The MXP Manufacturing Suite contains five modules: Engineering (EN), Work Order Management (WO), Resource Planning (RP), Job Shop (JS) and Product Configurator (PC).  Your organization may use some or all of these, as your manufacturing environment requires.

Within the Engineering module you will define your manufacturing operation, including Work Centers, Machines, Operations, Routings and Bills of Material.  Work Center and Machine capacities may be optionally defined to assist in both short- and long-range scheduling and planning.  Full product costing and rollups are supported by the inclusion of Item Cost information, and appropriate posting to the General Ledger is provided by detailed account distribution information at virtually any level you choose.

While in Engineering, you may also select how to report consumption of materials and labor to work orders, either via direct entry or backflushing via definition of "gate" operations.

Within Work Order Management, you will define your labor force and work calendar(s), and will also process all transactions relative to generating WOs, performing labor, consuming material components, and closing and completing orders.  Full support is also provided for material scrap and shrinkage.

The WO module also provides short-term scheduling tools for tight control of the orders flowing through your facility, as well as cost/variance analyses and detailed efficiency reporting.

At a higher level, you may also wish to take advantage of the Resource Planning module.  RP provides the ability to input your forecast demand (including tools to capture history and extrapolate trends), develop make/buy plans, run simulations on your operations, detect capacity bottlenecks and alleviate them, and generate full blown Regen or Net Change Material Requirements and Capacity Requirements plans.

As many of these transactions can be extremely data intensive, they can be "stacked" or set up for unattended processing, allowing you to schedule these jobs during off-peak times (nights or weekends), and have the resulting data available when you are ready for it.

If your manufacturing operation tends more towards "make to order" than "make to stock", you may be interested in utilizing the features of the Job Shop (JS) module.  From Job Shop, you can prepare estimates and quotes for manufacturing, convert an estimate to a Work Order, and control that Work Order as a "job" with complete accounting (and accountability) through its completion and shipping.

For larger jobs, or manufacturing contracts, you have the option of creating a "job hierarchy" so that sub-jobs can be "rolled up" to the larger contract for enhanced accounting and control.

Our Product Configurator module (currently in development) provides a tight interface between Order Entry, Engineering and Work Order Management.  Using sets of Attributes and Rules, your engineers can define "configured" bills of material.  Then, at Order Entry time, the system will present a structured series of questions that yield a completely customized product configuration.

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