Powering the Future of Smart Manufacturing with DoFort ERP

DoFort Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manufacturing software must embody agility, flexibility, and responsiveness to meet fluctuating customer demands and unpredictable market dynamics. The industry is undergoing a significant transformation, characterized by the emergence of "smart factories." In this advanced landscape, interconnected systems communicate seamlessly through Internet services, machines undertake a broader range of tasks, and predictive analytics reveal opportunities that may otherwise go unnoticed. 

If your current business software lacks the transparency necessary for comprehensive organizational management and fails to leverage technological advancements, it may be time to explore alternatives. DoFort ERP manufacturing software is designed to provide a holistic view and control over the entire business process chain, encompassing everything from suppliers to production, delivery, and customer service. To enhance efficiency and speed, your management software must integrate and share data with other systems within your production environment.

Key Benefits of Manufacturing Software

Take Control of Modern Manufacturing with Smarter Management:

DoFort ERP manufacturing software empowers businesses, whether they produce goods in batches, to order, or for stock, and regardless of whether they employ discrete or process manufacturing methods. It facilitates comprehensive control, integration, and synchronization of all manufacturing processes. 

With the capability to handle both short and long production runs, DoFort offers a complete suite of tools designed to assist in planning, recording, tracking, and managing output, ensuring full visibility across the manufacturing supply chain.

Optimize Inventory for Maximum Availability and Minimum Cost:

DoFort ERP enables you to keep your finished goods inventory to a minimum. By enhancing visibility, it empowers you to make informed decisions regarding production, including what to manufacture, the resources required, the timing, location, and the order of operations.

Control Project Costs with Accurate, Real-Time Quotes:

DoFort ERP ensures accurate cost and profit calculations during the bidding process. Once a quote is confirmed, the system can automatically initiate all necessary supply actions to fulfill the customer order. Additionally, DoFort's Product Configurator streamlines order processing for products that require assembly, configuration, or are made to order, utilizing a rules-based approach for efficiency.

Handle Every BOM — From Basic to Multi-Level Structures:

Discover how DoFort ERP allows you to create everything from straightforward single-level bills to intricate formulations that incorporate multiple units of measure and defined relationships. This flexibility enhances your ability to manage complex billing scenarios efficiently.

Accurately Calculate Lead Times and Optimize Orders:

DoFort ERP ensures precise calculations of lead times and dynamic elapsed times, while also aiding in the optimization of production order quantities. Additionally, the Engineering Change Control module streamlines the management of changes to product versions, enhancing overall efficiency.

Drive Higher Productivity with Lower Operational Losses:

DoFort's Manufacturing Operations Management solution offers comprehensive management of the entire manufacturing lifecycle, encompassing planning, scheduling, publishing, data collection, tracking, and analysis to enhance and optimize manufacturing processes. When integrated with DoFort's ERP system, this solution delivers exceptional control over delivery, costs, and quality across various production environments, including job shops, batch production, production lines, and mixed-mode operations.

Smarter Planning for Materials, Resources, and Capacity:

DoFort ERP allows for the back flushing of materials and labor used in production, or for longer production runs, these can be issued as consumed to work in progress. The system's work-in-progress inspection feature facilitates the receipt of a product against multiple items, accommodating variations in the grades of the final product.

Track Material, Labor, and Waste in Real Time:

DoFort ERP monitors the actual labor hours against estimated figures, while also managing material consumption and waste.

Seamlessly Integrate ERP with CAD and Shop-Floor Systems:

DoFort's integration framework facilitates seamless, version-independent connections to CAD and shop-floor data collection systems. This capability eliminates the necessity for duplicate data entry, thereby minimizing the risk of errors.

Track, Analyze, and Reduce Operational Expenses:

DoFort ERP enables real-time capture, tracking, and analysis of job and product costs, as well as profitability. The software provides insights into expected versus actual costs related to materials, scrap, internal and external labor, and both fixed and overhead expenses for individual jobs or groups of jobs. Additionally, it facilitates the extraction of R&D job data to meet regulatory reporting requirements.

Optimize Manufacturing Decisions Through Cost Simulations:

DoFort ERP allows you to model and simulate various costs associated with changes in materials, labor, and manufacturing processes, facilitating informed decision-making. It provides a comprehensive evaluation of job costs, margin assessments, and pricing strategies, all while offering complete transparency regarding product cost details and profit margins, including those related to co- and by-products.

DoFort ERP solutions for optimized manufacturing management

Inventory Management:

Effective inventory management enhances your control over stock levels by providing improved accuracy and visibility of inventory data across the organization. It serves as the foundation for manufacturing, distribution, and accounting operations, designed to seamlessly integrate with key system functions while offering adaptable reporting on inventory assets.

Bill of Materials:

A Bill of Materials (BOM) serves as a crucial tool for organizations, enabling comprehensive oversight of product structure by aligning the information used across engineering, production, purchasing, and order processing. The manufacturing process shapes the BOM and encompasses various elements, including work centers, labor, tools, dies, inserts, fixtures, raw materials, packaging, scrap rates, setup times, yields, and equipment.

Work in Progress:

The Work in Progress module serves as the foundation of the system's Manufacturing Solution. It enables the issuance of work orders, the development of schedules, and the tracking of costs related to the manufacturing process. This solution grants comprehensive control over the manufacturing workflow, allowing users to access real-time information on work in progress.

Documentation:

Factory Documentation ensures precise and user-defined documentation for shop floor activities, including production tasks and material issuance. This clarity promotes accuracy and enhances the efficient management of production processes.

Product Configurator:

The Product Configurator offers a rules-based framework that facilitates the real-time customization of complex products through a simple question-and-answer format. By standardizing this approach, the configurator becomes accessible to various users within the organization, enhancing collaboration and efficiency in product configuration.

Lot Traceability:

Lot Traceability, often referred to as Batch Traceability, offers immediate access to essential information necessary for tracking manufactured lots, batches, and serialized units. This system encompasses details such as materials used, warehouse data, inspection results, quantities, and control dates. By facilitating the identification of root causes for defects, Lot Traceability plays a crucial role in the effective containment and resolution of issues.

Requirements Planning:

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) plays a crucial role in balancing supply and demand. By analyzing both projected and actual data, MRP aids in the development of realistic schedules for production, purchasing, and supply transfers. It also highlights capacity limitations and ensures optimal inventory levels across multiple sites and warehouses. As a result, MRP contributes to reduced inventory levels, enhanced manufacturing efficiency, and improved cash flow.

Engineering Control:

Engineering Change Control (ECC) facilitates the assignment and transfer of product design tasks among users. It ensures that users receive notifications for new tasks and reminders for any pending assignments. Additionally, ECC enables the electronic approval of engineering design modifications.

Projects and Contracts:

Projects and Contracts ensure precise profit reporting for long-term initiatives that necessitate a thorough analysis of costs and revenues across various sections and levels.

Activity-Based Costing: 

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) enables the tracking and recovery of costs linked to the purchasing, manufacturing, and selling of products, thus enhancing the precision of product profitability calculations. Unlike traditional inventory costing methods such as Average, Standard, FIFO, LIFO, and Last, ABC offers an alternative approach to determining these costs.