{"id":8121,"date":"2016-04-09T19:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanufacturingtoday.com\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:34:43","slug":"fabrication-and-erp-benefits-of-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/fabrication-and-erp-benefits-of-working-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrication\u00a0and ERP: Benefits of Working Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Connecting your entire organization makes good sense for any business, and fabrication shops are no exception. Managers are more effective when they can see all operations, from design to distribution, in one system. This leads to faster decision-making, more efficient processing and fewer mistakes. That\u2019s why more and more manufacturing companies are connecting their manufacturing solutions to enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pre-manufacturing vs. post-manufacturing<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest problems that arise when fabrication solutions are not connected to ERP software is mismanagement of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside-ERP<\/a> notes that a good ERP application can effectively manage raw materials, product inventory and order fulfillment throughout the pre-manufacturing and post-manufacturing stages. This optimizes your materials usage by ensuring that the right amount of raw materials is used to fill every order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERP solutions make communication easier because everybody is talking to everybody. Distribution, for example, can see that all the parts necessary for a particular product have been produced, and if they haven\u2019t, with a simple click of a button, distribution can communicate to production exactly what parts need to be tooled and cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERP systems don\u2019t just connect departments to other departments; they also connect manufacturing shops to their network of suppliers<\/a>. It\u2019s a failsafe that opens up other avenues of deliverability when one of the suppliers within the network can\u2019t deliver materials on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lean and mean is the new green<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliminating waste through lean manufacturing has always been cost efficient. But connecting manufacturing to ERP makes manufacturing shops lean in a number of additional ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n