
General Properties& Functions
AMS/4U is an ERP software solution based on IBM System-i, particularly focusing on individual functionality and rapid learn ability and usability.
The basic conceptual features - orientated towards the needs of industry and wholesale businesses and characterized by the highly adaptable application possibilities - ensure high individuality and user-friendlyness.
The solution is modular and adapted to the needs of your organization. Contract manufacturing/warehouse manufacturing, mass production/variety production, batch management, equipment management - weather in trade or in production: AMS/4U is the best for your organization. Being multilingual ensures the possibility to operate internationally.
More than 10.000 users in many sectors speak for AMS/4U!
AMS/4U is generally in the following languages available.
Multilingual surface:
- German
- English
- French
- Italian
- Czech
- Hungarian
Sale/Distribution & Statistics
The sale will decide the success of most companies. An effective ERP solution is especially in this area of particular importance. The sale module of AMS/4U will fully support you: From the recording of the customer and prospect datas, the offer and tracking, the pricing, discounts and terms condition, to the recording and processing of sales orders.
The main components
- Supply and order processing
- Promotions, order confirmations, pro forma invoices
- Commission notes, delivery notes, invoices
- Framework contracts, on-call contracts
- Price and discount automatic
- Languages, currencies
- Set article
- Fast entry application
- EDI (Sedas, Edifact, Subsets, Odette)
- Comprehensive information systems
- Order intake and turnover statistics
- Graphic turnover analysis
- Marketing - info box
- Tour scheduling
- Containers and pallet management
- Batch management and batch tracking
Repair & Service
The AMS/4U-module repair and service supports a modern customer service effectively, and thus contributes significantly to increase customer satisfaction.
The main components
- Device management and equipment history
- Repair acceptance and job processing
- Repair notes
- Acquisition of repair materials and services
- Repair clearing
- Guarantee settlement
- Maintenance contract offers and invoices
Purchasing & Statistics, ISO 9000
The AMS/4U - shopping application fully supports you in your purchase order processing, scheduling and acquisition marketing. The module offers a very practical and effective handling of your daily business and also provides an economically valuable data base for stock assessment, statistics, comparisons, supplier assessment, quality control, etc.
The main components
- Volume and value of inventory management
- Parallel assessment procedures
- Finished products, semi-finished products, raw materials and supplies materials
- Total stocks, storage stocks
- Quality assurance at storage level
- Quality assurance at batch level
- Permanent stocktaking, deadline stocktaking
- Leadership of minimum, secure, maximum quantities
- Block, special and high storage warehouse
- Chaotic storage site management
- In- and outgoing storage algorithm
- FIFO or LIFO valuation
- Batch management and batch tracking
- Device management and tracking devices
Time recording
The AMS/4U time recording makes the Staff Resources easier and therefore relieves the personnel office and the responsible executives. This software module is compatible with almost every collective agreement and any operating agreement.
The main components
- Any time types and models
- Week, breaks, shift and additional models
- Core time and flexitimes exemplars
- Automatic shift detection
- Future movements
- Automatic (day, week, month) and manual transfers
- Personnel status, time and time balances proof
- Time balances analysis and tolerance-time statistics
- Transfer to payroll
- Access control with selective control for:
- Persons/groups
- Doors/door groups
- Logging access attempts
Production, BDE, MDE and Maintenance
The information support of production is one of the most demanding tasks in an integrated computerised system. Whether mass production, batch production, contract manufacturing, whether discrete (article orientated) or in other units (liters, kilograms, meters, etc.) produce ready-made products: There is always the batch optimized coordination of materials, components and capacities within its time-table the target to strive for.
The main components
- Parts lists/compositions
- Work plans with time table
- Variations in all levels
- Production control
- Production order management, production order dispatching
- Forward-, backward-, centre scheduling
- With or without capacity limit
- A new dispatch order, order availability simulation with statements of material and capacity
- External production
- Work permits
- Production planning
- several parallel plans
- free selectable period number and length
- material and capacity reservations
- minimum, security, maximum stock, lot size, opt. lot size
- make or buy - support
- user/polluter needs proof
- graphic depictions
- control and monitoring functions, BDE, MDE and control
- recording of labour, materials and machine data
- maintenance control for preventive maintenance, processing of unplanned disruptions
- maintenance plans, free machines and parts structure, maintenance contracts
- maintenance history, disturbance statistics
- full integration of maintenance, production planning and production control
Control center & dispatching improvement
The main components
- graphical planning board
- optimal transparency for centralized/decentralized control
- free choice time horizon
- free scalable time ruler
- move/split/trailer operations
- simulations, change, cancellation
- application/operation sequence construction, work progress control
- optimized dispatching released and planned orders on cost center models = professional capacity
- up to four layers
- per day daily variable
- optimization for cost center congestion optimizing utilization = shortage improvement
- optimization for feasibility = earliest possible/latest admissible
Cost accounting & calculation
The AMS/4U - cost accounting fully supports in preparation, accounting, evaluation and analysis of the costs, successes and results in all areas of operation.
The main components.
The main components
- types of costs and cost center accounting (BAB)
- cost unit accounting
- progressively "break - even" analysis
- operating income statement
- plan, set and actual costs
- employment- related and independent costs
- marginal budget costs/optional full costs
- accounting for services
- flexible calculations for pre-and post-calculation
- calculation of standard products and variations (simulations)
- calculation of trade goods
- selective info box
Clearing equipment
The AMS/4U administration equipment supports the management of your investment and capital. Various calculations based on fiscal, business, calculative, internal group or from the point of view of the commercial law will bring maximum transparency in the status and development of your assets.
The main components
- management of installations, GWG
- is and debit data, simulation
- procedures for depreciation
- financial accounting
- cost accounting
- alternatives for e.g. group
- all legal analysis
- several flexible AFA models
- special deprication, valuation reserves, etc.
- unit values, scrap book value and residual control