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Modules to look for when purchasing an ERP solution

Production Reporting

Organizes production data (from automation or manual data entry) to provide insight into your plant/work center productivity.

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

Tracks downtime, quality and production rates to provide graphical reporting on OEE rates and the three production points which comprise the calculation.

Downtime Reporting

Organizes downtime data from automation or manual data entry.

Production Scheduling

Helps generate a visual "production plan" as to sequencing your production based on Bill of Materials, Routings and/or other factors.

Advanced Planning

Production Scheduling with Artificial Intelligence capabilities designed to optimize the schedule based on your goal set.

Capacity Planning

Capacity/Capability review tools for available to promise, what if analysis and fulfillment forecasting and planning.

Closed Loop Manufacturing

This module retrieves the best historical runs of a product/work center combination.

Scrap Reporting

Track how, where, when, why scrap occurred with the use of Pareto charts and data entry.

Raw Materials Inventory and Tracking

Inventory control for Raw Materials lot control and genealogy review.

Inventory

Inventory for finished goods and/or WIP products including receiving parts/finished goods.

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Material Requirements Planning

Planning that connects to your raw materials inventory, purchasing module, production schedule and sales forecast in order to predict your future raw materials requirements.

Defect Tracking

Track defects with real-time reporting capabilities.

Job Costing

This module allows you to track material and labor costs per job.

Job Tracking

Locate jobs in process, forecast completion dates and optional employee performance monitoring.

Total Quality Management

This collection helps track various aspects of quality data, and provides an integrated approach to quality management.

Product Development System (PDS)

This module is a change and configuration management system.

Quality data collection (Statistical Control)

Monitor quality and/or accuracy of your production by connecting to micrometers, scales, scanners and other equipment, or by manually entering the relevant information.

Preventive maintenance management

Issue recurring work orders and one time maintenance requests while monitoring equipment.

Calibration module

Our calibration module manages your calibration schedule and automatically triggers calibration events before they are due.

Nonconformance management

This module will help you manage and automate all of the steps in your nonconformance process.

CAPA-corrective and preventive action management

This module enables your organization to identify, analyze, address and resolve deviations, nonconformance, incidents or complaints and manage all related investigation tasks and actions.

Customer portal and management (CRM)

A tool for your sales force or others in your organization to organize your clients, record client specific information and more.

Vendor portal and management (SRM)

Vendors relationships can be developed which foster "just in time" production.

APQP-advanced product quality planning

This module will allow your to organize and manage your APQP/PPAP project information by providing a central database to store information, ensuring that team members access the most recent copy of a document.

PPAP-production part approval process

The software allows reusable set-ups for initial sample inspection reports (ISIR's), operator/work instructions, and PPAP submissions, minimizing the time to complete and manage administrative paperwork.

FMEA-failure mode effects and analysis

This module allows analyzing potential reliability problems early in the development cycle where it is easier to take actions to overcome these issues, thereby enhancing reliability through design.

Change management

It provides your organization with easy access to change management procedures along with a configurable workflow engine that routes change records through the applicable steps and provides automated notification triggers and task assignments.

Audit management

This module will help you automate, streamline, and effectively manage the audit process.

Document management

This module provides a web-based repository for SOPs, policies, and quality manuals.

Learning management

This module provides an easy to use framework for providing and tracking employee training, skills and certifications. Highly configurable and easy to use test formatting.

Continuous improvement management

This system is an easy to use incentive based team and project management module that can decrease costs and increase employee motivation in the workplace.

SCADA

This includes: Human-Machine Interface (HMI) to monitor the process, data acquisition, real-time charts, graphs and reports

Knowledge Bases/Job, Product & Shift Logs

Leverage your employees' knowledge and help new employees avoid common mistakes.

Financials

Tuppas also provides a full financials capability. GL, AR, AP, Purchasing and more.