by ERP Manufacturing Team

The "lot": just a National Italian lottery for many people ...
... an essential information for us.

In almost every manufacturing company, the traceability of components represents one of the crucial feature of the entire manufacturing process.
The increasingly demanding standards of quality and management control are ensured not only thanks to knowledge of the origin of materials used in the various manufacturing process, but also thank to the spreading of this information in the semi-finished  product  re-used  in them and in the finished product sold.

That is why the lot number and its traceability, that Mago.net manages in an integrated and complete manner across production, logistics and accounting modules, can be considered both as origin and destination point of the entire manufacturing process.

but... perhaps not everyone knows that...

It is now also possible to define a desired number of shifts within the same working day and, during the execution of confirmation procedure directly in relation to them and to a single manufacturing order, to generate different lots of semi-finished or finished products.

Learn and discover how these lots are automatically organized into hierarchies, and how to trace their history from a single "father" linked to the manufacturing  order itself. This new functionality is available starting from the 3.1 release of Mago.net Professional edition.

Please keep in mind that you can update your Mago.net only if you have subscribed the M.L.U service and that regarding this topic you can ask for details to your reseller referral, or visit our on-line Microarea Help & Information Center and its FAQ, Samples & Tutorials section

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 NON EXISTING PAGEMago.net - MO Confirmation (Advanced Manufacturing)

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 NON EXISTING PAGEMago.net - MO Confirmation (Advanced Manufacturing).

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 NON EXISTING PAGEMago.net - Subcontracting (Advanced Manufacturing).

by ERP Manufacturing Team

Always remember where you're going,
but never forget where you come from!
 

To ensure the proper availability of materials during subcontractor management phases, it is very important to load the correct components in the correct storages. To support those flows of materials through them  in presence of external routing steps,  Mago.NET allows to use  the Subcontractor Delivery Note that automatically generates the proper inventory entries and updates  both fiscal data values and storage quantities for the involved components.

The default subcontractor storage is loaded  through and thanks to storage transfers of material by an unique storage  set as starting point of all process usually called Main Storage.
In general, Mago.NET, in the default configuration, is able to start  the entire subcontracting process only through the subcontractor delivery note that allows to transfer materials from a given main storage to a given subcontractor storage, to manage involved quantities and fiscal data and to physically accompany shipments of components with descriptions of the operations that are to be executed on them.

Perhaps not everyone knows that....

it is possible to choose a desired starting storage from which to pick material depending by the Kind of the involved item and not by the inventory reason linked  to the Delivery Note generation.
By enabling the appropriate manufacturing parameters, "Suggests storages depending on the item Type" it is, in fact, possible to make in manner Mago.net considers the storage managed during picking phases for Semi-finished item or  Raw 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 NON EXISTING PAGEMago.net - Subcontracting (Advanced Manufacturing).

by ERP Manufacturing Team

Obsessed by the particulars?
..... very well, fix the quantities!
 

Did you ever had the necessity to include in your bill of material a component whose quantity is not related to the number of items to be produced?

For example, did you ever consumed for whole a mould for the production of 100 samples during production of only 80 finished products?

Or have you ever used a tool that, regardless of the number of items produced in a single order, at the end of a particular routing step, cannot be longer used?

Well .... Perhaps not everyone knows that ...

You can define a fixed quantity in the BOM component that will be going to be considered during any production order generation.

You'll have only remember to enable the appropriate flag in the BOM component row, and Mago.net  will ensure to automatically copy this desired quantity in the list of components of the manufacturing Order, regardless of the number of items to be produced, and making no proportion.

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 NON EXISTING PAGEMago.net - Bill of Materials