Discrete [Discontinuous] Manufacturing

Overview

Manufacturing industries face challenges at different levels. For most SME - midsized ones, those challenges themselves can bog them down. Introducing an ERP helps them transition from chaos to order, wastage of resources to efficiency. CREST ERP supports discontinuous manufacturing processes.

Implementation Highlights

The requirements across industries, that are listed over here, are all satisfied by CREST ERP, without any customization at all. Which means that they were not unique, a common misconception among user industries

Inventory Management software, or ERP already in use, fails to identify a customer requirement as an existing SKU, for want of support for faceted search. As a result, a new SKU gets added, thus bloating an already big Item Master
Poor stock-keeping measures make finding an item really hard, even though it may already be in stock in good quantities.
A Production Manager maintains data of Work-in-Progress inventory, lying at various work centres, in spreadsheets. This opacity prevents the top management from making meaningful interventions on the manufacturing side.

Structuring inventory stores down to bins in CREST ERP, where the items are finally kept, helps in reaching an item easily and accurately.
Deep item search, up to technical specifications level in CREST ERP, helped a manufacturer of industrial rubber hose assemblies to avoid multiplication of SKUs, making the Item Master unwieldy. With this, they could identify same, or closely simillar SKUs, and respond to customer enquiries faster.
CREST ERP's Production System clearly defines Workcentres, operations and routing. With this, it is very easy to identify the distribution of WIP across Workcentres, and items nearing process completion. The Management Team members can access this data, as it happens, and avoid information lag.

Roughly 30% of Working Capital in Manufacturing Industries is locked up in inventory in various stages. Streamlining of Inventory Management in CREST ERP itself brings substantial gains to our customers.
The simple Production Management system that CREST ERP offers meets the needs of most SME/Midsize manufacturing industries. Management need not continue to look at the shopfloor as a 'black box.

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Features

CREST ERP in Miscelllaneous Manufacturing Industries

From very basic inventory management, to complete Production Planning and Scheduling, CREST ERP has addressed myriad requirements of the Manufacturing Sector. Let's look at some of them!

Shopfloor Visibility

Without an ERP in use, the Shopfloor becomes a Black Hole. Only the Production Team knows the actual state of affairs, at any given time.

Avoiding Excess Buying

Lack of accurate information about stocks already lying in the warehouse leads to repeat buying. This leads to not only excess stocks, but also locking up working capital

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