7 key Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing challenges SYSPRO can help you resolve:
Accommodate variable end-products
- Using SYSPRO’s co-products and manufacturing inspection functionality, you can easily cost and capture the receipt of multiple products of varying grades from jobs originally planned for single-grade items.
- You can choose to apportion costs between components and co-products according to a percentage breakdown for total material, operation and sub-contract cost, or you can define percentages against specific operations and materials.
- SYSPRO’s Work in Progress inspection system gives you the tools to record the inspection details of manufactured items and, depending on the results, select to receipt, scrap or rework quantities. Units in inspection are visible, but unavailable for use until accepted into stock. Within the inspection function, you can capture detailed records of counts, inspection, scrap, rework and stock receipts.
- You can receipt inspection items as the original product to manufacture, or as a different product or products, which is useful for end-products of variable grade. Also, you can receipt items into a warehouse different than what was originally planned.
Ensure quality of raw materials
- SYSPRO’s Quality Management System (QMS) enables product quality control by allowing the configuration of multiple measurement metrics, as well as inspection points per inventory item, such as length, chemical composition and hardness. This configuration includes the allowable tolerances for each metric and inspection frequency is configurable as required; for example, full, partial, periodic and random quantity sampling is supported.
- Where a full QMS system is not required, quality checks may be implemented using the standard inspection facilities in the Work in Progress and Purchase Order modules. Purchased items can be flagged as requiring inspection so that during receipting, detailed records of counts, inspection, scrap, rejects and returns are recorded. Units in inspection are visible, but unavailable for use until accepted into stock. Similarly, SYSPRO’s Work in Progress inspection gives you the tools to inspect manufactured product quality and, depending on the results, select to receipt, scrap or rework quantities.
Manage the storage
- SYSPRO provides a number of features to assist you in the control and management of hazardous and dangerous goods with regards to storage, packing and transportation.
- Multi-warehouse functionality enables you to create virtual warehouses, and bins within warehouses, to represent separate dangerous goods storage areas for specific items.
- The multimedia features enable you to, per stock code, link and display graphical, video and text information, such as material safety data sheets, dangerous goods safety marks, and safety gear icons. Operators then have access to view and print the information when required.
- The system’s flexible custom form functionality enables you to capture dangerous and hazardous goods information per stock code.
- SYSPRO also provides an extensive notes facility, the content of which you can configure to automatically print on certain documentation within the system. Notes include generic notes against all key fields, as well as special key field notes, such as the technical specification, dangerous goods handling, and inspection notes against inventory items.
Manage product and raw material traceability
- Whether a compliance-critical requirement, or an analysis tool for continuous improvement strategies, the traceability of products from material origins through manufacture to final destination, is a key system requirement in many industries.
- SYSPRO facilitates the recording of traceability and quality data on materials and products from purchasing through inspection, manufacturing, manufacturing inspection, stocking and sales. The recording of expiry and shelf-life information is also facilitated and powerful queries enable both upward and downward searches by stock code, lot number and transaction type.
Comply with environmental and safety regulations
- Improve your capability to demonstrate compliance in your core processes, as well as implement a variety of control measures for stringent record-keeping to suit the level of vigilance required.
- SYSPRO’s flexible features and integrated nature ensure rapid access to centralized compliance information across your business.
Optimize your Supply Chain
- Leverage advanced forecasting and planning to more closely match supply with demand.
- Ensure the right raw materials are in place for each job with advanced Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
- Streamline purchasing by using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to trade with partners and value-added networks.
- Track quality status, lot numbers, expiration dates and multiple units of measure.
- Improve visibility of warehouse activity from receipt of goods through outbound shipping.
- Use data to see production costs and requirements for each formula and component.
Streamline Production
- Simplify planning and scheduling to maximize capacity.
- Minimize bottlenecks with a real-time view of each step of the production process.
- Manage Work in Process: gain control over scrap, yield and rework metrics.
- Identify ways to sequence production more efficiently based on product characteristics.
- Allocate inventory to orders on a first-expire-first-out (FEFO) basis to minimize waste.
- Automate tracking of variances and defects.
- Reduce lead times for faster delivery.