MISys Manufacturing

The MISys Manufacturing system is modular

Do you need traceability for your food manufacturing business? There’s a module for that. Need to schedule your metal fabrication shop right down to the individual work centers? There’s a module for that too.  Choose from the 11 available modules to configure a system that is just the right fit for your needs.

Basic Manufacturing

If you need purchasing capabilities uniquely suited to a manufacturing firm, consider licensing the optional Advanced Purchasing module. With just a few dicks, you’ll be able to analyze your material shortages and automatically create all of the purchase orders needed to replenish your inventory. 

WHAT'S IN ADVANCED PURCHASING?

  • Purchase Orders 

  • Integration with A/P in the accounting system

  • Supplier details

  • Supplier pricing levels 

  • Detailed costing analysis

FUNCTIONALITY

Create, print, email and track formal purchase orders. 

Automatically detect quantity-based price breaks for each item and qualified supplier, and revise purchase orders.

Calculate tax due for taxable items by supplier.

  • Instantly update raw materials inventory from purchase order receipts. 

  • Define and apply additional cost for accurate landed cost tracking. 

  • Expedite purchase orders to assist in production scheduling. 

  • Print internal purchase order approvals and multi-page purchase orders. 

  • Specify purchase order formats to fit virtually any preprinted form or print on plain paper. 

  • Email purchase orders with user-defined body text and automatically attached PDF file of the order. 

  • Place blanket orders with scheduled delivery dates. 

  • Copy previous orders to speed up order generation. 

  • Receive items individually or by exception. 

  • Print optional purchase order receiver. 

  • Expedite or dose orders at any time with any quantity received. 

  • Transfer invoicing data directly to Bills in Accounts. 

  • Expedite purchase order by dragging end date on easy-to-use Gantt chart display of purchase orders over time.

Advanced Purchasing

If you need purchasing capabilities uniquely suited to a manufacturing firm, consider licensing the optional Advanced Purchasing module. With just a few dicks, you’ll be able to analyze your material shortages and automatically create all of the purchase orders needed to replenish your inventory. 

WHAT'S IN ADVANCED PURCHASING?

  • Purchase Orders 

  • Integration with A/P in the accounting system

  • Supplier details

  • Supplier pricing levels 

  • Detailed costing analysis

FUNCTIONALITY

Create, print, email and track formal purchase orders. 

Automatically detect quantity-based price breaks for each item and qualified supplier, and revise purchase orders.

Calculate tax due for taxable items by supplier.

  • Instantly update raw materials inventory from purchase order receipts. 

  • Define and apply additional cost for accurate landed cost tracking. 

  • Expedite purchase orders to assist in production scheduling. 

  • Print internal purchase order approvals and multi-page purchase orders. 

  • Specify purchase order formats to fit virtually any preprinted form or print on plain paper. 

  • Email purchase orders with user-defined body text and automatically attached PDF file of the order. 

  • Place blanket orders with scheduled delivery dates. 

  • Copy previous orders to speed up order generation. 

  • Receive items individually or by exception. 

  • Print optional purchase order receiver. 

  • Expedite or dose orders at any time with any quantity received. 

  • Transfer invoicing data directly to Bills in Accounts. 

  • Expedite purchase order by dragging end date on easy-to-use Gantt chart display of purchase orders over time.

Material Requirements Planning

If you need to plan your production and purchasing activities weeks, months, even years in advance, you’ll want to license the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can create a detailed Master Production Schedule which analyzes your current inventory in the context of open purchase orders, work orders, manufacturing orders, and (optionally) sales orders. Spot impending shortages while there is still time to respond. Click again to create all the required purchase orders and production orders. MRP has never been easier. 

WHAT'S IN MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING?

  • Master Production Scheduling (MPS) 

  • Sales Forecasting 

  • Material Requirements Planning

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Create a Master Production Schedule (MPS) for net of current stock, purchase orders, production orders, and sales orders.

  • Maintain a work calendar that accounts for full production days of the plant as well as partial or non-production days.

  • Define an MPS for any location and range of dates. 

  • Create a Material Requirements Plan based on any selected MPS. 

  • Manually schedule order releases to resolve shortages. 

  • Automatically schedule Just-in-Time (JIT) order releases to resolve shortages. 

  • Maintain and apply sales forecasts to future production schedules. 

