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Horizons Manufacturing application has a tight, seamless interface with Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains/ MS SQL / eEnterprise Inventory, Sales Order Processing and the standard or advanced Purchase Order. Horizons Manufacturing Suite was released in 1995 and has over 350 active sites worldwide handling both discrete and batch process systems.

Horizons Bill of Materials with Production Entry (Manufacturing Orders), Work in Process, Serial and Lot Numbers, Engineering Change Orders, Manufacturing Requirements Planning and Master Production Scheduling will be augmented with Routing and Bar Coding in 2002(release dates reflect planned target releases and do not represent a firm date).

Modules

• Bill of Materials with Production (BOM)- including Indented Bill of Materials as well as viewing bills via the "Tree View", (like MS Explore), advanced Copy, Replace and Delete capabilities, Phantom BOMs, Standard Labor/Overhead, Actual Time entry, Variances, automatic Sales Orders to Work Orders, and disassembly of completed work orders. Handles both discrete and process manufacturing.
   
• Engineer Change Orders and Revisions (ECO)- Visualize quickly with a graphic selection tree for 'Planned', 'In Use' or 'Historical' ECOs/BOMs.
  Alphanumeric ECO, Revision and Change Request numbers with decimal sub numbers.
  Unlimited Comments for ECOs, Revisions, and Approvals.
  Manufacturer's Part Number specific to each Revision to change with effective date.
  Optional Sequenced Checking for date and revision number.
  Manually process ECOs daily in mass of allow the next production work order to trigger effective dates.
   
• Serial and Lot tracking - with the ability to trace components through the parent item.
   
  • Before the build 70 release of HMS, clients were able to use some HMS limited Serial /Lot capabilities without buying the Serial / Lot module. Work orders posted to an IV batch that then stopped in IV Transactions where the user could then edit the item and add the Serial number, before posting to the GL. With build 70 code (and after), this capability no longer exists. Horizons now handles direct posting with our own modules rather then through the Great plains system. Because of this change clients should be advised that registration keys for Serial/Lot are necessary.
     
• Work In Process (WIP)- including Unlimited Work Centers (that will be fully implemented with Router), ability to Customize and adjust Quantities and Components per work order, Return or expense excess scrap. Handles Attrition percents, Alternates, Reverse Productions (many from one), and Custom Productions (no BOM). Has high level process manufacturing capability.
   
• Router provides functionilaity and support for shop foor instructions through work centers and operations. It will inhance current standard cost functionality and enable performance reporting for actual activities against planned. Item level operatioinal needs differentiated between flat and run times. It calculates unit and batch costs and provide lead time offsets for MRP. Click here for information.
   
• Shop Floor Control provides various work center and capacity planning tools. Work order status and capacity required to complete is available from production and sales order drill downs. There will be auto generation of outsourced vendor purchase orders and ability to track outsourced materials with expected return date. Able to move a production along a predetermined routing schedule where material, labor and overhead standard or actual costs are accessed for real time cost rollup to the GL or auto application to WIP GL accounts. Shop Floor Control will relese in early 2003 (release dates reflect planned target releases and do not represent a firm date). Click here for a White Paper.
   
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP)- including Purchase Scheduling, Forecasting and Automatic Purchase Orders based on Sales Orders, Forecasting, Reorder Level or Work Orders demand. Auto creation of Subassembly Work Orders and consideration of Sales Orders and Work Orders that are Auto Create associated as one entity released with Version 6.67.
   
  • As a stand alone, the MRP module is called Product Plan and Supply (PPS) and enables the same auto control over inventory in a non- manufacturing environment. Click here for information.
     
• Manufacturing Production Scheduling (MPS) - released with Version 6.67. Infinite scheduling for productions. Summarized view of all finished goods at once and quantities affecting them, with drill down to detail.
   
• hZ Configurator- hZ Configurator is designed to link to the Sales Order and Inventory modules (for the distribution industry) and Horizons Manufacturing Suite (HMS) (for the make-to-order manufacturers). Click here for information.