Aerospace
SYSPRO ERP supports the design, manufacture, operation, maintenance and/or repair of aircraft or aircraft parts, by seamlessly transacting so as to manage this highly regulated industry.
SYSPRO addresses the most common business challenges facing aerospace manufactures today with it’s fully integrated suite of offerings from the shop floor to the finance office. Whether your struggling with product quality, regulatory compliance, your supply chain, estimating and costing jobs, parts traceability, engineering change control, or production capacity planning, SYSPRO may have the right solution for you. Check out some key features and benefits listed below and please contact us if you have any questions.
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Business Needs
Control Product Design Changes
Centralized control and visibility over product life cycles with efficient management of design revisions.
- SYSPRO e.net Solution facilitates improved electronic collaboration ensuring all Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) participants work collaboratively to the same specifications
- Automatic updating of multi-level Bills of Material (BOM) for designs reduces double-entry and the margin for error
- SYSPRO Engineering Change Control (ECC) features enable the creation of user-defined workflows
Improve Electronic Collaboration with Trading Partners
Quick response times and accuracy in fulfilling orders are critical to your reputation in a diverse and demanding global market. Your larger customers and suppliers may look increasingly to closer collaboration to cut production timetables and minimize disruption to their supply chain.
SYSPRO automates and streamlines the order-to-delivery process, and provides complete visibility to an integrated view of all operations via secure electronic data interchange and collaborative commerce through features such as:
- CAD integration
- Document Flow Manager
- SYSPRO e.Net solutions
- EDI
- Office Automation and Messaging
- And various Business-to-Business purchase and sales import and export functions.
Improve Forecast Accuracy
SYSPRO Inventory, Inventory Optimization and Requirements Planning provide the tools to:
- Track and evaluate forecasts
- Help reduce forecast errors
- Manage seasonality
- Optimize inventories to meet customer service targets
Ensure Product Quality & Inspection
SYSPRO’s Quality Management System (QMS) enables product quality control by allowing the configuration of multiple measurement metrics, by item, in process, or on receipt (purchase or production). Acceptable tolerances as well as frequency for inspection are also configurable, with inspection rules configurable per customer, supplier, operation and work center with quality inspection points at Work in Progress Inspection, Purchase Order Receipting, Sales Order Inspection and Inventory Inspection.
These quality control checkpoints allow the collection of actual physical product data, to facilitate statistical process control, as well as provide an opportunity for simple material review in the event of a non-conformance, with the possible outcome of inventory reclassification or scrapping. Logs of all quality checks performed are held, including the details of the operators performing the check.
The advanced functionality provides the ability to escalate a quality issue or force quality actions to route into a material review board. The review board then has the facility to sanction the inventory action, such as approval or scrapping, and to record the relevant session details. Additional employee certification requirements for each product by checkpoint and operation are configurable and during all quality-related operations and reviews, this certification is recorded and used to determine if the operation at hand may continue.
Where a full QMS system is not required, quality checks may be implemented using the standard inspection facilities in the Work in Progress and Purchase Order modules. Purchased items can be flagged as requiring inspection so that during receipting, detailed records of counts, inspection, scrap, rejects and returns are recorded. Units in inspection are visible, but unavailable for use until accepted into stock. Similarly, SYSPRO’s Work in Progress inspection gives you the tools to inspect manufactured product quality and, depending on the results, select to receipt, scrap or rework quantities.
Manage Product and Part Traceability
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Part traceability from material origins through manufacture to final destination is a compliance-critical requirement in the industry. SYSPRO’s lot traceability and serial tracking functionality afford full visibility to the origins, build and sales destination of products, thereby providing the means to easily trace and analyze the source of defects, should they occur. |
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SYSPRO facilitates the recording of traceability and quality data on materials and products, from purchasing through inspection, manufacturing, manufacturing inspection, stocking and sales. Its serial tracking and lot traceability features provide powerful queries that enable both upward and downward searches by stock code, lot number/serial number and transaction type. |
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In addition, SYSPRO’s Engineering Change Control enables complete management and traceability of changes to product designs, while the Return Merchandise Authority module provides consistent handling of product returns, as well as analysis data for improvement programs. |
Synchronize Supply with Customer Demand
SYSPRO Blanket Sales Orders and Releases provides you with the tools to record contracts with your OEM customers and provides you with an accurate means of tracking and reconciling cumulative release quantities and converting them into sales order quantities. SYSPRO Blanket Sales Orders enable SYSPRO customers to easily update call-off schedules for their OEM clients, as well as reconcile the cumulative position against their OEM contracts.
