MISys Small Business Manufacturing, a Sage Endorsed Solution 
Manufacturing software that is more powerful, yet simpler to use; with more deployment options, and with flexibility to ensure a lasting fit in a growing company. And all this at a price you can afford today.
A Quarter-century of Experience and Knowledge
Manufacturing Information Systems, Inc., makers of the award-winning MISys SAE Manufacturing System, introduces MISys Small Business Manufacturing; software designed specifically for smaller-sized manufacturing firms. MISys Small Business Manufacturing (MISys SBM) is based on the proven functionality of the MISys SAE system, originally released in 1982 and used by over 7,000 manufacturing firms in 48 countries around the world.
Room To Grow
Like other software developed by Manufacturing Information Systems, MISys SBM offers all the functionality a small manufacturing firm needs today, with plenty of room to grow in the future. Start with the basic inventory control module, with multi-level bills of material and revision control. Whenever you’re ready, add advanced purchasing, bin tracking, production control, master production scheduling, shop floor control, serial/lot tracking, labor tracking, or bar-coding.
Basic Manufacturing
- Extensive tracking of manufacturing inventory and work in process (WIP).
- Multi-level bills of material with full explosion down to 16 levels deep.
- Net-change physical inventory with cycle counting.
- Batch-oriented or direct entry of all stock transfer transactions.
- Full backflushing of all assembly transactions.
- Choice of standard, average, LIFO, or FIFO costing methods.
- Cost adjustment with roll-up through all BOM levels.
- Stock check processing to identify impending shortages.
- Work orders to document and track production activity.
- Configurable alerts to show you critical events and status.
- Extensive reporting using industry-standard report generator (Crystal Decisions).
Advanced Purchasing
- Create, print, and track formal purchase orders.
- Establish quantity-based price breaks for each item and supplier.
- Calculate tax due for taxable items by supplier
- Instantly update raw materials inventory from purchase order receipts.
- Define and apply additional cost for accurate landed cost tracking.
- Expedite purchase orders to assist in production scheduling.
Advanced Production
- Declare provisional items that may not be completely defined, or are unknown at the time.
- Create Manufacturing Orders either from a standard bill of materials, or from scratch without any previously defined components.
- Create and print cost estimates based on the unit cost of known components and the estimated cost of provisional items.
- Compare projected manufacturing cost with the actual manufacturing cost for accurate analyses of productivity and profitability.
Shop Floor Control
- Track the use and maintenance of production tools.
- Establish work centers for all production activities.
- Define rates at which each work center can process its work.
- Define days of the week when each work center is open.
- Define required material, labor, and overhead for each work center.
- Create routing details for bills of material and manufacturing orders.
- Estimate assembly times for any production quantity.
- Predict start date for given completion date.
- Predict completion date for given start date.
- Accurately estimate manufacturing costs based on combined material, labor, and overhead.
- Post shop operations to individual production operations.
- Compare actual to estimated manufacturing costs.
- Analyze production efficiency for each manufacturing order operation.
- View work center loading for any range of dates.
- Analyze all work center conflicts for any range of dates.
- Resolve conflicts quickly and easily using drag and drop.
Bin Tracking
- Store items at unlimited physical locations
- Bin-sensitive items at multiple locations
- Automatic and deferred bin assignments
- Bin history logging
- Bin tracking reports
Serial/Lot Tracking
- MISys SBM Serial/Lot Tracking is a computer program designed specifically for users of the MISys Small Business Manufacturing System who need to track the serial number or lot number of the items they use or build.
Labor Tracker
- MISys SBM Labor Tracker is a utility program designed to work in conjunction with MISys Small Business Manufacturing. It is intended to capture the elapsed time employees spend working on specific jobs and production orders.
Bar Coding
- Easy to implement bar code collection system
- Seamless integration with existing MISys SBM database.
- Includes battery-powered portable collection device (PCD) with hand-held scanner.
- PCD is user-programmable for virtually any application.
- PCD pre-programmed for physical inventory and stock transaction applications.
- Used in portable mode for remote data collection.
- Used in non-portable mode for bar-code entry of MISys SBM transactions.
- Prints a selection of bar coded labels on standard Avery label stock.
- Installs a selection of new bar code enabled reports.
- Includes sample Code 39 TrueType font for use with labels and reports.
- is intended to capture the elapsed time employees spend working on specific jobs and production orders.
Material Requirements Planning
- Maintain a work calendar showing days when no production activities can occur.
- Create a Master Production Schedule (MPS) showing the net of current stock, open purchase orders, work orders, manufacturing orders, and sales orders†.
- Define MPS for any range of dates and locations.
- Manually schedule order releases to resolve shortages.
- Auto-schedule JIT function automatically schedules order releases to resolve shortages.
- Maintain and apply sales forecasts to future production schedules.
- Perform simulations to analyze the effect of future production scenarios.
- Create a Material Requirements Plan base on any selected MPS.
- Manually or automatically create purchase orders based on the MRP.
- Manually or automatically create manufacturing orders based on the MRP
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