In today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, having a powerful, scalable ERP system is essential for maintaining efficiency, reducing costs, and improving operational visibility. SYSPRO, the leading ERP solution for manufacturers, offers a robust suite of modules designed specifically to meet the needs of any industry. However, even the best systems can benefit from some aftermarket enhancements to ensure you're using it to its fullest potential.
That’s where MepApps, your premium SYSPRO Provider, comes in. Not only do we provide business analysis and act as your business concierge in guiding you through the process of choosing the right SYSPRO modules and provide a range of mobile, web-based, and query-driven tools that complement SYSPRO’s modules. We also offer project management through our partnership with Caldwell Group to ensure a seamless I.D.E.A.L. implementation, services, and dependable real-world support.
We provide the highest quality business tech concierge service helping you streamline operations, simplify data entry, boost productivity and maximize profits.
SYSPRO Modules Overview:
SYSPRO is built to meet the needs of manufacturers, providing several key modules to optimize every aspect of your business. Below are the major modules and how they integrate into your operational workflow:
1. Inventory Management
The Inventory Management module in SYSPRO is designed to ensure accurate inventory levels, reduce excess stock, and improve visibility across the supply chain. It supports real-time stock tracking, warehouse transfers, and multi-location inventory.
How MepApps Enhances It:
MepScans: Improve your warehouse management with MepScans, a tailor-made mobile system that helps you manage stock across multiple locations, scan barcodes, and process transactions directly from the warehouse floor.
Stock Import Tool: Simplify data entry with MepApps' Stock Import feature, allowing you to import spreadsheet data into inventory master and inventory warehouse records quickly.
Picking Module: Optimize warehouse efficiency by grouping orders for optimized picking tailored to your specific warehouse needs.
2. Manufacturing Operations Module (MOM)
SYSPRO’s MOM allows manufacturers to plan, schedule, and manage production processes with precision. It supports Bill of Materials (BOMs), Job Costing, and Work-In-Progress (WIP).
How MepApps Enhances It:
Job Create: MepApps’ Job Create tool lets you manage and adjust material requirements from a single interface, simplifying the process of creating and managing jobs within SYSPRO.
Work-In-Progress Entry: With MepApps, you can create a sales order with just one click directly from the job entry screen, making it easier to track jobs and turn them into customer orders.
3. Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR)
The AP/AR modules in SYSPRO manage the complete lifecycle of accounts payable and receivable, from vendor management to customer invoicing, payment processing, and aging analysis.
How MepApps Enhances It:
Accounts Payable Aged Analysis: Get a comprehensive view of your outstanding payables with MepApps’ AP Aged Analysis tool, offering interactive reports and drill-down capabilities.
Accounts Receivable Reverse Payment: Speed up the process of reversing payments with MepApps' Reverse Payment feature, eliminating manual lookups and simplifying the process.
Credit and Rebill: MepApps offers a Credit and Rebill feature to easily create credit notes and unlock completed sales orders, ensuring seamless adjustments when errors are found.
4. Purchasing
The Purchasing Module in SYSPRO automates the purchasing cycle, from requisition and order creation to receiving goods and vendor management. It helps ensure timely and cost-effective procurement of goods.
How MepApps Enhances It:
Purchase Order Inspection: Track incoming inventory with MepApps' Purchase Order Inspection feature, allowing you to capture serials, material test reports (MTRs), or lot numbers for full traceability.
Purchase Order Approval: Simplify your approval process with MepApps' PO Approval via Web Links. It enables easy, web-based approval workflows, improving efficiency for remote teams.
Goods Received Note Reversal: MepApps lets you quickly reverse Goods Received Notes (GRNs) to correct receiving errors, minimizing manual rework.
Return to Vendor (RTV): Manage returns to vendors, complete with shipping capabilities, ensuring a smooth and streamlined RTV process.
5. Sales Order Processing
The Sales Order Processing Module in SYSPRO manages the lifecycle of customer orders, from entry to fulfillment and shipping. This module helps improve order accuracy, customer service, and fulfillment times.
How MepApps Enhances It:
Request for Quote: MepApps streamlines the quoting process by allowing you to manage quote requests by sales order or job.
Purchase Order Ordering: Use auto-generated purchase orders through MepApps to quickly create and process purchase orders based on stock levels and sales order demand.
Credit and Rebill: MepApps enables the creation of credit notes and rebills for completed sales orders, ensuring smooth handling of adjustments.
6. Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
The MRP Module in SYSPRO assists with planning material requirements for production, ensuring materials are available when needed and optimizing stock levels.
How MepApps Enhances It:
Material Requirements Planning Calculation: MepApps enhances your MRP experience by simplifying the MRP calculation process, allowing you to easily run calculations and adjust based on your needs.
Material Unissue: Easily unissue materials from a job with MepApps’ Material Unissue feature, giving you control over job materials in case of overuse or adjustments.
7. Document Management and Workflow Automation
SYSPRO’s document management tools allow businesses to securely store, retrieve, and manage documents digitally within the system.
How MepApps Enhances It:
Mep File Manager: Manage your documents digitally and access them directly from your SYSPRO interface with MepApps' File Manager. This web-based, cloud-hosted tool ensures secure document storage and easy retrieval for critical business documents.
Simplified Data Entry: Automate tedious tasks and complex multi-step processes with one-click automation, reducing the time spent on data entry and improving workflow efficiency across the system.
SYSPRO’s powerful ERP modules provide a solid foundation for manufacturers to manage everything from inventory to sales orders, production, and financials. But to get the most out of SYSPRO, tailored solutions are often needed to handle the unique challenges your business faces.
