Accelerated ERP

Accelerated ERP is a true multi-company/multi-location, complete, integrated software package that will manage your Business Operations from a Quote ~ to Production ~ to Cash business flow including After-market Sales and Warranty Management. Accelerated ERP is designed for discrete manufacturers who are in the MTO (make to order), ETO (engineer to order), CTO (configure to order), ATO (assemble to order) or mixed mode manufacturing operations.

Product Configuration is an integrated element of our complete business system, which greatly enhances a make-to-order / engineer-to-order company’s ability to present their complex product to the marketplace. The configurator can be a salesperson’s best friend with the ability to navigate through selection of product features without concern for “build-ability” or conflicting options. The configurator is also a great aid to engineering giving them a “design it once” capability that avoids time consuming re-design for each special order.

Accelerated ERP is a flexible, customizable and integrated system that will grow with you as your company grows. Accelerated ERP’s tight integration keeps all aspects of your business visible with real time reporting. Companies with unique business requirements that must be solved and not worked around, will appreciate our team who will customize or enhance those areas that are critical to keep you competitively strong within your industry.

Metasystems Accelerated ERP is a totally integrated business software solution that allows your organization to easily and efficiently manage and maximize your business processes. Accelerated ERP is not sold by modules but rather as a complete integrated business system covering all of aspects of your business from Sales, CRM, Manufacturing, Engineering, Financials and Warranty Management.

CRM

CRM provides a complete integrated “customer centric” view of all data collected in Accelerated ERP; making it easy to analyze and keep track of your customers

CRM is completely integrated with the rest of the ICIM and Accelerated ERP package. CRM will keep you up to date with all of your customer’s current and past activity with immediate access to all information about each customer from one screen. Using CRM will help to keep everyone in your company knowledgeable about all ongoing activity with every customer. No longer will you need to wait to talk to a returning employee who is on vacation to be abreast of the activities of a customer’s orders, project status, quotes or any information you still need from your customer to proceed with the production of their order.

Engineering

The backbone to any ERP system is the engineering module. By providing strong functionality to handle Engineering Change Request (ECR) and Change Notices (ECN), Accelerated ERP provides the management of engineering data.

The backbone to any ERP system is the engineering module. By providing strong functionality to handle Engineering Change Request (ECR) and Change Notices (ECN), Accelerated ERP provides the management of engineering data. The ability to attach drawing documents to the part ensures that only the latest drawings are used on the shop floor and by your vendors. By utilizing part number management and complex engineering status controls makes Accelerated ERP ideal for Engineer to Order (ETO) companies. A “design-it-once” mentality may be maintained by having a single Bill of Material (BOM) with the components chosen by configuration or complex specification rules including formula driven calculations.

Financials

Accelerated ERP’s Financials provides a flexible, integrated accounting system for the manufacturing environment. With no transferring of data needed, Accelerated ERP takes the Purchasing, Inventory movement, Labor Reporting and Invoicing directly to A/R, A/P and G/L.

Financials provides a flexible, integrated accounting system for the manufacturing environment. With no transferring of data needed, Accelerated ERP takes the Purchasing, Inventory movement, Labor Reporting and Invoicing directly to A/R, A/P and G/L. Accelerated ERP allows for accurate financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting and allows for multi-company and multi-location capabilities with complete roll up to Corporate. Financials is complete with A/R, A/P, G/L and Cost Accounting. The Online Income Statement and Balance Sheet allow real time drill downs to the transactions that make up the account balances.

Inventory Control

Manufacturing Inventory Control

• Multiple part bin locations with continual update of inventory status for quantity on hand, on reserve sales and manufacturing, on order purchasing and manufacturing, in work-in-process, in receiving, on the dock, in reject, consigned to supplier
• Inventory transaction programs encompass all inventory activity to provide positive control of counts and value
• Detailed transaction and cost history provided by our manufacturing erp solutions
• Inventory and production costing at standard or average cost
• Lot number and serial number control is available with history and where used information
• Complete program suite to describe reject activity
• Cycle count and physical inventory supported by manufacturing erp systems
• Part transactions tracked by individual piece if part dimensions and characteristics are variable

Manufacturing

Accelerated ERP Software helps to manage and organize your Manufacturing Process; including the shop floor. Accelerated ERP provides manufacturing workbenches designed to give you the visibility and control of all your orders.

Accelerated ERP Software helps to manage and organize your Manufacturing Process; including the shop floor. Accelerated ERP provides manufacturing workbenches designed to give you the visibility and control of all your orders. This feature makes Accelerated ERP software ideal for organizing the shop floor. Integrated Time & Attendance allows for shop personnel to provide up to the minute status of jobs while providing cost accounting and efficiency reporting data. Complex scheduling algorithms may be developed to support the way you want to do business. Complete Serial number, VIN and Lot control allow valuable information to be stored and tracked for an individual piece of material. Accelerated ERP provides complete multiple plant and multiple company capability through inventory, production, planning, sales and costing making it the most desired small business ERP solution for mid-sized manufacturers.

