Production Management

Gain insight into all the processes of the production flow with Rackbeat’s production management.

Do you have digital ambitions for your company and are you in need of flexibility in your production? Rackbeat helps you optimize your most important resources: employees, time, and materials.

With rackbeat’s digital production management system at your fingertips, you can easily synchronize your entire order-, purchasing- and product flow with functionality that enables you to:

Track materials and products across multiple locations

Create bill of materials

Manage product variants

Software for Production Management: How it Works

Production management covers all activities that govern the processes between orders and shipping in a business. A production management system is also called an MRP-system. MRP is short for Material Requirement Planning and the system is a tool for planning and decision making in the production process.

With product management software you can ensure that productions in the business are coordinated with your expected sales and your current warehouse policies.

Many businesses are still using Excel sheets for production planning. But there are many downsides to this, including:

It requires a lot of man-hours to construct and maintain a planning system in Excel sheets
An Excel sheet can be difficult to discern for everyone else except the person that built it
Excel sheets only provide a two-dimensional perspective of the production process, while dedicated software for production management provides a 360-degree overview of the entire production process
An Excel sheet cannot help you analyse your way into when products need to be produced, and which machine to use for the production to ensure you utilize your production capacity to the fullest
You need more than one Excel sheet if you are going to take multiple aspects of production into account

When consolidating your entire production flow into one production management system, you are optimizing the throughput in your production. This will enable you to identify deviations and delays in future productions.

You will always be ahead of the curve when it comes to handling errors and shortcomings, and you prevent small errors from becoming expensive ones.

You will never produce more than what is needed, and Rackbeat notifies you when it’s time to produce additional inventory.

If an order is placed on a product that is not currently in stock, Rackbeat will notify you that a new production is needed to be able to meet the order, and lets you know if you have the materials in stock to start a new production.

Production management taken above and beyond

With Rackbeat, you are not only getting an overview of productions in progress, but also the productions that are planned for the future. This way, you can purchase new materials and plan which products to produce for different delivery dates.

Additionally, you have the option to assign a worker and/or an order to a particular production, which means that you know which customer the finished product is going to, and how much remains of a production, after the order is filled.

Do you work with expiration dates and FMCG in your production planning? Rackbeat has developed an add-on for batch control. The add-on lets you track your batches from start to finish. You will always know:

When you received a batch
Which, and how many productions a batch is part of
Who has received products from the finished production

Optimize your production planning with Rackbeat

Are you ready to digitize production planning in your business?

Rackbeat’s production management system helps you handle, synchronize and increase efficiency across the entire flow of your production process. This will allow you to optimize your company’s resource consumption and make sure that your production creates optimal value for the business.