
Sicon Materials & Resource Planning
Real-time integration with Sage 200cloud
The impact of planned orders is updated and available to view immediately within Sage 200cloud for clear business visibility
- Real-time data access ensures Sage 200 information is up to date and all in one place, meaning you don’t need to access multiple data systems to see a clear view of the business.
- The impact of planned orders is updated and available to view immediately within Sage 200 for clear business visibility.
Creation of suggested works & purchase orders
Orders are suggested based on information sources including supplier and production lead times, minimum order quantities, sales orders and sales forecasts.
Creation of Suggested Kits
When combined with Sicon Kitting, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for kit and component demand.
Streamlined Processes
Sicon MRP can be used in conjunction with Sicon Approvals to approve suggested Purchase Orders and for absence requests to impact Rough Cut Capacity availability. Purchase of appropriate Sicon Approvals modules and associated users is required.
Sicon Module Integration
Functionality can be extended with the addition of other Sicon modules....
Sicon Approvals
- Purchase Requistion | Recomendations from Material Planning can be created as Sicon Approvals Requisitions requiring approval before the Purchase Order is created.
- Holidays | Approved holidays will affect employee availability when looking at overall availability within Capacity Planning.
- Timesheets | If a user records holiday or sickness, this will affect employee availability when looking at overall availability within Capacity Planning.
Enhancement Pack
- Allows users to automate the price in relation to the supplier quantity break within Sicon Enhancement Pack.
Sicon Distribution
- Container Management | Stock Item weights and dimensions are used to calculate whether selected Suggested Purchase Orders exceed a containers Max Volume and Payload.
- POP | Allows users to automate the price in relation to the supplier quantity break within Sicon POP Management.
- Warehouse Replenishment | Provides recommendations for stock shortage transfers.
- Reserves & Call Offs | Provides functionality so if a Reserve has been created but no Free Stock is available for allocation, a Purchase Order Suggestion will be created. The reserved stock allocation is considered in Material Planning calculations.
- Future Sales | Both minimum stock calculations and therefore new levels, and forecasts produced via future sales are presented as demand in Material Planning calculations.
- Preallocations | Recommendations produced by Material Planning are connected via a pre-allocation, which can then be edited and managed via pre-allocations screens.
Sicon Projects
- Stock on operations are included in the Future Stock Movements screensbe considered in Material Planning calculations.
Sicon Kitting
- When combined with Sicon Kitting, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for kit and component demand.
Sicon Works Order Processing
- When combined with Sicon WOP, this extends functionality to offer suggestions for works order and component demand.