Part-List Plus (PLP) is designed to help companies whose business processes involve the management of parts. This means parts that you could have purchased (components, raw material, finished goods) and then resold "as-is" or after having transformed and manufactured these parts.

While it was originally designed as an ERP/MRP tool for companies in the electronics, electrical and telecommunication industries, it has evolved over time into a powerful MRP platform for any manufacturing/production/distribution/service company.

Since PLP is designed in a modular fashion and is available in many different configurations (from a single client stand-alone version to a client/server version that is capable of managing more than a hundred separate workstations), it is ideal for very small companies as well as for corporations who employ hundreds of people.

Would Part-List Plus be a value-added system for your organisation?
Please take a look at the following list of advanced features:





Are you optimizing your business processes?

Do you have difficulty with the following operations?


Customer management

1. Track customer purchase orders (historical data for quotes, prices, deliveries, lot numbers, serial numbers).
2. Give customers a reliable delivery delay.
3. Recalculate the selling price based on the quantity required.

Production

1. Calculate purchasing requirements while taking current stock into account.
2. Follow up cost per project (costs of parts, sub-products, manpower, production expenses).
3. Link customer's PO to production and/or purchases.

Subcontractors

1. Determine what parts have to be shipped and when.
2. Follow up which parts shipped have been shipped to subcontractors and when.
3. Check if all extra parts have been returned.

Purchasing

1. Prepare lists of parts to purchase.
2. Make purchasing decisions at the right time And for the right quantities.
3. Manage requests for quotation and purchase orders.
4. Follow up the delivery schedule.
5. Follow up quality controls.
6. Follow-up supplier invoicing.
7. Calculate the value of parts that have been delivered but not invoiced (through multiple deliveries).

Inventory

1. Knowing inventory contents in real-time. Do you have to check inventory levels regularly? Perhaps even before each production?
2. Calculate inventory value for a given date in the past or the present.

Constraint management specific to the Electronics Industry

1. Huge diversity of parts.
2. Equivalencies, generic substitutes and specific substitutes.
3. Multiple references.
4. Lot prices.
5. Manufacturing references (location of parts on PCB).
6. Huge part lists (several hundreds of parts per board).

Easy access to key data information

1. Product's selling history, for a given customer.
2. Progression levels for production and purchases that are in-process.
3. Overview of a part's purchasing history, including all suppliers or for a specific supplier only.
4. Historical overview of the use for a particular part.
5. Exhaustive list of all finished products that contain a given part.
6. Part lists with specific characteristics.
7. Parts list of late deliveries (suppliers or customers).
8. Part-List Plus comes with 170+ fast and powerful pre-defined reports that show all of these results, and an unlimited number of others can be defined by you!

Other features

1. Calculate the cost price per quantity of your products.
2. Guarantee data confidentiality.
3. Manage foreign currencies.
4. Provide information access through remote Internet access. Would you like your sales representatives to be able to input a PO directly from customers offices?

Are you feeling concerned? If so, please contact one of our resellers in order to analyse how Part-List Plus could help you.