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Nowadays, it is not only industrial companies in series production that are adopting a broader approach in order to improve their competitiveness and meet customer demands for individualised products. However, the partial changeover to small batch production, variant production, make-to-order or one-off production entails higher demands on the ERP software – especially since customers today are less and less willing to accept higher costs and longer delivery times for individualised products.
Decreasing the batch size down to one increases the complexity of the processes across the entire order process: Sales, design, production and controlling must be able to foresee at an early stage whether this or that variant requested by the customer is technically feasible, in what time frame it can be realised and whether it is at all profitable in terms of overall commercial costs. In variant-oriented production, the products with the characteristics and characteristic values requested by the customer are often not yet created, i.e. it must be possible to generate master data including product descriptions, parts lists, routings and price calculations automatically in the order process.
The only way to cope with increasing process complexity, shorter production cycles and growing data maintenance efforts in the ERP system is through smart configuration rules, consistent variant management and automated data management. The ERP system VlexPlus closes this gap and helps industrial companies take a step towards profitable customised production up to batch size 1 by automating the more complex configuration, calculation, procurement and manufacturing processes.
The VlexPlus ERP software was designed specifically to enable manufacturing companies to process orders for customised product variants quickly, transparently and, above all, cost-effectively. At the heart of the VlexPlus ERP system is a 3D-capable variant configurator in conjunction with an easy-to-use set of configuration rules that extends across all levels of the order process. With its end-to-end variant configurator, VlexPlus also supports the entire planning, control and monitoring of manufacturing processes in order to optimise the costs, complexity and quality of the processes.
By consolidating the article master data via characteristics and characteristic values and combining them into a few basic articles, VlexPlus reduces the maintenance effort for article master data, parts lists, routings and price calculations many times over. At the same time, the intelligent configuration and data management routines ensure a high degree of automation in the interaction between sales, production and logistics.
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