ALCIE Manufacturing Suite

ALClE's Manufacturing Suite provides an enterprise-wide system designed to accommodate a wide variety of discrete manufacturing requirements. Virtually all types of costs may be recorded.ALClE's enterprise-wide Manufacturing module offers Costing, Shop floor control and Routing in a single powerful module. Track labor hours and cost, fixed and variable burden, material units and cost with actual data to plan comparisons.

ALCIE's make-to-order manufacturing supports multiple shop orders for any job, each with virtually unlimited operations. Planned materials may be copied from a Bill of Materials or input manually. Material is issued automatically based on the shop order or individually from a requisition. Purchase requisition reports are automatically produced for out-of-stock and non-stocked items when the shop order is released.

• Unlimited number of shop orders per job with unlimited fabrication instructions and comments per shop order.
• Allows entry of job and non-job labor hours on the same screen.
• Reporting by job, shop order, operation, department and work center in almost any combination desired.
• Detail transactions may be retained indefinitely for audit purposes and custom reporting, even on closed jobs.
• Automatic material issue from Purchase Order to Job Cost.
• Ability to allocate and de-allocate materials for a shop order.
• Planned regular hours may be automatically calculated based on order quantity if hours per operation or operations per hour are known.
• Completely integrated with the ALCIE General Ledger, Bill of Material, Quoting & Estimating, Inventory Management, Order Entry and Purchase Ordering.
• User-defined burden relief accounts and calculation methods for fixed and/or variable burden.
• General Ledger figures for W.I.P., inventory, cost of sales, and sales at the job level.
• Work in process reporting.
• Prints shop packet.
• Shop order release with ability to trial-allocate inventory.
• Shop order inquiry by labor and material at the operation level.
• Multiple manufacturing location support.
• General search look-up screens attached to virtually all data-entry fields.
• Ability to copy from another shop order, routing, Bill of materials, or quote.
• Operation records contain fields for regular hours and dollars, overtime hours and dollars, setup hours and dollars, fixed and variable burdens and machine hours.
• Material analysis reporting with variances to plan.
• Real-time inventory posting from material issues.
• Labor analysis reporting with variance analysis to plan.
• Automatic material burden calculation.
• Material, labor and expenses are individually tracked.
• Project Manufacturing Suite is integrated with ALCIE's Financial Suite and Distribution Suite.