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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.
  • 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.

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