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CMS System Modules
CMS consists of seventeen (17) integrated Base System Modules, nine (9) optional modules, and two (2) add-on modules and submodules, which provide for a comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning solution.
Base System Modules
Sales Order Entry / Option Processing
Customer and Pricing Management
Sales Analysis
Bill of Materials / Formula Management
Workcenters and Routes
Inventory Management
Cycle Counting
Warehouse Location Management
Lot/Serial Number Tracking
Production Planning
Shop Floor Control
Purchasing & Receiving
Vendor and Price Management
Costing and Cost Modeling
General Ledger and Budgeting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Optional System Modules
Engineering Change Tracking
Fixed Assets
Project Costing
G/L Export
Warranty Return Administration
Multi-Currency
Quotations / Estimating
CMS Data Automation
AutoCAD Interface
Core / Remanufacturing Management
CMS Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
CMS Base System Modules
- On-line shipment 'feasibility' with instant product availability
- Support of split shipments, trade discounts, freight charges, etc.
- Size Runs (auto-line generation matrix)
- Export order handling and pro formas
- Sales Commission and Sales Tax calculation
- Multiple Ship-To's / Bill-To's
- Shipment Scheduling and 'Pre-invoicing'
- Full Option Processing / Configuration Management at order entry
- Unlimited Levels and Option Replacements
- Option Routes - route steps tailored per selected parts
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- Specials, Quantity Discounts, and Price Effectivity
- Automatic pricing based on item, quantity, customer, and 'seasonal price'
- Customer credit and history tracking
- NSF recording, and credit-hold management
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- User-defined query screens & reports
- All Bookings and Shipment data captured
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- N-levels, N-versions, with effectivity date control
- Scrap or loss/yield per usage
- By-product, Phantom/Pseudo, Planning Bill support
- Tooling control
- Component usage to routing step
- Comprehensive 'approval/sign-off'
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- Finite or infinite capacity scheduling
- User-define 'units-of-work', calendars, and capacity by workcenter
- Preventive maintenance scheduling and tracking
- Multiple route versions and alternates
- Move/Queue, setup and run times
- Overlapping/decoupled/concurrent operations and shift differentials
- Yield or loss/scrap, and conversion factor by operation
- Outside vendor processing
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- On-line, real-time, 'PIP' management
- Full audit trail of inventory movement detail and history
- Lot-specific transactions (quantity and cost)
- Customer/Manufacturer cross referencing
- Alternate parts and user-defined units of measure
- Comprehensive exception and detailed reporting and inquiries
- Dynamic Re-order Point/Safety Stock control
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Cycle Counting
- Flexible count assignment and count frequency cycles
- Count resource analysis
- Simulation of count and resources
- Detailed count results and history
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- Accessible from all inventory transaction functions
- Unlimited locations with multiple parts / lots per location
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- Optional usage, with user-defined number and length format
- Trace from any starting point up or down to the sources or uses of materials
- Lot records are built automatically as transactions occur, with users automatically prompted for serial number entry
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- Unique, real-time, demand-driven process with true 'What-if' simulations
- Finite or infinite capacity planning with 'forward and backward' scheduling
- Automatic checking for alternate parts and workcenters
- Full pegging of demands to production
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- Full on-line, real-time job costs and analysis
- Production variance reporting
- Critical ratio workcenter dispatching
- Job travelers and pick lists
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- Auto generation of 'buy order' advices
- "MRO" and "Purchase Job" management
- On-line vendor performance review and analysis
- Receipt distribution capabilities
- Quality rejection analysis
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- Multiple vendor pricing and quantity discounts
- Multiple 'Purchase Units of Measure' by vendor, by item
- 'Date Sensitive' pricing and lead times, by item and vendor
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- G/L account defaults by lot or by part
- Eleven inventory valuation methods by part
- Up to twelve user-defined cost elements (actual and standard)
- Full roll-up costing with unlimited cost sets (cost scenarios)
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- Full, real-time integration with CMS modules
- Detailed audit trails for all G/L transactions
- Fiscal or calendar year structures
- 12 or 13 periods with user-defined multiple step year-end closing
- Standard ('recurring') journal entries with optional automatic reversals
- On-line balance checking
- Standard or user-defined financial statements
- Monthly or yearly budgets by account
- Comparison to budget with percentage variance reporting
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- 3-way matching with reconciliation of price/quantity variances
- On-line analysis of vendor account status in summary or detail
- Detailed aging and cash analysis
- 'Recurring' payable generation
- Automatic distribution to multiple expense accounts
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- On-line reporting of credit limit, sales history, payment history, outstanding order balances, and dynamic aging
- Multiple Bill-To's and Ship-To's
- User-defined payment terms and grace periods
- 'Open Item' or 'Balance Forward' accounting
- Payments applied automatically or manually to invoices
- 'Dunning' notices
- 'Recurring' receivable billings
- Supports sales returns, credit memos, cash sales, automatic finance charge calculation, direct sales, and adjustments
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CMS Optional System Modules
- Tracks all requests and status
- User-defined approvals and authority
- Status reporting
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- Provides depreciation status on all fixed assets
- Nine methods of depreciation including: ACRS, MACRS, AMT Tax Tables
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- Capture transaction records in 'accordion file', for purchases and sales revenues
- Integrated with Planned Inventory Position (PIP)
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G/L Export
- Export of G/L posting information to corporate-based CMS or 3rd party GL system
- Batch control & "non-GL" information; i.e., quantities, categories, jobs, etc.
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- Manage warranty records by customers and end-users
- Manage return authorizations
- Printed RA notifications/receipts
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- Gain/loss posting with auto-reversing entries
- Currency exposure and fluctuation reporting
- Vendor and customer pricing by currency
- Multiple rate tables - Purchasing, Sales, Financial
- Price books by currency
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- Quote line can be based on estimate, option processing, or production item
- Feasibility testing for production
- Quick cut-over to sales order
- Estimating for engineer-to-order, with cost and price analysis, and BOM and routing integration
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- Provides a host-based bar code enabled data collection solution for the shop floor, inventory, shipping, and receiving areas
- Easily accommodates various "RF" based data collection devices
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- Provides a two-way interface to AutoCAD to update CMS BOM and part master files from AutoCAD and export CMS information to AutoCAD
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- Complete "core banking" features and core value tracking
- Support for "tear-down" jobs
- Core eligibility tracking
- Auto-application and real-time GL posting to core bank accounts
- Auto-generate "drop-off" invoices or credit memos, with multiple billing policies
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CMS Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Supports sales order entry, acknowledgment, and invoicing
- Compliment's EDI ANSI-X12 compliant in-house package, or service provider
- Requires X12 translation from or to CMS 'standard ASCII transaction format'
- CMS customer records indicate EDI trading partners and/or providers with required data for receipt/transmission
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