Manufacturing

Save time and reduce errors with Bill of Materials/Kitting, a fully integrated application that allows wholesale distributors, retail distributors, and light manufacturers to define, build and sell assemblies or kitted inventory items. Set up assemblies and kits using unique inventory numbers, an unlimited number of components, and globally replaceable items.

Bills of Material / Kitting allows you to:

• Maintain accurate inventory quantities for your assemblies or raw materials.
• Change components for a group of select items with the global replacement of items.
• Build non-serialized assemblies that contain either serialized or non-serialized materials and components.
• Build fully costed finished goods by including component costs as well as labor costs.

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TRAVERSE Routing and Resources defines elements such as work centers, labor, machinery, and tooling. Take control with the flexible overhead calculation, user-definable shop calendars, flexible costing algorithms, and multiple subcontractor vendor tracking capabilities.

With Routing and Resources for Manufacturing, you’ll be able to:

• Define operations as a combination of labor types, machine groups, and tooling.
• Interface with General Ledger and account definition for costing purposes.
• Create routings as a set of step-by-step operations, and use them in the Bill of Materials application without needing to recreate them every time.

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Keep track of the production status for the past, present, and future with the TRAVERSE Manufacturing – Production application. Easily handle lot-tracked and serialized inventory, multiple releases per production order, and priority-based dispatching.

Using Manufacturing – Production will allow you to:

• Easily handle lotted and serialized inventory, and perform multiple releases per production order.
• Create and edit production orders using a visual editor with drilldown.
• Import activity recording from an external sources, such as automated time card or bar code data collection system.
• Use powerful reporting capabilities to see when, where, and why variances took place in terms of time, usage quantities, and final production.

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Manage sales forecasts, create master schedules, and balance future supply and demand with TRAVERSE Requirements Planning. Optionally use automated generation of production orders, bucketless or user-defined buckets, flexible time fences, and component pegging.

With TRAVERSE Requirements Planning, you can:

• Tailor your interface and create unlimited user-defined fields using the TRAVERSE Design Studio.
• Manage contract or long-term delivery orders with blanket order functionality for your customers.
• Create forecasts for individual items, parts, and assemblies based on current history using multiple methodologies.
• Choose between bucketless and standard Requirements Planning reports based on daily, weekly, monthly, or user-defined summaries.

Know instantly what you have in stock, how much it is worth, and where it is located with the Inventory application. Take advantage of multiple-warehouse capabilities, predefined inventory reports, lot tracking, and quantity breaks.

With Inventory keeping tabs on the stock, you can:

• Monitor inventory movements by tracking detailed inventory history.
• Identify your best products and understand purchase and sales cycles.
• Transfer item quantities to different locations as needed; transfer costs can be entered and added to the cost of the transferred product.
• Create and maintain lot and serial numbers for those item types; lot number details include an expiration date and serial numbers include detail purchase and sales information.
• Set up as many locations as needed for each inventory item; all detail is maintained for each, including quantities and valuation, costs and prices.

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Keep your customers happy by handling orders promptly and correctly with Sales Order. Easily produce quotes, fulfill orders, generate return merchandise authorizations, and create blanket orders.

With Sales Order, you are able to:

• Send invoices, statements, order acknowledgements, and quotes in the format the customer prefers (email, paper, or fax).
• Process Return Material Authorization (RMA) transactions so credit memos are not issued until the customer returns the items.
• Easily create new orders and copy from existing orders in history; simply view the different transactions posted to history, select one that matches current order information, and create a new order from it.
• Use prices that are calculated based on customer level, order quantity, special promotions, or customer-specific prices for items. Item prices can be calculated based on markups from cost or markdowns.

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Purchase Order gives you the power to take complete control of purchases, from invoicing to requisition. Change existing purchase orders, return goods to vendors, generate automatic requisitions, and perform landed cost calculations.

With Purchase Order helping you manage your buying power, you will:

• Send purchase orders in the format the vendor prefers (email, paper, or fax).
• View variances between order and actual quantities, order and actual costs, and delivery dates.
• Enter purchases in the company base currency or the vendor’s foreign currency; foreign currency purchases track costs in the foreign currency as well as the company base currency.
• Keep a watchful eye on the goods and services your company receives, and detect shortages and incorrect invoices so that you only pay for the items you’ve received.

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Ensure precision inventory handling and prompt order fulfillment with TRAVERSE Warehouse Management. Track inventory items by bins and containers, prepare pick lists, and enter shipped quantities by order number or item ID.

Warehouse Management will help you:

• Identify sources of item demand, track down overages or loss, and view related movement activity.
• Track inventory items by bins and containers, designating the items that move in and out of inventory.
• Improve efficiency in picking, packing and shipping orders by streamlining day-to-day activities and maximizing the productivity of your warehouse staff.
• Drill through to view several layers of item detail at one time.

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TRAVERSE Mobile Warehouse provides Warehouse Management functionality on a Pocket PC-compatible handheld device. Use it on your warehouse floor to record receipts and shipments, track inventory movement, and automatically enter that information into your TRAVERSE system for other departments to use.

Mobile Warehouse enables your staff to:

• Record items while doing physical inventory, and move items from one place within the warehouse to another.
• Make sound decisions about purchases, sales, and transfers with instant on-hand and in-use quantity information.
• Pull items from your inventory in order to fulfill orders, and apply the item quantities in shipments you have received to specific purchase orders, location transfers, or material requisition returns.
• View quantity counts for items in bins and containers across all warehouse locations.

ShopFloor for TRAVERSE version 11 is a solution for manufacturing operations that can help you grow your business by streamlining your processes and increasing the speed and accuracy with which your team enters data. Users can easily and efficiently use a variety of input devices to enter their production information—as well as labor or machine time—right from the shop floor.

With ShopFloor for TRAVERSE version 11, you can:

• Ensure quality by taking advantage of the Quality Control functionality within ShopFloor.
• Make real-time inventory updates throughout the manufacturing process.
• Take advantage of the portable, easy-to-use user interface for machine operators.
• Record labor or machine time.
• Record production and materials.

TRAVERSE v11 EDI saves you time and money by transmitting data directly between you and your trading partners. Using standardized file formats TRAVERSE EDI will allow you to receive data directly into your Sales Order or Purchase Order modules for immediate processing. It will also send data such as invoices and acknowledgements directly to your customers with little or no interaction.

Key TRAVERSE EDI benefits:

• Receive preferred status from trading partners by participating in EDI programs
• Lower transaction processing costs
• Free up resources to work on higher priority activities
• Reduce data processing errors