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The Advanced Manufacturing and Material Planning (AMMP) add-on for SAP Business One was developed to extend the functionality of SAP Business One to meet the needs of small-to-midsized manufacturing companies.

Forecasting– Forecast by Warehouse– Use Bookings (Orders Entered) or Sales (Invoices and Credits)– 10+ Algorithms Moving Average, Seasonality and Trends– Assign the forecast algorithm to an item group, item and item/warehouse combination– Create a weekly forecast for the first month, then monthly beyond the first month– Forecast consumption alerts throughout the month– Forecast by Item Group and not a specific Item Code– History by Sales, Bookings and Usage– Can load history for many years without loading all the history transactions, which greatly helps with data conversion and being able to use forecasting immediately– Stand-Alone Forecast Simulator to help determine the algorithm and parameters to use

Production Orders– Assign materials to a Resource (Work Center)– User-Defined Production Order and Operation production statuses– Utilize Operation Codes (ISO Work Instructions)– Freeze Production Orders and Operations– Global Scheduling: Forward/Backward, Finite/Infinite– Automatically forward schedule production orders scheduled to start before ‘today’– Create component purchase order supplies (subcontract) from the Production Order– Create component production orders from the Production Order– Check component availability, view supplies to determine if all materials are available– Production Order Schedule Board– Production Resource Schedule Board (Work Center Dispatch)– If you have a primary operation, such as wire draw or extrusion, you can automatically create a new production order for each batch/tote/container so they can be tracked separately through production. This requires our advanced data collection add-on.– Integration to our Labor and Machine Data Collection

Sales Orders– Create separate purchase and production orders for each line that has the same item code– Check component availability, view supplies to determine if all materials are available– Sales Order Scheduling Board– Sales Order Shipping Schedule

Material Planning– Integrates material planning with production order scheduling– Planning by warehouse– Distribution Requirements Planning (interacts with Transfer Order processing)– Order Recommendation workbench to review requirements and create supply documents– What If Material Requirements by just entering an item#, quantity and due date– Projected Availability (Available To Promise) that includes forecasts, safety stock and all planned and actual supplies and demands– All demands are ‘pegged’ to supplies

Labor and Machine Data Collection– Clock on and off of production orders or just enter labor card information– Progress quantity complete and rejected through operations– Ability to clock on more than one production order at a time– Validate operation quantity complete does not exceed previous operations quantity complete– Can choose to post time to production orders or just use it for reporting– Validate operation quantity complete does not exceed previous operations quantity complete– Can choose to post time to production orders or just use it for reporting– Can transact by operation#, operation code or resource– User-defined reject reason codes– Transaction table in SAP for queries and reporting

Download the product brochure here AMMP Product BrochureView the on-line videos here

For more information, contact:Scott Long    email: Scott@lbsi.com    Phone: 877-605-5274 x111

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