That’s where MepApps comes in. Our mobile apps, cloud-based solutions, and custom add-on modules are designed to complement SYSPRO’s core functionality and provide you with the tools to optimize every aspect of your business. Whether it’s streamlining warehouse management with MepScans, improving financial workflows with AR Reverse Payment, or enhancing procurement processes with Purchase Order Approval, we offer flexible and customizable solutions to meet your needs.
Ready to take your SYSPRO system to the next level? Contact us to learn more about how MepApps can help you unlock the full potential of your ERP system.
This blog post gives a comprehensive overview of how SYSPRO modules work, while also highlighting the specific enhancements MepApps can bring to the table. Let me know if you'd like to adjust any sections or dive deeper into particular MepApps tools!
1. Inventory Management: Case Study
Company: Mecad Systems
Industry: Manufacturing (Mechanical Design Solutions)
Challenge: Mecad Systems was facing challenges with tracking inventory and managing stock across multiple warehouses, which led to excess inventory and inefficiencies.
Solution: By implementing SYSPRO’s
Inventory Management module, they gained real-time stock visibility across all warehouses, reduced excess stock, and improved their procurement processes.
Results: Mecad Systems reduced excess inventory by 30% and improved stock turnover.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
With MepScans, they could have further optimized warehouse management by using mobile devices to track stock and process transactions directly from the warehouse floor.
The Picking Module would help group and process orders for efficient order fulfillment.
2. Manufacturing Operations: Case Study
Company: L&S Electric
Industry: Electrical Manufacturing
Challenge: L&S Electric needed better control over its production schedules, costing, and overall workflow management in their manufacturing process.
Solution: By using SYSPRO’s Manufacturing Operations module, including Bill of Materials (BOM) and Job Costing, they gained control over production schedules and costs.
Results: The company saw a 15% increase in production efficiency and reduced production costs by 10% due to better job tracking and cost allocation.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
Job Create could simplify the creation and management of jobs by adjusting material requirements directly within SYSPRO.
Work-In-Progress Entry from MepApps would streamline job-to-sales-order processing, reducing the number of manual steps involved in converting jobs into revenue.
3. Accounts Payable & Receivable: Case Study
Company: H&K International
Industry: Global Commercial Kitchen Equipment Manufacturing
Challenge: H&K International struggled with managing their accounts payable and receivable, which created bottlenecks in their financial reporting.
Solution: SYSPRO’s Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules helped them streamline payment processing and improve visibility into aged receivables and payables.
Results: They reduced payment cycle times by 20% and improved cash flow visibility by integrating automated reporting into their AP/AR processes.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
Accounts Payable Aged Analysis and Accounts Receivable Reverse Payment from MepApps would further enhance these capabilities, providing interactive drill-down reporting and faster, automated payment reversals for improved cash flow management.
4. Purchasing: Case Study
Company: S.A.G. Manufacturing
Industry: Metal Fabrication
Challenge: The company’s purchasing processes were disjointed, with no real-time data to track purchase orders and manage vendor relationships effectively.
Solution: SYSPRO’s Purchasing Module helped them automate purchase orders, track vendor performance, and improve overall procurement efficiency.
Results: S.A.G. Manufacturing reduced procurement lead times by 25% and saved 10% on vendor costs through better purchasing oversight.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
Purchase Order Inspection could enhance traceability by allowing the company to track incoming inventory using serials and lot numbers.
The Purchase Order Approval tool would speed up the approval process via unique web links, further improving vendor management.
5. Sales Order Processing: Case Study
Company: Archer Distribution
Industry: Food Distribution
Challenge: Archer Distribution was struggling with long order fulfillment times and inconsistent order tracking, which affected customer satisfaction.
Solution: SYSPRO’s Sales Order Processing Module allowed them to streamline their order entry, fulfillment, and shipping processes, ensuring real-time updates on order status.
Results: They reduced order fulfillment times by 15%, leading to improved customer satisfaction and 5% higher repeat business.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
Request for Quote would allow Archer Distribution to manage quote requests efficiently, improving their sales process.
Credit and Rebill would simplify the process of creating credit notes for completed sales orders, reducing manual errors and saving time.
6. Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Case Study
Company: Algreen Products
Industry: Plastic Manufacturing
Challenge: Algreen Products needed a better way to plan material requirements and reduce excess stock while ensuring production had the materials needed at the right time.
Solution: With SYSPRO’s Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Module, they were able to plan and manage material availability, reducing both stockouts and excess inventory. Results: Algreen Products reduced their raw material stockouts by 20% and cut inventory holding costs by 15%.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
MRP Calculation from MepApps would have simplified their MRP calculations further, allowing for more flexible adjustments in planning.
The Material Unissue feature would give them the flexibility to unissue materials from jobs when excess stock or over-allocation occurs.
7. Document Management and Workflow Automation: Case Study
Company: Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems
Industry: Cutting Systems and Equipment
Challenge: Kongsberg struggled with managing documents and accessing critical operational data quickly within their ERP system.
Solution: SYSPRO’s Document Management tools allowed them to store and retrieve digital documents efficiently. This improved productivity and ensured compliance with industry regulations.
Results: They saw a 40% reduction in time spent managing documents and a 20% improvement in overall operational efficiency.
MepApps Enhancement available for clients like this:
Mep File Manager would further enhance their document management process by enabling users to store documents digitally and access them directly from the SYSPRO interface, improving workflow automation and reducing manual retrieval times.
How SYSPRO and MepApps Work Together for Success
These case studies demonstrate how SYSPRO’s modules have helped companies improve efficiency, reduce costs, and streamline processes across a variety of industries. However, by integrating MepApps’ tailored tools, businesses can further enhance SYSPRO’s capabilities, bringing additional flexibility, automation, and control to their daily operations.
Whether it’s warehouse management, procurement automation, or job creation, MepApps provides the solutions you need to take your SYSPRO system to the next level.
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