Expandable ERP

Integration For Finite Capacity & Advanced Planning Scheduling

Preactor provides a family of Finite Capacity Scheduling (FCS) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) products in the management of production floor planning, scheduling and throughput. Integration is supplied by Quinn & Associates and is accomplished with integration to Expandable’s Shop Resources Groups, Tools, Attributes, Open Work Orders (Jobs), Job Updates and Job BOMs. Schedule results are integrated from Preactor and picked up by Expandable as a Jobs Schedule update processed through the Preactor tool.

Job Scheduling & Costing Module

“We saw an increase in throughput, a decrease in inventory, and a centralization of easy to access information” Expandable User — Director, Computer equipment manufacture. JOB SCHEDULING and COSTING provides the features of both job costing and project accounting systems. It provides management with schedule tracking by responsible department. Job Scheduling provides planning, visibility and control of the shop floor.

Master Scheduling & Planning Module

Best-in-Class industry businesses realize improvements in manufacturing schedule compliance achieving 18% improvement on average, while Expandable Customers enjoy a 3% higher improvement rate of 21% improvement. MASTER SCHEDULING is key to effectively planning the manufacturing activities of your business. It provides versatile functions to help you create and maintain the company’s Master Production Schedule (MPS) for finished products and service parts. Planning bills are supported to streamline and simplify your forecasting operations. The Master Schedule forecast can be automatically created from forecasted sales; quotations and actual demand (see Sales Order Management). Forecasts can also be manually entered, uploaded from your favorite forecasting/modeling software or from a simple spreadsheet. Multiple versions of the forecast can be maintained for ​“what-if” simulation. Available to promise, projected on hand and planned order releases for MPS parts is available during sales order entry as well as system-wide. Master Schedules may be automatically passed to the Materials Management function for use in Material Requirements Planning (MRP).

Shop Floor Routing Module

Expandable Customers, per market analyst, exceed the industry’s average manufacturing schedule compliance by 5% with a 93% compliance rating. Detailed, accurate scheduling, costing and WIP tracking are achieved through the SHOP ROUTING system that provides routing master data, defining the sequence of operations required to manufacture a part. Data maintained by each operation includes operation code, work center/vendor, queue hours, set-up hours, run hours, move hours, yield percentage and procedure descriptions. A vendor can be referenced if the work is performed at an outside manufacturer. Flexibility includes tooling control and alternate routings per product. A utility is provided for calculating daily work center labor and machine loads for open operations on routing jobs, using setup and run hours. Each operation’s load is based on the balance currently at the operation plus any expected quantity yet to be delivered from a prior operation. Positioned by Shop Day, the resultant load can be compared to capacity in graphical format on the Work Center Load report.