Beas Manufacturing for SAP Business One

The MRP Wizard calculates material requirements from sales orders, forecasts, minimum stock and current stock (blocked stock excluded) and creates purchase and production recommendations. MRP2 shows resource workload against capacity per scenario.

• MRP scenarios
• Purchase and production recommendations
• MRP2 load against capacity, overload flagged

During the APS calculation, Beas checks whether an alternative resource defined on the routing operation would give faster production and replaces the resource automatically. Planners can also switch alternative resources manually in APS or on the work order.

• Alternative resources on the routing operation
• Enabled on resource, resource group and alternative
• Manual switch in APS or work order

The resource calendar holds period exceptions that overwrite planned capacity, each with a reason. The Maintenance of Resources and Components module adds preventive and predictive maintenance plans and creates interruptions that APS considers when scheduling.

• Dated capacity exceptions with a reason
• Preventive and predictive maintenance plans
• Shifts cannot run over midnight

Right-click a sales order or quotation line to estimate a possible delivery date by forward resource scheduling, checking resource and material availability for the assembly and its order-related sub-structure. CTP uses APS; ATP is for companies without an APS licence.

• From the sales order or quotation line
• Checks resources and material
• Based on the last MRP run

The routing manages the sequence of operations on internal work centres or external providers, using the routing catalogue, operation catalogue, production routing, alternative and parallel operations, and tools.

• Routing and operation catalogues
• Alternative and parallel operations
• Internal and external operations

Items can be version-managed, and bills of materials support item versions. The item version status manages release: it defines whether the bill of materials, routings and work orders can be changed, and controls locking, sales and purchase documents, reservations, material planning and work orders. Version numbers are carried on goods receipts for batch and serial items.

• Bills of materials per item version
• Release and locking through item version status
• Carried on batch and serial goods receipts

Beas produces product variants using short variants A–Z, item versions, or the variant generator, which evaluates formulas, tables, variables or Beas Script behind BoM and routing fields when work orders or calculations are created.

• Short variants A–Z
• Item version method
• Variant generator with formulas and tables

Configures products from a quotation or sales order (right-click “Configuration: New”), generating item, BoM and routing variants, price calculation, precalculation and multilevel work orders. Integrated and WEB variants exist.

• Started from quotation or sales order
• Generates item, BoM and routing variants
• Price calculation and precalculation

Creates new work orders from customer orders or pre-invoices in one window, with “Order related” and “Storage related” tabs listing order-related assemblies against their work orders.

• From sales orders or pre-invoices
• Order-related and storage-related tabs
• Assemblies listed against work orders

Schedules and monitors orders with tasks, budgets, activities, purchase, sales and service per project. Adding a project creates a work order; milestones mark checkpoints in routings with plan and milestone dates.

• Tasks, budgets and activities
• Work order created with the project
• Milestones in routings

Outsources operations to a supplier as a service item on a purchase order, optionally with provision of parts. Supports collective purchase orders, goods receipt, and posting of provided parts against the work order.

• Service item on a purchase order
• Provision of parts to the supplier
• Provided parts posted against the work order

Employees log on with a personnel card number and report work order times, statuses and quantities on PC terminals or browser-based WebApps on touch screens, tablets and handheld devices.

• Beas Desktop Terminal and Beas WebApps
• Log-on by personnel card number
• Times, statuses and quantities

Shows the current status of all work orders (new, delayed, to start, finished today, material shortage), real-time progress by operation, and resource status and utilisation.

• Work order status lists
• Real-time progress by operation
• Resource status and utilisation

Maintains tools and utilities, records costs, stores drawings and documents, and enters tool requirements through the routing. Tool types range from utility to tool with resource planning that is reserved.

• Tool master with costs and documents
• Tool requirements on the routing
• Reserved tools with resource planning

Manages personnel, shift models, attendance and absence, and runs monthly time evaluation to calculate vacation and flextime accounts. Time is recorded through the Desktop Terminal App or the web “Terminal” and “Time Recording” apps.

• Shift models
• Attendance and absence
• Monthly time evaluation

QC-inspection plans on items and routing operations create QC orders. Goods post to a QC warehouse and are released or blocked by transfer, and batch status controls release. Four-eyes principle and electronic signature are supported.

• QC-inspection plans on items and operations
• QC warehouse, release or block
• Four-eyes principle and e-signature

Creates cost estimates from Sales – A/R, linked by reference number to quotations and sales orders, using a calculation schema, with variant and configuration ID, change tracking and lot-size views.

• Linked to quotations and sales orders
• Calculation schema
• Lot-size views

Resources carry marginal and full cost rates. Calculation schemas add material overhead (by material group) and production overhead in per cent, and define which WIP accounts are posted. Time receipts and surcharges post to WIP, cleared on assembly receipt.

• Marginal and full cost rates per resource
• Material and production overhead %
• WIP account postings

Part of the Business Performance module. Time receipts post labour and machine costs to direct cost centres; indirect cost centres and cost pools, such as maintenance, supervision and quality control, are distributed to them by distribution keys and carried into products. Goods are revalued, open values of unfinished production orders are handled at month-end, sub-assembly costs are redirected to the products that consumed them, and recommended cost rates are produced for resources.

• Direct and indirect cost centres, cost pools and distribution keys
• Revaluation of goods and month-end handling of unfinished orders
• Recommended cost rates for production resources

Post-calculation per work order calculates accrued and planned costs, marginal and full costs, with a plan/target comparison. Batch post-calculation calculates several work orders at once.

• Accrued against planned cost
• Marginal and full cost
• Batch post-calculation across work orders

Beas sends material requests to Produmex WMS for picking with the Mobile Client, and WMS confirms picks for reservation. Production goods issue and receipt, SSCC and QC transfer are supported.

• Picking for production
• Production issue and receipt
• SSCC and QC transfer

Changes Beas window behaviour: adds function buttons and right-click entries, adds or changes fields, sets fields mandatory, hidden or read-only through the Item Placement Tool, and defines data validations.

• Function buttons and right-click entries
• Item Placement Tool
• Data validations

Imports items, BoMs, routings, master data and transaction data (working hours, attendance, receipts, issues) from XML, Excel, text/CSV or ODBC sources, manually or scheduled, including CAD BoM import and PDM synchronisation.

• XML, Excel, CSV and ODBC sources
• Manual or scheduled imports
• CAD BoM import and PDM synchronisation

Defines events in SAP or Beas that trigger a B1 message, B1 activity, Beas activity or user-defined action, with up to three decision options. Events can block operations and chain actions into workflows.

• Triggers B1 messages and activities
• Up to three decision options
• Can block operations

A ChatGPT-based chat opened from the Production Cockpit that creates work orders, time receipts and goods receipts and issues, and retrieves data from Beas work orders or any SAP B1 table as tables or SQL.

• Opened from the Production Cockpit
• Creates work orders and receipts
• Retrieves Beas and SAP B1 data