Confirmed customer schedules, in turn, become an input for demand planning and ultimately, production and purchasing requirements linked to the relevant schedule requirement dates. SYSPRO’s Requirements Planning and Factory Scheduling provide you with the tools to implement LEAN principles, manage the replenishment process and ensure that you meet your OEM contract service levels.
Streamlined electronic collaboration with your OEM customers is facilitated through features such as Document Flow Manager, SYSPRO e.net solutions, EDI, Office Automation and Messaging, fax, email and various Business-to-Business import and export functions, thus reducing response time, margin for error and penalties associated with disruption to OEM production lines.
Identify and Respond to Seasonal Demand Patterns
You can choose to create forecasts at stock code/warehouse level, and if the Families and Grouping module is installed, you can aggregate your forecasts into user-defined groupings. A variety of forecast calculation methods are available, including the competition method, and the module also provides facilities to track the forecast quality. Additionally, you can select to manually forecast items which require market intelligence, while selecting to batch forecast all other items, and there are facilities that enable you to filter or adjust sales history for outliers and other abnormalities. Multi-level analysis of product performance is available, including at stock code, warehouse, product class, supplier, planner and buyer levels, as well as at user-defined group level if the Families and Groupings module is installed.
The approved forecast becomes the demand input to SYSPRO’s Material Requirements Planning system. This gives your planners and buyers visibility to the resources and actions required to meet the demand in the short, medium and long term.
Manage Customer Relationships and Service
The standard of service that you provide your customers makes all the difference in building solid relationships and gaining the competitive edge.
SYSPRO provides capabilities to manage these relationships to make better business decisions about expected customer, product and market activity. These include:
- SYSPRO’s Contact Management system caters for multiple contacts to be assigned to organizations and individuals with whom you deal. These can include your customers and suppliers, as well as entities such as charities and government departments.
- SYSPRO’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a powerful web based toolset providing you the tools to manage the track marketing campaigns, service issues, product returns, warranty and repair histories, quote and sales order information.
- Improve customer service levels with features such as available-to-promise and customer delivery performance reporting
- Historical sales data can easily identify buying patterns and preferences, and using this sales history in your forecasting can help identify trends and seasonal components of demand, thereby assisting you in calculating more accurate forecasts.
- SYSPRO’s pricing mechanisms give you flexibility to apply multi-dimensional pricing and discounting, or tailor these requirements to individual customers, without sacrificing profitability.
Manage Product Recalls
SYSPRO provides the capability for the secure storage and fast retrieval of reliable integrated information to enable quick extraction when a product or part recall is necessary. Multimedia capabilities enable the linking of relevant documentation and graphics to products and material, while custom forms facilitate the capture of essential traceability data relevant to your industry.
SYSPRO includes the facilities to trace items from component part origins to customer, and vice versa, as well as the ability to identify the processor of every transaction or data change associated with the item, via Electronic Signatures. Full upward and downward searches and extraction of the integrated traceability and data is provided by SYSPRO’s queries, and standard and user-defined reports.
Using SYSPRO’s powerful traceability features, you can confidently identify the source of defects and quality issues, and thus limit recalls to defective product only. This prevents the need for total product recall and the associated costs and reputation impact.
Key Features and Functions
Traceability
SYSPRO’s traceability enables you to maximize quality control through the tracking and replacement of any defective materials and manage product recalls efficiently and effectively.
Companies in highly regulated industries like Aerospace typically benefit from this level of traceability. It facilitates tracking material and movement through the receiving, manufacturing, assembly, inspection, stocking and final dispatch stages.
Blanket Purchase Orders
The purpose of these contracts is to allow a fixed price to be recorded for a specified period and/or volume, plus an agreed delivery schedule. With extensive querying and reporting capabilities, you can centrally manage anticipated deliveries and review supplier delivery performance.
SYSPRO’s Business-to-Business trading and e-commerce solution contract details can be exported into XML format for electronic exchange with trading partners.
Purchase Order Inspection
Change Control
Change control facilitates the revision to a drawing or design released by the engineering department. SYSPRO’s Engineering Change Control module helps you to control the changes to modify or correct a part and provides full workflow and tracking of change control activities.
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Materials Linked to Operations
By enabling you to indicate on which production operations components or raw materials are required, the material-to-operation tracking feature enables just-in-time material requirements planning. Material allocations are pegged to the start of the operation, rather than to the start of the job, thereby helping to reduce unnecessary inventory and work-in-progress.
Multi-Level Trial Kitting
It enables you to establish which jobs need to be raised through several levels of a structure as well as the purchasing requirements required to complete the build. All sub-assemblies and components are processed, multiplying the quantity per by the net requirement of the parent. This is then compared to the net quantities on hand to determine the shortages.