  • Perform simulations to analyze the effect of future production scenarios. 

  • Manually or automatically create purchase orders and production orders based on the MRP. 

  • Save and re-open multiple production schedules. 

  • Share production schedules among workgroup users. 

  • Include or ignore current inventory, purchase orders, and production orders in the MPS.

  • Create and maintain batches of scheduling events. 

  • Fix production start dates and schedule forward to completion. 

  • Fix production completion dates and schedule back to start. 

  • Create an Available-to-Promise (ATP) projection. 

  • Apply a sales forecast to the MPS to simulate planned purchasing and production activity. 

  • Retrieve and schedule sales orders as well as sales quotes/estimates from accounting system. 

  • Instantly spotlight shortages of raw materials and sub-assemblies.

  • View the MPS for all items, or items meeting specific stocking criteria.

  • Use the drill down function to view items within an MPS, or scheduled activities for an item, etc.

  • Print MRP reports showing activity for all periods, active periods only, or net activity per item.

  • Print detailed Production Advice Reports to show material requirements based on zero, minimum, or reorder points.

Shop Floor Control

Clear definition of each production operation is the key to effective manufacturing business management. Shop Roar Control delivers the ultimate solution to running a manufacturing plant profitably by allowing you to accurately predict production costs based on estimated material, labor, and overhead, and allowing you to analyze actual production costs. 

WHAT'S IN SHOP FLOOR CONTROL?

  • Tool Management

  • Work Center Management

  • Shop Operations Management

  • Capacity Management

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Track the use and maintenance of production tools.

  • Be alerted whenever tools require maintenance or replacement. 

  • Establish work centers for all production activities.

  • Define rates at which each work center can process its work. 

  • Define days of the week when each work center is open.

  • Define an unlimited number of splits per shift, including optional splits for overtime, reserve labor, etc. 

  • Define required material, labor, and overhead for each work center. 

  • Roll up material, labor, and overhead costs throughout the entire product structure. 

  • Create routing details for bills of material and manufacturing orders. 

  • Estimate assembly times for any production quantity. 

  • Predict start date for given completion date. 

  • Predict completion date for given start date. 

  • Accurately estimate manufacturing costs based on combined material, labor, and overhead. 

  • Post shop operations to individual production operations. 

  • Compare actual to estimated manufacturing costs with detailed variance reports. 

  • Adjust routings to reflect the actual time required to perform an operation. 

  • Analyze production efficiency for each manufacturing order operation. 

  • View work center loading for any range of dates. 

  • Analyze all work center conflicts for any range of dates. 

  • Resolve work center conflicts quickly and easily using drag and drop capacity management tool.

Serial Lot Tracking

Manufacturers needing to track serial or lot numbers, not just for finished goods but throughout the entire purchasing and production process, will find that the optional Serial/Lot Tracking module allows them to comply with strict regulatory agency requirements, including FDA and FAA 

IDEAL FOR MANUFACTURERS OF:

  • Food Products

  • Medical Devices 

  • Pharmaceuticals 

  • Defense and Aerospace 

  • Automotive

SATISIFIES THE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS OF:

  • US Food and Drug Administration 

  • US Federal Aviation Administration 

  • IS0 9000

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Set up the system to be able to track by item, serial number or lot number. 

  • Establish and assign sequential serial and lot numbers. 

  • Adjust numbers that have been previously assigned. 

  • Generate reports by stock status, history, where used, component lists, manufacturing orders. 

  • Transfer serial numbers to finished goods in accounting software (where available). 

  • Transfer serial numbers to a sales order in accounting software (where available). 

  • Transfer lot numbers to finished goods in accounting software (where available). 

  • Identify the assembly, subassembly or MO in which the tracked item was used. 

  • Identify the quantities of a serial/lot tracked remaining in stock.

Labour Tracking

Labor Tracking keeps track of the elapsed time your production workers spend on selected Jobs and Manufacturing Orders. It automatically posts the specified quantity of any labor resource type Item to the Job or Manufacturing Order. Labor Tracking may be run on any PC where labor time needs to be recorded and does not require that MISys Manufacturing be installed on that computer. 

FUNCTIONALITY

  • MISys Labor Tracking communicates directly with the MISys Server module.

  • There is no requirement that the MISys Client module be installed on the same computer.

