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Digitized Manufacturing processes with Fox ERP

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LeSoft
Feb 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic emergence has resulted in a lot of challenges. Along with the plethora of challenges, it presented the world with ample opportunities.
Challenges of worldwide lockdown, remote working model, and social distancing norms made the workforce extensive industries such as manufacturing facing difficulties in its operations.

This also has resulted in business practices that require digitization to enable seamless integration in products and services.
From service commissioning to deployment, digitization in manufacturing processes outnumbers traditional business processes.
The manufacturing industry comprises several sub-processes that leverage the benefits that digitized manufacturing offers and derive benefits from it.
Logistics procedures, supply chain management processes, and manufacturing business practices focus on acquiring the best services and driving business insights to make business decisions.
According to recent research, approximately 73% of organizations that leverage digital tools and technologies in their operations reported higher operational efficiency and reduced costs.
Manufacturing processes, unlike other industries, leverages on benefits that digitized business practices offer.
Manufacturing industries consist of sub-business practices such as Procurement, Logistics, Supply chain, among others.
Without the efficiency in any of these business activities hampers the outcomes of other processes.

Key elements of Digitized Manufacturing Processes

1. Automation

ERP brings automation as one of the revolutions.
Automation refers to automating the manual business practices to a format where the human workforce requirement is lesser than other activities.
Tedious and time-consuming business activities such as contracting, sub-contracting, and procurement are not user-friendly.
ERP solutions automate them by bringing several business activities under one roof, making automation a reliable tool in automation processes.

2. Robotics

Business activities in the manufacturing sector are workforce extensive. They take into account a large number of employees and workers that consume more time and reduce the efficiency of business processes.
ERP streamlines these business activities by utilizing robotics.
A lot of repetitive manual work gets streamlined with the robotics where the time gets saved, and turnaround time gets reduced, resulting in delighted customers.

3. IoT

IoT devices play a vital role in obtaining the benefits of digitized business practices.
ERP digitizes the manufacturing processes with IoT technology and attaches sensors to the devices.
Business activities in manufacturing such as field inspection in oil and gas and the building and construction industry help users leverage its benefits by implementing digital tools and technologies.
Moreover, it helps organizations increase the efficiency of manufacturing services and activities with utmost ease and generate scalable businesses that benefit everyone, creating a win-win situation.
Fox ERP for Manufacturing is one-of-its-kind ERP software that simplifies the production cycle, helps track material consumption, exhibits capacity planning, handles subcontracting, and much more.
It can handle discrete manufacturing processes with batch, serialize, and multi-level bills of materials.
Fox ERP for Manufacturing is best suited for the growing expectation of organizations’ customers by rapidly bringing the finished products to market using affordable, easy-to-use & all-in-one ERP solutions.
It helps the organizations with the following time-taking activities by streamlining them to achieve desired business goals more efficiently.

1. BOM (Bill of Material)

It manages a Multi-level Bill of Material and Operations, which is the basic blueprint of any manufacturing system.
It also creates a manufacturing order for production and shows the required quantity to make that available item quantity in the store.

2. Work Order

Work order plays a critical role in analyzing manufacturing activities.
Fox ERP create and track Work Orders for Workstations and plan time and material for each Work order making the overall business processes more efficient.
It also manages the overall production cycle once the materials are allocated for production purposes.

3. Production Plan

It makes a Production Plan based on Sales orders or internal requirements.
Once the manufacturing order saves, FOX ERP creates an automatic "Production Plan.” Users can modify this production Plan as per their requirements.

4. Material Resource Planning

Material consumption and allocation of resources are crucial for maintaining efficiency in the manufacturing processes.
Fox ERP streamlines the manufacturing components needed to manufacture a product in an automated form.
It also raises Material Requests and monitors material consumption of the inventories.

5. Shop Floor Management

Managing the shopfloor is an essential aspect of manufacturing processes.
Fox ERP Optimizes workstations based on the resources available for open production orders.
It also monitors production performance statistics and efficiency in real-time by identifying production inefficiencies.
The above-discussed business activities are business processes that Fox ERP streamlines to cut costs, save time, and achieve efficiency.
It also automates the Billing and Pricing structure that avoids the instances of payment defaults and ensures smooth functioning of business activities.

Conclusion

The manufacturing industry deals with a plethora of sub-business activities.
Once digitized, these business activities streamline the overall efficiency of business processes.
Fox ERP for Manufacturing streamlines the overall business processes making the manufacturing activities up and running in digitized ways.