Manufacturing Software: Vantage by Epicor

Epicor Vantage is an easy-to-use solution designed to meet the needs of make-to-order and mixed-mode manufacturing companies. Vantage is delivered out-of-the-box with built-in workflow processes that enable manufacturers to manage the entire order cycle: from Marketing and Sales through Production and Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Installation and Service, and finally Financial recognition.

Vantage enables the whole process to be real-time and paperless. Because the entire Vantage solution streamlines the order cycle, an enterprise can maximize its resources, minimize its costs and improve profitability

Modules

Job Management

• Job Costing: Compare actuals to estimated; review job costing for materials, subcontracting, operations (labor/burden); and compare projected and actual billings for profitability analysis. Job costing can be performed on a job-by-job, customer, part, product group or overall company basis.
   
• Order-to-Job Linking: Handles one job/one delivery, one job/multiple deliveries, blanket production runs, and internal work orders to build parts to finished goods inventory.
   
• New/Change Order Notification Browser: Verify that no orders or changes fall through the cracks by viewing and selecting new orders and change orders from job entry. Optionally track all job changes via user ID, date and description.
   
• Advanced Bill of Materials: View assembly bill of material structure with indented levels.
   
• Planned Overproduction of Assemblies: Over-production quantities can be produced on a job and auto-received to inventory.
   
• Burden Rates: Set up burden as a fixed rate or percentage of labor. Separate setup and production, projected labor and burden rates.
   
• Online Cost Tracking: Review estimated versus actual costs by overall job and individual material, subcontracting and operation sequence.
   
• Assemblies: Routing, costing and tracking of single- or multiple-level assembly parts.
   
• Scheduling: Base scheduling functions include forward, backward and infinite capacity scheduling. More advanced functions, including finite capacity scheduling, are available in the Vantage Scheduling module.
   
• Job Tracker: Overview a specific job and check the status of all assemblies, operations and materials, including subcontract status.
   
• Quality Control: Extensive tracking and analysis of scrap, rework and added operations.
   
• Productivity: Extensive tracking and analysis of efficiency and utilization figures by employee, operation, work center and department.
   
• Material Shortage Flag: Query material availability at the time of job entry to determine whether jobs can be started within scheduled time period.

Contact

www.epicor.com