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HarrisData Cost Management

HarrisData Cost Management gives manufacturers new insights into the profitability of products, product lines, and customers. Effective cost management leads manufacturing executives to make smarter pricing, margin management, promotions, and discounts decisions.

Managing Costs

    • Basic standard costs

    • Ideal standard costs

    • Currently attainable standard costs

    • Standard

    • Current

    • Future

    • Plus 90 sets for simulation, historical analysis, or quoting

    • Material cost

    • Labor cost

    • Setup cost

    • Fixed overhead

    • Variable overhead

    • By work center, product, vendor, and more!

    • Rolled up cost

    • This level cost

    • Costed bills of material

    • Costed routings

    • Cost set comparisons

    • Flexibility

    • Methods based on amount, rate, or percentage

    • Rate-based cost absorption

    • Financial impact

    • Manage costs and variances

    • Value on-hand inventory at standard cost

    • Standard Cost Generation

    • Work-In-Process Evaluation

    • Inventory Evaluation

Cost Analysis and Simulation

    • Better understanding on the impact of changes for various parts or products

    • Provides easy, detailed analysis and “what if” capabilities.

    • Labor increases

    • Material cost changes

    • Alternate work centers

    • Ad hoc Bill of Material, and Routing Operation changes

    • Calculate the net sales of your organization

    • Determine the net income

    • Find the profit margin ratio

    • Profit over cost

    • Revenues/Expenses

    • Profit over cost

    • Revenues/Expenses

    • Understand general ledger impact

    • Report impact of changes on general ledger accounts

HarrisData Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Rich in functionality, but low in technical complexity, HarrisData Manufacturing Execution (MES) provides real-time control of the shop floor without excessive investment in consulting or IT resources. Full integration with HarrisData Manufacturing Management ensures smooth, automated information flow throughout your organization.

Shop Floor Scheduling

    • By company, facility, plant, department

    • Schedule work time, holidays, etc.

    • Schedule shifts

    • Finite Forward Loading

    • Identify problems and bottlenecks

    • Simulate schedule changes

    • Commit changes in real-time

    • Release orders

    • Easy shipping and delivery of finished products

Electronic Dispatch

    • Prioritized work sequence

    • Authorized jobs only

    • Real-time online

    • Schedule changes reflected everywhere simultaneously

    • Paperless Shop Floor

Shop Floor Data Collection

  • Simple IBM® iSeries terminal or any attached device

    • Groups, multiple jobs

    • Automate routine transactions

    • Reduce employee clock activity

    • Grievance resolution

    • Touch screen data collection

    • Use latest data collection hardware

    • High speed, high volume

    • Fault-resistant

    • Allows organizations to create and manage unique related data

    • Ensures good clean data in your system for Customers, Sales Orders, and Purchase Orders

    • Process Control

  • One-step clock in/out

  • Flexible grace periods

  • Monitor long lunches and breaks

  • Enforce company policies

  • Document tardiness and early departures

  • Group/employee tracking

  • Online review/approval process

  • Automatic attendance points

  • Feed information direct to Payroll

  • Employee badges

  • Comply with union rules

Time and Attendance

Detailed Expense Management

    • By job/work order

    • Labor hours/expense

    • Completed/Scrap Quantities

    • Accounts retrieved and processed

    • Streamline and automate Accounting processes

    • Subsystem closes and feeds to the General Ledger

    • Non-productive time (NPT) calculates time spent without creating any manufacturing goods

    • Configure-Price-Quote leads to more production

Shop Floor Labor Management

    • Easy to track down what’s happening in your system

    • Keeping the size down while still retaining all the history on what matters most for your business

    • Unlimited users

    • Significant Lead Generation

    • No-shows

    • Current task

    • Schedules

    • Exceptions automatically identified

    • Automatic Reconciliation

      • Actual to Schedule

      • Actual to Tasks Reported

      • Real-time problem resolution

    • Advanced security

    • By Department, Supervisor

    • Salaried vs. Hourly

    • Measures the production targets of manufacturers’ use of time and skills


HarrisData Manufacturing Planning

The planning process is crucial to effective manufacturing management. Manufacturers can reduce inventories and capital requirements significantly while improving customer responsiveness and overall productivity. HarrisData Manufacturing Planning delivers complete control over the manufacturing planning process in an easy-to-use, fully integrated package.

