For manufacturers who produce engineer-to-order and customised products, WORKPLAN provides all the tools needed to streamline business processes and gain real-time control of the shop floor.
Project or “engineer-to-order” customers have a unique set of requirements that standard ERP systems don’t address, such as:
- Manufacturing highly engineered one-of-a-kind products
- Order driven manufacturing
- Small order volume but higher-order value
- Products specifically engineered to customer requirements with job-specific Bill of Materials
- Ongoing engineering iterations throughout the quotation, design, and manufacturing phases
- Longer engineering and manufacturing lead-times
- Milestones, progress billing, and retention payments
WORKPLAN helps engineers to order customers manage this dynamic environment by connecting the entire enterprise. WORKPLAN is a highly scalable suite of manufacturing software solutions, from project management to MES, which enables custom manufacturers to automate and manage processes such as:
WORKPLAN provides the tools to help improve on-time deliveries, material management, data integrity, job cost control, project reporting, and scheduling. Key features include:
- Management with real-time project and job data
- Accurate job costing and WIP control using touchscreens on the shop floor
- Import BOM from any CAD package
- Purchase materials directly to the job, project, or contract
- Full revision engineering change control
- Progress billing and estimate to completion
- Interface to Microsoft Office Project
- Capacity and resource planning
- Project progress monitoring
- Real-time access to all project data
- Snapshot comparisons of actual versus planned costs
- Easily manage BOM and routing revisions
