Balancing supply and demand and operating cost management

Sage ERP X3 addresses the needs of steel manufacturers as they shift to lower cost production and look to drive operational efficiencies. CEOs and line managers need to be able to make fast accurate decisions from reliable data.

The key to the steel industry is yields. The power of X3 is that it handles conversion factors between steel coils (Kg or Ton) and metre lengths entered in OE or through to works order. Therefore, X3 will process the conversion co-efficient and therefore keep stock in balance.

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Complete control of your business

In today’s global market, differentiating your company often means speeding up all your business processes to reduce lead times. Not only is it a way to win new business, but it also often justifies higher prices — and margins — while improving customer satisfaction. In all cases, automating your procurement, manufacturing and customer management processes will help your business gain significant competitive advantages and minimise costs — and risks — associated with high inventory levels.

Sage ERP X3 integrates all your information and business processes within one single software system. By maintaining only one database, it simplifies the way you manage your business, in the areas of Finance, Sales, Customer Relationship Management, Purchasing, Inventory Management and Manufacturing.

Once entered into the system, the information propagates in real time to all parts of the business that need it: an issued order has an impact on stock levels, production, accounting, and more. In addition, the embedded workflow functions enable your company to automate the flow of information within and outside of your business based on company-specific work practices and procedures for handling important and exceptional events.

Key features of Sage ERP X3 for Steel Manufacturing

The key features that drive the success of an ERP implementation in this environment include:

• Supports a variety of manufacturing modes including make-to-order, configure-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock and mixed-mode environments — essential for managing multiple planning strategies.
• Includes all manufacturing, distribution and accounting functions that drive the steel manufacturing organisation in addition to offering a sophisticated finite capacity planning tool to help optimise scheduling.
• Sage ERP X3 readily handles the complexities of the bill of materials creation and maintenance. Integration from sales order to item level as well as multiple unit management such as cut length, Kg, Ton and dimensions.
• Steel manufacturers often require additional support for their distribution operations, particularly in the areas of warehousing and logistics: WMS and RF.
• Sage ERP X3 has graphical interfaces to assist in the management of functionality such as MPS and MRP.
• Additional functionality to help handle flexible planning is essential as steelmaking often requires multiple production processes and unplanned outputs. Continuous assessment and re-planning is vital to drive cost containment.
• Finite capacity planning can be done automatically by using the powerful integrated optimisation tools that help resolve bottleneck areas according to user-defined constraints.
• Capacity planning capabilities provide an ideal tool for planners to compare loads on work centres imposed by existing and proposed work orders.
• Consideration of the associated capacity of each work centre and work order due dates.
• Import tracking allows tracking of imported goods from the time of shipping through to loading on the container and subsequently the vessel used until receipted in your warehouse. This allows for complete transparency in the supply chain and permits multiple landed costs to be accurately handled.
• Comprehensive margin and yield analysis are delivered via portal and business intelligence tools.
• Complete industry-specific functionality including the first class management of manufacturing, supply chain and CRM… and much more!

Where will your business be tomorrow?

By choosing Sage ERP X3, you ensure that your existing and future business processes will be supported by your management system. Simple parameterisation of the system allows you to change or define new information flows and procedures very quickly, without additional development, but should the need arise, the provided development toolset also allows you to create a fully-customised routine.

Sage ERP X3’s open architecture makes it easy to connect new applications to your system when growing.