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Production planning, scheduling, and reporting software

Eliminate spreadsheets and streamline the production scheduling process with E21 ERP’s advanced production planning software tools.

Smarter production planning

Automated production scheduling that understands constraints

With E21’s integrated ERP MRP software functionality, process and discrete manufacturers can eliminate hours each week spent manipulating and rearranging their production schedules. With a master production calendar defined for each facility and machine, E21 understands the organization’s available production days and hours. Then, thanks to advanced production planning software tools, E21 evaluates dozens of data criteria, including machine, labor, and material availability, to generate a tentative production schedule that is reflective of the organization’s various production constraints (referred to as finite scheduling). By leveraging the system’s manufacturing routing setup options, the E21 ERP production planning system assesses each and every way a product can be produced before generating a suggested work order on the tentative production schedule. Moreover, the E21 production planning system utilizes scheduling groups to group like items in sequence on the production schedule. Whether the most effective way to produce product is based on package size, color, or allergen content, E21’s smart production planning software generates a production schedule designed to minimize machine changeover, setup, and cleanout time. Production planners can then reschedule and re-sequence the system’s suggested work orders before converting work orders on the tentative schedule to the final production schedule.

An enterprise view of production scheduling

Built into the E21 ERP production planning software system are a set of data visualization tools to see potential production bottlenecks in real-time. For production planners, E21 automatically color-codes material shortage issues directly on the production schedule. As the business day transpires, operations directors, production planners, and shift managers can leverage E21’s advanced ERP business intelligence and reporting features to track production progress at the machine and facility level.

Integrated production reporting software

Understand your manufacturing business data like never before

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The E21 ERP manufacturing software system provides process and discrete manufacturers with the ability to record real-time production data directly on the shop floor. From recording actual ingredient and component usage to capturing actual labor utilization, machine downtime, and product defects, E21 ERP provides the data infrastructure and production reporting software tools needed for today’s manufacturers to understand their greatest process efficiencies and inefficiencies. Whether it is evaluating Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) or product cost trends, E21 ERP provides built-in and customizable manufacturing key performance indicators (KPIs) to give the organization an operational health check and track process improvement progress.

Automated production report delivery

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In private label and contract manufacturing operations, it is commonplace for the manufacturer to invoice the customer for the manufactured product yet hold it in inventory until the customer requests the product be shipped to them. With E21's fully integrated order processing, warehouse management, and accounting software, contract and private label manufacturers have the ability to manage customer-owned inventory directly in the application, enabling seamless transactions from one business department to another with real-time flow to the general ledger.

e21erp^® production planning and reporting software highlights

Define master production calendars and constraints
Auto-generate production schedules through MRP
Manually create work orders
Supports capacity-constrained / finite scheduling
Evaluates material, labor, and machine availability
Groups like items in sequence on the schedule
Reschedule and re-sequence work orders
Convert tentative schedule to final schedule
Color-coded alerts for material shortages

Graphical, drag and drop scheduling
Capture actual material components used
Track actual labor and machine time utilization
One-step production reporting with backflush
Capture machine downtime
Integrated lot tracking for actual lots consumed
Production reporting in multiple units of measure
Built-in OEE and other manufacturing KPIs
Automated production report delivery

More e21erp^® manufacturing management software features

BOM, Formula, and Recipe Management

Centralize all manufacturing BOMs, formulas, and recipes with E21’s integrated BOM and recipe management software for process and discrete manufacturers.

Scalable Batches

Automatically scale ingredient quantities based on batch sizes while accounting for unit-of-measure rules with E21 ERP.

Manufacturing Routing Software

E21 manufacturing routing software enables manufacturers to define multiple sets of processing steps per product with different labor and production rates.