Access FactoryMaster MRP - 2024 Pricing, Features, Reviews, & Alternatives

Access FactoryMaster MRP brings significant improvements to your material requirements planning and ensures your business is fit for growth.

You can choose a low-impact modular roll-out to focus on the improvements you need today, while planning for what you want to add later by switching on optional modules as your business grows.

Total traceability up and downstream:

• Trace every individual element in the production cycle back to source and show an audit trail at every stage from goods in to delivery.

• Identify every batch, component or raw material movement, including when it was produced or arrived on site, who accepted it, and final point of delivery.

• See who inspected an item prior to use within the production environment, and who gave approval at each stage of production.

• Follow a complete audit trail from start to finish and instantly source evidence, including POs, delivery notes and inspection reports.

• Easily identify a non-conforming part, which batch it came from, when it was produced, which products has it been used in and where are these now.

• The ‘Quality Tree’ feature helps you keep all your certificates of conformity and associated quality documents in one place, against the finished batch.

• Accommodate multilevel assemblies and multiple components.

MRP and Purchasing:

The software controls all the key functions demanded in manufacturing. Central to this is the software automates the process for you.

No more manual calculations:

• Import your sales orders from your customers into the software (either manually or automatically if digital).

• Check existing stock levels.

• Check lead times of any purchases to meet delivery and machine deadlines.

• Raise POs and email to suppliers.

• Running the MRP minimises stock levels and WIP, improves cash flow and schedules, and gives you an automatic audit trail for traceability.

• Log the time workers spend on and off jobs.

• Access product drawings and images from the screens to check goods meet the design specifications and make sure teams understand what is required.

• Store detailed training documents to make sure only employees qualified to use machines and other equipment do so.

• Improve stock management and create robust audit trails by issuing and returning components to works orders.

• Record when unmanned machines start and stop, logging quantities produced.

Quality assurance and management:

• Meet the highest quality standards required in UK and European manufacturing and prove compliance

with both your customers’ QA and ISO 9000.

• Generate regular reports to support evidence-based decision making for continuous improvement.

• Achieve consistent results and more accurate forecasts by linking all processes, from orders and stock

management to production and dispatch.

• Control non-conformity in materials and components to eliminate defects in the manufacturing process.

• Manage relationships with customers and sub-contractors to measure performance and provide feedback.

• Track logistics performance and view the order process from the customer’s perspective using the On Time In Full (OTIF) reporting function.

• Produce delivery and quality graphs and reports using standard SC21 metrics (defence and aerospace industries).

Shopfloor data capture:

• Accurately capture the time spent on each stage of the manufacturing process using a touchscreen.

• Log the time workers spend on and off jobs.

• Access product drawings and images from the screens to check goods meet the design specifications and make sure teams understand what is required.

• Store detailed training documents to make sure only employees qualified to use machines and other equipment do so.

• Improve stock management and create robust audit trails by issuing and returning components to works orders.

Real-time management insight:

Access MRP gives you comprehensive, scannable and accurate management reports in real-time.