Forge Software for Hot and Cold Forging and Extrusion Companies.

Forge Software / Manufacturing ERP for Hot and Cold Forging Manufacturers

ACTouch’s Forge Software / Manufacturing ERP is the right tool for Forging and Extrusion Manufacturers or Metal Fabricators. It helps them to control the Finished Goods Costing, Production, Planning and Invoicing. A better direction of your manufacturing processes transform the supply chain to achieve production plan with finance. Cloud ERP is Software as a Service which enables users to obtain Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software over the web. Cloud ERP generally has substantially lower upfront costs, because the month leases computing tools instead of purchased and maintained in your premises. Cloud-based software platform or any Cloud-Based ERP gives companies access with their business-critical software.

Forge Software / Manufacturing ERP for Forging Companies.

Problems Faced by Forging and Sheet Metal Fabrication Units and what is hitting their profit margins?

As common to many industries, the Forging and Sheet Metal Fabrication Manufacturers also face many problems. But the major of these issues are

1. Finished Goods costs can be reduced by 30% by controlling the wastage and scraps. Many do not know this. So they loose the market with wrong Finished goods cost that they decided at the beginning of work.
2. Multiple Level of Forging Process and its costing
3. Raw Materials or components tracking and traceability from Finished Goods serial no. How to track these details?
4. Variation of Price for the Raw materials as it depends on Foreign Currency and exchange Rates. So the RM price is volatile. How to manage the Multi Currency Exchange gain or loss?
5. Manage Activity based costing to know and control the FG Costs.
6. How to manage Subcontracting operations, reduce the costs of manufacturing.
7. Manage and control Jobwork and its costs.
8. Manage the Demands and supplies of the Materials. How to manage Forecasting and confirmed Sales Orders?

In summary Forging and Sheet Metal Fabrication Manufacturing companies need a robust ERP that handles all the above scenarios with one Centralised robust Solution, with an ability to manage the business process and workflows. It should help with tracking of RM, Semi Finished Goods with its Costing, track wastage and scraps etc.

All the above challenges can be managed in ACTouch, a Forge Software with ERP functions.

Are you ready to change like some of these customers?

Best Manufacturing ERP for Forging, Metal Extrusion Manufactures in India

Simplify your Work, Improve Process and Reduce Cost with ACTouch, a Forge Software

Manage the following with ease

1. Manage and accounts the Wastage that happens when you load the sheets.
2. Manage the Multiple layers of Forging Process and identify the cost at each stage.
3. Manage the remaining sheets, splash materials and track the scraps. These can be accumulated and added into stocks as “By-Product”
4. These By-products selling cost can be deducted from Finished Goods to arrive at the actual costs
5. Manage more than One FG for each stroke of the stamping machines.

How a Forging Software helps Multi layer Bill of Materials (BOM)?

Many production managers ask questions like

1. What is BOM configuration?
2. How to create a Bill of Materials (BOM)?
3. How to Build a BOM

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation and what BOM really contains?

Multi Layer Bill of Materials (BOM)

Bill of Materials (BOM) is modified at the time of transactions and ensure that no one changes it. For the same item, you can have multiple BOMs and manage the productions. So you can define,

1. Labor, Burden and other costs
2. By-products, its costing etc
3. Get the products estimated costs.
4. Control the items that goes into Finished Goods

Advantage of ACTouch.com BOM is, you can find the exact product cost with cost deduction from By-products too.

How a Forging ERP helps to get Finished Goods Cost Automatically for your Forging Operation?

FG Costing is an important parameter for the production persons as management is focussed on to reduce the costs. Typical FG cost will contain, RM Costs, Production labor costs, Machine cost sets.

Activity Based Costing for Finished Goods (ABC)

It is sad that many Customers doesn’t know their accurate cost of Finished Goods. Because of this they don’t know at what rate to sell the products. Traditionally, ACTouch.com follows the Activity Based Costing (ABC) approach and it helps to arrive at the minute cost details added to Finished Goods.

Forging ERP’s Work Order Dashboard

Many Business owners frequently ask these questions to their Production Manager.

1. What is the status of my Production Delivery? Where we are and when we can meet customer demand?
2. What is Work Order and how to speed up delivery?
3. How long does this work order takes to complete the work?

Work Order and its process

ACTouch.com handles Work Orders with ONE Page activity. You can do

1. Request for Materials transfer to Production Unit. (Material Request form)
2. Semi or Finished Goods reporting.
3. Send the Raw / Semi Finished materials for Subcontracting
4. Receive the Finished Components from Subcontractor

From ONE page, you can manage the complete Work Order Operations. Now your Boss can see the details at one place.

Daily / Weekly Production Plan can be done in Forge Software / ERP?

