e-M-POWER

Sales Module

e-M-POWER Sales Module is a front-line tool in the revenue generation cycle. It is used by the sales department to maintain customer information, prepare quotations, process orders and coordinate the shipment of goods to customers. It also can monitor the projected shipment dates as well as how orders are filled.

Features Overviews

• Handles different lot size and pricing for each item within a single order
• Allows complex computation of product price using price tables
• Supports taxations, discount and charges
• Allows multiple shipments and partial shipment
• Handles foreign currencies at the transaction level
• Automatic conversion of quotation to sales order
• Keeps track of deposits
• Multiple shipment address
• Back-to-back purchase order or job order
• Supports different types of packaging
• Able to select items from different sales orders for shipment and invoicing
• Flexibility to amend sales order information even after the order has been confirmed
• Flexible handling of non-confirmed quantities, which can be cancelled or put on back-order

Analysis Report

• Sales Quotation
• Sales Order
• Delivery Note
• Summary: Sales by Customer
• Analysis: Sales Return, etc.

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Purchasing Module

e-M-POWER Purchasing Module is designed to streamline the operations of a purchasing department. It is used for maintaining vendor information, preparing purchase orders and processing goods received. Because of its capability to retain historical data, it can even recommend vendors based on criteria that specified.

Features Overviews

• Handles different lot size and pricing for each item within a single order
• Allows maintenance of suppliers' product catalogs and price lists
• Supports taxation, discount, and charges
• Allows multiple receipts and partial receipts
• Handling foreign currencies at the transaction level
• Defines and controls buyer authority
• Keeps track of deposits
• Incoming quality inspection for key items
• Purchase orders can be generated on material plan
• Supports purchase returns and reorder
• Allows one GRN to receive multiple purchase orders
• Flexibility to amend purchase order information even after the order has been confirmed
• Flexible handling of non-confirmed quantities, which can be cancelled or put on back-order
• Full inspection and sampling inspection can be found in AQL Sampling, built-in MIL-105E standard.

Analysis Report

• Purchase Requisition
• Purchase Order
• Purchase Inspection Form
• Analysis: Vendor Shipment Performance
• Schedule: PO Receipts by Date
• Goods Received Note, etc.

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Inventory Module

e-M-POWER Inventory Module is designed to manage the store-rooms. It keeps track of stock movements and provides valuable information for deciding when, what, and from whom to order. Reservation applies to current on-hand inventory and can be cancelled as appropriate. Cycle counting enables the store keeper to discover quantity discrepancy and possible management problem at its earliest instance.

Features Overviews

• Maintains items, item groups, and storage bin information
• Defines unit conversions
• Processes inventory receipt, issuance, transfer, and adjustment
• Manages reservation lists from sales or job requirements
• Maintains record for WIP materials at each branch
• Maintains item cost at each store location
• Supports moving average and standard costs
• Improves stock accuracy by implementing cycle counting

Analysis Report

• Stock Receipt
• Item: Transaction Details
• Location-Item: Inventory Valuation
• Stock Aging Analysis Report-Item Group, etc

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Production Module

e-M-POWER Production Module is the core of the manufacturing system as it defines production and materials specifications, then coordinates production jobs and material movements. It is used for job order registration and job scheduling, as well as material requirement planning. When materials are allocated to a job, the purchasing department is notified for the requisition of new materials. In order to coordinate production jobs effectively, dispatching functions are also provided for instance, material issue to the shop floor.

Features Overviews

• Defines manufacturing facilities and capabilities by specifying operations, work centers, and assembly lines
• Defines product specifications, bill of materials, routing, and byproduct
• Processes engineering change and global execution of change
• Maintains work center and factory calendar
• Conforms to APICS MRP-II standards
• Supports MPS (Master Production Schedule)
• Processes materials plan (MRP) and capacity plan (CRP) with planning horizon
• Allows the adjustments of plans before order releasing
• Generates action messages for planners
• Converts plans into purchase orders and job orders
• Support materials kit issuance and work ticket issuance
• Accounts for material spares issues, return, transfer, scrapped consumption
• Calculates the cost difference in job order
• Support subcontract handling

Analysis Report

• Job Order
• Material Picking List
• Job Materials Movement History
• Job Gross Profit Analysis
• Work Completion Report
• Material Requirement Summary
• Production Output History
• Print Production Inspection
• Print Rework, etc.

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Mold Management Module

e-M-POWER Mold Module is mainly developed for Plastic and Metal manufacturing industries. The major features are to computerize the circular material processes and utilized the status of machine scheduling in production.

Features Overviews

• Keeps track of work center/machine information, such as operation schedule and production cost
• Keeps history of mold information, such as mold usage, mold/machine matching and material usage
• Production planning according to mold and formulae
• Keeps track of the production status according to machine and material
• Material issue based on mold order
• Comprehensive reporting for analysis

Analysis Report

• Product/Materials Registration Form
• Operations Specifications Form
• Indented Production Cost
• Analysis: BOM Comparison Report
• Engineering Change Notice
• ECN Activation Materials: Related Order, etc.

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Finance Module

e-M-POWER Finance Module is designed to manage financial resources. This includes classification and automatically take-up of financial data from other modules. It is a multi-currency accounting system with special emphasis on costing and analysis. It consists of the General Ledger, and two subsidiary ledgers, namely Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

Analysis Report

• Vendor Invoice Registry
• Payment Voucher
• Payables Aging Report
• Cash Requirement Report, etc.

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ACCPAC Interface

Background

Compare to the scale of an ERP system, implement an accounting system is a lot easier to the manufacturers. This could be the reason why many of the manufacturing companies have already had an accounting system (e.g. ACCPAC or Kingdee) in place. General speaking, most users would like to keep using their existing accounting system due to several reasons. For example, they have got used to the current system and resist to adapt to new functions or new technology; a lot of tailor-made reports have been built which only can work with the current system; they cannot afford the downtime and effects brought by the system changeover period; or they have to comply with headquarter policy etc.

In order to minimize the data entry work and avoid human mistakes, it is better to have an export function which can generate accounting data from the ERP system to a compatible format like Excel for importing to the finance system.

Solution

For clients using ACCPAC 4.2 or above, ISL can provide a solution for them without additional customization cost. e-M-POWER has a built-in function called "ACCPAC Interface" which has been launched since version 3.0. This function can generate AR, AP and GL transactions to an Excel file which is compatible with ACCPAC import file format. That means users can use this file directly and avoid duplicated entry work after they have completed Sales Shipment or Goods Receipt transactions in e-M-POWER.

Apart from this, e-M-POWER also provides the "rollback" function and several audit trail reports for user to keep track of the export history.