The Master Production Schedule (MPS) is developed to satisfy market demand while optimally utilizing manufacturing resources. Key planning inputs include forecasts of customer requirements, customer orders, and inventory availability.

  • Item and family-level forecasts

  • Production plan by item or family

  • User-defined time fences

  • Rough-cut capacity plan based on Bill of Resources

  • Visual inventory status

Master Production Schedule (MPS)

Material Requirements Planning

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) utilizes the MPS and key manufacturing constraints to generate recommended manufacturing and purchase orders for all materials required in the manufacturing process.

    • Master Production Schedule

    • Current open customer orders

    • Current open manufacturing orders

    • Current open purchase orders

    • On-hand inventory

    • Lead Times

    • Lot Sizing Rules

    • Yield, Scrap

    • Planned at all Bill of Material levels

    • Automatically generated

    • Online release and management

    • Consume inventory before change

    • Container sizing

    • Plan number of containers

    • User defined rules

Capacity Requirements Planning

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) evaluates work center capacity and routings to plan both labor and machine requirements for the shop floor.

    • Released manufacturing orders

    • Firm planned manufacturing orders

    • MRP-recommended orders

    • Work center machine and labor requirements

    • Setup time

    • Labor efficiency

    • Machine and labor utilization

    • Lead times between work centers

    • Automatically generated

    • Online graphical display of labor and machine loads by work center and department

  • Master Production Schedule

  • Build Schedule

  • Customer Demand Forecast

  • Material Requirements Plan

  • MRP Explosion

  • MRP Orders

  • Pegged Requirements

  • Order Action by Buyer/Analyst

  • Planned Orders by Buyer/Analyst

  • Capacity Requirements Planning

  • Summary or Detail

Comprehensive Reporting


HarrisData Production Management

Production Management provides manufacturers with detailed control over bills of material and routings in an easy-to-manage system. Production Management also provides basic shop floor control and management, including manufacturing order management and work-in-process inventory management.

Product Database

The Product Database stores the bill of materials and routing information for each product or part. Product information is shared throughout the HarrisData Manufacturing system.

    • Purchased

    • Manufactured

    • Kanban

    • Build-through

    • Family planning

    • Same as/except part creation

    • Global deletion of obsolete parts

    • Global replacement of parts

    • Effectivity dates

    • Same as/except bill/routing creation

    • Maximize flexibility without complexity

    • Item master plant and warehouse

      • Information and history

    • Routing Operation Detail

    • Costed Routing

    • Work center where used

    • Single level

    • Indented

    • Costed

Multi-plant

Unlimited bill of material levels


Delivery Time Analyzer

Lead Time Generator

Anticipated Annual Usage

Alternate Bills/Routings

ECN Controls/History






Shop Floor

Shop Floor management includes the tracking of manufacturing orders and work-in-process inventory.

    • Print shop packet

    • Process labor

    • Efficiency reporting

    • Priority dispatch

    • Material issue

    • Scrap

    • Material availability on hand, on order, or committed

    • Stock status

    • Stock locator

    • Lot control

    • Released manufacturing orders

    • Firm planned manufacturing orders

    • Order status—labor and material

    • Override labor and/or material

    • Shop routing and material list

    • Labor tickets

    • Material requisitions

    • Purchase Service Requisition

    • Bar-coded documents

    • Product Database

    • Order Release

    • Labor

Component Shortage Summary

Order Close

Manufacturing Order Status

Open Manufacturing Orders

Open Purchase Orders

Priority Dispatch







HarrisData EDI Bundle

By leveraging EDI, organizations can automate and streamline communications between themselves and their trading partners. Orders, invoices, acknowledgments, and shipping notices are examples of documents that can be automatically transferred between your HarrisData system and your trading partner’s computer systems. This transfer of electronic documents called Transaction Sets can both dramatically reduce clerical effort and reduce errors in processing.