  • Connect once to pick up all Resource Items, Locations, Jobs and Mfg. orders for the specified MISys company database.

  • Record employee activity from any PC until ready to Post to MISys Manufacturing.

  • Set up Resource-type items in Item master to represent various labor rates and related overtime options.

  • Charge the cost of the item (labor) to a specified Job or MO.

  • Track specific employees at either a specific rate and location, or by any labor rate, or any location.

  • Use the timer to record elapsed time for a specified Employee/Labor Item/Location.

  • Allows for pauses and for recording comments.

  • Establish alternative items (labor rates) to automatically switch to overtime rates after a specified number of timed hours.

  • Operate manually as an alternative.

  • Retain option of manually approving time sheet entries by switching off Auto-approve option.

  • Post Time Sheet entries, two options:

    • Dispense a resource item (labor) from a Location against a specified Job, OR

    • Dispenses a resource item (labor} from the material details of the specified MO. If material details do not include the Item, it will be added automatically. 

  • Archive Time Sheet entries in a date-named data file.

  • Export or Import Time Sheet entries to or from an external file.

Bin Tracking

If your business requires that you keep your raw materials, sub-assemblies, or finished goods inventory in specific containers (bins, bales, bolts, etc.), the optional Bin Tracking module allows you to maintain a unique inventory sub-location for every item or assembly. 

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Keep raw materials, sub-assemblies or finished goods inventory in specific containers I Bins).

  • Assign specific Bin locations for specific items.

  • Pre-Assign Bin locations or use the Deferred or Automatic Bin Assignment modes.

  • Record all bin-related transactions in the MISys Master Transaction Log. 

  • Track the quantity of inventory items in each container. 

  • Track bin locations through Purchase Orders, MOs and other functions within MISys. 

  • Print bar-coded Bin labels (the Bar-Coding module is required).

NOTE: Although MISys Basic Manufacturing supports an unlimited number of warehouse locations, Bin Tracking allows manufacturers to track the same inventory item at several physical locations wi

Bar Coding/Extension

FREEDOM.FLEXIBILITY.SPEED.

Use MISys EXT on any PC. tablet, smartphone or web-enabled device to process real-time MI Sys transactions using a web-based interface.

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Log In/Out as a standard MISys Manufacturing company database User.

  • Process any Stock Transfers, including Item Transfers, Assembly Transfers, Supplier Transfers, Component Transfers and Dispensing Tools.

  • Process PO Receipts or Returns.

  • Work Order processing, including Reserving, Allocating and Completing any Released Work Order.

  • Manufacturing Order processing. including Starting, Starting/Scrapping individual components, and Completing any Released Manufacturing Order.

  • Full Shop Operations processing, including Starting and Completing Operations, processing Time and

  • Direct Labor transactions, and processing Scraps.

  • Unique to MISys EXT, you can manage multiple active Operation Timers as part of Shop Operations processing.

  • Create new Physical Inventory batches or add new Detail lines to Physical Inventory batches.

  • Print new Barcode labels.

  • Any field may be populated by using the provided Finder, by scanning a barcode or by entering a quantity.

  • Full integration with the Shop Floor Control, Serial/Lot Tracking and Bin Tracking modules.

  • Transfer quantities of Items to Sales, or vice versa, as well as Sales Transfers as part of Work Order or Manufacturing order processing (this specific functionality currently available for QuickBooks Online, Sage lntacct and Sage 300 ERP).

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • MISys EXT utilizes Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) to connect to the server on which MISys Manufacturing is installed.

  • MISys EXT requires licenses for both MISys EXT and the MISys API.

  • Each login session on MISys EXT consumes a MISys User License.

  • Print labels using mobile and stationary Zebra Link-OS printers.

  • Compatible with Bluetooth scanning devices to populate fields in MISys EXT.

Mobile Alerts

The Mobile Alerts module allows MISys to send critical alerts to smart phones or any mobile device capable of receiving wireless email messages. The MISys Dashboard has been enhanced so that you can schedule alerts to run unattended 24/7 and, should such an alert be triggered, send a message with critical data to your iPod Touch, smart phone, or any other mobile device. 

FEATURES & BENEFITS

  • Unlimited number of customizable alerts.

  • No need to log into the system to receive alerts. 

  • Select to receive alert updates every 1 0 mins, hour, daily or only when a change occurs.

