With RealTime Lite Manufacturing all activity begins with the sales order entry. The system allows for normal, blanket, and EDI orders. Normal orders are used for non-repetitive orders, blanket orders for repetitive orders, and EDI for automatic order entry.

Regardless of the method of order entry used, the system provides a vital communication link between your sales, manufacturing, and shipping departments. The design strategy of the software is to increase throughput, reduce sales order operating expense and streamline the management of your customer demand.

Purchasing

The sales order drives Purchasing. The goal of purchasing in RealTime Lite Manufacturing is to allow drag and drop simplicity, while tracking vendor performance to ensure that you are getting the right product, at the best price, from the right vendor. Using detailed vendor profiles and RealTime Lite Manufacturing’s powerful on-line audit trail technology, you will be purchasing faster, and more accurately in no time.

Receiving

Once the product is in Receiving, the “dock to stock” takes over, updating and tracking inbound material via the built-in RealTime bar code system. The scanning of received objects begins the paperless audit trail and automatically updates inventory.

Inventory

RealTime Lite Manufacturing’s powerful on-line audit trail technology allows you to track and control all raw, work in progress, and finished goods with 100% accuracy. RealTime simplifies the phases inventory goes through and utilizing powerful, user-friendly interfaces to ensure serial and lot control all the way from receiving to shipping. RealTime Lite Manufacturing also embraces the power of technology, utilizing automatic barcode generation, remote and tethered scanning, and RF and PDA devices to deliver dynamic and complete inventory control as a benefit of merely using the system.

Packaging

The RealTime Pack Line allows you to custom package your finished materials for shipment. This enables the pre-staging of shipments with the pertinent materials taken out of inventory to maintain accuracy.

Shipping

When the product is ready to be shipped, RealTime Lite Manufacturing’s automatic event-driven, drag and drop shipping scheduler is ready to process the order. Shipping automatically checks the shipment against the customer order, flagging any discrepancies. Shipments are scanned, updating relevant information in the system, creating and invoice and automatically sending out an ASN when appropriate.

RealTime Lite Manufacturing is fully integrated with RealTime Financials or based on its open architecture, can be interfaced to other accounting packages. The strength of the system is its flexibility, giving the user the choice of using the inherent benefits of EDI, RF and PDA technology, or going with a basic system. RealTime Lite Manufacturing comes with a base reports package while custom reports can easily be created as the open architecture of the system allows for access to data.

RealTime Lite Manufacturing is the solution for manufacturers who want to realize the benefits of automating the flow of materials from sales orders to shipping, while maintaining manual control of shop floor scheduling and production. RealTime Lite Manufacturing will improve accuracy and speed of orders, purchases, and shipments through automation, and provide the information tools to make intelligent business decisions based on valid information.

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