General Organization Entities

• Multi-companies / site / facilities / divisions
• Calendars
• Business partners
• Currencies, countries and languages

Templates, Policies, Groups, Types and Counters

• Personalization-role and user-specific menus with no coding required
• Customization without programming
• Technical data (user-definable database field)
• Multimedia and notes management

Items

• Different item natures like: product, container, tool, no-inventory product, service, charge, recipe, weaving pattern, print design, cost elements
• Unlimited item types (product families like: yarn, greige fabric, finished fabric, trims, garment)
• Definition of up to ten attributes / keys for every item type, with SKU’s (Stock Keeping Unit) up to 110 characters in length
• Use of secondary attributes (color for example) allows for the handling of items without pre-defined item masters
• Product structures: sizes, size groups, ranges
• Support of matrix order entry (for example: size / color or waist / inseam)
• Unlimited units of measure (UM’s)
• Support for multi-language / descriptions
• Unlimited quality levels without changing product name
• Unlimited commercial codes for the same produced product (aliases).

Warehouses

• Physical, logical, accounting, in-transit, temporary…
• Definition of zones locations and specific bins

Costing and Production Database

• Automatic dynamic construction of BOM (Bill of Material) and routing steps through pre-defined rules (for example component color = parent color for the BOM and work center/time operation selection depending on the shade of the product during a dyeing routing)
• Definition of operational technical data (work centers, resources, processes, recipes, print designs, weaving patterns...)
• Definition and management of: product costs, raw material requirements, labor , overhead consumption, and production capacity needs
• Loading of each work center step, including: processing times, setup / change-over times, resource yields, expected waste, elongation / contraction percentages, standard batch sizes, and operations
• Operation types supported: continuous, batch, printing, and external
• Management of engineering changes
• Alternative BOM, routing, work center
• Validity dates for each of the above elements

Security

• Driven by user-profiles allowing intranet, extranet, and Internet access to defined products, plants, warehouses for update or for inquiry only
• Customer portal friendly architecture
• Field level security-view and edit, view only, hidden…

Other Features

• Full integration across all modules and functions
• Instant and accessible visibility to all users and departments
• Definition of system structures and how data is handled by the solution