Process Manufacturing
The Sage X3 ERP manufacturing suite provides mid-market enterprises who manufacture based on formulas or recipes an end to end business system to run their entire enterprise. Sage X3 ERP covers make to stock, make to order, configure to order as well as contract manufacturing.
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Sage X3 ERP
Achieve 75% faster process cycle time & 57% faster inventory turns in your process manufacturing business
Enterprise Business Management Software (ERP) for mid-market Process Manufacturing Companies
Regardless of whether you’re making frozen dinners, dog food snacks, office cleaning products or nutritional suppliments the highly configurable Sage X3 ERP manufacturing suite will help you confidently go about your business. Optimized inventory, plant & equipment maintenance, quality controls, management of customer specific requirements and streamlined MRP and MPS capabilities will help you optimize your production outputs, and fully utilize your business assets.
A small number of system extensions developed by Sage or for Sage X3 ERP by Sage independent development companies exist to meet industry specific requirements such as handling of dangerous goods, weigh scale and weigh bridge integrations and MES integrations. Sage X3 ERP also includes best of suite new product development capabilities (PLM).
Recipes & Formulas
Purpose built Process Manufacturing systems manage recipes and formulas as a unique entity and not simply as a component of a bill of material. This treatment better deals with compliance, revisions, allergens and super batches that produce multiple end products plus it simplifies the accounting aspects of costing production and products. Procession for Sage X3 Enterprise Management by Provenio adds an additional layer of system specialisation for small to medium sized manufacturers of chemical products such as detergents, cleaning products, and adhesives covering GHS, logistics goods handling and hazardous materials ratings.
Computerised Maintenance Management System
Sage X3 ERP incorporates CMMS functionality designed to allow plant and equipment to operate optimally and production times to be maximized. Spare parts management, scheduled maintenance, planned or mandatory servicing, and supplier management as a part of a single advanced business system allows companies to comply with local laws whilst reducing the risk of unscheduled down time. Where a best of suite CMMS is required CitySoft offer DIMO CMMS
Multiple Manufacturing Modes
Designed to assist make to stock, make to order, configure to order as well as contract manufacturers.
Traceability
Support backward and forward traceability. Both systems support compliance with local regulatory requirements; offer quality control management (QC) processes, and supply chain optimisation features including inclusion of sub-contractors.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
CitySoft sell and support Lascom a Product Lifecycle Management system that works with Sage X3 to help manufacturers who require best of breed PLM the ability to manage products from concept to new product commercialisation right the way through to product end of life and everything in between.
Optimising The Supply Chain
Sage X3 offers advanced warehousing software for paperless wireless mobile warehouse management of raw, intermediate and finished goods. The systems provide full bar-coding and scanning capabilities using Sage X3 automated data collection (ADC) licenses or the Datalinx warehouse manager extension for Sage X3.
The system support weigh scale integration, and GS1 and SSCC bar-codes labels. The systems also support integrated EDI trade.
Manufacturing Execution systems (MES)
Sage X3 ERP works with various process manufacturing MES systems for streamlined real time production and “ERP” data exchanges. CitySoft partner with Lynq for MES for Sage X3 ERP sites.
Procession
Procession is one of the best Sage X3 extensions available to companies using Sage X3 ERP. Provenio adds a number of very specific capabilities for multiple process manufacturing industries especially companies who use, create or wholesale dangerous goods. Procession also supports new product development which remains in a sandbox environment until a product is ready to commercialize.
The Procession module delivers premium functionality in the areas of formulation, regulatory control, quality control, manufacturing, and distribution.
Procession is designed exclusively for Sage X3 using the Sage X3 development toolkit. The Procession modules run natively within Sage X3, which eliminates the need for your users to learn separate systems. Procession shares the same database as Sage X3, allowing greater access to your critical data and eliminating the “data islands” associated with external add-ons. Procession has been tested and verified by Sage to meet the best practice standards.
