.
• Full batch and serial number processing.
If your processes involve issuing a batch number or serial number to finished products, Sage software can record this, enabling you to trace it to the customers who received it.
• Produce quotes for multiple batch sizes in Sage 200 Manufacturing.
You can build up an estimate using a variety of quantity breaks. You can alter the quantity and quickly see how the totals are affected.
• Rapid order entry.
The rapid order entry feature allows you to create estimates quickly and speeds up the creation of multiple estimates.
• Automatic creation of Purchase and Works Orders.
The MRP recommendations to 'make' and 'buy' products can be amended, filtered and sorted, combined or spilt and then actioned to automatically create Purchase and Works Orders in Sage 200 Manufacturing.
• Integrated with Sage 200 Graphical Planner
Working alongside MRP, it shows graphically the schedule of work.
• Actuals vs. Estimates/Standard.
View the costs entered and see the variance against what you had estimated for an operation.
• Tight integration with Sage 200 Financials and Commercials.
Your manufacturing staff have complete visibility of the entire production process - from the orginal Sales Order to Works Order Processing and Work in Progress to finished goods in the warehouse.

Your business could benefit from the simplified ownership with a single point of contact and accountability with Sage 200 Manufacturing.

Think how implementing the Sage 200 Suite would put you firmly in control of your entire Manufacturing business.

If you would like to find out how Sage 200 can integrate your business processes call FD Systems, Sage Business Partner of the Year on 0870 873 4387 or email sage200@fdsystems.co.uk