ERP Software for Batch and Process Manufacturers

Accounting

• Real-time postings allow instant access to financial results
• Drill down to transactional details from accounting summaries and reports
• Configurable chart of account structure allows for reporting by profit center, division, locations, or any other business entity
• A/R, A/P, labor tracking, inventory control, and job costing all flow directly into the general ledger
• Create an infinite number of custom financial statements
• View financial data based on any time period desired

• Conduct online bank account reconciliation
• Create journal entries for requiring and reversing entries
• Create budgets and compare to actual results
• Manage large projects using progress billing to generate invoices based on percent completion
• Store customer credit card information in accordance with PCI (payment card industry) compliance standards for data security
• Process credit cards with PayPal
• Perform transactions in multiple currencies

Sales

• Post in real-time to general ledger and accounts receivable
• Automatically import orders through integrated EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) tool
• Allow products to be sold via a rules-based product configurator
• Orders instantly appear on demand in inventory and MRP reporting
• Calculate available-to-sell quantities automatically during order entry
• Calculate, collect, and pay sales and use taxes for multiple tax regions

• Set up deal pricing by customer, salesman, product, product group, cost plus, list minus, and many more
• Leverage built-in sales analysis, reporting and commission calculation tools
• Print customizable packing lists, bills of lading, pick lists, invoices, and customer statements
• Enter notes to print on delivery tickets or invoices
• Sell from multiple warehouses and view inventory on hand for each warehouse
• Create intercompany transfers to ship items between facilities

Purchasing

• Access purchasing analysis and reporting tools
• Perform price optimization based on user pricing rules with capability to automatically create POs for materials based on these prices
• Purchase the same item from multiple vendors with pre-defined pricing
• Convert vendor units and quantities to your units' quantities automatically
• Buy items with internal SKU or vendor part number

• Purchase to multiple warehouses and view inventory on-hand at each warehouse
• Create Printouts that can be grouped with like items on a single line with multiple size descriptions
• Automatically generate 1099 forms
• Automatically generate backorders when required

Formulation, R&D, and Quality Control

• Make changes to formulas that instantly impact inventory, production requirements, and planning
• Set up formulas once, then scale to any batch or package size
• Complete lab functions in your own style with infinitely configurable, user-definable calculations and user fields

• Set customer specific status filters prior to shipping inventory that only show lots that meet the customer's specific QC requirements
• Perform QC testing for raw materials received on purchase orders
• Configure security groups for who can maintain the quality control tests

Batch Production

• Manage the staging and weigh up of materials that are to be used in the production process
• Schedule jobs directly through MRP functionality
• Create jobs for stock or those directly linked to sales orders
• Track accumulated hours on each job, show remaining hours, and estimated completion dates
• Take advantage of job scheduling tools for visual production management
• Create and manage nutritional fact labels without 3rd party software

• Schedule by separate production facilities, different product categories, and other user-defined criteria
• Determine bottlenecks based on loading of work centers
• Set up job routings for production
• Easily calculate actual job costs with materials, labor, machine costs, purchases, and overhead
• Directly connect production equipment to the system through integrated APIs
• View live data showing each worker’s current task

Warehousing

• Maintain perpetual inventory costing for all items based on FIFO, LIFO, average cost, or standard cost
• Track lots for all items automatically; see where parts came from and where they go
• Maintain item locations and location types across multiple facilities
• Manage item expiration dates
• Maintain and view a permanent part history for all items
• Maintain item master file with 30-character, alpha-numeric part numbers
• Manage catch weight items

• Roll back inventory to any date in time to view quantities and values
• Maintain multiple warehouses and track inventory across individual warehouses or across the organization
• Manage item costing across multiple facilities
• Use materials requirements planning functionality for purchase orders and jobs to be created as needed
• Build item forecasts based on historical data or setup manual forecasts
• Create multi-level bills of material
• View WIP at any point in time

Maintenance (MRO / CMMS)

• Use Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) tasks to avoid equipment failures and increase machine productivity
• Create maintenance schedules alongside the production schedule to ensure optimal efficiency
• Automatically generate requisitions and purchase orders by utilizing minimum stocking levels for maintenance parts and MRP functionality
• Create on-demand work requests for facility maintenance tasks and track all maintenance requests to completion

• Assign maintenance tasks to worker groups or individual workers for completion
• Build reports to analyze the life of machines and track the cost of maintenance across all facilities
• Track depreciation on all machine assets
• Attach ISO 9000 and OSHA documents for maintenance to all machines

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• Manage customers through workflows, tasks, and opportunities with the built-in contact management system for sales teams
• Track sales commissions
• Report on sales rep territories by utilizing the map feature
• Utilize notes in conjunction with your prospecting efforts
• Define any number of custom user fields to assist in your sales process

• Execute marketing campaigns through contact groups
• Create and maintain email templates for regularly scheduled customer outreach
• Access the CRM on-the-go with iOS and Android Mobile apps
• Link contacts to customers and vendors and easily turn a CRM record into a Bill-to company

Document Generation

• Create real-time regulatory documents using Deacom’s reporting editor
• Calculate hazardous materials, gather data, and comply with SARA reporting requirements
• Create and print Globally Harmonized System (GHS) labels and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) forms based on actual ingredients used in each formulation
• Deliver regulatory compliance data directly to online SDS forms
• Automatically generate Certificates of Analysis (COA) documents
• Create SDS template forms using shared data groups for ease of maintenance

• Create QC test groups with test ranges and target values, permanently store results for reporting
• Track revisions to formulas to know exactly how a product was made in each batch
• View any aspect of the company with flexible reporting management tools
• Access performance reporting in real-time
• Display and access the most important information in one location with report previews
• Create triggers to automatically send documents and emails after a system process is completed
• Utilize scripting to manipulate the data that is available to management reports