by ERP Manufacturing Team

Please the customer means creating the conditions for business success.

Are you forced to maintain a huge collection of all possible configurations of your items? Do You need a system to simplify configuration options of the products and their monitoring? Do you want to have an easy and automatic way to drive customers to configure and order more complex products?

Perhaps not everyone knows that ... the Product Configurator is a module that allows Mago.net to better respond to customer needs.

The configurator is born to help the sales staff because, during insertion of an offer of an order by the customer or a sales document, allows you to create a custom product sales for the client using the Questions/Answers interface.

The configurations can be entered manually from the data entry or generated automatically from the sales orders. When in a sales order we insert an article which is associated with a configurable BOM, Mago.net is proposing to create a new Configuration. If we agree to create a new Configuration, the document opens the connection to the Configuration window , in which we are going to enter a new configuration for the product indicated on the document.

The Configuration window lists all questions provided in the BoM and for each question it is proposed the answer set as default but we can modify it to create the configuration required by our customer.

So based on the responses selected you create a new version of the product which is basically a new version of the finished product that uses components associated with the selected answers, who can be modified off course to create the configuration needed.

Based on the answers given, it is also calculated the configuration value which varies depending on the cost of the selected components calculated by reading the lists applied in the Configuration Parameters. 

These are some of the Manufacturing needs of every company, to which Microarea responds with the product configurator!

Regarding this topic you can ask for details to your reseller or visit our on line Microarea Help & Information Center.

by Graziella Filippini (Team ERP Logistics)

Keep the status of sales orders under control...

...use the Sales Orders Graphic Navigation!

Everyone knows how important for distribution and trade companies is the monitoring of progress of sales orders, especially if it they have chosen to optimize their processes by using Warehouse Management System module.

In regular management, the sales orders fulfillment is obtained by means of Preshipping document, through which it is possible to proceed with the preparation of goods for shipment.
The goods, once picked, are placed in the issue area from which it is possible to do packing. The process of goods issue ends with the generation of delivery document, according to the quantity actually picked, and by fulfilling the sales order.

Perhaps not everyone knows that…

with the Warehouse Management System module it is always possible to check the status of sales orders fulfillment, pointing out all WMS documents connected to it. All this is possible by means of Sales Orders Graphic Navigation, a control tool of great interaction utility. Sales orders are presented graphically so it is allowed referring immediately to their progress status. For each displayed element, there is available further detailed information. It is possible to access to their master through the context menu.

For further information about this topic you can ask to your referral or visit our on-line Microarea Help & Information Center.

by F. D'Arienzo (Team ERP Logistics)

Not only the Price List management...

but also the Product Composition could be helpful in the case of Sales promotions.

When talking about Sales processes, the first thing that comes to mind is the creation of Sales Price List …

but perhaps not everyone knows that....

the Product Composition management has the aim to facilitate and state the management of promotions (more items at a special price) or even those cases in which more items must be sold in combination (synergistic component such as, in case of the computer, the sound card, the graphics card, the motherboard, etc.)

This function allows to define items composed by a set of secondary products. In the master of Product Composition, to the items (in our example the kit of various models of computer), it could be associated a series of codes (components of the Kit: the monitor, the keyboard, the sound card, the graphics card, the motherboard, etc.) and it is possible to define both the price of the components and of product composition (Kit). In this way, it can be easily managed the promotions and sales of items to be sold only in combination (in fact, the graphics cards are combined with compatible monitors).

In the sales documents, by recalling the Kit item it is possible to choose whether to manage it as a description and unload all the elements associated with it.

If you want to know more about the Product Composition management in Mago.net please do not hesitate to ask our Partner and, in addition, if you are a M.L.U. subscriber you can refer to the Microarea Help & Information Center and various pages related to the topic.

ERP Manufacturing Team

”There were three and a job to be done,

the strongest decided that he would direct the various stages of execution,

the smartest said he would monitor the success of the operation

and the weak had no alternative but to start.."

Charles William Brown

Locate the destination, draw the correct route and start the journey at times may not be sufficient to reach the goal and the good captain knows the importance of control, and if necessary correct, the route during navigation

The organization of team activities and the achivement of the maximum performance from activities carried out by resources is a fundamental result for the expected quality and customer satisfaction. The calculation of the labour cost and the comparison of the actual and the estimated costs allow you to assess more effectively the processing cost and correct any faults.

Perhaps not everyone knows that...

Mago net now provides a better management of labour costs in a way that allows to assign (with the relative times) different resources, teams or workers, to the single operation, both with regard to the setup and for processing and this ... for both the estimate that the actual!

Now it is  possible to assign a list of Teams and / or individual worker that are expected to have to operate as labour of processing and setup .

During the MO confirmation (final or partial) will be able to confirm and / or edit data for each resource, these data will be stored and used to calculate the final balance on the labour cost.

Therefore, all the masks were adjusted where labour is present (for example, the BOM, the variations and the Order of Production) and all the procedures involved in the input or update (eg the MO confirmation, the Processings Rollback or the Edit processings).  

Regarding to the  labour commitments, they can be expressed in Percentage of the duration of the operation, or you can specify a Fixed time, that is independent of the timing of the operation.

To enable such management it was created a new tab where you can detail the Workers and the Teams that are committed in the operations with their timing. 

So the operation master data was changed with the creation of the labour tab containing a detailed list of Workers and Teams committed to the operation, moreover, for each row, you can specify theresource type (team or Serial number), the labour type (processing or setup) and the number of workers. 

Of course in all the windows, which provide for the input or display of the workforce, it has been added a new icon that allows you to invoke this new labour Detail window.

Such information is critical for determining the labour cost and as described above, they are suggested based on the present Labour tab in the operation master data. It is also possible to change what it is proposed in this window, delete a row and / or add a row.

Regarding this topic you can ask for details to your reseller referral, or visit our on-line Microarea Help & Information Center.