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Small Manufacturers Quickly Lose Control of Business with Manual Operation
There are four key questions for all small manufacturers:
1. What do I have to make?
2. When do I have to make it?
3. What do I have to buy?
4. When do I have to buy it?
A small manufacturer can answer these questions if there is only one product with a few components and only a few orders. However, it does not take very many orders, components, or products before a small manufacturer will lose control of the business when run manually.
According to Rocky Smolin, President of E-Z-MRP, "Small manufacturers are too often the victims of their own success. When the business is small everyone knows what everyone is doing and one or two key people can have the whole business in their heads or scattered around in notes and spreadsheets. As the business grows the ability of 'the great oral tradition' to control production scheduling, procurement and inventories fails. The bigger they get, the more out of control they become."
"E-Z-MRP gives small manufacturers all of the control they need over their production, procurement, inventory and configuration control requirements, without bogging them down with the expense, complexity, and drain on resources which is required by conventional ERP systems."
"If you can read and count to twenty you can run E-Z-MRP. It's clean jargon-free screens and clear, concise reports tell you every day, lot-for-lot, what to make and buy in order to meet your shipping commitments."
The E-Z-MRP package includes a full-featured Bill of Materials processor, plus a material planning and tracking module which tracks all sales orders, forecasts, work orders (planned, firm, and released), purchase orders, shortages, raw materials and finished goods inventories. It also records a complete audit trail on all inventory transactions.
Priced at $2995, the E-Z-MRP system is a fraction of the cost of systems with similar power and capabilities. It will run on any Windows-based PC or network, and requires only Access 2000 or Access XP to run. No on-site or remote training is required. A comprehensive user manual with tutorials provides all the required instruction. 22.12.2004, Beach Access Software
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