The Intuitive ERP system is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software application designed specifically to meet the accounting and manufacturing needs of single or multi-plant, small mid-sized manufacturers, With sophisticated yet intuitive functionality, high levels of ease-of-use and rapid implementation, Intuitive ERP is a comprehensive solution with low total cost of ownership. Organized around standard manufacturing cycles, the Intuitive ERP system leverages your current business practices and provides for dramatic improvement in the control and management of your operations.

Plan Cycle
The Intuitive ERP is an advanced Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and flexible Bill of Material management are the power behind Intuitive ERP’s planning capability. Dynamic MRP? rapidly reviews master production schedules, sales forecasts and actual orders to give you flexibility in building your demand schedule. – Eliminate stock shortages, improve delivery performance and reduce in ventory costs with flexible order management and automatic conversion of planned orders. Make accurate delivery commitments with Available-to-Promise capability.

Buy Cycle
The Intuitive ERP for any manufacturing operation, purchased parts and raw material account for a significant business expense and have a great impact on cash flow. With the Buy Cycle, you manage all of your purchasing activities and transactions—from preferred vendor selection to entering bids, and purchase order entry to receiving, inspecting and invoice payment. Purchase order management includes the ability to convert planned Purchase Orders, accommodate outplant processing and create expense line items.

Make Cycle
The Make Cycle allows you to manage all of your work-in-process activities. Work orders are released, component materials are issued, labor is recorded, and work orders are closed, inspected and costed. Increased the productivity of your production staff with labor saving features such as First Issue, Automatic Labor and Material Backflushing. Increase shop floor accuracy and efficiency with real-time bar coding capabilities. Provides shop floor flexibility with rework, split, and group orders by project.

Inventory Cycle
Managing finished goods, work-in-process and raw material is one of the most important functions in your organization. Intuitive ERP provides a robust and structured inventory management system—everything you need to accurately control inventory transactions and manage costs. Check inventory status by item, location, product family and historical usage. Accurately control unique inventory with a multi-attribute item card”.

Business Intelligence System
The optional Intuitive ERP Business Intelligence Solution (BIS) enables you to gain critical insights into financial activity, sales analysis, and production and inventory management. BIS delivers key analytical information throughout your organization and gives you the power and knowledge to reduce inventory, increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Through the use of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and data warehouse technology, Intuitive ERP leverages the operational information stored in your ERP system.

E-Commerce
Intuitive Manufacturing System supports e-commerce with a broad range of technologies, giving you the options and power to decide when and how you will use the Internet. With Intuitive ERP you have a stable, robust product to address your current needs, and a platform on which to build your e-commerce infrastructure. Intuitive’s e-commerce solution incorporates four major elements to manage information:

EDI
Even with the growth of the Internet, many companies prefer the safety and stability of established EDI links. In use for almost 30 years, EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business documents between companies and/or plants, using the ANSI ASC X12 public standard. Its purpose is to reduce or eliminate the flow of paperwork and it is currently used by more than 100,000 businesses in North America alone.

Thin Client Computing – Though support of Microsoft? Windows Terminal Services (a component of the Windows 2000 platform), Intuitive ERP provides a thin-client computing environment. Terminal Services provide access to Windows-based applications by running them completely on a centralized Windows server via multiple simultaneous client sessions, The server manages all computing resources for each client. In addition, Terminal Services allows you to use low-cost, thin-client terminals, frequently used for personnel engaged in task-oriented activities.

WebRemote – Intuitive Manufacturing Systems leverages the power of the Internet to deliver remote access to Intuitive ERP. The WebRemote module included in Intuitive ERP opens up secured access to critical business reports and the sales order entry process from anywhere in the world, at any time of day or night through a simple Web browser. With WebRemote, sales representatives can enter orders directly over the Web and generate the same standard reports as on-site personnel.

WebApplications – The Intuitive ERP is the implementation of self-service applications leverages all aspects of Web technology. Self-service applications are those that empower remote users or trading partners to directly interact with your business systems, in many cases eliminating steps in the process. The Intuitive ERP architecture is designed to easily accommodate development of these applications and, using Microsoft Active Server Pages that interact directly with the SQL database, provide a truly integrated solution. With future product enhancements, customers will be able to enter their own sales orders or configure products they wish to purchase. You will also be able to quickly create a catalog of your parts, complete with pictures and prices, through an Intuitive ERP published catalog.

With WebRemote, sales orders can be entered in real-time, eliminating errors, reducing time and giving your customers greater confidence. All of this extended access to the system shortens the business cycle and provides remote employees with information that was not available to them before.

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