Features

Benefits

Order Entry Features

• Single module tied to all production data
• Interfaces with Pricing Module

Order Entry Benefits

• Allows comprehensive tracking of product from start to finish
• Can eliminate pricing errors

Production Scheduling Features

• Automatically send work-center schedules to downstream work-centers
• Move a group of products to a new place in the schedule in one step
• Pre-define production steps based on product type
• Split product into smaller units during the production cycle
• Re-route product back through a completed step ‘on the fly’ if quality standards aren’t met on the first pass
• Dynamically change order allocation during the production cycle
• Automatically track ‘down’ time

Production Scheduling Benefits

• Reduces cost of production by maximizing production efficiency and through-put
• Dramatically cuts the time required to create schedules or make changes
  Electronic scheduling allows for last minute changes, which greatly improves customer satisfaction
• Assures that every downstream work-center adjusts their schedule to accommodate changes
• Automation eliminates many of the errors that result in down time
• Improves product quality with minimal delays

Outside Processing Features

• Using FTP, EDI, XML, or a dedicated thin client linkage, automates the exchange of data between your facilities and vendors providing finishing services
• Provides detailed instructions for all operations to be performed on products
• Contains shipping information for direct shipment to customers

Outside Processing Benefits

• Greatly improves the quality and accuracy of exchanged information
• Minimizes the need to re-work products due to vendors not understanding instructions
• Significantly reduces the time required to manage vendor relationships
• Provides inarguable evidence of requests to vendors
• Enhances ability to evaluate vendor performance

Quality Assurance Data Capture Features

• Captures metallurgical information during the production cycle
• Customer Library puts quality tolerances at floor operators’ fingertips
• Production ‘firewall’ stops the production cycle at the point steel is determined to be off-quality

Quality Assurance Data Capture Benefits

• Enables identification of off-quality trends and analysis of their origins so you can pinpoint yield loss by production step
• Prevents shipment of off-quality steel
• Eliminates unnecessary production steps, saving time and money

Production Status Displays Features

• Displays where any product is in the production cycle

Production Status Displays Benefits

• Provides ‘real time’ information for better decision making
• Enables faster, more accurate response to customer inquiries

Product Costing Features

• Determines true costs of production based on tons produced and work-centers involved

Product Costing Benefits

• Enables more accurate pricing for greater profitability

Shipment Load Setup & Scheduling Features

• Assigns shipment to truck or rail car loads
• Schedules loads with carriers
• Captures scale weights for loads
• Produces bills of lading based on load information
• Automatically verifies shipment and generates an invoice
• Provides Advance Shipping Notices

Shipment Load Setup & Scheduling Benefits

• Eliminates shipping errors
• Facilitates faster delivery of products to customers
• Creates an easy-to-follow trail of all pertinent information about shipped products allowing for faster, more accurate responses to customer inquiries
• Streamlines the shipping process, saving time and money

Scrap Scale Features

• Handles scrap, alloys, and other goods
• Handles barge, rail and truck deliveries
• Amendments to receipts, usages, transfers, contracts and invoices
• Transmits mill weights
• Interfaces with Accounts Payable and General Ledger
• Processes EDI contracts, freight changes, ASN's and vendor invoices
• Maintains FIFO inventory layering

Scrap Scale Benefits

• Enables efficient, accurate processing with minimal effort
• More accurate inventory valuation
• Reduces paperwork
• Improves accuracy
• Facilitates efficient supplier communication

Inventory Control & Location Tracking Features

• Enables easy location tracking during the production cycle
• Maintains accurate physical inventory
• Automatically generates bar code labels at each work-center
• Galv line “warmer” coil tracking

Inventory Control & Location Tracking Benefits

• Enables accurate inventory valuation within hours of any accounting period
• Improves customer satisfaction through fast, accurate responses to customer inquiries
• Improves accuracy of product labeling, thereby minimizing delays and lost product

Production Bonus Calculations Features

• Track production quality and quantity by Work-center, team and shift
• Assigns bonus points to team members
• Instantaneous production bonus display for shop floor operations

Production Bonus Calculations Benefits

• Improves productivity
• Assures accurate, consistent and inarguable bonus tracking
• Boosts employee morale

Production History and Look-ups Features

• Captures and organizes data on every step of the production cycle for every product produced

Production History and Look-ups Benefits

• Provides easy access to all needed information
• Minimizes storage requirements by eliminating many paper reports

Comprehensive Reporting Features

• Virtually any data that is captured by the MIPS system can be turned into a report
• Large number of standard reports, including:
• Production Delay Analysis
• Work Roll Maintenance
• Production Exceptions
• End-of-Shift Summary
• Production Bonus Points
• Ready-to-Ship Inventory
• Costed Work-In-Progress Inventory
• Quality Control Inspection
• Waiting on Work Center
• Automated Ready-to-Ship Fax
• Automated Shipping Notice Fax
• Schedule Snapshot
• Physical Inventory
• Interfaces with third party reporting and business intelligence tools

Comprehensive Reporting Benefits

• Assures complete records
• Saves time and enables more accurate reporting
• Identifies hidden bottlenecks
• Easy to identify most profitable product grades, customers, employees, etc.
• Enables easier analysis, planning and decision making