Sage 500 ERP Manufacturing
Sage 500 ERP (formerly Sage MAS 500) manufacturing software provides manufacturers with the flexibility and expanded capabilities to meet the diverse business requirements of varied industries, including industrial, automotive, high tech, electronics, consumer packaged goods, and other industries. One of the key advantages of the suite is its streamlined integration of routings and bills of material, which allows for improved lead-time calculations, more accurate material plans, and better resource allocation.
With the nine Sage 500 manufacturing software modules, your operations become optimized for maximum productivity and provide a real-time business picture that gives you vision to manage profitability with insight.
Advanced Manufacturing
You'll be able to spot production bottlenecks and quickly implement last-minute engineering changes. Manufacturing business software extends visibility of the shop floor to your entire enterprise to see which employees are currently working at any production facility. Customer service can quickly view the status of a customer order without having to interrupt the shop supervisor. The GAAP-compliant job costing system helps identify your most profitable (or most expensive) manufactured items.
- Work orders provide a portal for production management and manufacturing-related activities
- Track actual labor times for accurate job costing and labor/production efficiencies
- Accurate job costing is critical to establishing item prices, profitability, and business planning
- Track shipments of parts to vendors for subcontracted operations such as heat treating, assembly, coating, painting, and more
- Flexible production reporting and manufacturing costing features designed specifically for family molds, progressive dies, and other industries with co-products
- Analyze and monitor Advanced Manufacturing data and transactions including work orders, costs, quantities, and more
Sage 500 Advanced Manufacturing Data Sheet
Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Eliminate late orders and lost production time due to errors in scheduling and planning with automated production scheduling software. Sage 500 manufacturing software includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns and displays all system-generated operation schedules, while allowing supervisors or production scheduling personnel to prioritize high-priority orders or shift scheduled operations.
- Maintain schedules by version for multiple facilities and what-if simulations.
- Utilize advanced scheduling rules to generate realistic production schedules.
- Various scheduling options are available to customize production schedules.
- Move scheduled operations easily on the schedule board.
- Use the APS module with MRP to provide a true closed-loop system.
- Analyze and monitor Advanced Planning and Scheduling data.
Sage 500 Advanced Planning and Scheduling Data Sheet
Engineering Change Management
Control production costs with advanced manufacturing software by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Use this top-quality solution to meet your ISO and QS certification requirements and maintain quality control. Sage 500 manufacturing business software integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes.
- Engineering changes are linked to a unique routing and bill of material
- An engineering change request may include multiple approval sequences
- Engineering change requests may be sent automatically by e-mail to members of each approval sequence
- Engineering changes may have both effective and retirement dates
- Most quality control programs require engineering change management
- Track changes to and from previous versions of engineered parts
- Analyze and monitor engineering change information to gain insights into how material and labor changes will affect production costs and pricing
Sage 500 Engineering Change Management Data Sheet
Estimating
Sage 500 manufacturing business software helps you base your estimates on more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production by understanding key impact factors such as material costs, outside processing and labor, overhead rates, and one-time tooling and engineering set-up charges. Directly convert estimates into a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.
- Pull inventory costs, work center rates, and other data to accurately calculate both costs and prices for new parts
- Eliminate duplicate data entry by using the copy-from and copy-to features in estimate entry
- Engineers can create estimates and quotes containing multiple quantities of items—each with different markup codes
- Create internal estimate notes and external notes that appear on the customer quotation
- Assign dates to each estimate to track expiration dates, estimated start dates, and more
- Multimedia and CAD integration improves the estimating process
- Analyze and monitor Estimating data to gain more insights into estimating and quoting
Sage 500 Estimating Data Sheet
Light Manufacturing / Advanced Kitting
Manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. Streamlined Sage 500 manufacturing business software integrates with other optional modules and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes.
- Establish standard routings and bills of material for your manufactured items
- The elimination of work orders simplifies your production process
- Report production only for finished goods, while other labor transactions are automatically calculated at standard
- Accurate job costing is critical to establishing item prices, profitability, and business planning
- Use the optional Alerts module to notify your maintenance and production departments when assets are due for maintenance
- Sage 500 offers several manufacturing modules that provide Light Manufacturing customers with advanced features.
- Analyze and monitor Light Manufacturing data and transactions
Sage 500 Light Manufacturing Data Sheet
Sage 500 Advanced Kitting Data Sheet
Material Requirements Planning
Understand material and distribution requirements across your enterprise. Sage 500 manufacturing software uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material and distribution requirements. Single-screen planning provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions.
- Maintain MRP by version for multiple warehouses and what-if simulations
- Planners can easily customize their plans prior to MRP generation
- Manage transfer orders from feeder warehouses to subsidiary warehouses and run CTP inquiries during Sales Order Entry
- Sage MAS 500 uses advanced replenishment formulas and demand forecasting principles to produce extremely accurate material and distribution plans
- The planning screen provides one-click access to item and period information
- Generate actual orders and firmed orders from a single point of entry
- Launch MRP from various points throughout the system
- MRP integrates with Project Accounting to provide buyers and project managers with an integrated solution
- Analyze and monitor Inventory Replenishment and MRP data, transactions, demand forecasts, and plans
Sage 500 Material Requirements Planning - MRP Data Sheet
Product Configurator
Configure sales orders and finished parts routings or bills of material based on a variable functions. An easy-to-use manufacturing software interface lets customer service quickly identify and select configured parts. Create new items on-the-fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions—Product Configurator even builds the item cost and suggested price.
- Engineers can easily set up and maintain features and options
- Product Configurator is very useful for building items on the fly from base models
- Configuration data entry personnel can quickly build new items from customer specifications
- Options may be defined as ranges and used in calculations
Sage 500 Product Configurator Data Sheet
Project Management for Manufacturers
Equip project management with all the tools they need to manage engineering or prototype production projects or complex installations with Sage 500 Project Management for Manufacturers module and stay within budget and scope.
- Monitor all details of your project, including estimates, change orders, purchase orders, timesheets, and billing
- Process your time and materials against one or multiple projects
- Input expenses electronically as they are incurred without the hassles of paper submission
- Leverage the Microsoft Project facilities for developing time and resource plans by uploading directly to Project Management
- Enjoy a seamless integration to Sage 500 General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, Purchase Order, and MRP modules
- Provide a wide range of invoicing and customization options to meet specific customer needs
- Manage projects from design and engineering and then turn on the powerful manufacturing modules for production management
- Analyze and monitor Project Management data and transactions to gain more insights into each project element
Sage 500 Project Management Data Sheet
Shop Floor Control
Use Sage manufacturing business software to log on to shop floor operations manually or use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work order numbers. Easily customize the menu to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor. It’s designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, meaning the shop floor can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device.
- The Shop Floor Control system was designed for use with touch screens and bar code technology
- Record your labor and production information in real time
- Employees can quickly enter labor and production information
- Employees can log on to Work Order Inquiry to get more detailed information, such as schedule dates and step detail with view-only privileges
- The Shop Floor Control system supports multi-job logons and production entry for co-products
- Supervisors can view and assign job tickets to employees for a paperless shop floor system
- Analyze and monitor manufacturing data and transactions
