In a Make to Stock production environment, the product is manufactured to completion before the receipt of customer orders.  Typically the items and quantities to be made are based on a forecast of demand with the advantage of this strategy being very short lead times for shipping product and very well defined production methods and times.  Strong material requirements planning (MRP) and tight inventory control are mainstay of this strategy. 

The Intrust Win Manufacturing suite has many features designed for the Make to Stock environment including: 

• Demand driven by sales forecast

• Master Production Schedule to manage production goals

• MRP reporting in bucketless or user-definable buckets

• Excellent MRP inquiry with graphing and drill-down capabilities to view demand

• Inventory visibility across multiple warehouses

• Automatic generation of Planned Production and Purchase Requisitions

• Cycle counting, inventory tags and import from hand held devices

• Inventory Safety Stock and Min/Max reorder management

• User-defined cost groups

• Where used reporting

• Global replacement of components

In a Make to Order production environment, the product is manufactured after the receipt of a customer order.  The items and quantities to be made are based on customer orders.  Lead times for production are typically longer than in a Make to Stock environment.  Flexible production order processing and prioritization are a must in this environment.  In many cases components are purchased specifically to produce products for customers.

The Intrust Win Manufacturing suite has many features designed for the Make to Order environment including:

• Online printing, faxing, emailing of sales documents

• Production work orders automatically generated from sales orders

• Ability to partially close production orders

• Drag and drop dispatch scheduling for rush jobs

• Purchase price variance tracking

• Combined visibility of demand for production and service parts

• User-defined cost groups

• Extensive pricing capabilities

• Very flexible setup options for factory overhead absorption

• Wireless issues of inventory items to production orders

• Finite scheduling reporting with calendars by resource
   

In a Job Shop production environment, the company can simply perform a service for customers such as machining services and/or producing a product.  In the case of services only shops, there is typically a short turnaround time for customer orders, with a high emphasis placed on job status reporting and accurate labor and materials costing to the job.  In addition to these requirements, a shop that produces a product will require tight inventory control and the ability to buy parts and material for the job.  Flexible job scheduling is also a requirement.

The Intrust Win Manufacturing suite has many features designed for the Job Shop environment including:

• Online printing, faxing, and emailing of sales documents

•  Production work orders automatically generated from sales orders

• Ability to partially close production orders

• Drag and drop dispatch scheduling for rush jobs

• User-defined cost groups

• Cost estimating through planned bills or planned production orders

• Reporting of bills at last cost

• Extensive routing definitions capability

• Outside services automatically tracked and paperwork prepared

• Ease of recording activity to production orders

• Extensive online inquiries of job status

• Extensive variance reporting of actual against estimate

• Import of Bills of Material

• Where used reporting for components and operations

• Complete shop travelers with optional bar coding

• Shop calendars

• Tooling definition and attachment to operations

Intrust Win Manufacturing is designed to easily integrate with the tools you already use. Throughout the software you can attach documents, spreadsheets, diagrams and movie files. These automatically integrate to the appropriate application.  Integrated features empower the user to:

• View CAD diagrams using the native drawing program

• Verify specifications and tolerances stored in a word processing document

• Use a spreadsheet to analyze cost variances

• Import your parts list into the software from your CAD, spreadsheet or other engineering software