Manufacturing

ERP software for metal and metal products manufacturing

Manage the records of your metalworking and metal goods production on one platform, from buying sheet, profiles and bars to work orders, and from machine depreciation to leasing payments.

Volatile raw materials, capital-intensive production

In the metal industry, prices of sheet, profiles, tubes and bars change at short intervals, and the gap between the day a quote is given and the day material is bought hits margins directly. Material is often bought by the kilogram and consumed by the piece or meter. Press, laser, press brake and welding machines require serious investment and are frequently financed through loans or leasing.

In Factorbooks Autonomous ERP, production recipes and work orders link material consumption to finished goods receipt, and material requests from production units go through approval and are tracked in the fulfillment step. The machine fleet is tracked as fixed assets, and leasing payment plans run in a separate module. Routings, machine data and quality measurements stay in your own systems; data can be exchanged through the API in the Integration Management add-on module.

Benefits for metalworking companies

  • Cost by product

    Follow the material cost of each product with the production recipe, work orders and Production Costing.

  • The right unit

    With Material Unit Management, define sheet, profiles and consumables in kilograms, meters or pieces.

  • Recorded price differences

    Raw material price changes are documented with price difference invoices on both the purchasing and sales side.

  • Controlled material requests

    Material requests from production and maintenance units go through approval and evaluation steps.

  • Machine fleet and depreciation

    Machines are recorded as fixed assets; depreciation and revaluation run in SYNTRA and higher packages.

  • Leasing payments

    Leasing contracts, payment plans and period-end capitalization are tracked in Leasing Management.

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Recipes and work orders

Define production recipes for finished and semi-finished goods; work orders opened from the production plan record the consumption of sheet, profiles and consumables. Production Costing and Production Performance are available in SYNTRA and higher packages.

Raw material and inventory management

Define sheet, profiles, tubes and bars as separate material cards by grade and size. Material Expense Allocation, stock movements, stock counts and Stock Cost Analysis are tracked by warehouse.

Material request management

Collect material requests from production and maintenance units in the Request List. Request approvals, evaluation and fulfillment steps are available in MOTIVA and higher packages.

Purchasing and price differences

Purchase contracts, orders and incoming e-Waybills are matched in one flow. Price difference and exchange rate difference invoices and purchase returns are issued in the same module.

Machine fleet and assets

Record press, laser and welding machines as fixed assets. Asset movements, depreciation and asset revaluation are available in SYNTRA and higher packages.

Leasing management

Track contracts, leasing payment plans, invoices and period-end capitalization for leased machines in one module.

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