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At CIM Services, we provide you with a complete service, starting out with an initial free consultation to establish an idea of your companies processes, scope, needs and requirements. From this we can identify which version of Sage Manufacturing Software will best suite your company.
Below is a brief overview of the versions, if you require further information, please click on the more information buttons, or contact us.
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Sage 50 Manufacturing - Bill of Materials
Designed for small and growing manufacturing businesses, Sage 50 Manufacturing Bill of Materials (BOM) enables you to create detailed bills of materials for products that are to be manufactured, including an unlimited number of components and levels of build and with any number of sub-assemblies or Phantom assemblies.
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Sage 50 Manufacturing - Batch Controller
Designed for businesses involved in repetitive batch manufacturing. This automatically takes outstanding orders from your Sage 50 Accounts Professional program and calculates the production requirements necessary to fulfill these. It also allows you to enter ‘make for stock’ items. It then allocates and issues stock against works orders, automatically updating your Sage 50 accounts. Goods received are recorded for instant traceability, whilst certificates of conformity are produced, confirming products are manufactured to ISO quality standards.
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Sage 50 Manufacturing - Job Controller
Sage 50 Manufacturing Job Controller provides all the functionality required for manufacturing companies who operate within a jobbing or non-repetitive environment. A powerful estimating tool enables you to provide accurate and timely quotations for work. Stock is allocated and issued against jobs, instantly updating your Sage 50 accounts.
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Sage 50 Manufacturing - Manufacturing Controller
Sage 50 Manufacturing Controller combines all the capability of Batch Controller and Job Controller into one powerful product. Sage 50 Manufacturing Controller also includes a powerful planning engine ‘powered by Preactor’.
It provides all the functionality required to control material, labour and machine costs in a busy mixed mode manufacturing environment. It will smoothly control production planning, works order processing and resource management, with full traceability for materials tracking.
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Sage 200 Suite - Sage 200 Manufacturing
Sage 200 Manufacturing includes all features found in Sage 50 Manufacturing and more, it forms part of the Sage 200 Suite – a software solution that works across your whole business including activities from Accounts, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Support.
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For more information, speak to one of our Sage Manufacturing Consultants on 0844 8711 669 or fill out our enquiries form.
What’s New in Sage 50 Manufacturing 2009?
We are delighted to announce the latest version of Sage 50 Manufacturing – Sage 50 Manufacturing 2009! This release includes a number of new features and is fully compatible with both Sage 50 Accounts 2008 and Sage 50 Accounts 2009 software.
Sage 50 Manufacturing allows customers to manage the whole manufacturing process, from planning materials and costs, to monitoring works order in real-time. Sage 50 Manufacturing enables companies to gain greater control over manufacturing by the effective scheduling of work, tracking resource utilisation and improving business processes.
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Explanation
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Benefits
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Sage 50 Manufacturing 2009 new features:
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Linking Sales Order Line to Works Order
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MRP dynamically associates Sales Orders with Works Order using the tags mechanism. As MRP balances demands with replenishments, as due dates change, a Works Orders originally created to satisfy a specific Sales Order may be re-tagged to a different Sales Order. For some users this may be undesirable where a Works Order is created specifically to satisfy a Sales Order. The “Hard Linking” feature provides the best of both worlds and may be used in conjunction with regular, dynamic MRP tagging, ensuring complete flexibility
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This feature provides added flexibility for customers who require specific link Works Order and Sales Orders. For example, companies where a single product code is used, but each order is customised e.g. by colour, or, where customers are not comfortable with MRP and dynamic tagging and perceive linked orders to be easier to track on shop floor.
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Aggregation
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Optimisation)
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Currently an initial bucket is created due to demand with subsequent buckets auto created at each multiple of aggregation days. This may lead to empty buckets where there are no demands and subsequent demand being pulled forward to the start of the bucket. When aggregation days is set to a significant number, this can result in excessive stock holding and orders being placed well before they are required. The new algorithm only creates time buckets where there is a demand avoiding the pull forward effect.
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By adding a new algorithm that only creates time buckets where there is a demand, customers can optimise procurement and reduce stock holding.
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Due Dates for netting of Sales against Forecasts
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Currently, Sales Orders are netted off against Sales Forecasts on an oldest first basis. Whilst MPS identifies excluded items, it sums together what all Sales Forecast and Sales Orders with a Due Date between Time Fence #1 and Time Fence #2. This revised algorithm now netts of Sales Forecasts and Sales Orders on a weekly basis. This new method will be parameterised (so that the existing method can still be used) and is switch on by default.
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Sales Forecasts and Sales Orders are now netted off in a weekly demand time slots providing a more accurate view of demands.
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Make to Stock – Use Exact Quantities
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Many customers wish to use Make to Stock as an explicit manufacturing plan and do not want quantities to be subject to aggregation, replenishment or inventory policy rules. This is in-line with many competitive products and APICS standards. Sage 50 Manufacturing 2009 enables users to force MRP to ignore any free stock and inventory policies.
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Sage 50 Manufacturing 2009 now enables users to force MRP to ignore any free stock and inventory policies, giving the users the benefit of easily defining a Make to Stock plan to minimise stock and work in progress.
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Scrap finished items - Batch Works Orders (GRN selection)
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When a quantity of finished items is scrapped against a Batch Works Order, the scrap is automatically recorded against the GRNs, processing the oldest GRNs first. The software does not provide the user with the ability to override this, potentially updating the wrong GRN from a traceability perspective. This enhancement allows users to control which GRNs and related quantities are scrapped. NOTE: these changes only apply to Batch Works Orders. When scrap is applied to a One-Off Works Order, no GRN update occurs and this scenario is not covered by this enhancement.
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This enhancement allows users to control which GRNs and related quantities are scrapped, ensuring traceability is preserved, providing added flexibility for users.
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Change Margin % on Stage and Quantity Breaks.
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Currently Estimating calculates the “Margin %” based on the “Markup %” and the “Total Selling Price”. This new functionality enables users to enter and amend the “Margin %” forcing the “Markup %” and “Total Selling Price” to be re-calculated based on the figure entered.
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This provides the user with added flexibility within Estimate pricing.
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Treatment of Overdue Purchase Orders
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We have added an alert to notify the user when a purchase order is late i.e. the purchase order has a due date that is prior to the MRP run date. This gives the user the opportunity to retain the order which, on the next MRP run, will enable the due date to be extended where a delivery is still outstanding.
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This feature helps to reduce the risk of costly over-ordering and over-stocking.
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Replenishment Horizon By Product
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The replenishment horizon is a global planning setting that can be altered on the MRP run-time dialog. Replenishment horizon can now be set on the stock record. Where the horizon for a product is not set, MRP will use the default setting as at present. MRP will now evaluate the demand and replenishment position for each item subject to the appropriate Replenishment Horizon.
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This feature ensures that long lead time items are always ordered in good time without creating an unwieldy number of recommendations for items not yet due for ordering.
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