Manufacturing & Beyond
Streamline your business with our robust manufacturing system designed from the ground up for the bedding industry.
Manufacturing and Beyond is a complete manufacturing solution, designed by bedding manufacturers with today’s bedding industry in mind. It starts with a configuration tool that allows the designer to build a recipe (model) and then explode the bill of materials into separate inventory items for each bed size.
As customers request these items, the orders are added to a daily schedule which drives the production process. Bar-coded media is produced for each serialized piece to help track it through the operations on the manufacturing floor. Detailed information about the status of orders and individual items can be viewed at any time during the production process. On the manufacturing floor, a .NET-powered browser-based solution provides clear instructions to employees as they scan each piece through the production operations. This full-screen graphical interface also enforces FR lot number collection and includes pictures, multi-lingual prompts, and a running total of the day’s pay for piecework employees.
Completed pieces are bagged and scanned onto trucks using this same web interface, and employees can be paid piecework rates for these operations as well. Once a truck is loaded, the process comes full-circle back to the billing department as orders are finalized and paperwork generated for the entire load in one combined process.
Key Areas
Models
Create and explode models into different sizes, experiment with costs before comitting changes, and multi-level Bill of Materials support for reporting and global changes.
Scheduling
Schedule by order number, route and more, automatically create Loads and Delivery Schedules, and flexible last-minute order changes.
Manufacturing
Time-clock control, automatic piecework split pay, and integrated Lot Tracking.
Shipping
Create Loads on-the-fly, one-button bill of lading and invoice generation, and short shipments easily resolved to backorders, stock, or cancel.
Models
Scheduling
Manufacturing
Shipping
Browser functions

We also provide browser based production inquiry functions. For example, the factory supervisor can walk the shop floor using a tablet device (such as an iPad) and determine what may be holding up order completion. Each serial number shows the last operation scanned, so a given piece can be tracked through each stage of production. Date and time for all operations for each serial number may be viewed, as well as a list of employees who performed each operation. If subassembly production is required, the status of subassemblies can also be viewed from this screen.