Fluentis ERP is the management system for doors and windows production companies that improves company performance thanks to the reorganization of the company’s processes, its supply chains and international relations. It is possible to integrate retailers, customers and agents in the definition of the product already from the estimate phase, optimizing the commercial process, avoiding the bottleneck of the technical office.
Fluentis ERP presents a specialized management software solution for the production of doors, windows and armored doors, with features and algorithms that allow you to manage all internal and external business processes of the entire product life cycle, from product configuration, sales, procurement of materials, internal and / or subcontracting production scheduling, production data collection, without forgetting the connection Industry 4.0 of your production plants and automatic warehouses
The Fluentis ERP management system is an important lever for competitiveness with the full integration of the entire supply chain, through an automatic sharing of information between all the players, therefore both towards the end customer and suppliers and subcontractors. Fluentis is equipped with APPs that allow the company to integrate subcontractors by managing the flow of information on the processes commissioned and the collection of related advances without forgetting solutions that integrate APPs for business development such as CRM, B2B and B2C Ecommerce. Everything then flows into management control connected to the Administrative and Treasury area.
This increases flexibility and quality of service, crucial factors for the success of the companies in the production of doors, windows and armored doors, which puts them in a position to face the challenges of a constantly changing market.
The management software Fluentis ERP – Doors and Windows Sector is equipped with integrated Add-ons such as Business Analytics , with dashboards that monitor company KPIs, the WMS Fluentis Mobile which manages all the movement of materials from acceptance to internal logistics to shipment with a specific touch application.
Fluentis ERP – Doors and Windows Production is equipped with a connector, BizLink, which will allow you to integrate PDM (Product Data Management) and CAD systems by automatically receiving the technical data from the Design of the Technical Office into Fluentis ERP, managing the entire life cycle of the product and greatly increasing the efficiency of these areas.
With the Fluentis ERP product configurator you can integrate retailers, customers and agents in determining the product through both a commercial and technical configuration, optimizing the commercial process and avoiding the bottleneck of the Technical department. Through the product configurator you can set questions, constraints, rules and whatever else is used to uniquely determine the product, creating the master data, the bill of materials, the work cycle as well as the sale price. This will facilitate the quotation and coding of the articles by optimizing the times and avoiding errors.
Through the configurator connected to the CRM of Fluentis ERP, you are able to define the characteristics of the requested product and calculate its sale price . The product configurator combined with the CRM connects the Resellers, the agents and the sales force directly with the production department.
The commercial product configuration can continue with a more technical one with the aim of automatically creating the product master data, the bill of materials parametric at no. levels and the related production cycle, increasing the efficiency of the technical office.
The Manufacturing solution for Fluentis ERP job orders has a APS area for Production Planning and Scheduling for Job / Project that allows you to combine process optimization and flexibility production and logistics with production constraints, the availability of materials and production resources while maintaining a univocal link between supply and demand .
The Fluentis ERP management software for doors and windows production companies provides for a Resource Planning equipped with MRP I and II algorithms for optimizing the supply of materials not managed by order / project and efficiency of resources, CRP (Capacity Resource Planning) for managing the loads of the work centers also represented in specific Gantt charts.
With Fluentis you will have the opportunity to automate the production data collection already integrated with the part of the material purchases, thus timely and in real time costificating both the Production orders and the specific Projects of your customers and/or internal keeping monitored marginality.
The Manufacturing solution of Fluentis ERP has its own MES solution that allows real-time control of the status and use of resources (manned, unmanned, traditional machines, etc., plants, personnel) through specific dashboards. The functions of the Fluentis MES allow the detection of production times through touch dashboards or bar-codes, the sending of subcontract work with the related automatic retrieval of feeds. Graphs are also available for immediate control of the performance of each resource or system.
Fluentis solutions are natively multi-company, even in the same database, multi-taxation, multi-language and multi-currency. Intercompany features are also available to automate the creation and circulation of information between companies belonging to the corporate group.
The Fluentis ERP solution is complete with the Administrative area for the fulfillment of local and foreign taxation. A list of foreign taxes present in Fluentis or through the integration of specific international solutions is available for companies distributed in different countries. With the Treasury area you can manage all financial flows with particular attention to the corporate Cash Flow.
With the Fluentis management control module you will be able to distribute costs and revenues in detail and by destination. In this you will get 2 results: a specific accounting for orders/project with specific reports and graphics that highlight margins and profitability, and an accounting for cost centers, which collects the costs charged to each department and resource and allows you to calculate the rates. Controlling also allows you to obtain interim financial statements with different reclassification models with the automatic generation of the summary information necessary to monitor and guide the management of the company, with diagrams and graphs to facilitate analysis and interpretation.
Fluentis ERP has its own integrated Quality area that allows you to define the control plans of the items by Supplier, with the definition of the relative frequency according to the performances detected. The Quality area will give way to qualify all suppliers, who will be assessed with a sort of points license influenced by the checks provided for in the control plan. The same checks can be carried out during the internal production process, automatically informing the quality control manager through a workflow on the actions to be performed in order to manage customer complaints and internal and external non-conformities to take the necessary corrective actions.
Fluentis ERP – Production of windows and doors is equipped with specific features that can increase internal and external logistical efficiency through the WMS Fluentis Mobile. The Fluentis Mobile WMS operates in Wi-Fi contexts with touch screen devices, connected via Web Services to the ERP part, providing support for greater flexibility and speed, with real-time information and less errors. The WMS Fluentis Mobile defines the physical structure of the warehouses in aisles, shelves, shelves or simply areas, squares or stations in line so as to have the uniqueness of the locations. In particular, the procedures intervene in the automation of the material loading and unloading processes, in the optimization of the picking and storage logic of the materials and in speeding up the fulfillment of orders and the receipt of materials.
It is foreseen the complete management of the lots, obtaining speed and precision in the activities of the operators, by optimizing the times and reducing the errors and guaranteeing the complete tracking of the materials. The system is also equipped with the functions necessary to manage the periodic phases of inventory and stock verification.