If you’re the owner of a manufacturing business, provide shipments to customers all over the globe, and are growing rapidly, you may have noticed that the bigger you get, the easier it is to lose track of your shipments.
Perhaps this is because you’ve been relying too heavily on a “piecemeal” approach to your operations. If, for example, all of your customer profiles are being kept in various Word documents while all of their purchasing history, customer service calls, and payment details are being kept in Excel on spreadsheets, your approach is piecemeal. It doesn’t help if, in tracking certain orders, you spend a lot of time combing through Outlook to find emails/attachments related to clients’ orders.
With Sage Enterprise Management (Sage X3), working piecemeal is a thing of the past. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system combines all of your information into a central database, integrating all your client details into a single, easily accessible location.
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With a system like Sage Enterprise Management, traceability becomes easy – you can now identify stock items by serial number or track them by batch. If you have time sensitive products, there is also a feature that allows you to trace sell-dates, use-dates and expiration dates.
Sage Enterprise Management also improves quality control. With the better traceability, your time sensitive products are less likely to go out of date and become a loss. In addition, you will no longer lose track of items due to lost and inaccurate files residing in isolation within Word, Excel, and/or Outlook. With your data visible in a comprehensive format, your quality control team can schedule inspection cycles to determine the yield for each item that needs to be inspected.
Sage Enterprise Management’s on-demand reports offer you all of this information where, when, and how you need it. If you’re analyzing the cost of each stock item – also known as material-labor-overhead – a report about that can be scheduled to arrive in the manufacturing supervisor’s email every Friday at 3:00 pm. The same is true for all other reports, whether they came standardized with the Sage Enterprise Management software or you created them yourself.
Overall, the Sage Enterprise Management platform provides a proven method of increasing a facility’s return on investment, makes your business easier and more efficient to run, and allows you to provide better customer service.
To learn more, please contact Southeast Computer Solutions today. We can move your business to a higher level of proficiency.