Syteline Enterprise Planning Module
If you are a project-based business or a professional services firm, Infor10 ERP
Business (SyteLine) offers a solution that will have you managing your projects
with ease and accuracy. It‘s time for you to take advantage of features that unite
your project managers with integrated data for capturing costs, maintaining contracts
and projects, handling long lead-times, and delivering on-time complex projects.
Projects
- User defined activity tracking
- Full interface to manufacturing, purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable,
order entry, inventory, payroll, & general ledger
- User defined project types and cost codes
- Multi-level % to complete analysis
- Revenue recognition by milestones
- Invoice milestone billing
- Invoice and Revenue milestones in different currencies
- Retention invoices
- Microsoft Project interface (import/export)
- Work Breakdown structures
- Budget by period
- Labor and expense reporting
- Shipping
- Microsoft Project add-in
- Late Alerts on Projects, Project Tasks, and Project Resources to alert managers
about scheduling problems
- Out of Range (Schedule or Cost Code Variance) Indicators by Project
- Grid View of Project Transactions
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Explode all assembly schedules into component requirements
- Consume the forecast with actual orders as they are received
- The master production schedule (MPS) allows you to control production of key end
items to help you protect your schedule from fluctuations in order-based demand
(forecasts, customer orders, parent job orders, etc.). MPS is a manually created,
anticipated build schedule for an item. You create it based on your expectations
of demand and your estimation of resource capacity.
- Material Planning Workbench for automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Jobs, or
Transfer Orders
- Run MRP for all sites or individual sites
- Define a source per part – Manufactured, Purchased, or Transferred to define sourcing
by site.
- Available To Promise
- View Exception messages when exceptions occur such as on-hand quantity drops below
safety stock, or when a planned receipt is no longer needed (or needs to be moved
in or out in time)
- Use the Order Action Report to determine the job orders and purchase orders you
must generate and release for a given item to be available when needed
- Replicate MRP planned transfer orders to the supply sites in your multi-site environment
- Peg each supply against demand using the Pegging Display form
Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
- Greater visibility in planning — Our solution provides exceptional visibility into
the lean manufacturing plans it creates. You get a continuously visible plan for
each order, so that every order ―knows‖ the jobs and POs it needs, and every supply
―knows‖ the demand it supports. You also gain new insight into your inventory and
your resources (machines, operators, work centers, cell, and facility utilizations).
- Simultaneous materials and resource scheduling — Our solution concurrently plans
all materials and capacity needed to satisfy the customer order. It balances available
capacity with the actual projected workload without assuming that capacity is unlimited
or "infinite." Plans are continually adjusted based on the changing dynamics of
your manufacturing environment.
- ―What-if‖ capabilities — The ―what-if‖ capabilities of the SyteLine APS engine let
users determine the impact of decisions. For example, you can insert a high priority
order into your current production plan, add overtime hours, or outsource specific
components. The system instantly determines which customer orders will be affected
and how delivery timeframes will change.
- Real-time promise dates — At the time of order entry, our solution provides the
ability to obtain a promise date for the order which considers the finite constraints
of both material and capacity. Users only need to perform a Capable to Promise (CTP)
check within the order entry screens. This powerful feature gives you real-time
date promise capability at both the order header and line detail level.
Scheduling
- Schedule Planned orders generated by MRP or APS, Firm jobs, Working estimate jobs,
Planned estimate jobs, production schedules
- Schedule jobs forward in time
- Schedule resources to perform operations
- Event-based scheduling
- Utilize scheduling shifts, holidays, resources, resource groups, departments, and
work centers
- Prioritize jobs by setting sequence and selection rules
- Identify late jobs and causes using the Scheduler output analysis forms or Analyzer
- Runs automatically in the Background Queue
- Dispatch lists by individual resources or resource groups
- Graphical views of capacity and schedule
- Schedule analysis by exception
- Resource Bottleneck analysis forms
SyteLine Forecasting
- Collect data — Collect historical sales of products or usage of components in both
units and dollars.
- Calculate forecasts — Use historical demand and various algorithms with what-if
analysis. Forecasts also can be generated collaboratively with customer specific
demand. The solution also supports combined forecasting methods, such as when part
of demand is forecast by statistics and part by imported customer data.
- Analyze data — Analyze forecasts, sales, bookings, or usage of materials by unit
and dollar volume and compare forecasts to historical trends and to actual demand.
Information is presented graphically by groupings, including product, family, commodity,
planner, and user defined.
- Adapt the forecast — Adjust the forecast for specific market factors such as promotions,
competitive situations, and new opportunities. These adjustments can be made at
the various group levels or at the item level.
- Calculate optimum inventory levels —Calculate optimum safety stock, order size,
and re-order points, factoring in average usage, variability, lead time, and desired
service level.
- Perform top-down forecasting — For configure-to-order products, use planning bills
to calculate or specify a single forecast for a group of items and then consume
that forecast when members of the group are sold. For common components but with
unlimited end-item possibilities, the solution enables you to forecast the components,
rather than the end items, and consume the forecast when the components are used.