Process

Implementing a lean manufacturing flow can provide a positive move towards a competitive advantage through a relatively simple path.  MACPRO®, along with partner financial and distribution systems, provides a streamlines solution that can enable process flow throughout the entire supply chain, maximizing efficiency in all areas of the business.  No longer focused on only process improvements on the plant floor, M-Elite™ uses information across the entire enterprise to enable process flow that expands the entire chain to include areas such as order processing and administ4ration process flows.  Implementing the M-Elite™ software solution can provide efficiency improvements that go above and beyond the traditional practices.

Discrete

Discrete manufacturers, with their complex and diverse schedules, need visibility into the various departments and centers and need to know where product exists in each center.  M-Elite™ offers a solution that provides that visibility and simplifies the management of product through these operations.  Capture only the information that you need to capture and allow the system to to do the work.  Planners will be freed up to monitor only the exceptions and bottlenecks - proactively, not reactively.

Food/Commissary

Food manufacturers and commissary operations are in a competitive world-wide market and are forever under the gun to lower operating costs.  This is not always easy in an ever-changing marketplace where consumer preference become altered, government regulation and customer requirements for food safety increase.  The need to provide accurate raw material usage and quality control information at any given time is paramount.  M-Elite offers a solution that is easy to implement and provides all of the high-powered features that a high-end ERP solution does, without the high costs.

Job Shops

M-Elite™ was designed for organizations that need to track real-time labor, materials, and purchase costs, while monitoring the status of each unique job throughout the production process.  Providing accurate estimates and determining profitability is made simple using easy-to-access historical information and real-time data to generate customer quotes.  Using the what-if scheduler allows you to evaluate and set promise-to shipping dates accurately.  M-Elite™ can help you make on-time product delivery and customer satisfaction seem simple.

Machine Shops

Machine shops use machinery or equipment to perform custom removal of material to fabricate a finished part.  The one constant in a machine shop is the fact that change is always imminent.  M-Elite™ is a versatile software product that supports jobs, blanket orders, complex multi-machine schedule and provide visibility into the detailed customer order over your entire business so you know the profitability of every job from the point of estimate to invoice.

Fabrication

Fabrication shops come in a variety of shapes and sizes and the supporting software system must be flexible enough to handle the one-time production runs or the high volume, repeatable runs.  As with most custom shops, customer are constantly changing due dates, quantities, and other requirements.  Managing and scheduling the production floor can be a challenge with the constant changes.  Detailed specifications with various features and options translate easily into M-Elite™ bills of material and work orders.  Monitors job activity at each routing step stage the exact amount of raw material to the work area only when you need it.

Captive Shops

Many large organizations rely on internal job shops, or captive shops, to provide services to various departments within the organization.  These specialized shops could be prototype machining, maintenance tooling, engineering, repair, or other internal job shops.  The captive shop may have fewer external and accounting requirements than a typical job shop, but most likely has to overcome many of the same shop capacity, the status of each open job, and how much work remains to be completed is critical to maintaining a high level of service.  M-Elite™'s plug-and -play capability with the ERP inventory, asset management, and accounting systems reduces the amount of duplicative information that may need to be entered and maintained in the system in order to achieve the benefits of job and equipment tracking within your captive shop.

Combination Manufacturing

In today's worldwide economy, manufacturers need the ability to be able to quickly respond to the challenges that consumer demand is placing on their operations.  For the business that includes a product mix that is not simply manufactured in-house, but one that includes co-manufactured products, distribution items, and even within one operation may utilize a mixed mode for manufacturing, M-Elite™ is a solution that is flexible enough to handle these diversities.  Prepare time-phased execution plans for manufactured, co-manufactured, kitted and distribution items.  Use material requirements planning to look across multiple company and location definitions for a business unit and provide time-phased purchasing suggestions for distribution or manufacturing.

Service/Repair  Shops

It is critical for service and repair shops to accurately predict the time and materials it takes to complete each job.  Along with the quality of the service, providing the customer with a timely and accurate estimate at job commencement is one of the most important aspects according to surveys.  Providing the shop floor with detailed information regarding the nature of the service, specifications, and other critical repair of service-related information is important to completing the job in the most effective manner.  The M-Elite™ system provides advanced labor tracking, order tracking, and can generate repair ticket documents that are useful in getting the right information to the right people on the floor.