Every company wants to be more productive – and every company can. Ultimately, the better we can do in stream-lining and automating the total business process from the conversion of orders, orders to shipments and AR to cash then the more profi table you will become.

Manufacturers need information about inventory availability, machine uptime and down time, product cycle times, yield, waste, WIP and lot tracking and genealogy. They need real-time information management tools for continuous improvement and decision support.

N’ware’s LISA Manufacturing simple, easy-to-use, live links to the production fl oor can deliver accurate, real-time data on production.

LISA Manufacturing gives you simple cost-effective meth-ods to provide automated, accurate collection of cycle time, run time, setup time, down time, production and labor hours that make job costing accurate.

A manufacturing dashboard, tailored for different groups within the company is maintained to provide the ERP system with real-time feedback on job starts, completions and status to provide managers with greater visibility into production.

Bringing together people, process and technology to support manufacturing and distribution improvement strategies.

In partnership with world and industry leading business management solutions such as SAP Business One, N’ware is committed to delivering a range of manufacturing solutions for SME’s. These rest on a foundation of technological foresight and growth, commitment to customer satisfaction, in-house expertise, and support services whose mandate is simple – to keep you reaping the benefi ts of the LISA Manufacturing solutions you selected. With our world-recognized partners we deliver highly competitive, manufacturing product solutions. In partnership with them we focus on the unique challenges faced by small and medium-sized manufacturers and distributors.

Designed for manufacturers and distributors, with an interface that enhances the strength of SAP.

Product Features■ Quick response and feedback and better decision-making that comes with transaction and status updates in real time

■ Dashboards that deliver to-the-transaction updates on activities, performance and critical comparatives; delivering critical analytics and metrics

■ Quoting tool allowing for on the spot material routing subcontracting defi nition with pre-assigned profi t margins and cost

■ Real-time production fl oor data collection using industrial terminals of regular PC’s

■ Shipment and receipt planning for managing traffi c and shipping and receiving docks

■ Extensive reporting for performance, profi tability and productivity with critical information available as a by product of everyday processing and business

■ Real-time information management tools for continuous improvement and decision support

A fl exible system setup allows your company to tailor to your requirements and streamline day-in, day-out operations and draw on a range of capabilities that include:

• Capacity planning with roll-forward and roll-backward scheduling

• Drag and drop capabilities to help make decisions and adjust planning

• Drill downs from Gantt charts to real-time manufacturing dashboards

• Easy-to-use data collection to deliver real time information and update costs, schedules, routings

• Multiple BOMs with multiple routings, all active

• A set of tools that lets you strategically analyze the data available across the enterprise

• Manufacturing-related activities that extend across the enterprise

• Flexibility in reporting and easy-to-modify screen outputs, tailored for user preferences

• Rigorous QA / QC, tracking and traceability

• WMS / RF driven inventory management

LISA Manufacturing

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For more info on the LISA Manufacturing or other solutions like LISA Distribution or N’Matrix, please contact Kristen St.Onge at (800) 270-9420 x 83 or by email at kstonge@nwaretech.com.

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Real-Time Manufacturing• Multiple active Bill of Materials versions• Allow for scheduling subcontractors operations and status – logical

scheduling based on Bill of Materials content (ex – inject white color before black color)

• Multiple active routings associated to multiple Bill of Materials for struc-tured resource usage

• Yield planning, scrap planning and finished product at raw material level• Duplication of Bill of Materials and routing availability for engineer to

order jobs• Flexibile QC dashboard inspection at work order and receipt level with

unlimited test definition and document attachment• Historical access to inspection orders for statistics and vendors on

vendor/ product quality• Document version management at product level for production purposes• Tools and calibration definition for association to routings• Tools and calibration for historical inspection results• Employee classification and authorization per plant and occupation• Flexible work order generation• Feeding on SAP’s MRP or available for make-to-order/ make-to-stock

environment

Powerful Planning• Real-time bottleneck identification and alerts• Material availability validation – what if scenario• Real-time planning broadcast to shop floor data collection• Flexible Gantt Chart (Schedule can be used by Gantt chart, low load machines and days)

• Multi-plant scheduling – allows for multiple planners to have scheduling access to multiple plants, allowing the planner to view every schedule; each user can perform what-if scenario

Production Control• Barcoded work order traveler with automatic issuing trigger• Real-time validation of work-order status on results thus preventing

redundant work or shipments• Segregation of standard routing times and re-work times• Unique employee assignment on multiple work orders; ability to have

multiple employees work on one order as well as assign time for one employee performing multiple jobs

• Complete lot and serial number traceability on multi-level Bill of Materials items

• Where used, analysis available for traceability requirements (FDA, DEA)• Bill of Materials substitution available at shop floor level for accurate

inventory issuing• SKU conversion for managing leftovers and second quality products

Accurate Costing• Different costing methods available including actual cost for historical

and statistical data• Multiple plant/department overhead rate for specific assignment of activ-

ity cost• Labor and machine cycle rate along with fixed and variable cost that

provide to the penny accuracy• Drill down cost of finished product all the way down to the lowest level

Bill of Materials• Easy analysis of historical actual cost to determine average (if neces-

sary, update SAP Business One standard cost)

Inventory• Complete inventory traceability in bins and warehouses• Virtual inventory locations for subcontracting operations• Complete traceability of lot number and serial numbers, throughout bins,

zones and containers• Detailed log of inventory movement for incoming, outgoing and internal

movement of inventory• Inventory adjustments always linked to reason codes and GL accounts• Cycle counting results will provide alerts for major discrepancies

Flexibility in planning with automated roll-forward and roll-backward scheduling, drag and drop adjustments and at-a-glance status reports across the shop floor