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Dashboard now shows your on time delivery performance for the current month and year to date. It is caculated from contract shipping date and shipment date when items are dispatched. Click the tiles on the dashboard to search, filter and see your delivery performance. Data can be exported to Excel.
Fraction ERP now integrates with Sage Cloud Accounting software.
Files can now be uploaded to contracts, works orders, and purchase orders in addition to parts and bills of materials. This allows safe and easy access to customer purchase order, material certification, inspection reports, photos and drawings. Integrating this feature means you don not have to connect to the company network to get access to file storage.
When creating new parts, you can now assign a unique SKU (stock keeping unit). This can be prefixed in options with your own prefix to identify it.
Any part can now have multiple suppliers linked to it in order of preference. You can also store the supplier part numbers and when you order from that supplier, they will only see their own part numbers
A new page called sales order demand groups all sales order lines by part number, allowing them to be selected and then consolidated into one works order. The works order will show which contracts requires the parts.
If you carry stock of a part, you can allocate this part to a contract line item. A new workflow for raising works orders considers the allocated stock so your production quantity is made to suit.
If a part has a production lead time, the start date is automatically set. It can be manually set with or without lead times. This defines the required by date for all parts on the WO which is used in part demand to schedule purchasing.
When you create a manual PO, you can link this back to works order demand and vice versa, improving traceability
We can now support international clients by enabling time zones to be configured in your user profile.
GRN records now have labels which can be printed to identity materials at the goods receiving process.
Fraction Invoices now contain the delivery note reference and the tracking reference on the PDF invoice.
Contract line items now have a status of Invoiced and when all line items are invocied the contract will be automatically set to complete.
Parts can now have a pack size defined and the purchase order will ensure the pack size and minimum order quantity are satisfied. For example, if you want to ensure 5 packs of 10 are always ordered, the pack size is 10 and the minimum order quantity will be 50.
A new quality section to the dashboard shows open Non-Conformance Reports to action.
The works order list now flags in green when all parts are allocated and when all operation are planned, making it easier to see any works orders to action.
The part demand page, now changes the status to green to visually make it easier to track any items that have not yet been fully allocated for production.
When sending documents such as quotations, purchases orders, and invoices via the built in direct email feature, a log is now created on the page for the date, time and user that send the email and the recipient.
From the shipment page you can now send your customers a shipping notification email with the order and shipping details.
Shipment records now store multiple shipping items to track size, weight and quantity of packages on the shipment
From the BOM parts list or on a contract line item, you can now refresh the part description to revert to the master part record description
A works order can now be edited to add or remove parts and operations. This feature is ideal for service work and jobbing shops where the exact process and materials may not be known at the start
Contract line items now display the current stock level for the part
Customer records can now store multiple delivery addresses. One is set as the default and can be changed from the contract at any time.
When editing a line item in a purchase order, you can use the current price to update the part record price, just tick the box to perform the update.
From a purchase order record you can now create new parts on the fly
This feature is now available for advanced users and allows all incoming parts to be given a batch or serial number which flows through fraction ERP until you sell goods using your own or the Fraction ERP batch and serial numbers for finished goods.
Part allocations can now be performed in part demand page.
On the part demand page, any part that is a child works order will now be shown with a link to view the works order record.
If you use the search bar and then leave the page or open a record, the same search will be held you come back to the page.
The total contract value is now shown at the bottom of every contract.
To re-sequence line item in a contract, just drag and drop them into position and the line item numbers will update.
On the GRN list you can now use the show line items button to expand the list into line item details and search by part number or description.
Any part can now be flagged for inwards inspection. On arrival the GRN is processed as normal. A part with inspection requirements will not be added to stock until the inspection process confirms the accepted quantity of the GRN. A new tile on the dashboard will alert users to any line items that have pending inwards inspecation to complete.
Any part can now be flagged as a non-stock item so no stock transactions will take place. This is perfect for service items, engineering work or subcontract processing.
Purhcase Orders now need to be approved before they can be printed. The user must be ticked as a PO Manager on their user profile and each user can have their own spend limit per single PO
If you set a minimum order quantity for any part and raise an PO, the system will check the minimum quantity is met. For example, if you are buying screws in boxes of 100 and try to purchase 50, it will ask you to update the quantity. At the moment you can still order say 101 screws, so this is not the same as pack size multiples which be implemented shortly.
Workcenter and employee capacity used to be defined by a number of hours per week. As we develop the system for daily and hourly planning we have changed how capacity is defined. Each resource now has a daily schedule with a start and end time. We now use this to calculate the daily and weekly capacity
The part activity page is now updated with all purchase orders for the part with price and quantity
All purchase orders now reqire approval before they can be printed or emailed. Approval is a single click by users who have the role of PO MANAGER ticked on their user profile.
The delivery note now has a new option to add a statement such as ownership clauses or statements of conformity. You can add a title to the section and 5 lines of text from the options page under the settings menu.
The part activity page is now updated with all purchase orders for the part with price and quantity
You can now apply a date filter to sales orders, works orders, purchase orders, invoices, and shipments. On pages with values, we also added the total of the records on the page, or applied on the filter.
On the parts page you can now download your parts inventory to excel.
Contracts now feature a contract date. This date starts when you create a contract record. If you convert a quote to a sales order at a later date, the contract date is updated to current date to reflect when you recieved the order. You can also manually adjust the contract date if needed. The username has been added for tracebility
Excel reports can be exported from the invoice and purchase order modules
These documents are now downloaded as a PDF, quotations, order acknowledgement, invoice, purchase orders and delivery notes
On the part demand page you can now see available and allocated stock.
On the Bill of Materials (BOM) page, just click "copy" to create an identical BOM. Make sure the part number has already been set up to copy the BOM.
From a sales order you can create an invoice without a shipment. Invoices can also be printed as a proforma invoice.
Within the part record you can now upload drawings and files.
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