Milling Industry Business Issues
Focused on Industry Challenges
Mills often experience challenges of competition, highly variable material costs and quality management issues.
To succeed, you need clear, accurate and timely visibility across your whole enterprise; from sales and production to purchasing and inventory
control. Real-time access to information from all corners of your organization will help you keep your finger on the pulse of your company.
Sage Software understands that the needs of mills are unique and require a great understanding of customer demands, inventory chemistry,
cost management and quality controls. Inherent in the Sage MAS 500 Milling Solution is an understanding that comes from years of industry
expertise developing tools and real solutions that have helped metal manufacturers realize a competitive advantage.
Where you are today, where you’re going tomorrow, Sage Software is uncompromising in its commitment to be your business partner for life.
Costs, Profitability, & Customer Satisfaction
Costs, Profitability, & Customer Satisfaction
- Least Cost Solving
- Material Chemistry
- "What-if" Cost Analysis
- Flexible Customer and Material Pricing
Managing costs, profits and customer satisfaction is a continuing challenge for mills; the MAS 500 Milling Solution
helps you manage and continually address these challenges.
Low margins and often highly fluctuating material costs make managing profitability a must for metal manufacturers.
MAS 500 offers lot-based inventory chemistry and least cost solving for maximizing product margins by minimizing costs. In addition, “What-if”
cost-analysis allows you to understand the impact of changing raw material costs as they relate to your finished products. Improve your bottom-line
with better visibility throughout the entire budget, planning, and analysis process.
Whether you purchase virgin material or scrap, purchase by ore weight or contained weight, the MAS 500 provides complete
inventory costing for your industry. Make more informed decisions and improve profitability with insight into your material costing and pricing
with MAS 500.
Specification Management, Compliance, & Quality Control
Specification Management, Compliance, & Quality Control
- Product Target Specification
- Cradle to Grave Heat Tracking
- Quality Control
Customers insist on high product and delivery standards from your company. The Sage MAS 500 Milling Solution was
developed to easily satisfy the high standards you require.
Too often metal manufacturers maintain information in multiple locations (or “islands”); i.e. specifications in Excel,
quality control tests in Microsoft Access, production scheduling on a white board, and lease cost solving in a third party application. This
separation of information requires significant and error prone manual tasks and limits communication between the “islands.” The MAS 500 Milling
Solution was developed to centralize information from all aspects of your organization and provide real-time information to all functions of
your company.
Production Efficiency & Inventory Management
Production Efficiency & Inventory Management
- Inventory lot chemistry
- Least Cost Solving
- Material Substitutions
- Capacity Resource Scheduling
Daily challenges of a mill are numerous and complex with ever changing operational capacity scheduling, material
substitutions, elemental recovery and ingredient variability.
Sage MAS 500 understands the complex and unique inventory requirements of a mill. Effective inventory management
requires an ability to know material chemistry, manage product and ingredient specifications and record quality control readings. To make
inventory management reporting more efficient, MAS 500 provides Business Intelligence tools for powerful, flexible and graphical management
reporting.
The Sage MAS 500 Milling Solution operates the way you do and offers robust tools to help manage your operations.
MAS 500 helps mills maximize production efficiency with an ability to determine least cost of the heat and to substitute materials “on-the-fly”
and evaluate the effect of the substitution on product specifications. Production line constraints are common bottle-necks in any milling
environment; MAS 500 provides finite capacity scheduling to optimize production schedule based capacities and constraints of your plant.