Work in Progress Inspection
Procurement Planning
Procurement planning in SYSPRO assists the buyer by providing end-to-end visibility of the procurement process. From supplier relationship management, to Order monitoring, to suggested forward ordering and changing in order to meet future requirements, to linking component ordering and outside service subcontracting directly to Work Orders and/or Sales Orders.
Component Where-Used
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SYSPRO’s Component Where-Used Query enables you to quickly establish exactly where a raw material or intermediary is used within a bill of material structure. It displays all finished products to which the item is attached, and includes details, such as the item’s sequence number, quantity relationship, part category and operation within the bill. |
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Within the Engineering Change Control module, you can use the Where-used Query program to identify all products affected by the raising of an engineering change order for all routes identified as being under engineering change control. |
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In addition, SYSPRO provides the BOM Replace Where-used program to enable you to quickly replace an item with a valid substitute component in those bills of material in which it is used, thereby helping you to streamline the introduction of product design changes. |
Serial Tracking
Serial tracking is designed to provide full tracking at transactional level for those items that have serial numbers assigned to them and that may carry a warranty. The serial numbers can either be unique per individual item or the same for a batch of items.
Customer Success Stories
Customer Success
AIR INDUSTRIES
Air Industries is a supplier to prime aerospace contractors around the globe and is one of only a handful of firms which meets all the compulsory standards required of such a vendor. Founded in 1951, Air Industries’ specialty is working with titanium as well as super alloys and a wide variety of other high-strength steels.
The Challenge
Air Industries’ mission is to ‘provide fasteners that exceed customers’ expectations and requirements’. The company’s hardware and software applications were ageing, and it decided to seek a new Enterprise system that could handle a rapidly expanding product line as well as stringent lot inventory and traceability requirements.
After a lengthy examination of available solutions, Air Industries opted for SYSPRO ERP. The reasons for selecting SYSPRO included the solution’s in-depth lot control capability, along with its seamless integration of Bills of Material, Purchasing, Work in Progress and Inventory Control, saving Air Industries numerous man hours.
One of the major results achieved by the new solution is the superior, up-to-date information flow to management, enabling more expedient decision-making. In addition, ‘drill down’ capabilities have significantly expanded the amount of available operational data and are helping to boost company profits.
Customer Success
OPTECH INCORPORATED
Optech Incorporated is the global market leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced laser-based surveying, mapping and imaging instruments.
The Challenge
The company looked to align accounting and manufacturing processes, conform with industry quality and compliance regulations, and get a better handle on their materials management
The Benefits
After selecting and implementing SYSPRO, Optech realized a number of significant benefits, including:
- Ability to conform to stringent compliance regulations – CSA, FM and ATEX certifications
- Ability to align warehouses with production process flow
- Accuracy and traceability
- Ability to easily track customer deliverables
- Timely invoicing
- Optimal accuracy of the overall component list for a product
- Ability to monitor labor and material efficiency against set standards
- Improved, streamlined processes
- Enterprise-wide financial reporting
To compete in the global – and extra-terrestrial – marketplace, Optech’s products must conform to stringent compliance regulations. The company’s quality management system facilitated the acquisition of CSA, FM and ATEX certifications. ATEX, in addition, requires Optech’s quality system to meet or exceed ISO 9002:2000 and prEN13980:2002. “The SYSPRO operating environment played a major role in assisting Optech to achieve these agency certifications,” says OpTech CFO, Elizabeth Carswell.
Customer Success
MACLEAN_FOGG COMPANY
The MacLean-Fogg Company is a worldwide enterprise with 23 North American manufacturing facilities, 11 international facilities, a workforce of more than 3,000 people and annual sales in excess of $800 million. MacLean-Fogg provides engineered metal and plastic components to the industrial, automotive, military and aerospace markets, as well as devices used in the transmission and distribution of power.
The Challenge
MacLean-Fogg Company needed to get current with their ERP systems and in 2014 after an extensive market review, decided to remain with SYSPRO. “Our head office is on JD Edwards, but it’s very expensive and more than we need. I did talk to one SYSPRO client who converted to a different ERP, but the controller told me that the new software wasn’t very good, and he was sorry they’d changed,” says Lilian Gauthier, MacLean-Fogg’s Controller.
Since its inception, SYSPRO has been focused on developing a single-source ERP solution. Based on best practices, much of SYSPRO’s underlying structure and logic has remained constant over time. This continuity, referred to as SYSPRO’s ‘single DNA’, makes it easier for businesses to learn new software features and to avoid disruption as they upgrade their ERP.
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