M@ch is a modular and integrated application solution suited for commercial, administrative and production planning and scheduling, expressly designed for manufacturing companies.

Integrated upstream to CAD applications and to a predefined master production plan (MPS), M@ch supports production and work orders scheduling, proposing a Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP II), where production orders are split into work orders, from the item’s routings definition. Shop floor control is achieved via direct connection to plant machinery.

Downstream, production order fulfillment and costs control are also available. Furthermore, a set of modules for CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Business intelligence, Plant machinery maintenance (PMM) are also available in the M@ch suite.

Easily installed worldwide, the software is multilingual, multicurrecy and multicompany. Using M@ch it is possible to know at any moment the status of a single production order/item, internally manufactured or at third party processing, the WIP (work in progress) cost, time to date for production in any step, and all other information related to machines and operators.

• ITEM MASTER FILE
  Basic module, supporting the management of all items and their related information: prerequisite of all other modules.


• WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
  Supports merchandise handling, stock keeping and all related operations.


• PRODUCT COST MANAGEMENT
  Supports costs analysis: simulation patterns and ex-post verification are supplied.


• MATERIALS REQUIREMENT PLANNING
  Supports classical MRP process, connected to MPS, allowing just in time production and kanban use. Continuous, redundant or per-customer batches are supported.


• PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
  Supports the resource planning, using MRPII techniques as finite of infinite capacity, allowing simulation and adjustment of planned workload.


• SHOP FLOOR CONTROL
  Supports continuous monitoring of production status, allowing direct link to plant machinery for real time data acquisition.


• BUYING MANAGEMENT
  Supports the purchase processing, interconnected to MRP proposals, allowing complete supplier orders handling from issue to invoice control.


• THIRD PARTY WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT
  Supports all external activities with subcontractors. Linked to MRP and shop floor control, allows planning and monitoring of these resources.


• QUALITY CONTROL
  Supports tracking of inbound and outbound flow of materials, in relation to their quality.


• POST SALE SERVICE
  Supports the management of all activities connected to Package installation and maintenance (inside or outside warranty period), after the initial sale. This module is strictly related to quality control at the customer company.


• CUSTOMERS OFFERS MANAGEMENT
  Supports the complete life cycle of customers offers, from issue to their completion. Also a catalogue of offers is maintained. The module is strictly connected to Microsoft Word software, allowing high integration of texts and the company’s product definition templates.


• CUSTOMER ORDERS MANAGEMENT
  supports customers orders life cycle, from initial handling to fulfillment. It’s linked to MRP (upstream) and Invoicing (downstream) modules.


• DELIVEY AND INVOICING
  Supports the final steps of the production process, that is delivery notes issuing, invoicing, notes of credit, provisions to agents. A set of analytics completes the module.

• impact on costs: complete control creates a "glass supply chain", from production to final delivery, with flexible performance to support seasonality issues.
  
  
• impact on revenue: optimal outlook on purchases and on customer orders entails a high level of service, customer satisfaction, and sales enhancement. The overall perspective obtained using M@ch creates a unified vision of the company in terms of data and events, supporting decisions and decreasing the time to market.
  
  
• impact on strategy: fast and accurate analysis of data collected by M@ch, helps control budgets and more accurate planning.
  

Opportunities
Enhancements in management allows company expansion in new markets, improve quality of personnel, more efficiency and effectiveness while serving customers.

Return on investment
Improving work organization in a dynamic, unstructured, heterogeneous, environment always operating in narrow time frames (organization vs. fluidity) arranging work for flexibility, adaptability, information system reactivity, in a context with high variability of processes and products (variability vs. structure). The solution will pay itself in just a few months of usage.