by ERP Manufacturing Team

The cowl does not make the monk… almost always.
When packaging becomes part of the manufacturing process...

Not only in the food companies, but now in many other commercial area an attractive packaging often have the effect to increase sales of a given item.

Here then explained the growing importance in the manufacturing process of that element now considered as a main component of the finished product itself and then to be managed starting by the definition of the structure of the Bill Of Material.

In-house or outsourced produced, expensive or economical, complex and rich in detail or clean and simple, modular or fixed ...
…All kinds of packaging are manageable with Mago.Net and its great number of features associated to the bill of material module...

....every day more!
and perhaps not everyone knows that....

Mago.Net can also manage quantity rounded to integer in reference to a desired components step by step during the manufacturing process, starting by the picking phases since to the manufacturing order confirmation,  while ensuring the proportion with the number of items to be produced.

The  “Quantity rounding”  feature allows, for example, the picking and use (consumption) of a single container with a fixed capacity of 100 pieces not depending by the number of items step by step produced and since to its filling.
 

To know in detail the potential of the functionality, please contact your dealer reference and in addition if you are a M.L.U. subscriber, you can visit our on-line Microarea Help & Information Center and Reference Guide or follow the course Mago.Net - MO Confirmation (Advanced Manufacturing) .

by Giuseppina Sperico
ERP Logistics Team Manager

A growing number of companies are experiencing the need of making sure that their products comply with the requirements expressly set forth by the customer

A growing number of companies are experiencing the need of making sure that their products comply with the requirements expressly set forth by the customer, hence needing to exercise (on both the purchased goods and produced goods) all the verification checks, inspections, testing and measurements necessary in order to identify the products that fail in fulfilling the requested specifications.

Probably everyone knows that Mago.Net includes, amongst all of its modules, also the Quality Inspection. Perhaps, however, not everyone knows that the registration of the testing documents (besides indicating whether the product is considered conforming, to be scraped or returned) also allows entering the parameters for the various analyses and relating results.
   
Furthermore, in presence of the Quality Inspection module, technical notes can be associated to each item. The Technical Notes can be defined on a merchandising categorisation level, and contain different types of values. Depending on the value type, they can have different characteristics: they can be erasable, hold a minimum and maximum value, a default value, etc.

In order to uncover all the details regarding the powerful functionalities of the Quality Inspection module and the Technical Notes, do not hesitate in addressing your reseller referral as well as consulting the Microarea Help & Information Center, always updated with all the product functionalities and, in addition, if you are a M.L.U. subscriber, go to our site and follow the course Mago.Net - Quality Inspection. 

by Patrizia Benelli

ERP Financial Project & Product Manager

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today!

The end of fiscal year adjustment entries collection has always been an effort-demanding task, requiring a high degree of punctuality, especially when referring to the recording of the accruals and deferrals.  Leaving the above mentioned until the end of the fiscal year could severely postpone the editing and release of the final balance. It is therefore highly convenient to identify immediately those registrations that are not entirely competence of the fiscal year, and register them appropriately in order to ease the final work. 

Everybody knows that Mago.Net allows entering the reference period of expenses and revenues directly into the accounting books, storing the amounts relating to each fiscal year, in order to generate automatically the adjustment entries of the accruals and deferrals along with the relating starting transfers into the new fiscal year.

Not everybody knows that...

• for the recurring accounting registrations regarding certain accounts , it is possible to automatically determine the reference period;
• the detection of the accrual or deferral can be carried out on an account different from the standard account;
• it is indeed possible to manage accruals/deferrals referring two or more fiscal years.

If you wish to receive additional information, please do not hesitate to contact your reseller referral.  Furthermore, if you complied with our M.L.U service, you can follow the course Mago.Net - Accruals and Deferrals.

by ERP Manufacturing Team

Not everything turns out as it should!

It's true!... In almost all modern manufacturing processes, because of contingencies of different nature or definition of the process itself, often there is the necessity to define a product as second rate or scrap.

In both cases Mago.Net responds giving to users the ability to modulate at will  these quantities during the manufacturing process and depending on the products considered as compliant. How, at this point, compute the manufacturing costs?

No problem!

Perhaps not everyone knows that ....

In Mago.Net everything is configurable!

Thanks to manufacturing parameters, available in relation to MO confirmation procedure, exists the possibility to include or exclude from the calculation of the costs of a manufacturing order both the quantities of scrap and second rate (one independently from the other).

It is possible then to distribute the total manufacturing order cost on the unit cost of produced items or to also split it in relation to quantity of  scrap and / or second rate gradually loaded in inventory.

To know in detail the potential of the functionality, please contact your dealer reference and in addition if you are a M.L.U. subscriber, you can visit our on-line HelpCenter or follow the course Mago.Net - MO Confirmation (Advanced Manufacturing) .

by Patrizia Benelli

ERP Financial Project & Product Manager

The lack of cash is frequently caused by uncollected receivables: before applying to a credit recovery company, or eventually to a lawyer, why not take advantage of the Mago.Net features.

A detailed analysis regarding the level of credit and collection of accounts receivable allows you to comprehend more thoroughly the situation and help you to plan the recovery strategy, especially if you are in need of liquidity.

Occasionally it might be necessary to avail yourself of specialised consultants in debt collection, and to certain extents even of lawyers. However, the first action that should be undertaken is to send a dunning letter to the customer, reminding him of the outstanding debts and asking him to arrange for the payment of the balance as soon as possible.

Perhaps not everyone knows that, with Mago.Net, customised dunning letters can be issued, also by email, directly to the customer from his account statement.

A very important feature to take notice of is the handling of the overdue payment reminders, and the possibility to arrange them by level and provide to each level a corresponding customised text.

If you wish to run the printing of the dunning letters automatically to all customers, it might be useful to provide a threshold amount (into customer master data) below which the letter will not be issued.

The situation level regarding the dunning letters issued can be kept under control. This thanks to the fact that each customer profile provides information reporting the last dunning letter he received, the overdue payment reminder level reached and the number of times he reached that level.

The above details allow Mago.Net to be informed, in regards to the next letter issuing, whether to start once again from the first level (if the overdue payments have been settled) or whether to increase the reminder level.

Should your customer also be your supplier, you can print the account statement considering also the amounts owed to him as supplier thanks to the link between the customer and supplier master.

To receive further information regarding the potential offered by this feature, please contact your reseller. Furthermore, if you are a M.L.U. subscriber, you can visit our website and follow the lesson regarding the Dunning letters in the eLearning course Mago.Net - Payables and Receivables.

by ERP Manufacturing Team

Sometimes the first response is what counts!

It's trivial to say that little and continuous changes to the Bill of Materials, in most of existing production realities of a company, represent frequently recurring activities.

In reply to these needs Mago.Net does not stop in the guarantee of complete freedom of action in the design and modification of them, but ensures modularity and scalability of solutions along the entire development of production process and beyond.

If it is easy to think that it is possible to modify in any moment the single desired component of a single desired Manufacturing Order in terms of presence or quantity of it, it could be not simple to remember the original structure of the originating Bill of Material.

Well, as usual, no problem! Simply saying that.....

Perhaps not everyone knows that....

The BOM/MO Comparison procedure of manufacturing module can highlight all differences between components contained in the given Manufacturing Order and the linked Bill of Material.

Through it you can easily define the set of initial analysis, highlight the desired differences, and automatically realign each Manufacturing Order to the original Bill of Material.

To know in detail the potential of the functionality, please contact your dealer reference and in addition if you are a M.L.U. subscriber, go to our site and follow the course Mago.Net - Subcontracting (Advanced Manufacturing) .