Sage MAS 500 Manufacturing Solution
Sage MAS 500 manufacturing business software helps you base your estimates on more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production by understanding key impact factors such as material costs, outside processing and labor, overhead rates, and one-time tooling and engineering set-up charges. Directly convert estimates into a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.

Light Manufacturing Advanced Kitting
Manage production and kit assembly without complicated labor transactions or material issues. Streamlined Sage MAS 500 manufacturing business software integrates with other optional modules and allows distributors, assemble-to-order industries, and other light manufacturers to concentrate on other critical business issues without getting tied up in complex manufacturing processes.

Advanced Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing includes all of the functionality of the Light Manufacturing/Advanced Kitting module, as well as enhanced work orders, and labor and production reporting, which are essential requirements for assembly, electronics, metal fabrication and machine/equipment manufacturing.

Material Requirements Planning
Understand material and distribution requirements across your enterprise. Sage MAS 500 manufacturing software uses historical data and advanced replenishment formulas to help you more easily understand current and future material and distribution requirements. Single-screen planning provides up-to-date item statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase orders, work orders, transfer orders and other elements that affect planning decisions.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling
Eliminate late orders and lost production time due to errors in scheduling and planning with automated production scheduling software. Sage MAS 500 manufacturing software includes a drag-and-drop schedule board that takes into consideration real-world concerns and displays all system-generated operation schedules, while allowing supervisors or production scheduling personnel to prioritize high-priority orders or shift scheduled operations.

Engineering Change Management
Control production costs with advanced manufacturing software by tracking constantly changing labor operations and material items as new items are developed and manufacturing processes are streamlined using newer equipment. Use this top-quality solution to meet your ISO and QS certification requirements and maintain quality control. Sage MAS 500 manufacturing business software integrates Engineering Change Management (ECM) with e-mail notifications providing instant visibility and standardized approval methods for routing and bill of material changes.

Estimating
Sage MAS 500 manufacturing business software helps you base your estimates on more than an educated guess regarding total cost of production by understanding key impact factors such as material costs, outside processing and labor, overhead rates, and one-time tooling and engineering set-up charges. Directly convert estimates into a customer quote or directly into a sales order with a simple mouse-click.

Product Configurator
Configure sales orders and finished parts routings or bills of material based on a variable functions. An easy-to-use manufacturing software interface lets customer service quickly identify and select configured parts. Create new items on-the-fly using customized item masks, new long and short item descriptions Product Configurator even builds the item cost and suggested price.

Project Management for Manufacturers
Equip project management with all the tools they need to manage engineering or prototype production projects or complex installations with Sage MAS 500 Project Management for Manufacturers module and stay within budget and scope.

Shop Floor Control
Use Sage manufacturing business software to log onto shop floor operations manually or use the built-in bar coding functionality to scan work order numbers. Easily customize the menu to include virtually any activity, maintenance function, report or inquiry you need to run your shop floor. It’s designed for use with bar code and touch-screen technology, meaning the shop floor can run on a terminal or from a remote handheld Windows CE device.