Particularly in production companies, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze and plan all production steps and resource capacities very precisely in order to achieve the maximum possible utilization and productivity.
The production framework is the secure foundation for planning and controlling your production. With this, you have a comprehensive production solution with planning and control functions for made-to-stock, made-to-order, order, variant, and process production, even in complex hybrid forms. In this process, Comarch ERP Enterprise will support all relevant concepts on all activity layers such as make-or-buy decisions, kanban, or just-in-time, as well as discrete or segmented manufacturing, and production based on batches or serial numbers.

The production framework supports you, among other things, with the following functions:

• Basic functions
• Management and control of resources and capacities
• Machines, tools, employees, as well as supply and disposal services (like power or water)
• Flexible shifts and working time models
• Resource capacities, utilization, and allocation, including with graphical depiction
• Resource availability
• Parameters for resources and work processes
• Bills of materials, specifications (formulations)
• Comprehensive specifications can be used: substitutions, conditions, and formulas
• Operations, routings
• Reservations, material availability
• Co-products and by-products
• Where-used lists including substitution function
• Production methods
• Structure views
• Scheduling of orders
• Backwards
• Forwards with or without capacity limit
• High level of flexibility: production can be adjusted individually to company's specific requirements
• From made-to-stock right up to made-to-order production
• Process industries can be depicted
• Flexibility: many individual descriptions for products with low complexity or few though extensive descriptions for many products at higher level
• Production control
• Production orders
• Manual entry, creation from planning or transfer by interface
• Material withdrawals including optional picking
• Receipts of goods for production issues
• Operations postings
• Multi-faceted production documents
• Production planning via Material Requirements Planning framework functionalities
• Calculation of MRP planning (APS) at cyber speed
• Capacity queries
• Scheduling
• Graphical depiction of planning results
• Consideration of lot sizes
• Product calculation
• According to production and/or cost accounting
• Based on master production data or based on calculation schemas with any number of calculation lines; by using formulas, complex calculations can be depicted
• Variant/alternative calculations
• Top-down analysis of calculation results
• Cost allocation for co- and by-products
• Calculation results can automatically be included as billing prices in the item master data
• Protocols of supply and disposal expenses
• Various, multi-faceted evaluations possible
• Detailed information available for cost accounting and operational controlling