Material Tracking Base System (BH–MTS): The base BellHawk inventory tracking system that supports lot, license–plate, serial number and expiration date tracking of raw, intermediate and finished goods. It includes the ability to track the receipt and shipment of materials as well as the entry into inventory and withdrawal of materials. The base system includes the ability to do basic inventory auditing/cycle counting.
Purchase Order Receiving Module (WH-PO, BH–PO); supports input of supplier/vendor purchase orders; generates barcoded receiving sheets; receives material against open supplier purchase orders; identifies materials using pre–printed "license plate" tracking barcodes or vendor applied tracking barcodes. Transactions supported on both PCs and mobile computers.
Sales Order Picking, Packing and Shipping Module (WH-SO, BH–SO); supports input of customer orders; records picking, packing and shipping of customer orders; provides the ability to print out barcoded picking/packing sheets; picks materials against customer orders; warns if wrong item or quantity being picked or packed; works with serialized items and containers having "license plate" tracking barcodes as well as loose items in barcoded bins. Pick orders show location of materials to be picked in oldest–first order on mobile computer screens.
Work Order Tracking Module (WH-WO): Enables the creation of work orders, work centers, and operations within those work centers. Records the consumption of materials and labor on work order operations. Also enable recording materials produced by operations and materials returned to stock from operations. This is ideal for tracking repair, test and maintenance operations.
Job Tracking Module (WH-JOB, BH–JOB): Generates barcoded travelers for tracking jobs. Tracks the transformation of materials, such as in a manufacturing, processing, assembly, packaging or repair operation Records materials used on job steps as well as unused materials returned from job steps. Tracks WIP as it flows from operation to operation, including tracking barcoded WIP, and the production of barcoded finished materials. Tracks status of jobs in real-time as well as labor used on jobs
Inventory Auditing Module (BH-IAM); This module supplements the standard BellHawk MTS verify-adjust transaction by enabling a team of people to "take inventory" using mobile data collection computers. As the inventory is taken at each location, the discrepancies between what is supposed to be there and what is actually there are written into a discrepancies table. This table can be exported as a report or an Excel spreadsheet. The system then enables a materials manager to track and correct for any discrepancies, while maintaining a full time-tagged audit trail. The major benefit of the BellHawk IAM is that production and warehouse operations do not have to be shut down while inventory is being taken. Instead inventory can be taken incrementally while operations are in progress. This can result in more accurate inventory auditing and a considerable savings in overtime payments for people to come in at weekends and over holidays to take inventory. Please click here for a data sheet on the BellHawk Inventory Auditing Module.
Quality Control Tracking Option (BH–QC); tracks QC status of containers and serialized products and generates a warning message if an attempt is made to use or ship materials that have not passed QC inspection or if an attempt is made to move material that has not passed QC to a non–quarantine location. Automatically sets up QC status of materials at receiving time; supports pre–approved vendor materials and statistical QC tracking of material lots. QC managers can change the QC status of containers using PCs or mobile computers by scanning the tracking barcodes on containers and then entering the pass/fail status. Feature set available depends on capabilities of other modules in system.
Resource Tracking Option (BH–RTO); provides capability to setup resources (typically machines) by work center and then track the setup time, run–time, down–time, and cleanup time for each resource on a job/batch step using scanning on a PC equipped with a barcode scanner. Includes screen to show real–time status of resources; requires JOB
Third Party Logistics Support (BH–3PL); enables shipping using an unlimited number of "doing–business–as" (DBA) names over the one company name provided with base systems.
Advanced Production Tracking (BH–APT); handles split batches and run groups (combined jobs). All actions are performed through PCs. Requires JOB.
Allocated Inventory Tracking (BH–AIT); tracks available inventory; takes into account physical inventory plus inventory on order or being made less inventory to be consumed in making products as well as inventory to be shipped against orders or sales forecasts; capabilities depend on base system and options in use.
Lean Inventory Management (BH-MRP): Performs Materials Requirements Planning based on customer orders, jobs to be performed, inventory on-hand and materials on order. Generates jobs and purchase orders to produce or purchase needed materials based on specified lead times. Includes ability to incorporate sales forecasts and multi-level bills of materials; requires AIT.
Job Step Kit Picking (BH-KIT): Generates barcoded picking sheet based on materials needed for a job step. Records materials picked for each kit as well as the consumption of materials from a kit onto a job step; requires JOB.
Activity Based Job Costing (BH-ABC): Computes the cost of jobs and batches based on the labor, materials and equipment resources consumed in the production of materials. Compares planned versus actual at the job step and batch level. Can be used as the basis of exporting cost data back to ERP systems; requires JOB.
KanBan Replenishment (BH-KANBAN): Generates barcoded kit picking sheet based on the scanning of barcoded KanBan cards. Records the picking of the kit and the replenishment of the KanBan bins. Tracks KanBan cards to avoid problems with lost cards and enables replenishment from warehouse as well as floor-stock locations.
Blanket Sales Order/Contract Support (BH–BCO); supports the entry of contract and contract line item information; tracks multiple ship orders against a contract or blanket purchase order; requires SO.
Shipping Dock Option (BH–SDO); assigns orders to shipment; manages shipments and truck arrival at dock; checks that correct materials are loaded onto truck; records which cartons or pallets go onto which truck; produces bills of lading and manifests for shipments; records shipments of orders; requires SO.
Fetch Option (BH–FETCH); used to request the picking of materials from a warehouse or stockroom for transfer to the production floor or to fetch materials from one facility to another (with per-facility support licensed for more than one facility). Fetch request is entered on a PC and then shows up on a mobile computer. Fetch can generate a barcoded picking sheet if needed. Fetch request shows location of material in an oldest–first order on mobile computer; records picking of fetch orders; warns if wrong item or quantity being picked; works with serialized items and containers having "license plate" tracking barcodes as well as loose items in barcoded bins; transactions work on wireless mobile computers. Multi-Facility Support for mobile computers is recommended if this is being used to pick materials in one facility for transfer to another.
Track and Trace Option (BH-TAT); Used to trace back from finished goods lot, serial and container number to all the materials that went into finished product and who worked on it. Can then trace forward from raw-materials lot, serial or container number to identify all the finished products affected by the contaminated or defective materials and to determine where they are and who they were shipped to.
Per Facility Option (BH–PFO): As standard MTS comes with one "slot" per facility name with which locations, purchase orders and sales orders can be associated. This extension allows organizations to purchase additional slots to support operations in multiple facilities.
Multi-Facility Mobile Computer Support (BH-PFS): which provides an additional level of support for mobile computers operating in remote facilities. It restricts purchase orders, ship orders, pick orders, fetch orders and locations downloaded into a mobile computer to just those associated with the facility with which the mobile computer is related. It also restricts container status updates, such as those resulting from moves, to just those containers whose location is associated with the facility to which the mobile computer is associated.
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