FDM4 provides an integrated Manufacturing process that will allow the user to manage their Work Orders for goods that require assembly from Raw Materials as opposed to being purchased as a finished good. A simple, easy to use interface is available for Job creation and tracking which provides the user the ability to consume Raw Materials, Enter Employee Time as well as receive the Finished Goods after production has been completed.
Standard versus actual materials and labor tracked by manufacturing job.
Available copy function to copy bill of material and routing information across items.
Available finished goods receipt functionality.
Standard cost rollup procedures are available.
Visibility to work in process item quantities while the jobs are being completed.
Manufacturing jobs will generate a manufacturing work order form that can be printed to a printer on the shop floor.
Employee time entry processes for recording labor components by operation id for a job.
Comprehensive inquiry and reporting functionality
FDM4 provides a multi-level Bill of Material for establishing the Raw Material requirements of a Finished Product. Standard Operations and Labor Rates can be established and through the entry of Job Routing requirements the Standard amounts for Labor that can be calculated for each Job generated. The ability to define standard amounts for a specific product job will allow for an easy comparison of Actual vs. Standard Costs that are associated to a production job.
Job routing details outline the operations that are to be included in a specific bill of materials.
Ability to create and maintain a bill of materials for a product.
Ability to setup an unlimited number of user-defined job operations that can be included in a routing for a bill of materials.
Adjustments to the materials required for a product can be made on the bill of materials or adjusted for a specific job.
Single and multi-level bill of materials supported.
Integration with the purchasing module will allow for planned buys to result in the generation of a manufacturing job for goods that are produced in house.
Ability to setup a complete job costing profile that will include the following elements: raw materials, overhead, and labor.
Ability to group manufacturing jobs into project numbers for inquiries and reporting purposes.
General ledger postings are automatically generated for transaction from the manufacturing module thereby eliminating the need to manually enter accounting data.