One of the main problem for Manufacturing companies, we are addressing is, you can plan for the multiple Semi or Finished Goods at a time and collect all the RM for them at one go from Stores. A powerful tool for the production manager.

Daily / Weekly Production Plan

ACTouch.com handles Daily / Weekly Production plan that helps

1. Prepare the Production Plan for a week or month for 10 to 100 Finished Goods.
2.  Helps to process and generate ONE STOCK list to be collected from Stores
3. If any Materials Shortages, please raise the Purchase Indents.

Powerful tool for Production Managers.

How Material Requirements Planning works for Forge Software?

Material Requirements Planning or MRP is a powerful tool that helps you to manage your business with Demand and Supply. Click here to read more.

MRP is a powerful tool.

MRP helps to check the demand (Sales, Forecasting etc) and checks the available stocks. Based on this it plans for the shortage of materials based on the timelines. The output of this is, it helps to generate planned orders for Production and Purchase Indents.

1. Selective MRP
2. Regenerative MRP

Choice is yours.

Sales Order Processing

Many managers ask questions like

1. What is Sales order and its process?
2. What is the difference between Sales Order and Invoice?
3. How to do an Export Invoice and collect money?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation.

Sales Order Processing

ACTouch.com has the following modules that helps and streamlines your business

1. Sales Quotation – Helps to send Quotes
2. Sales Order – Inventory, Services, Multi Currencies.
3. Convert SO to Invoice or generate Export Invoice
4. Handle effective Sales Returns

Purchase Order Processing

Many managers ask questions like

1. What is Purchase order and how it helps?
2. What is the difference between Purchase Orders and Goods Receipts?
3. How to do an Import Goods receipts?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation.

Purchase Order processing

With ACTouhc.com, you can create the following documents

1. Purchase order for Inventory or Import
2. Receive the materials and it updates Inventory
3. Purchase Returns and its helps to manage Inventory

Its a powerful tool for Purchase Managers

How a Forge Software simplifies Subcontracting Process?

Many Forging Industry managers ask questions like

1. What is Subcontracting Process? How its modified to fit forging Industry?
2. What are the steps to follow in Subcontracting?
3. How to add the subcontracting cost to Product costs?

We are trying to address all these questions here with an explanation. Subcontracting operations in Forging ERP helps to track Good FGs with Scrap and Reject items too.

Subcontracting Process

ACTouch.com has the following modules that helps and streamlines your business

1. Raise the Outward DC and send the RMs to Contract vendors
2. Receive the Finished or Semi finished goods against the Delivery challans
3. Add the Subcontracting production cost to FG.

Master Data Processing

We try to address the details like

1. How to create Product master, Customer, Supplier, Multi Currency etc?
2. How to upload these master data when the records are many?
3. How to upload BOM, Finished Goods details?

Master Data Preparation and Upload

ACTouch.com has the following modules that helps and streamlines your business

1. You can create the master data like Products, Supplier etc
2. You can upload the master data and we have provided EXCEL Formats.
3. Product master can have Units of Base, Alternate or Multi Units of Measurement.

Find out why 5000+ Business owners love ACTouch.com, a Manufacturing ERP Software?

OEM Manufacturer

“ACTouch.com helped us to save 50% of our efforts in managing Inventory, sending and receiving etc. Because of this, now we started our second company due to these time savings. I am happy that I did the right choice”

Manjunath Naik. Director, IM SafteySolutions.

Trader and Distributor

“This is the best team and the Software support I’ve received. They always helps us quickly, in a very professional and easy to understand way. Today our three businesses are using ACTouch.com”

Mukund B.S. CEO, ReNewIT, Bangalore

Calibration Vendor

“ACTouch Team developed our Calibration process on Cloud with the necessary customisation. They helped us to move into Digitisation of our manual process. For this digitisation, we received award from GE Healthcare”.

Vijay Kumar, Director, TransCal Bangalore

ACT NOW to streamline your Manufacturing process to increase Productivity and Efficiency

Free Format Download section

1. Download the Invoice format in excel
2. Download the Delivery Challan format in Excel.

How ACTouch.com can help other Industries? Please read below

1. Automobile Industry, Tractors and Farm Equipment Manufacturers
2. Manufacturing ERP for Plastic Products Manufacturers
3. Chemical and Process Industry Manufacturers
4. Manufacturing ERP for Electronics Manufacturers
5. Manufacturing ERP for Farm Equipment and Automotive Manufacturers
6. Manufacturing ERP for Industrial Products
7. Manufacturing ERP for Medical Devices Manufacturers
8. Manufacturing ERP for Metal Fabrication Software
9. Forge Software for Forging companies
10. Manufacturing ERP for Import Export Business
11. Manufacturing ERP Jobwork and Subcontracting Operations

For more details email us at Sales@actouch.com