Material/Production Management

AXIOM ERP software reaches all the way to the mill/factory floor. It includes extensive support for both planning and execution, including:

• Requirements planning
• Production scheduling
• Procurement
• Material control
• Shop floor control
• Quality management
• Shipment planning

Key Features:

Unified Product & Process Definition reflects the way products are really made and reduces the effort required to describe and maintain them. It provides an integrated definition of the production process, primary and alternate materials, quality specifications, and attributes/characteristics.

Attribute-Based Product Identification allows materials and products to be described, ordered, located, reserved, applied, and managed in an efficient and consistent manner without a proliferation or duplication of item numbers.

AXIOM Dynamic Order Fulfillment eliminates the need to maintain unique product masters, process routings, pricing information, and descriptions for every possible product or processing variation. By automating much of the quoting, entry, production planning, and documentation of orders, AXIOM helps metals companies dramatically reduce time, effort, cost, and errors across a number of key business processes.

Attribute-Based Scheduling increases throughput by minimizing set-up time and scrap. Automatic job/lineup scheduling based on product characteristics optimizes capacity utilization and saves planner time.

Quality Tracking and Control ensures that products are produced according to customer specifications while also reducing effort. It maintains complete product genealogy and process history, including chemical/physical lot properties and in-process test results.

Inventory Control by Lot & Tag # enables better utilization of inventory by providing full visibility of finished goods, WIP and raw material in terms of specific product dimensions, variable units of measure, and container (e.g., reel, coil, bundle, etc.); as well as other attributes and characteristics.

Load Planning and Shipping helps accelerate the shipment process, optimize loads, and reduce shipping errors. It streamlines the entire process by providing the tools to stage partial, full, and multi-drop truck loads, schedule shipping and receiving carriers by bay/dock and time, and print all shipping documents on demand.

Specialized Capabilities to support the unique needs of just about any environment within the metals, wire and cable industry dramatically improve productivity. Just a few of these special features of AXIOM are:

 Metals

 *  Melt requirements 
 *  Chemistry check 
 *  Automatic heat/lot grading 
 *  Material application by properties 
 *  Slit and cut to length order processing 
 *  Outside processing 
 *  Customer supplied material  

 Cable

 *  Managed length quantity 
 *  Dynamic material dispatching 
 *  Twist loss factors 
 *  Commodity pricing 
 *  Commodity and product weight roll-up 
 *  Reel/container tracking 
 *  Returnable containers 
 *  Palletization

Advanced Finite Capacity Scheduling and What-if Analysis capabilities in the AXIOM APS module help further improve throughput and management decision-making by generating alternative production schedules in minutes and enabling managers to weigh the pros and cons of different strategies.

Advanced Inventory, Scrap, and Vendor Analysis capabilities available with AXIOM BI help production managers gain insight into operations and improve key aspects of performance.