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Manufacturing Software for the Metal Fabrication Industry

Metal fabrication is a time precious field of manufacturing, leaving plenty of scope for waste and overtime if errors have to be corrected.

Our ERP modules are designed to help you improve planning, from machine utilisation to materials requirements planning (MRP), and improve the quality of your finished products.

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Why choose scalable fabrication ERP?

Metal fabrication is traditionally a fragmented process from purchasing to delivery. Our ERP modules are designed to target the issues that metal fabricators face day to day, such as capacity planning and scheduling, real-time shop floor data and employee utilisation.

As the industry becomes more competitive, using scalable software means your business becomes more responsive to changes in market conditions. These improvements from the shop floor to the back office lead to savings in money, time and materials, meaning your business can focus on growth and investment.

Inventory and stock management

Ensure that your stock level are correct using the forecasting function, as well as viewing your current stock position
Using smart lot attributes and shelf-life control, you can determine which materials and parts to pick from. Stock counting becomes accurate and accessible, which makes stock takes simple for audits and financial teams
Easily identify slow moving and obsolete (SLOB) stock to improve your stock turn

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Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

Consolidate material requirements and purchase orders to prevent over stocking and over ordering
You can draw key information from other parts of your ERP for recommendations on purchase and works orders that need to be placed, and orders that should be cancelled or rescheduled - this is frequently run as a daily routine
Create Works Orders for Made to Stock items while being able to take into consideration existing lead times.

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Orchestrate production planning and scheduling day-to-day scheduling

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Day to day scheduling

Identify bottlenecks before they impact your production and reassign jobs to alternative machines and employees
Using the live production plan, jobs can be scheduled to best fit the current utilisation the shop floor
Increase efficiency by knowing you and your team are working from same, live production plan

Capacity planning and resource utilisation

Have sight of your shop floor operations, your employees and other resources to know how capacity is being utilised, and use the Drag and Drop Gantt Chart to make adjustments to the plan while keeping to timescales
Give data-backed predictions of dates and leadtimes to customers with the use of smart modelling to visualise upcoming capacity

'What-if' analysis

Automatically map out different production scenarios to find the best fit to deliver around constraints
Use predicted scenarios to make intelligent business decisions that mean you will still achieve On Time in Full (OTIF)

Enhanced Security

Your data is protected in the cloud as it is hosted separately from your main domain. It’s protected from cyberattacks, and from attacks to your on-premise infrastructure.

Advanced threat protection is provided via Palo Alto Wildfire firewalls, an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS / IPS). It analyses threat intelligence from the largest global community to identify unknown threats and stop attackers in their tracks, and is particularly effective for dealing with “zero-day threats” – innovative attacks that haven’t yet been identified, acknowledged or fixed by the system it’s trying to infiltrate.

Access uses enterprise-level technology to identify and fix vulnerabilities that threaten the security of your IT Infrastructure. We'll deploy patches as they become available, ensuring your systems are up to date and protected.

Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery

Analyse the impact of an outage before it happens
Fully automated application-level testing and failover
Automated backup and recovery testing
Automated Disaster Recovery compliance reports
Recovery Assurance for local, second site and cloud

Our data centres are in 7 locations on 4 continents - Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Each location is ISO27001/SSAE-16 certified and highly optimised for cloud computing with N+1 or greater redundancy at all levels.

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