Sales Order Management The main function of the Sales Order Management module is to create sales forecast records and to process the actual sales orders. It drives the planning and the scheduling system, determining when a product must be shipped. Some other functions within the sales order management module include Customer Information, Sales Prices, Shipment Requests and Lot Tracking. Planning Bills
Accord ERP gives you the ability to forecast by product families. To achieve this, you should first define Planning Bills where parent-component relationships between product families and end items are established. You will then be able to create sales forecast records for product families in a currency unit of measure, and a Master Production Schedule run will explode the planning bill till the end item level, converting the forecasted amounts to the quantities of end items with their own units of measure. Management can state the forecast figures at any level in dollars, for example, and it can be converted to units at the next level. Master Production Scheduling
The Master Production Schedule module is the pivotal point in the entire Manufacturing Resource Planning process. MPS is a time-phased statement of a company's commitment to a production schedule and the primary tool for coordinating all independent demand before setting in motion the processes that create the products to be sold. MPS explodes demand for end items and this information is then passed on to the Material Requirements Planning module, which performs subsequent detail explosions through all remaining levels of the Bill of Materials, generating a detailed schedule of demand and receipts showing which components are needed, in what quantities, and when. If requirements exceed receipts MPS run creates planned orders for the quantities and dates required. To generate the Master Production Schedule, Accord ERP uses information from the following sources; - The item master file containing planning criteria for each item
- The sales forecast
- The on hand balances of all master scheduled items
- Customer orders
- Existing work orders, purchase orders and firm planned orders
Bill of Materials
The function of Bill of Materials is to create and maintain the structure of your products in an unlimited multi-level bill of materials form. Accord ERP uses bill of materials as a basis for Material Requirements Planning and to create picklists. All bill of materials records are stored as single-level bills. Multi-level bill of materials are created automatically by Accord ERP out of the single-level bills you enter. To create a single-level bill of materials for each component of a product, you must create a record defining its parent-component relationships. This is accomplished by entering, basically, the parent part number, the component part number, and the quantity of the component that goes into each parent. Material Requirements Planning
The Material Requirements Plan acts as a blueprint for the execution of the material portion of your production plan. Master Production Schedule explodes demand for end items and this information is then passed on to the Material Requirements Planning module, which performs subsequent detail explosions through all remaining levels of the Bill of Materials, generating a detailed schedule of demand and receipts and showing which components are needed, in what quantities, and when. The MRP module takes its input from the following sources; - The master production schedule
- The item master file containing planning criteria for each item
- The on hand balances of all MRP items
- The bill of materials
- Existing work orders, purchase orders and firm planned orders
- And also sales orders, if independent demand exists for the specific MRP item
Routings
Routings are ordered list of the operations needed to manufacture a part. They give information about the setup and run times, equipment and work type needed for the manufacturing operation. Routings are the primary source of information used by Shop Floor Control and Capacity Planning modules.
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning module enables you to test your material requirements plan against available man and machine capacities and see in advance the effect on your shop floor schedule of known and projected demands. Using capacity planning module you can compare your time-phased capacity requirements to stated available capacity by employee, machine or machine group within a work center. This provides your planners with the tools they need to make realistic decisions about how to allocate manufacturing resources most efficiently to meet the build schedule. Capacity Planning module can help you answer such questions as: - Do we need to work overtime?
- Do we need to transfer work or people from one work center or machine to another?
- Do we need additional machine capacity?
- Or, do we need to alter our production plan to meet our existing capacity?
Shop Floor Control
The function of the Shop Floor Control module is to create and maintain a detailed schedule and recording of the movement of work orders and their associated materials and actual production quantities through the shop floor. Shop Floor Control is one of the means for "closing the loop", a necessary step in creating a truly effective Material Requirements Planning system. It is also the means used to translate the Master Production Schedule into a concrete, detailed plan of action within the factory. It is the primary communication conduit between production management and the shop floor foreman who directs and supervises production in your plant.
Purchase Order Management
The main function of Purchase Order Management module is to process purchase requisitions and purchase orders. Purchase requisitions are either manually created or are automatically transferred from firm planned MPS or MRP orders by planners. It is the purchasing department's responsibility then to convert the purchase requisitions to purchase orders by assigning them to a specific vendor, if vendor information is not already defined. Some other functions within purchase order management module are Vendor Records and Purchase Prices.
Inventory Management
An accurate and comprehensive inventory management system is essential to successful ERP implementation. Each item in a company's inventory must be properly identified and defined, and inventory records must track the status of parts accurately, recording the flow of material into and out of the stockroom as it occurs. Accord ERP's Inventory Management module enables you to keep the records of; - Work order picklists
- Work order issue
- Work order return to stock
- Work order receipt to stock
- Work order item to scrap
- Issue to warehouse
- Miscellaneous issue
- Miscellaneous receipt
- Item to scrap
- Purchase order receipt
- Purchase order item to reject
- Issue to ship sales orders
- Return from sales order
- Log cycle count
Lot Control
Once a lot number is assigned to a batch of material, Accord ERP maintains a history of its disposition throughout the entire manufacturing process, from its entry into the shop to the shipment of finished goods to customers. Accord ERP enables you to track the complete history of a lot of material. You can determine all products that are derived from a particular lot number, as well as all lots of material that have gone into the manufacture of an end product lot.
Projects
Both the Make-to-Order and especially the Engineer-to-Order type of manufacturing operations necessitate to keep track of the manufacturing processes and costs that occur during these as project based. Accord ERP enables you to control the costs of your projects and also provide you with the overview of their planning.
Standard Costing
The function of Standard Costing module is to calculate the standard cost for each item whether it is a purchased part or a manufactured one. Basic elements of cost are purchase price of purchased items, labor costs and machine costs spent for manufactured items along with their components' costs. The later two cost elements includes fixed burden which is all production expenses that are independent of the quantity produced, such as rent, overhead, and depreciation, the information about which requiring to be imported from the accounting system in order to be added to labor and machine costs.
Actual Costing
The function of Actual Costing module is to calculate the actual cost for each item whether it is a purchased part or a manufactured one. Basic elements of cost are purchase price of purchased items, labor costs and machine costs spent for manufactured items along with their components' costs. Actual costs of the parts are calculated according to the moving weighted average method. Actual cost information is used by Accounting System Integration in generating accounting transactions based on inventory transactions.
Accounting System Integration
The function of Accounting System Integration module is to generate accounting transactions based on inventory transactions. Account numbers for inventory transaction types relating to each item group, customer and supplier, should first be defined by accounting people. Depending on the type of inventory transaction, moving weighted average costs of the related items are used to create the corresponding accounting transactions. Where defined and applicable, amounts with a secondary currency and also a foreign currency are posted in the accounting system integration table, along with the amount with the primary currency. Accounting transactions created by Accord ERP are for inspection purposes and the accounting system implemented by the company is expected to be used for posting the journal entries.
Product Configurator
Product Configurator module serves to automatically generating the item, the bill of material, the routing and the pricing informations for the specific items that have the desired set of options and characteristics, out of the predefined generic definitions and rules. In this way, instead of creating all of the specific items and their related BOM, routing and pricing informations for each possible combination of the options like the colour, the engine size, gearbox type and a like, let's say, for a model of a car, one needs to make the generic definitions for that model of car for once only. The specific car, having the options selected to meet the exact customer order is then configured only if needed and when the customer demand arises and its options are known. | 
