Products - NGR Technosys

NGRERP supports the management of material safety data sheets (MSDS). In addition to storing the given MSDS by product, NGRERP can automatically print the MSDS for inclusion with the product shipment. Manufacturers and distributors can define their own MSDS rules that specify how frequently a given product’s MSDS is included with a shipment. NGRERP's MSDS management helps ensure organizations have the most current safety information readily available and provides a means of maintaining strict adherence to regulatory requirements.

Catch weight processing is used by food processors and distributors to manage products where an individual item's actual weight varies. These products would typically be sold in one unit of measure such as packages or cases though priced by weight of the products shipped.

In NGRERP, a product's nominal or average weight would be defined for planning purposes. Customer sales orders would be placed for a specified number of packages or cases of the given item. During the shipping process, the actual weight of the product would be captured, and the customer would be billed based on this actual weight.

Catch Weight Processing Highlights

• Supports recording of dual units of measure for inventory, sales, and invoicing transactions
• Supports definition of a nominal or average weight per item
• Supports recording of actual weights at time of shipment
• Customers can order in one unit of measure such as packages or cases and be invoiced based on per-pound pricing

NGRERP's inventory management functionality provides superior inventory control and accuracy for manufacturing and distribution organizations. NGRERP helps ensure inventory accuracy through the efficient management of the physical inventory and cycle count processes. In NGRERP, manufacturers and distributors can define their cycle count rules enabling the system to automatically generate recommended cycle counts. Physical inventory and cycle counts can be performed manually or with RF-enabled barcode scanners. Through the use of these physical inventory and cycle count processes, along with NGRERP's overall inventory management functionality, manufacturing and distribution organizations can improve overall inventory accuracy.

NGRERP supports an unlimited number of product-based attributes for product definition and inventory management. These attributes may be a shoe’s color and width or an entry door’s wood species and component dimensions. Attributes can be used throughout NGRERP for sales order entry, pricing definition, requisition and work order generation, shipping, and invoicing.

When product attributes are used in conjunction with the online product configurator, NGRERP prompts the user with a list of applicable product attributes and allows the user to select from this list of valid configuration options. As the user selects the various options, NGRERP can dynamically generate online images of the product. Through the use of attributed inventory, manufacturing and distribution companies can simplify their product master data by eliminating the need for a separate product code for each unique combination of product attributes.

The NGRERP system provides complete lot tracking from receipt of inbound ingredient and component lots which are consumed in manufacturing and ultimately shipped out to customers. NGRERP supports both forward traceability from ingredients to customer shipments, and backward traceability from customer shipments, to manufactured lots, and finally to ingredient or component receipt from suppliers. In additional to lot number tracking, the lot tracking process also includes tracking of lots’ properties, grades, and testing results.

Lot Traceability Highlights

• Supports forward lot traceability from ingredients through manufacturing processes to finished goods, which are ultimately shipped to customers
• Supports backward lot traceability from finished goods back into manufacturing processes to ingredient and component receipts from suppliers
• Supports complete chain of custody or product pedigree management and reporting
• System and procedural controls are required to provide the source and destination of a given lot to support product recalls
• Supports complete QC processes of inbound receipts and manufactured products
• Complete visibility to which vendor supplied a specific lot and which customers received a specific finished good lot
• Complete visibility to recorded lot properties for ingredients, components, and finished goods

NGRERP's inventory management functionality provides complete serial number and warranty tracking. NGRERP tracks serial numbers and warranty periods for components, distributed items, and manufactured goods. The system also supports the consumption of serialized components in serialized finished goods. NGRERP automatically tracks whether items being serviced or returned are covered under warranty.

Serial Number and Warranty Tracking Highlights

• Supports assignment of serial numbers at time of receipt, production, or upon shipment
• Tracks serial numbers of components used in production
• Tracks serial numbers shipped to customers and those remaining in stock
• Tracks warranty information by serial number
• Tracks vendor warranty by date of receipt or date of shipment to customer
• Tracks warranty for manufactured products
• Automatically tracks whether items being serviced or returned are covered under warranty

NGRERP delivers a high-degree of flexibility in the management of product units of measure. Manufacturing and distribution organizations can define global and product-specific unit of measure conversions. On a product-by-product basis, default units of measure can be defined for various types of transactions. This allows manufacturers and distributors to sell, purchase, manufacture, receive, store, and ship in any unit of measure required.

