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22.04.2025
For the special requirements of series production
When manufacturing large quantities of a product in series production, you need all of your processes to be coordinated perfectly. This is why series manufacturers benefit from ERP systems that guarantee a seamless exchange of information along the entire process chain and map all business processes in an integrated way – from the bidding process to supply chain management, manufacturing, and logistics, to invoicing and service.
Having completed numerous successful projects for series manufacturers, we understand the challenges of the industry in detail.
ORDAT is your ERP expert for series production
We’ve implemented numerous successful systems in close collaboration with our customers in the series production industry. We understand the unique challenges of series production and offer high-performance solutions that actually support your business.
ORDAT’s ERP solutions help you:
- to plan and control your processes in an integrated way
- Ihre Produktions- und Personalkapazitäten optimal zu nutzen
- to communicate more efficiently with suppliers and customers
- to react more quickly to changing requirements
- Improving your competitive standing
The benefits at a glance
Take full control of your processes: By providing consistent integration of production, purchasing, sales, warehousing, materials planning, shipping, complaint management, and bookkeeping, ERP solutions from ORDAT offer maximum transparency.
Manage purchasing, resources, and capacities efficiently
ERP solutions from ORDAT support series manufacturers in scheduling operations and materials handling, and in controlling their business processes – even on a company-wide basis. Seamless EDI integration ensures flexibility and speed. Powerful planning and analytic tools add security and stability to your processes – such as production planning which takes into account machines, work stations, and material situations. This allows you to produce more efficiently, shorten your lead times, and save resources.
Transparency and control
Thanks to advanced controlling tools – from advance, ongoing, and post costing to product profitability results – you will be able to recognize cost deviations early on and effectively counteract them. And series and batch administration allows you to trace your products back to your materials suppliers.
Specialized ERP functions for series manufacturing
The transaction-controlled EDI monitor OR-EDI equips ERP systems with a powerful communication platform for automated data exchange.
- Communications standards: VDA, ODETTE, EANCOM, EDIFACT ANSI X.12
- Send and receive structured e-mails
- Freely configurable XML communication and WebEDI support
- Specialized processing, such as AMK/MGO for GM and. Opel and AMES-T by Volkswagen
- Specialized JIT protocols like FIS-JIT, Montis, Pluma-JIT, PLUQUO, FIAG
Consistent series and batch-based inventory management allows you to efficiently manage your deliveries to manufacturers and system suppliers – and thanks to seamless tracing for series and batches, you can successfully defend against unwarranted liability claims.
- Article-based series / batch structure
- Where-used list (product liability)
- Seamless series / batch tracing
- Delivery batches designated on external shipping documents
ORDAT’s graphic planning grid is a powerful tool for visually supported, interactive, detailed production planning. it provides a clear graphic overview of the entire production process in real time, including all required and available resources (machines, personnel, materials) – on multiple monitors if needed. Work processes can be rescheduled by drag & drop or shifted to other capacities in order to optimize resource utilization. The flexible configuration editor allows your company to quickly, conveniently adjust to individual production processes.
- Graphic visualization of production and maintenance orders, operating materials, and facilities
- Presentation in Gantt charts and capacity bar charts
- Schedule work processes manually or automatically
- Bottleneck monitoring
- Select from a display of individual resource, capacity group, cost center, or factory
- Drill down function on bill of materials, work schedule, materials handling, order, simultaneous calculation
- Online monitoring of production order status and progress
- Reschedule orders via drag & drop
- Various feedback methods for production orders
Avoid production bottlenecks: ORDAT’s powerful tools for resource management and capacity planning don’t just take into consideration all of your machines, tools, and materials, but also available personnel capacities, including available and required qualifications.
ORDAT’s graphic planning grid provides a clear graphic overview of the complete production process in real time – on multiple monitors if desired – delivering visually supported and interactive production planning. Work processes can be rescheduled by drag & drop or shifted to other capacities.
- Resource management for machines, materials, and personnel
- Consideration of qualifications
- Graphic visualization of production and maintenance orders, operating materials, and facilities
- Drill down function on bill of materials, work schedule, materials handling, order, simultaneous calculation
- Online monitoring of production order status and progress
- Bottleneck monitoring
- Schedule work processes manually or automatically
- Rescheduling orders via drag & drop, incl. availability review for materials and machines, and operating material capacity
