Managing Production Scheduling is one of the biggest challenges any manufacturer faces, especially when the manufacturing process involves multiple stages and can be impacted by last minute orders or cancellations. As part of a full MRP suite, Advanced Business Cloud Essentials offers a powerful production management tool.
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“Every Friday we plan out the production schedule for the next week, but if a last minute order or cancellation comes in, we have to scrap it and start again.” Does this sound familiar? Whether you’re managing your production schedule is on a whiteboard, a spreadsheet or on a piece of paper you need to be able to adapt to your customers’ orders, which is where Advanced Business Cloud Essentials will change your life!
The intelligent production scheduling tool in Advanced Business Cloud Essentials is configured to understand your manufacturing process, the components needed to make each product and the resources you have available to complete a job. This allows you to drop new jobs into the schedule and instantly see when jobs will be completed.
The software allows you to select from outstanding works orders and drop them straight into your schedule. The system will then assign the job to each relevant resource, based on the known manufacturing process and Bill of Materials for each product, at the earliest possible time. It will then feedback to you the due date, start time, job duration and expected finish time.
The schedule can easily be edited with a simple drag and drop process which prevents you moving processes into the wrong order, or overloading resources. More and more jobs can be added with any issues or deadlines that would not be met highlight to you instantly, so you can move jobs around to other resources or add more resources (including overtime) if required.
A last minute order is no problem at all with Advanced Business Cloud Essentials. If a new works order arrives, simply drop it into the schedule and it’ll do all of the planning for you – only alerting you if a due date won’t be met. Production scheduling will have never been easier (and we’ve probably just given you a day of your time back each week!).
Agricultural and Irrigation company, Hortech Ltd, was formed in 1989, and over the last 30-years, they have diversified their specialities to offer a variety of services.
Their success was juxtaposed with limitations, due to an accounts package that was unable to grow with them. Their outdated solution was incompatible with the expeditious nature of the manufacturing industry, causing complications with their supply chain management and scheduling.
View All Case StudiesWe wanted a system for the future, and with the ongoing investments and automated updates that Advanced was making in Business Cloud Essentials, I knew we would instantly benefit from new functionality as it was released.
You’ve figured out that you can’t carry on with the systems you have, but where do you go from here? Advanced Business Cloud Essentials provides a single system that manages every area of your business, so you’ll have everything covered in one easy to use platform.
With built-in CRM functionality your sales team can manage your customers better than before & your business will know what potential sales are in the pipeline. This synchronisation allows your sales team to advise on lead times and for your team to plan stock and scheduling based on future potential sales.
Sales
Understanding the stock you have and the stock you need to fulfil orders ensures that you don’t buy unnecessary goods but always have enough to meet demand. Advanced Business Cloud manages everything from stock control, committed stock items and sales forecasting in a single system.
Stock
Many manufacturers struggle to know the true costs and profits of their products, projects or departments until production is complete. With Advanced Business Cloud all costs associated to a product, project or department can be analysed so the true profitability of each area is clear.
Finance
Advanced Business Cloud Essentials provides a single platform to manage every area of your manufacturing business. As well as Scheduling, Stock and Finance, you’ll also have control of Sales, Purchasing, HR, Payroll and Reporting in one place. Oh, and did we mention it’s cloud based too?
Find Out MoreUnderstanding your current processes it a vital step before implementing a new software solution. Our Business Process Review identifies three areas of challenge in your organisation and offers a streamlined way of managing each one with MRP.
Following an initial discussion we can make recommendations, including a visual diagram of your existing process, along with detailed explanations of your proposed new solution. It takes around 30-45 mins to have an initial chat and it’s completely free!
You won’t be need them where we’re going!!! Advanced Business Cloud Essentials takes care of the lot. No more spreadsheets to analyse product profitability, no more pieces of paper flying round the office and no more whiteboards to schedule production. It’s all here in one, cloud-based, platform.
Would you like to know more about Advanced Business Cloud Essentials and what it is capable of? If so, visit our dedicated page which covers all of the features and functionality it has, what they do and how it can help your manufacturing business with each and every process you have.
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Although we’ll need to know some more about your business, your processes and your plans, to give you an accurate quote for your MRP software, we can provide some ballpark pricing to help you understand the costs of implementing an MRP system like Advanced Business Cloud into your business processes.
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The manufacturing industry covers a wide range of businesses, from food production to engineering. If you want to find out if Advanced Business Cloud Essentials can help a business like yours, then we’ve broken things down by the sub-industries of manufacturing to help.
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Still confused by this term MRP? We’ll explain what it stands for, what it is (and what it isn’t) and the benefits that come from using it – especially when you compare it to using multiple spreadsheets, reams of paper, a huge whiteboard and a tonne of information stored in someone’s head!
Find Out More >Our organisation consists of three companies; HBP Systems Ltd. Kamarin Computers Ltd and Jugo Systems. HBP are based in Lincolnshire, Kamarin in Cambridgeshire and Jugo in Hampshire. Between us we cover the vast majority of the UK and work under The HBP Group name to provide a seamless service between our northern and southern offices.
We specialise in providing Cloud MRP software solutions which help manufacturers increase efficiency, reduce waste, delight customers, improve reporting and give them the time to focus on running their own business.
Optimise Shop Floor Data Capture using the Live Process View in Advanced Business Cloud Essentials.
A video demonstrating the Scheduling Tool within Advanced Business Cloud Essentials.
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