Customer Transactions

HarrisData EDI management capabilities focus on automating the business document flow between your organization and your customers. The EDI Bundle includes support for numerous Transaction Sets including:

  • 850 Inbound Purchase Order

    • Your customer’s purchase orders are received and processed through your HarrisData Order Management system

  • 810 Outbound Invoice

    • Electronic invoices are sent to your customer

  • 846 Outbound Inventory Inquiry

    • Current inventory levels or net changes in inventory can be communicated to your customer

  • 855 Outbound Acknowledgment

    • Acknowledges your customer’s purchase orders

  • 856 Outbound Advanced Ship Notice

    • Notifies your customer when and how an order will be shipped

  • 870 Outbound Order Status Report

    • Notifies customers of a change in order status. Comments can be included to explain the change.

Tailored to Your Needs

  • Flexible Transaction Set mapping

  • Processing flexibility

    • Control processing options at the trading partner level

  • Pricing flexibility

    • Accept prices as received

    • Compare prices to your list

  • Item number cross-referencing

  • FOB cross-referencing

  • Ship-via cross-referencing

Partner with the Best

EDI management software works with EDI translation

software to communicate with your trading partners. The

HarrisData EDI Bundle is designed to work with

TrustedLink™ EDI/400™ software from Peregrine Systems.

TrustedLink™ offers:

  • Award-winning EDI translation solution

    • Five-time winner of Midrange Systems magazine Buyer’s Choice award

  • More than 6,000 users

  • Exceptional performance

  • Superior support

  • Plug-and-go communications

  • XML Capabilities


HarrisData Inventory Management

Effective inventory management is critical to the financial health of manufacturers and distributors. HarrisData Inventory Management provides the key functionality to help you track, count, value, and analyze your inventory.

Inventory Tracking

  • By plant, warehouse, stockroom, aisle, location

    Default locations for shipping, receiving, and manufacturing

  • Location priority

    Physical dimensions

  • By product class, type, group, or inventory type

Lot/Serial Tracking

  • By vendor lot or internal lot

  • Purchase Orders

    Manufacturing Orders

    Sales Orders

  • Inventory Valuation

  • Integrated with Manufacturing

Identify customers shipped by vendor lot or internal lot


Actual Cost

FIFO or LIFO

Average Cost


  • Automatically creates journal entries

  • Summary or detail

  • Automatic Intercompany transactions

  • Intelligent account number hierarchies facilitate detailed tracking of inventory values

General Ledger Integration

Kit Production

  • Stock or assemble-to-order

  • Kit Options

Inventory Valuation

  • By warehouse or plant

    Work-in-process (WIP) inventory

  • ABC Analysis

    Flexible cycle count groups by location, established product grouping, or user-defined

  • By stockroom, item number, product class, inventory type, date, and more!

Frozen status permits inventory transactions during reconciliation and adjustment

Audit reports

Variance reports



Flexible Inventory Transactions

  • Receipts, purchase orders, sales, adjustments, issues, transfers, initial balances

  • Can include damage, theft, spoilage, scrap, and other unique transactions

  • Embedded financial statement reporting tool

    System controls and processing options related to a full Physical Inventory

Inventory Analysis

  • Stock Status

  • Min/Max Inventory for period

  • Inactive Inventory

  • Inventory Ranking

  • Sales Analysis

Comprehensive Reporting

  • Inventory Catalog

  • Stock Location

  • Inventory Valuation

  • Transaction History

  • Reconciliation reports


HarrisData Order Management

Mid-sized businesses live based on customer service. Excellent customer service starts with accurately capturing a sales order and fulfilling the order efficiently. HarrisData Order Management makes it easy to process an order—through order entry, shipping, and invoicing.

