Conquering Manufacturing Challenges in 2022

We're about to cap off the first quarter of 2022, and manufacturers are still feeling the effects of the Pandemic. From changing consumer expectations to technological changes to new regulations, manufacturers are facing many logistical challenges throughout the supply chain.

What Challenges are Manufacturers Facing Today?

Consumers in every industry are now extremely focused on how the goods and services they purchase affect the environment, not just the quality of the product. Consumer demands are shifting towards environmentally friendly and sustainable practices, forcing manufacturers to shift their logistical processes.

Another huge challenge for manufacturers is the costs associated with transportation. As fuel prices rise and capacity limitations tighten, logistical costs make up the majority percentage of total costs.

These challenges of evolving consumer demands and high costs require manufacturers to adopt new technologies. By automating systems like inventory management, manufacturers can easily increase productivity and efficiency. Order Time is the perfect solution!

How Can Order Time Help Manufacturing?

Order Time’s cloud-based system gives you all the tools needed to streamline the entire manufacturing process, regardless of the size of business. Easily optimize your inventory levels, track raw materials, and calculate component usages, costing, and scheduling.

Customize Your Bill of Materials

Before creating work orders, you need to create an assembly item using the Bill of Materials tool. Order Time’s BOM feature tells the system exactly which components are required to make the finished good as well as the production steps. These production steps allow you to split the Bill of Materials into multiple processes. 

Depending on your manufacturing assembly process, you can use a Nested Bill of Materials or Step process. Once created, the system gives visibility into cost breakdowns, margins, and markups.

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Tracking Your Work Orders

Simply schedule or assign tasks or jobs to customers using Work Orders, either from customer request or internally. Order Time allows you to generate a Work Order with the click of a button. 

Once created, all timing and production levels can be tracked within the Order Time system. View important details such as Work Order Promise Date, Status, Instructions, and more. Tracking Work Orders is essential to ensure an organized and seamless manufacturing process.

Dealing with Disassembly

Whether taking already built out products or purchased ones, the Disassembly tool lets manufacturers take products apart for more materials in the production line. Once taken apart, these pieces can be sold or reused in other products. 

In any production environment, particularly for for-stock manufacturers, job shops, and custom-build retailers, occasionally you will have an order cancellation or return that will necessitate breaking an Item back down into its base components.

Using this process you can take apart a built product into its components for use later on another order. Some manufacturers also end up ordering a bulk product that they break down for pieces in their production. If this sounds like your workflow, then check it out!