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Shop floor    
  Machine monitoring   Changeover monitoring   Labelling   Quality Control   Document management   Material traceability  
Factory    
  Finite capacity planning   Works order processing   Manufacturing information   Stock control   Maintenance management   Tool management  
Business    
  Sales order processing   Purchase order processing   Sub-contract order processing   Estimating and costing   Accounting   Electronic data interchange  
 

FIS reads manufacturing information and works orders from an external ERP system at regular intervals.

FIS reads all your released works orders and ensures that FIS has an up-to-date copy of each one.

Works orders which have been deleted from your ERP system are deleted from FIS automatically, provided that they have not been started in FIS.

You can choose how often to import works orders.  Some customers do this every hour, others once every shift.

This method of importing works orders allows various different methods of data transfer from your ERP system to FIS.

  • A file exported from the ERP system.  This might be a .csv file, or a .xml file.
  • A query from FIS into the ERP system database.

If you are going to use the FIS Finite capacity planning module, you must use this method of importing, because FIS needs to know about the works orders before they are started, so that it can plan them.

The alternative is to use Live import works orders.

Features

Scheduled sales orders

A scheduled sales order specifies not only the quantity of parts which the customer requires, but also the delivery address and date on which they must be delivered.

A sales order line in FIS records the customer, part number, quantity required, delivery address and due date.  You can therefore record scheduled sales orders in FIS.

You can have more than one part on a sales order, or have one sales order per part, depending on how your customer likes to send you schedules.

When you change a line on a sales order, FIS automatically keeps a history of the changes you have made.  This gives you evidence to confront customers who change their schedules at the last minute.

You can record a schedule number on the sales order header, so that you can link the current schedule with paperwork received from the customer.

Scheduled sales orders do not close automatically when all lines have been delivered.  This allows the customer to schedule no parts on an order for a while, and then restart demand without your needing to to anything special.