Who is it for, and how?

The company buys, stores and ships. Production modules are not needed, but balances, reservations and cost of goods sold are needed right away and without discrepancies.

• Receipt against a purchase order and receipt without an order
• Reservation for a customer order from A3.Sales
• Inventory count without stopping shipments
• Cost of goods sold at average cost or by batch

The product is assembled from purchased components in one stage. You need the product structure, write-off by standards and an understanding of what the output cost.

• Product structure with a process loss rate
• Shortages are visible before the production order starts
• Kit assembly without a production cycle
• Output cost based on materials actually written off

Products have a shelf life, so the batch and expiry date become required accounting dimensions, and write-off goes by the nearest expiry date.

• Batch tracking with production date and shelf life
• Write-off by FEFO, and by FIFO when dates are equal
• Expiring shelf life report
• An extension point for country-specific marking

The product is assembled from in-house semi-finished products. The cost of a semi-finished product goes into the materials of the next stage, and the order is set by the BOM explosion.

• Multilevel bills of materials with versions
• Circular references detected on save
• Sequential calculation by processing stage
• Work in progress as of a date

Capacity is limited by machines, and scheduled repairs take away part of the available time. Planning has to see this before an order deadline is missed.

• Routing cards, operations and machine hour cost
• Maintenance schedule by operating time and by calendar
• Work center unavailability goes to planning
• Capacity load and bottlenecks

Operations are split across legal entities. It is convenient to keep the item catalog once, but balances must stay at the organization level: goods belong to a specific legal entity.

• A shared domain-level item catalog as an option
• Balances and documents strictly by organization
• Inter-company transfer as a linked pair of documents
• Receipt confirmation on the recipient side