Introduction
Welcome to this comprehensive guide on how to navigate and utilize the Manufacturing Settings in Empress. This feature is a crucial tool for managing and optimizing your manufacturing operations to meet your business needs.
What is Manufacturing Settings?
Manufacturing Settings is a feature in Empress that allows you to control various aspects of your manufacturing process. This ranges from capacity planning, overtime settings, holiday production, to managing warehouses. This feature ensures that your manufacturing operations are efficient, flexible, and align with your business objectives.
Accessing Manufacturing Settings
To access the Manufacturing Settings, follow this path:
Home > Manufacturing > Settings > Manufacturing Settings
Key Features and Their Business Applications
1. Capacity Planning
Capacity planning is a process that helps your organization determine if it has enough resources and existing work orders to accept new orders. By default, this feature is enabled. But if you choose, you can disable it. This means the system will not consider your resources and existing work orders when accepting new orders.
2. Overtime and Holiday Production
If you need to extend your production hours or continue production during holidays, Empress allows you to enable overtime and production on holidays. This flexibility ensures you can meet your production targets and deadlines.
3. Planning and Operation Management
In Empress, you can set the number of Capacity Planning Days in advance and define the Time Between Operations. These settings give you a clear timeline for your production activities and ensure smooth transitions between operations.
4. Production Allowances and Warehouse Management
Empress allows you to define an Over Production Allowance Percentage. This means you can allow for a higher quantity of items than the quantity in the Sales Order. Also, you can specify the default ‘Work In Progress’ Warehouse and ‘Finished Goods’ Warehouse. These will be automatically updated in the respective fields of Work Orders.
5. Material Consumption and Tracking
Empress provides options to enable Continuous Material Consumption and choose the method for Backflushing Raw Materials. These capabilities are useful for managing and tracking your material consumption, especially for time-consuming products.
Summary
In conclusion, the Manufacturing Settings feature in Empress allows businesses to manage, optimize, and customize their manufacturing operations to meet unique business needs. With this feature, you can plan your capacity, manage overtime and holiday production, define operation timelines, and manage material consumption and warehouses effectively.
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