DBA is a comprehensive ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system consisting of 25 integrated modules designed and priced for small to mid-sized manufacturers and job shops.
Accounts Payable
Features Include:
- 10 character alphanumeric vendor code
- Complete integration with Purchase Orders module
- Integrated with Contact Manager module for follow-ups and vendor history
- Global payment selection or individual selection by vendor
Accounts Receivable
Features Include:
- 10 character alphanumeric customer code
- Integration with Contact Manager module for follow-ups (such as collections) and history
Bills of Material
Features Include:
- Eight decimal ýquantity perý
- 15 lines reference remarks per component
- Scrap percentage
- Line number sorting alternative
- Standard cost rollup
- Global replace and delete
- Copy and merge capability
- Allows duplicate components with warning
- Approved substitute parts
- Approved vendors
- Approved manufacturers
Features Include:
- Integrated with DBA customer and vendor files for follow-ups and history
- Allows multiple users with password control
- Downloading from non-networked computers allows Contact Manager to be used in field with laptops
- Separate files maintained for customers, vendors, and personal contacts
Data Collection
Features Include:
- Real time labor tracking
- Supports keypad or bar code entry
- Labor and parts produced entry
- Labor only entry
- Parts only entry
- Labor status inquiry
- Transactions editing
- Shift schedule entry
Estimating
Features Include:
- Up to 10 quantities per estimate
- Multi-level assemblies
- Five markup categories
- Inventory set up on-the-fly
- Customer set up on-the-fly
- Bill of material entry
- Bill of material copy/merge
- Dimensions yield calculator
- Routings entry
- Routings generator
- Routings copy
- Extra costs entry
General Ledger
Features Include:
- 10 character account code followed by optional four character department code
- Current, budget, and one and two years past history maintained
- Batch posting by transaction type and date range
- Complete integration with all DBA modules
Inventory
Features Include:
- 15 character item number, two lines 30 character description, 12 lines 30 character specifications
- Multiple units of measure including purchase unit of measure and receiving conversion
- Last, average, FIFO, LIFO, standard costing supported
- Customer cross-reference part number and description
- Contract pricing
- Multiple locations (warehouses)
Job Costing
Reports Include:
- Job cost (detailed or summary; single job or consolidated)
- Profit projection
- Labor transactions
- Overhead transactions
- Material transactions
- Outside purchases
- Labor efficiency
- Work order history
- Production by work center
- Production by machine
- Production by tool
- Job cost summary
Job Shop
Features Include:
- Sales orders can be automatically converted to work orders
- Contract Price file holds quoted prices by item by customer
- Customer item numbers can be cross-referenced to internal numbers
- Each work order holds an unlimited number of start/finish dates
- Estimated costs are recalculated when work orders are opened
- Labor costing and reporting is on a real-time basis throughout
- Purchase orders can be charged directly to work orders
- Service orders are used for outside processes such as heat treating
- A variety of job cost reports compare estimated vs. actual costs
- Work order tracking is provided by various reports and inquiries
- Work Order Schedule and Work Center Backlog prioritize orders
- Lot Control module provides complete traceability of raw materials
Lot Control
Features Include:
- Complete tracking of lot numbers through all phases of receiving, production, and shipping
- Lot control by item number
- Lot number notes
- Lot number expiration dates
Make-to-Order
Features Include:
- Features & Options module creates custom bills of material
- Sales orders, estimates, and quotes can be converted to work orders
- Estimating module can be used to modify existing products
- Work order routings and bills can be changed for specific orders
- Copy capability allows bills or routings to be easily copied/merged
- Costs are automatically recalculated for custom configurations
- Routing templates provide for quick entry of common operations
Make-to-Stock
Features Include:
- Manufacturing system provides inventory and shop floor control
- Multiple pricing and discounts available for sales orders and quotes
- Tracks usage and sales history of purchased and manufactured items
- Month-end reports and journals simplify inventory accounting
- Standard costs maintained for setup, labor, out-processing, overhead
- Supports inventory and production by multiple plants or warehouses
- Reorder report provides time-phased inventory requirements
- Inventory Inquiry shows all stock status and master file information
- Inventory Value report values inventory at average and std cost
- Physical inventory is conducted via the Adjust Phys Levels program
- Items can be purchased for inventory and issued to work orders
Material Requirements
Features Include:
- Forecast entry
- MRP parameters entry
- Time-phased work orders and purchase orders
- Expedite and delay messages for rescheduling existing orders
- Automatic work order generation
- Automatic purchase order generation
- Automatic RFQ generation
Payroll
Features Include:
- Integration with Work Orders for Labor collection
- Integration with Accounts Payable for voucher payment
Physical Inventory
Features Include:
- Freezes inventory and provides for tag counts
- Updates inventory with choice of average, last, or standard cost
- Allows operations to resume immediately and the updating of inventory to take place at a later time
Purchase Orders
Features Include:
- Scheduled (blanket) orders
- Unlimited comment lines and notes
- Service orders
- Direct posting to job costing in receiving
- Make-from processing
- Vendor price file
- Request for Quote (RFQ) processing
- Conversion of RFQ’s to purchase orders
- Inspection receiving
- Over/under receiving
- History inquiry
Routings
Features Include:
- Routing sequences can be designated for labor, outside processing, alternate operations
- Template copy for standard operations
- Integrates with tool file and machine file
- Notes and specifications templates can be attached to routing sequences
- Routings cost rollup
- Work center overhead by hourly rate or percentage of labor
- Machine maintenance
- Tool maintenance
Sales Analysis
Reports Include:
- Daily sales and bookings
- Profit by invoice
- Customer sales (detail and summary)
- Customer class sales (detail and summary)
- Salesperson sales (detail and summary)
- Inventory detail sales
- Product class sales
- User Defined Detail and Summary
Sales Commissions
Features Include:
- Salespersons can be set up as employees or outside agents
- Fully integrated with Accounts Payable and Payroll Link modules
- Commissions due upon invoicing or customer payment
- Split commissions allowed per order
- Contract commissions by customer
Sales Orders
Features Include:
- Unlimited comment lines
- Full screen notes
- Customer on-the-fly setup
- Inventory status and price lookups
- Instant invoicing
- Note templates for forms such as certifications
- Customer cross-reference part numbers
- Selling kits
- Scheduled orders with multiple ship dates
- Sales commissions at header or line item level
- Features and options order configurator
Scheduling
Features Include:
- Infinite and finite scheduling
- Master schedule entry
- Work center schedule entry
- Machine scheduling
- Work center load inquiry
- Lead time estimator
- Lead time generator
- Shop calendar
Serial Control
Features Include:
- Complete tracking of serial numbers through all phases of receiving, production, and shipping
- Serial control by item number
- Serial number notes
- Serial number expiration dates
Work Orders
Features Include:
- Labor, material, and outside processing inquiry
- Supports kit issues and backflushing of material
- Labor entry from time cards or directly from data collection
- Editable work order routing
- Editable work order bill of material
- Multi-date work order generation
- Multi-assembly work order generation