Multiple Units of Measure Highlights

• Supports unlimited global and product-specific units of measure (UOM) conversion factors
• Supports use of default units of measure and automatic conversion to alternative units of measure in transaction processing
• Supports default UOM for stocking, purchasing, selling, shipping, manufacturing, and reporting on a product-by-product and product-facility specific basis

NGRERP inventory management functionality manages inventory demand and assignment through the usage of inventory commitment and allocation. When sales orders are placed in NGRERP, available inventory can be committed to order line items. Then, as the date of order delivery approaches, the inventory allocation process ties specific physical inventory to order line items for warehouse pick, pack, and ship processing. The allocation process would also tie specific components, ingredients, and subassemblies to manufacturing work orders for production processing. NGRERP’s inventory management functional flexibility enables manufacturing and distribution organizations to define a series of business rules for inventory committing and allocation processing. Through this process, organizations can uniquely-define how they manage their inventories to provide outstanding customer service. 

Inventory Commitment and Allocation Highlights

• Supports inventory committing to line items during sales order entry
• Inventory allocation ties specific physical inventory to sales order line items and manufacturing work orders
• Supports allocation by lot number and serial number
• Supports configurable business rules to meet each organization's unique inventory management requirements
• Supports immediate allocation of inventory to sales order line items through vendor receipts and manufacturing processes

NGRERP's inventory replenishment process analyzes supply and demand across multiple companies and facilities to help manufacturing and distribution organizations improve order and line item fill rates and optimize their overall inventory management performance. The inventory replenishment process considers a variety of criteria such as on-hand inventory, customer demand, and supplier lead times to calculate requirements and generate online requisitions, purchase orders, and inventory transfer requests. This process can be as automated as desired by manufacturing and distribution organizations requiring little or no manual interaction with the software.

NGRERP's manufacturing requirements planning (MRP) and distribution requirements planning (DRP) processes compare available inventory with current and future demand to predict expected shortages over time. NGRERP also considers existing suppliers and their associated order requirements and lead times to produce online requisitions for review and conversion into purchase orders and inventory transfers. For manufacturing organizations, NGRERP’s MRP process also takes into account criteria such as bills of materials, routings, and production capacity to generate a tentative production schedule.

Unlike traditional manufacturing and distribution software packages, NGRERP provides more advanced processing capabilities by considering a given product’s desired safety stock, line item fill rate, and service level. These manufacturing and distribution software capabilities provide a more complete view of the inventory replenishment process, enabling greater inventory control and improved profitability.

Inventory Replenishment Highlights

• MRP and DRP processes evaluate key criteria to generate purchase requisitions and a tentative production schedule
• Supports review of purchase requisitions to generate purchase orders and inventory transfers
• Compares available inventory with current and future demand to predict expected inventory shortages over time
• Replenishment rules include minimum-maximum reorder point, safety stock levels, line item fill rate, and service level
• Supports approved suppliers, contract terms, blanket orders, and contracted purchase amounts
• Accounts for vendor lead times and order requirements
• Demand consists of customer orders and forecast which can reflect seasonal business trends

In NGRERP, products can be defined across the entire business or on a facility-by-facility basis.  Products can be associated with multi-level product grouping hierarchies for pricing, product management, planning, and reporting purposes.  Inventory management rules can be defined either as simple minimum-maximum inventory reorder points, safety stock in days of supply, line item fill rate, or service level by product or by product-facility combination.  Each product can have its own associated costing method, using either average, standard, LIFO, or FIFO costing.

NGRERP supports the definition of a series of product-specific properties including velocity group, product storage type, physical dimensions, standard weight, and freight class.  Additionally, NGRERP also allows organizations to turn on specific processes on a product-by-production basis, including lot control, serialization, production planning inclusion, automatic quality assurance, and marking the item as sellable.

Product Definition Highlights

• Multiple-level product grouping hierarchies for pricing, product management, planning, and reporting
• Define inventory management rules selecting from minimum-maximum inventory reorder points, safety stock in  days of supply, line item fill rate, or service level by product or by product-facility combination
• Supports both short and long descriptions which can be used on forms and documents, including order acknowledgements, packing slips, and invoices
• UPC product codes by product and unit of measure-specific
• Can obsolete products based on a specific date or upon exhaustion of inventory
• Supports definition of product-specific properties including velocity group, product storage type, physical dimensions, standard weight, and freight class
• Supports turning on specific processes on a product-by-production basis, including lot control, serialization, production planning inclusion, automatic quality assurance, and marking the item as sellable
• Select costing method by product either average, standard, LIFO, or FIFO