MRP Planning and Scheduling

Resource Planning

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) driven by a number of optional master scheduling techniques and models
• Easy transition from planned to released work orders and purchase orders in our manufacturing erp solutions
• MRP and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) simulations available, without disturbing the production data
• Full pegging in MRP and graphical display of CRP results in manufacturing enterprise resource planning software

Product Configuration

The Product Configurator is an integrated element of Accelerated ERP, which greatly enhances a make-to-order / engineer-to-order company’s ability to present their complex product to the marketplace.

The configurator can be a salesperson’s best friend with the ability to navigate through selection of product features without concern for “build-ability” or conflicting options. The configurator is also a great aid to engineering giving them a “design it once” capability that avoids time consuming re-design for each special order.

Powerful Custom Configurator Generator

• Sequenced display of feature-family sections
• Ability to see full configuration price
• What-if simulation on alternate configurations
• Top-down or bottom-up generation of complex “system” requirements
• Ability to view custom Bills of Material and cost prior to “committing” to structure
• To generate “permanent” parts and bills – or work with “transient” structures
• Direct inclusion of custom structure into quote and/or sales order

Flexible Configurator Setup

• Option for either rules based or bill-based approach
• Easy definition of feature and family rules
• Power to define relationships between two or more configured products
• Ability to define “ship separate” structures
• Easy feature-based pricing structure
• Ability to define models as products with pre-defined feature selections

Production Scheduling

Resource Planning

• Material Requirements Planning (MRP) driven by a number of optional master scheduling techniques and models
• Easy transition from planned to released work orders and purchase orders in our manufacturing erp solutions
• MRP and Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) simulations available, without disturbing the production data
• Full pegging in MRP and graphical display of CRP results in manufacturing enterprise resource planning software

Purchasing/Receiving

Purchasing

• On order information and purchase history is readily available
• Purchase order notes, supplier part numbers, supplier quotations, blanket orders with releases and approved supplier lists are provided
• MRP output can be grouped by supplier
• Part numbers can be flagged for inspection or received directly into inventory
• Consigned material effectively managed by our manufacturing erp systems
• Currency and unit of measure conversion
• Develop unique part numbers and maintain buy history for non-production parts

Quote/Sales Order Entry

Sales Order Management will aid in entering complex order requirements and managing the orders throughout their life cycle

Sales Order Management provides methodology to enter complex order requirements and managing the orders throughout their life cycle. Accelerated ERP’s Order Management system has the ability to automatically create the shop floor orders or purchase orders in Make to Order and Purchase to Order environments. All data flows from the Quote to the Cost Estimate to the placement of the Order. Combining our product configurator with flexible pricing guidelines helps to simplify the order management process for small businesses and discrete manufacturers.

S/N, VIN, Lot Control

Lot and Serial Control - Accelerated ERP Software provides several alternatives for material control including lot and serial methods. Material can be identified at the earliest stages of acquisition through manufacturing and from shipping through the life of the product in the field.

Lot Control

• Full lot traceability
• Vendor lot reference
• Lot specs, testing and certification
• Sub-lot piece control including dimensionality

Serial Control

• Automatic or manual number assignment
• Bar-coded product labeling
• As-built / As-is bill of material
• Warranty Registration
• Repair Tracking

Time and Attendance/Billing Work to Jobs

Time and Attendance

• Up-to-the-minute work center schedules and work order operation status based on labor activity input (labor ticket entry or on-line entry by individual)
• Complete facility payroll labor can be captured with a feed for payroll download
• Work order costs are updated by material and labor transactions
• Costs include material, labor, overhead and outside services

Warranty Management

Many ERP systems stop their functionality once the product leaves the door. Not so with Accelerated where the shipment of the product is the beginning of our support for the After-market. After-Market support includes Warranty management, registration, claims submittal and claims authorization, RMA (Return Material Authorizations), service logs, repair and overhaul are all integrated into the software.

Warranty Management ERP Software can be maintained for any product to capture company specific warranty criteria. Companies can define the criteria that must be maintained including but not limited to the following; serial number tracking, warranty expiry dates, all prior claims reported, repair dates, and repair information performed on the individual product.

Unlimited reporting capabilities from the information captured will allow you to:

• Maintain internal tracking of consistently malfunctioning parts by vendor
• Review product reliability – so future modifications and enhancements for * product improvement(s) can be suggested and established
• Track most used service centers
• Track repair costs
• Compare ‘estimated’ --vs- ‘actual’ cost estimates for repairs
• Track/establish/define a ‘base estimate’ of hours it takes to perform a particular repair – so estimates to your customers are more closely quoted
• Eliminate ‘claim’ overpayment
• Analyze warranty processes and effectiveness
• Improve service to the business partner and end customer
• Claim costs that are supplier supported can be recovered

Work Order Control and Tracking

Shop Floor Management

• Two approaches to work order release are supported;
• Classic predefined routing and bill of material
• On the fly, based on best material and manufacturing resources available
• Easy updates to released orders including additional instructions with direct link to sales orders and sales order notes
• Detailed operation and quality instructions are available
• Up-to-the-minute work center schedules and work order operation status based on labor activity input (labor ticket entry or on-line entry by individual)
• All facility payroll labor can be captured with a feed for payroll download
• Work order costs are updated by material and labor transactions
• Costs include material, labor, overhead and outside services
• Reject cost clearly defined in our Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning Software
• Receiving, final and in-process inspections can be recorded