| Lennox Computer |
| Software Design Installation & Support |
| Unit 8, 121 Newmarket Road WINDSOR, QLD 4030 Phone: 07 3857 5588, Fax: 07 3857 6100 http://www.lennox.com.au eMail: sales@lennox.com.au |
| Bill of Materials Integrated to Inventory Ledger |
| Work Order Issue & Integrated CAD |
| In LILAC manufacturing procedures are driven by the basic
Sales Order -> Work Order -> Sales Invoice processing
sequence built-in to the software, complemented by a
Production Order -> Work Order -> Finished Goods Stock
sequence where appropriate. The Work Order document which may be produced on paper or card in a variety of formats is intended to be the physical control document for shop floor activity. It will often need to be tailored for an individual enterprise to incorporate variations in the technical presentation of the goods to be manufactured, including provision for codes, descriptions, BoM listings, quantities, dimensions, and if required schematic diagrams with dimensioning using LILAC's seamlessly integrated QCAD module. |
| Material Requirements Planning (MRP) |
| LILAC contains all the elements of powerful MRP system.
Component and raw materials requirements to satisfy orders
for finished or part-finished product are computed with
reference to Sales Orders from customers and Production
Orders from internal sources. The required raw material
quantities are compared to present an future stock levels and
purchase order documents automatically created in the
database. Be aware however that manufacturing and MRP applications are ambitious. They bring together many different strands of processing, and are likely to require careful design and some tailoring and custom software formatting and programming. |
| LILAC provides a comprehensive Bill of Materials capability fully
incorporated into it's inventory and stock control operations. Any product in the Inventory ledger may have a Bill of Materials defined which allows the creation, storage and editing of a list of components for the product with codes, quantities, dimensions, descriptions and costs for each component. In turn any component product code may itself have a Bill of Materials defined, and this "nesting" may be repeated indefinitely. In practice nesting to a maximum of six or seven levels is manageable in terms of report formatting and database size. |
| Standard Costing & Purchase Variations |
| In manufacturing accounting contexts the use of very dynamic
costing strategies such as Last Cost or Average Cost is
discouraged because of the resulting instability of derived costs in
Bill of Materials and Material Requirements processing. Lennox Computer recommend the use of a Standard Costing regimen for Manufacturing applications where the cost of a component or raw materials is established at a fixed value, and maintained at the that figure for some substantial period of weeks, months or years as appropriate. Differences from Standard Cost encountered during purchasing operations are brought to account in the Trading Ledger as "Purchasing Variations", and the landed cost used for Inventory, Cost of Sales, and BoM & MRP purposes is always the Standard Cost. |
| Production Scheduling & Gannt Charts |
| LILAC Provides a Process Specification document which permits a manufacturing process to be defined in terms of time spent at a series of work-centres in a factory or manufacturing context. Work Order documents derived from sales orders or production orders are then allocated to particular Process Specifications by the Production Manager in order to determine a production requirements for a given period. LILAC can then create a Gannt chart based on this information, predicting the production for the period, and the work centre loading resulting. |
