In order to explain AutoFAB's advantages in concrete terms, we have identified various stages in the fabrication business process to demonstrate from order-taking to work preparation in your various departments (purchasing, shipping, accounting), how you can efficiently control production, control your inventory and satisfy your clients.
Bidding
Meeting your client's needs is child's play with the automatic creation of work orders (flexible parameters).
- Set up various
scenarios (product size, materials, options, etc.);
- Instantly supply
detailed bids (price lists per product, discount calculations, printing
the bid in the customer's preferred language, etc.);
- Set up your production schedules.
Purchasing/ordering
- Plan your supplies
in relation to the orders to come;
- Plan your purchasing
automatically using the links between your company's various departments;
- Print all the
documents you need for upcoming orders (requests for bids for primary
materials, purchase orders, "recall" product reports, received
product files, etc.);
- Cost price by resource and order.
Pre-production
Prepare your production efficiently as soon as the client issues his order.
- Manage standard
and on pallet inventories;
- Prepare purchasing
files and set the materials aside;
- Print the documents needed to start the fabrication process (drawings, procedures, order forms, bar code labels for monitoring, etc.).
Production planning and production
- Input the data
for every stage of production (quantity to manufacture, production schedule
for each workstation, complete production time, etc.);
- Manage subsets;
- Plan your production
schedule according to the availability of the machines, the components
and in proportion to the workload;
- Automatically manage digital controlled machines.
Production follow-up
- Take the primary
materials required for production from stock;
- Manage parallel
operations;
- Monitor your product
through the entire production process using AutoFAB's
"traceability";
- Inventory and document the various stages of production (history of purchases, inventories, production, receipts and shipments, transfers between warehouses, multiple reports, etc.).
Shipping
- Define the many
methods of shipping (by order, by client, by product, by pallet, etc.)
and deliver your products on time;
- Print your own
documents and thus simplify the different stages of the shipping process
(bar coded labels, shipping documents, waybills, etc.);
- Route shipping data directly to the accounting department.
Billing
Do away with having to enter data twice over and the annoying errors that can result!
- Manage your accounting
effectively with connectivity between the various departments (sales,
purchasing, shipping, etc.)*;
- Route data directly
to the accounting system;
- Print your invoices in the customer's preferred language.
* Your sales people will also have access to client information (account status, etc.).
AutoFAB is a flexible program, so it adapts to your industry whatever type of product you manufacture, as witnessed by the diversity of the companies that are using it.
Are you thinking of getting the AutoFAB system? You can count on the services of NBA. In fact, our experts will take care of integrating the system harmoniously. At the same time, our qualified trainers will demonstrate the system's great potential and will show you how to run your new working tool and adapt it to your needs.
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