Production Management

The TrulinX Production Management module helps determine how many hours are needed based on production requirements, as well as how many hours can be accommodated from the current workforce or if additional labor will be needed.

Visualization

TrulinX provides visualization tools for developing project plans and optimizing resources to meet those plans. Visualization features include capacity planning to help manage labor and job scheduling, and allocation of resources, as well as interactive and ‘what-if’ scheduling and views to see what happens to other jobs when you reallocate inventory or change dates. Visualization features also include:

• Reporting on labor utilization to create reports that show capacity usage during the previous period and what needs to change or be reworked.
• Customizable dashboard views of all work orders with drilldown and consolidation capabilities and the ability to view data in both graphical and tabular formats.
• Gantt chart interactive scheduling with automated adjustment capabilities taking into account available time, floor space, and part availability.

Analytics

The TrulinX Production Management module provides industrial distributors with powerful analytics to aggregate data to enable a number of features, such as:

• Estimated vs. actual cost to ensure that the estimated cost of parts is on par with the actual cost incurred. This saves time and money because estimates will not need to keep being revised.
• On-time completion helps in analyzing how long a job is taking when compared to how long it was planned to take. This helps in pinpointing if any problems need to be looked into or if any mistakes were made during estimation.
• Performance trends over time can help optimize database performance by identifying the bottlenecks in the production environment and looking at where to boost database performance.
• The ability to drilldown from consolidated data views and graphs to related detail.

Processing Improvements

TrulinX enables you to drag and drop movement of inventory from one work order to another or to stock and to generate and track progress billings and payments. It also enables easier importing of work orders from outside sources (including the creation of new items), the completion of internally fabricated work orders and disposition of remaining inventory in a single step, and suggested allocation of received goods when there are competing jobs.

Work Order Process Flow

This feature of the TrulinX Production Management module helps you better understand how much work your production facilities can handle and when the work will be completed. It also helps you optimize the work sequence to ensure on-time completion of all work orders. It includes ad hoc email notifications for various actions, work flow instructions, and routing of material directly to a job.

TrulinX Air

TrulinX Air provides additional capabilities, such as the ability to scan employees in and out of a job, track movement of a job through work centers or processes, and the routing of received goods directly to a job (with put away capability to job staging areas).

Better Resource Allocation

TrulinX removes the guesswork with powerful analytics and tools to help industrial distributors manage capacity planning, labor and job scheduling, and allocation of resources.

Enhance Customer Service

By helping keep production on time or ahead of schedule, TrulinX helps reduce out-of-stock rates, which leads to happier customers when orders are filled on time and as expected.

Improve Human Capital Management

Reliable demand forecasts help ensure adequate staffing and the right skill sets for the required capacity, which helps improve employee satisfaction.

Save Money & Increase Profitability

TrulinX enables two of the key benefits of the capacity requirements planning process – saving money and increasing profitability. Better resource allocation throughout the project or product lifespan ultimately leads to increased profitability by keeping production ahead of schedule and decreasing costs incurred from last-minute or unplanned changes or expediting of project milestones.