Work in Progress (WIP)

Objective - To track the activity of the manufacturing process and manage the performance of the shop floor in order to minimize job costs, efficiently utilize production resources and provide comparative reporting.

• The Value of SYSPRO Work in Progress
  • Supports mixed mode manufacturing environments
  • Tracks and manages material and operational costs for each job
  • Use Dynamic Load Leveling provides visibility of work center loads, allowing quick verification of overloads
  • Analyzes various actual versus standard production floor performance indicators
  • Tracks production overheads, resources, and scrap
  • Schedules jobs on the production calendar
  • Automatically creates jobs from Sales Orders, Quotations & Estimating and MRP
  • Analyzes efficiency and utilization of shop floor elements
  • Links Purchase Orders to jobs to expedite receiving
  • Preview of reports to screen and e-mail capabilities
• Matching SYSPRO to Your Business
  • Defines calendars for factory, productive unit and workcenter capacity
  • Defines the shop floor machines and employees, standard working hours and rates
  • Optionally includes or excludes the value of nonproductive time in the cost of the job
  • Creates jobs using Bill of Materials, estimates details for standard products or estimates details for custom-made products
  • Schedules jobs to meet and optimize available capacity
  • Allocates materials and labor directly to jobs, in kits, or by item
  • Post labor at standard or actual employee rate
  • Imports labor transactions and job receipts from a barcode data collection system
  • Records costs that are incurred on subcontracted or outside operations
  • Receives completed items directly back into inventory or dispatch
  • Automatically creates sub-jobs with easy transfers of value to the master
  • Due dates are calculated on a forward, backward, finite or manually chosen basis
• Audit Trails and Reporting
  • Provides complete audit trails of all transactions
  • Allows for comprehensive reporting, including percentage completed, work in progress tracking, job status and job variances
  • Gives extensive labor analysis
  • The detailed screen query shows current job status, activity to date and expected activity
  • Provides work center dispatch lists
  • Allows analysis of non-productive time and scrap
  • Provides work center, employee and machine efficiency analysis
• Integration
  • Integrates with the Inventory Control, Bill of Materials, Requirements Planning, Lot Traceability, Cash Book, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Sales Orders & Invoicing, Quotations & Estimating, Purchase Orders, Graphical Job Schedule, Projects & Contracts and Factory Documentation modules
  • E-mail reports with the Office Automation module
  • Supports milestone operations
  • Place jobs on hold to suspend processing
  • Place receiving bin on hold for inspection
  • Archive completed jobs as XML documents