Key Features

Key Benefits

• Data visibility and cost analysis from demand to creation ensures businesses can control and monitor costs to help improve profitability.
• This solution is just as beneficial for one-off project costed manufacturers as it is for high volume repeat production manufacturers.
• Manual and complex business processes can be streamlined leading to improved efficiencies and increased profitability.
• Integrates fully with Sage 200 Stock and BOM providing a single solution and enabling a smoother deployment for existing Sage 200 users; saving time and resources.
• Sicon MRP combined with WOP includes functionality for Rough Cut Capacity Planning, delivering better visualisation of the production schedule.

Sicon Modules that Integrate with Sicon Manufacturing

Kitting

• Barcoding & Warehousing | Allows for the build of a kit, but also the component picking, for kitted items in a Sales Order, resulting in a build on despatch.
• Courier Integration | Allows for the selected courier label to be produced and the instruction to collect to be communicated at the point of despatch.
• Distribution – Preallocations | Pre-allocations are automatically set to fulfil kit demand, both at component at finished item level.
• Material & Resource Planning | When combined with Sicon MRP, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for kit and component demand

Material & Resource Planning

• Enhancement Pack | Allows users to automate the price in relation to the supplier quantity break within Sicon EP.
• Distribution – Container Management | Stock Item weights and dimensions are used to calculate whether selected Suggested Purchase Orders exceed a containers Max Volume and Payload.
• Distribution – POP | Allows users to automate the price in relation to the supplier quantity break within Sicon POP Management.
• Distribution – Warehouse Replenishment | Provides recommendations for stock shortage transfers.
• Distribution – Reserves & Call Offs | Provides functionality so if a Reserve has been created but no Free Stock is available for allocation, a Purchase Order Suggestion will be created.  The reserved stock allocation is considered in Material Planning calculations.
• Distribution – Future Sales | Both minimum stock calculations and therefore new levels, and forecasts produced via future sales are presented as demand in Material Planning calculations.
• Distribution – Preallocations | Recommendations produced by Material Planning are connected via a pre-allocation, which can then be edited and managed via pre-allocations screens.
• Projects | Stock on operations are included in the Future Stock Movements screensbe considered in Material Planning calculations.
• Kitting | When combined with Sicon Kitting, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for kit and component demand.
• Works Order Processing | When combined with Sicon WOP, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for works order and component demand.
• Approvals – Purchase Requistion | Recomendations from Material Planning can be created as Sicon Approvals Requisitions requiring approval before the Purchase Order is created.
• Approvals – Holidays | Approved holidays will affect employee availability when looking at overall availability within Capacity Planning.
• Approvals – Timesheets | If a user records holiday or sickness, this will affect employee availability when looking at overall availability within Capacity Planning.

Works Order Processing

• Documents | Documents can be added or viewed when amending a works order.
• Barcoding & Warehousing | Provides functionality for picking, issuing and booking, as well as back flushing of Works Orders on the handheld.
• Distribution – Preallocations | Pre-allocations are automatically set to fulfil works order demand, both at component at finished item level.
• Distribution – Reserves & Call Offs | Where Sicon WOP is also installed, a Suggested Works Order will be created.
• Projects | Integrates perfectly into bespoke manufacturing environments to capture Stock, Purchase Orders, Timesheets and other costs to give budget versus actual comparison.  Alternatively, when combined with Sicon Works Order Processing, this is an ideal solution for businesses wanting to manufacture and install for projects.
• Material & Resource Planning | When combined with Sicon MRP, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for works order and component demand.
• Shop Floor Data Capture | SFDC users can logon to works order operations to record actual time spent, as well as completed quantity for that operation.