Among the industries where our specific expertise is particularly advantageous are:

• Metal fabrication
• Food manufacturing and distribution
• Toy, games, and crafts manufacturing and importing
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Medical device manufacturing
• Chemical manufacturing
• Software authorship and services

Please contact us to discuss how Enterprise Resource Consulting can assist with ERP selection and implementation for these industries.

Process Manufacturing Requirements

Process manufacturing businesses often require:

• Catchweights
• Lot Traceability of ingredients on a multilevel basis, both backward and forward.
• Traceability must trace raw materials, packaging, and finished items.
• Formulas can include percentage of the total quantity.
• System will calculate the weight for raw materials based on the percentage.
• CAPA (Corrective And Preventive Action)
• Changing the batch size will rescale a work order
• Batches can be split into more than one finished item.
• Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
• Capacity Planning
• RMA Tracking
• Forecasting
• Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practices
• EDI
• Integrated shipping management

Discrete Manufacturing Requirements

Discrete manufacturing businesses often require:

MRP

• Make to order manufacturing
• Make to stock manufacturing
• Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
• RMA Tracking
• Assemble to order manufacturing
• Repetitive manufacturing
• Integrated shipping management
• Forecasting
• Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• Scheduling
• Engineering change management
• Multisite production – plan across locations

Wholesale Distribution Requirements

 
Wholesale distribution businesses often require:

• Automatic back order fulfillment
• Picking optimization 
• Purchase order consolidation
• EDI
• Warehouse management utilizing bar codes
• Integrated shipping management
• Directed picking and putaway
• RMA Tracking
• Scheduling
• Cross-docking management