  • Customer profile

    • Name, address, contact, and more

  • Ship to / Bill to / Drop ship

  • Automatic cross-reference of customer item numbers to your item numbers

Comprehensive Customer Information

Order Entry Flexibility

  • Configurable order processing

  • Configurable products

  • Manage Quotes/Estimates

  • Order Guide

  • Blanket Orders

  • Fast customer lookup

    • Comprehensive search capabilities

  • Easy product lookup

    • By item number, description, customer item number, or synonym

  • One-click to related information

    • Credit check, AR balance, Invoice status, Order/Line item profitability, Inventory availability

Complete Document Manager

  • Manage documentation

    • Order Confirmation, Pick tickets, Packing lists, Invoices

    • Optional Export Documentation

  • Unlimited comments or any document

    • Header comments, trailer comments, specifications, extended descriptions, and more

  • Auto-fax documents to the customer

  • Automatic Generation of Manufacturing Orders

  • Optional inbound/outbound EDI transaction management

Comprehensive Reporting

  • Open/Closed Orders, Credit Hold

  • Sales Analysis, Sales Tax, Price Overrides

  • Invoice/Cash Registers

  • Customer Lists

Easy Order Fulfillment

  • Controlled fulfillment processes

    • Picking, Packing, Shipping, Invoicing

  • Comprehensive backorder management

    • Quickly identify backorders

    • Automatic or manual release

Pricing

  • Pricing is available at multiple levels including Item, Product Class, Product Group, Warehouse,

    Customer, Region, Customer Class

  • Pricing based on

  • Dollars or percentages

  • Cost Plus, List Less, Bracket

  • Date effective promotional/contract pricing

  • Full order or line item discount overrides

  • Exit available for custom pricing

  • Optional Sales & Use Tax Compliance

Payment

  • Cash sales

  • Online credit card processing (requires ROI POS/port)

  • Invoicing

    • Instant Invoice

    • Review/Update/Approve processes

    • Reprint as necessary

  • Recurring billing

  • Flexible customer billing cycles

    • Fully Integrated with Financials

  • Automatically creates journal entries

    • Summary or detail


HarrisData Purchasing Management

Purchasing managers are expected to acquire high-quality goods at the best prices, have them delivered on time, and manage the entire process to minimize inventory holding costs. HarrisData Purchasing Management automates the process of organizing vendor information, assessing purchasing requirements, and acquiring goods in an easy, streamlined fashion.


  • Vendor profile

    • Name, address, contact, and more

  • Purchase From / Remit To

  • Default vendors by the purchased item

  • Automatic cross-reference of vendor item numbers to your item numbers

  • Vendor-specific pricing

    • Pricing based on the bracket, quantity, contract, last actual, or standard cost

  • Vendor performance history

  • Price and delivery variances

Comprehensive Vendor Information

  • Request for Quote processing

  • Requisition processing

  • Suggested replenishment orders

    • Based on stock level, lead time, seasonality, safety stock, or time supply

  • Suggested MRP orders

  • Automatic generation of drop-ship purchase orders from sales orders

  • Blanket Orders

Defined due date or open-ended

  • Easy manual creation of purchase orders

  • Purchase non-inventory/MRO items

  • Unlimited comments

Header comments, trailer comments, specifications, extended descriptions, and more.

  • Auto-fax to vendor

Easy Order Purchase Management

  • Automatically creates journal entries

    • Summary or detail

  • Automatic allocation of freight and miscellaneous charges

  • Unvouchered receipt control

  • Automatically charge purchase variances to proper accounts

Fully Integrated with Financials

  • Integrated with Manufacturing

  • Release against a blanket purchase order

  • Automatic creation of purchase orders

  • Automatic receiving of Kanban orders

  • Vendor Kanban activity report

Kanban Management

  • Receive to dock, stock or inspection areas

  • Receive in purchased or stocking unit of measure

  • Container receipts

  • Landed costs

  • Flexible receipt adjustment

Receiving Flexibility

  • Fully electronic matching

    • Receipts

    • Purchase Orders

    • Vendor Invoices

  • Automatic generation of Accounts Payable invoices

Three-Way Matching

  • Open/Closed Orders

  • Receipts Analysis

  • Purchase Order Analysis

  • Vendor Performance

  • Unvouchered Receipts

  • Suggested Purchase Orders

  • Vendor Book / Labels

Comprehensive Reporting

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