  • Automatically send alerts to yourself, purchasing, suppliers, vendors, managers, etc. 

  • Create alerts to be triggered by data added to custom fields. 

  • Customize the alert message with your own text.

MOST POPULAR ALERTS

  • Inventory shortages

  • Overdue POs 

  • PO approvals

  • Missing inventory for upcoming production 

  • Automatic vendor/customer follow-up 

  • and many more.

Advanced Production

Job shops and manufacturers who create variants of standard assemblies (or custom orders for special "one-off' items) will discover that the Advanced Production module provides them with critical importation needed to track their production activities. With Advanced Production, you’ll be able to predict the cost of every job and track your performance. 

WHAT'S IN ADVANCED PRODUCTION?

  • Manufacturing Orders (MOs) 

  • Customized Job Orders 

  • Cost Estimating and Tracking

FUNCTIONALITY

  • Create Manufacturing Orders either from a standard bill of materials, or from scratch without previously defined components.

  • Use Bills of Material with Routing Details through Work Centers to guide shop floor operations. 

  • Create and print cost estimates based on the unit cost of known components and the estimated cost of provisional items. 

  • Compare projected manufacturing cost with the actual cost for accurate analyses of productivity and profitability. 

  • Declare provisional items that may not be completely defined or are unknown at the time. 

  • Associate jobs with manufacturing orders for detailed cost analysis. 

  • Edit manufacturing orders to create custom job orders. 

  • Allocate special items such as labor, supplies, and tooling to customize manufacturing order. 

  • Generate quotes for custom jobs using estimated material costs for stock or non-stock items and estimated labor and resource expenses. (Can use routing details for more precise cost estimates when using the Shop Floor Control module as well).

  • Convert quotes in MISys to sales orders in your accounting system. 

  • Convert non-stock items and Build Items to inventoried items. 

  • Attach files and pictures to MOs to provide unlimited amounts of online documentation. 

  • Create and link child MOs to any parent MO. 

  • Copy previous orders to speed up order generation. 

  • Print internal manufacturing order approvals and multi-page production manufacturing orders. 

  • Create and print job travelers to accompany jobs on the shop floor. 

  • Analyze standard, projected, and actual job costs with performance variances. 

  • Create detailed manufacturing order pick lists. 

  • Pick partial or complete manufacturing orders. 

  • Utilize an automatic back-flush to support Stock, WIP, and Reserve stock. 

  • Back-flush complete or partially completed manufacturing orders. 

  • Automatically adjust raw material inventory levels based on actual production yield. 

  • Create special handling of non-backflush items. 

  • Record scrap resulting from specific MO processing. 

  • Expedite and dose MOs at any time with automatic cleanup of partially committed material. 

  • Transfer completed items directly to the finished goods inventory.

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Is MISys the right fit for you?

MISys allows manufacturers to choose modules that fit their current requirements while leaving room for additional functionality as business needs expand. To learn more about the MISys modules and to determine which modules are the best fit for you, take the MISys tour.

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MISys works with the accounting
systems you already count on.

There are three significant benefits to having your manufacturing system integrate with the accounting system you already use, these include:

  • 1. Change Management

    The alternative to purchasing a manufacturing system that integrates with the accounting system already in use is replacing all systems with a single, accounting-inclusive ERP system. That’s a significant change, and it’s a risky proposition for many organizations. MISys Manufacturing offers the option of adding the manufacturing system functionality that the organization has been missing without disrupting the accounting department, which is already fully-trained in a system that meets the needs of that department. 

  • 2. Cost

    Manufacturers who choose to work with MISys double up on the savings. While MISys has equal or greater manufacturing functionality to many of the brand name ERP systems, it comes at a fraction of the cost. However, in addition to the savings on license fees, there are the implementation costs to consider. A MISys implementation is smaller in scope than a soup-to-nuts ERP implementation because you’re leaving the accounting system in place. That translates to less outside (consulting) help to complete the MISys project, and less impact on internal resources and the organization as a whole.

  • 3. Best of Breed

    There is truth to the argument that working with two integrated systems – accounting and manufacturing in this case – is advantageous. Sage and QuickBooks understand accounting. Their systems function as advertised; both are dependable in the release of regular updates. In turn, Manufacturing Information Systems, the maker of MISys, focuses on what they know best, manufacturing. Together, they make a beautiful couple.

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