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Sage 200 Manufacturing

Meeting the changing needs of manufacturers

We have been providing software and support to manufacturing businesses for more than 20 years.

Over this time, we have built up a deep understanding of the needs of all sizes and types of business. Working with our customers helps us to develop software and services that meet the changing needs of businesses like yours.

We can provide software to help you control every stage of the manufacturing process from planning, material and costs to monitoring and tracking orders. Our software can give you greater control over your manufacturing processes by helping you to schedule work, track resources and analyse your business.

Our manufacturing software is designed to put you in total control of your business, whatever you produce.

Working with you

Sage 200 Manufacturing is extremely easy to use and works with standard software that’s used by many businesses. It has all the tools you need to help you manage your manufacturing business.

Designed specifically to help companies who need to assemble or manufacture items, Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you stay in control of a job through every stage of the process from initial estimate to order, manufacture, delivery and collecting payment.

Sage 200 Manufacturing system

Supply Chain Management

Sage 200 Manufacturing can help you see all the detail you need to stay in control of your supply chain, from raw materials to finished products.

It can help you to:
•	Store and retrieve detailed information on your suppliers including business terms, lead times and price history.
•	Organise and display supplier information in ways that are easy to understand.
•	Save time by updating stock and material levels automatically.
•	Track deliveries accurately with 2-way or 3-way GRN matching.
•	Manage all your transactions accurately and efficiently.

Bill of Materials

Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you create detailed Bills of Materials for all your manufactured products, no matter how many components you use.

Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you to:
•	Avoid running short of materials by identifying shortages.
•	Manage all your machine, labour and subcontract operations in the same place.
•	Keep track of complex costs including sub-contracts, piece-work and tooling.
•	Get the best price or delivery dates by providing alternative supplier information.
•	Save time by creating purchase orders automatically.

Estimating Jobs

Sage 200 Manufacturing has a powerful estimating tool that helps you to:
•	Produce quotes for multiple batch sizes.
•	Create accurate estimates quickly.
•	Convert estimates into work orders with ease.

Job Processing

By recording details of costs and resources, Sage 200 Manufacturing can help you stay on track at every stage of production. It can help you to improve efficiency by producing picking lists, route cards, operation cards and job sheets. And you can save time by entering sales and work in progress costs automatically.

Actuals v Estimates

Sage 200 Manufacturing makes it easy to review actual costs against estimated costs. All the information is displayed in a familiar spreadsheet style summary. Actual costs exceeding estimates are clearly highlighted and you can drill down into the details to analyse the cause of the problem.

Demand Planning

•	Master Production Scheduling By collecting information from Sage 200 Manufacturing Sales Order Processing, Sales Forecast and Make to Stock items, you can see all your demands on one screen.
•	Material Requirements Planning This tool helps you to calculate what materials are required for any job, highlighting any shortages and automatically raising work or purchase orders as appropriate. At the same time you can generate work in progress valuations to help you keep track of costs.
•	Stock Projection To help you stay in control, Stock Projection can help you predict stock levels over any given length of time. It also helps you avoid costly overstocking by warning you if stock levels are predicted to rise above maximum levels.

Graphical Planner powered by Preactor

Preactor International is the market leading specialist for planning and scheduling software. Working in partnership with Preactor, we have created a graphical planning tool that helps you to:

•	Assess potential changes to production, by producing plans that show how adding overtime or extra shifts would affect deliveries, for example.
•	Produce flexible schedules that work forwards from a start date or backwards from a due date, to suit your needs.
•	Identify resource issues easily and change plans to avoid hold ups.
•	Choose the way you want to view completed jobs.

Works Order Processing

Save time and errors by creating works orders automatically from MRP recommendations.

•	Avoid errors by automatically updating your stock levels when you allocate or issue stock against orders.
•	Improve efficiency by creating picking lists, route cards, operation cards and job sheets.
•	Save time by creating a single delivery note from multiple sales orders.

Operation Times

Sage 200 Manufacturing software can help you work efficiently. It can print bar codes onto items such as route and operation cards, so that operators log their jobs with a scanner and the relevant works orders are automatically updated.

Work in Progress

Stay in control of your costs by printing Work in Progress reports in as much or as little detail as you need at any time.

Materials and Finished Product Traceability

Sage 200 Manufacturing helps you track materials from receipt, through your complete production processes to despatch, no matter how many locations or components you use. It has powerful tools to help you pinpoint any item on its journey from the supplier, through the whole manufacturing process to the customer.

Efficient resource planning and production management are pivotal to a successful manufacturing process. Our software can help you analyse facts and spot developing issues quickly, so that you gain a competitive edge and improve your profits.

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