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03 Modules & more
An ERP system from a single vendor can be the only system in use by a company or a part, a component, of the entire ERP solution of a company that use several vendors. Each ERP system is conceived as a group of modules, that interact with information flow between the modules ou exporting and importing data between different solutions.
Details
In order to evaluate one module, for this exercise the Manufactuing module, the approach is to configure the module and identify the interaction with others modules as well the difficulties or pecularities during the task execution.
Module Configuration
Setting up a Manufacturing module require a keen eye on details, but sometimes not so detailed in order to avoid complications.
The sequence to setup the module on my testing axelor ERP instance is the following:
- Setup Country, City, Company information
- Create workshop, in Kartano Tech Oy case is the PCB Workshop, Metal Workshop and Assembly Workshop
- Add cancel reasons, during setup I do not know what is the need of such Cancel Reasons, I considered as issues in production that could cancel an order
- Product approvals, in this item I created inspection step that will approve the product, to be validated at the end.
- Machine types. In this case I added twelve type of machines that are necessary to create PCB "Printed Circuit Boards"
- Machines. Here I added the machine that is producing according each manufacturing step. Each machine belong to a Machine Type group.
- Work Centers. Here machines are grouped in order to produce the product, also capacity and costing settings are defined. I will need to return to this settings after adding products to the system, as this information is necessary to define the process cost.
Creating orders
Still some configurations are empty or not clear what are the requirements, by checking the documentation I decide to follow the manual flow and configure the product.
Integration
Several occasions during the configuration of the Manufacturing module the system show messages requesting to setup another module in order to continue the configuration or even to use the manufacturing module to create a work order.
The example below ilustrate the message when I was trying to create a work order, then the system require a product to be created and during the product creation that can be on the Manufacturing module or in the Stock Management module, the system show a message requesting to configure the Stock Management module.
