• Votes

    5

    Allow item maintenance to track item/part revision number/letter.

    During the process of developing new products, we have parts that undergo various revisions during their life. At various times, purchasing must buy parts of differing ...
  • Votes

    8

    Add scrap postings and scrap posting accounts

    When entering scrap quantities during a labor step there should be an option to generate scrap postings in the GL for these entries. The entry to scrap would be the ...
  • Votes

    3

    Specify Labor Posting account at operation level or at least provide ...

    Manufactures often track labor by the operation being performed. Currently these accounts are set at the mfg item class. So if it takes five operations to produce a ...
  • Votes

    10

    Scrap percentages at component level

    Need the ability to enter scrap percentage at the component level that affect only that component. Currently scrap % can only be set at the labor step and it is ...
  • Votes

    4

    Seperate Qty precision for manufacturing modules

    Manufactures often use components at hich levels of decimal precision(s) .00235 units of a component but never purchase/sell items at 5 decimals. Customer should be ...
  • Votes

    13

    Allow the usage/issue of materials in various UOMs.

    Currently the routing defaults material to the stocking UOM. The system should allow the user to dictate the UOM (Any valid UOM from the conversion list) the material ...
  • Votes

    6

    Add the ability to fill text in the notes box for Progress Entry ...

    the notes box is available but text cannot be entered. It would be useful to be able to enter a reason for a progress return.
  • Votes

    10

    In MRP, do not consider current period Projected Demand if Start Date ...

    On the 'Options' tab in MRP, a Start Date must be set to identify the beginning of the MRP plan you are creating/running. If this date is set to a date in a future ...
  • Votes

    4

    Multiple quotations

    Necessary to relate/map multiple quotations to a Work Order since we have modifications and or improvements during the production process that need to be ...
  • Votes

    3

    Shift premiums

    Possibility of having more than just 3 logical shifts in order to link them to a group of employees within a shift with different attributes such as nightshift or ...
  • Votes

    6

    Cost allocation for multitasking employees

    Although MAS500 allows employees to log into multiple work orders and machines at the same time, the labour hours and cost do not split. Instead, the hours and hourly ...
  • Votes

    6

    Add the ability to split employee cost when they are signed into more ...

    When an employee is signed into multiple work orders, the system currently calculates using the run hrs * employee rate, thus overstating the cost. If they are signed in ...
  • Votes

    5

    Make Serial Number Mask/Generation warehouse specific

    Most times a serial number mask will include a designator for production location. The current MAS500 serial number mask is global. It needs to be at the warehouse ...
  • Votes

    10

    MRP / IR should be able to automatically set up PO's based on a ...

    We have ReDistribution business that orders in Truckload quantities. We would like IR / MRP to create PO's based on a standard order size (truckload). Each truckload ...
  • Votes

    13

    Improved tracking of Outside Processing (farm-out work).

    We have situations where we take components issued to a work order and send them out to a Vendor for machining/processing/testing. We accomplish this through the use of ...
  • Votes

    16

    Add the ability to delete a routing

    You should be able to delete a routing after deleting the work orders.
  • Votes

    14

    Material Scrap Improvement

    During our production process, some raw components of the produced item get scrapped while other raw components get reused. The current scrap process within MAS 500 only ...
  • Votes

    2

    Sort the MRP planned orders report by MRP Setting name

    Back on SQL 2000 the MRP planned orders report MRP setting drop down used to sort by MRP version. Due to an index change with SQL 2005 the report no longer sorts in any ...
  • Votes

    17

    Add a checkbox in MRP to allow for the exlusion of safety stock

    Sometimes you want to run MRP and just see what you need to make to get by and not see all of the items that are below their safety stock. Simply add a checkbox to the ...
  • Votes

    7

    Scheduling cannot schedule multiple jobs on the same machine ...

    Some of our machines are setup to run multiple parts at one time. Each part will of course have its own work order and the employee is logged into each. So at the end ...