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ARBUTUS ANALYZER
Data Analysis in Manufacturing...
A Few of the Ways You can Put Arbutus Analytics to Work in Manufacturing
- Stock &
Inventory Control - Work In
Progress - Purchase Order
Management - Cash
Disbursements
Stock & Inventory Control
- Statistically analyze usage and ordering to improve turnover
- Report on stock and high value balances using any selection
- Summarize and stratify turnover by stock item in any order
- Test for duplicate parts, item numbers, prices, or descriptions
- Identify obsolete inventory by sorted turnover analysis
- Isolate and analyze high value transactions by value, group, etc.
- Identify starting and ending period balances by class or group
- Report on products in order of profitability (low-high, high-low)
- Automatically summarize products by group, location, type, etc.
- Analyze the difference between standard costs and actual costs
- Isolate stock lines where the cost is greater than retail price
- Extract products with zero quantities or zero prices
- Check product reordering volume by item, warehouse, or vendor
Work In Progress
- Generate comparison of planned vs. actual labor, material, and time
- Merge products on work orders and sales orders for net demand analysis
- Summarize pending work orders by size and/or priority, for release to shop floor
- Compare actual costs for a job to standard costs, detail, or variances
- Age work orders to identify potential problem areas
Purchase Order Management
- Extract pricing and receipt quantity variations by vendor and purchase order
- Track scheduled receipt dates versus actual receipt dates summary and detail
- Isolate purchase order types (blanket, release, drop-ship) for audit tracking
- Identify duplicate purchase orders or receipts without purchase orders
- Correlate purchase orders with jobs or projects in process
- Reduce inventory by comparing projected receipts to available stock
- Eliminate stale purchase orders by analyzing and reporting on partial receipts
- Reconcile receipts by comparing accrued payables to received items
- Analyze late shipments for impact on jobs, projects, or sales orders due
- Audit receipt and ordering by selective reports by vendor, date, etc.
Cash Disbursements
- Summarize cash disbursements by account, bank, group, vendor, etc.
- Identify check requests, by bank, that exceed set or selected dollar amounts
- Reconcile inter-company transfers by extraction or inclusion
- Provide a complete audit trail for all disbursements by purchase order, vendor, etc.
- Generate vendor cash activity summary for support in rebate negotiations
Material de Referencia
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