Transportation manufacturers have been trusting Genius ERP
for over 30 years to make them more efficient, profitable, and productive.
Whether building trailers, work trucks, boats, industrial vehicles, or aircraft
— if it rolls, floats, flies, hauls, or anything in between — our solution
helps these complex and custom manufacturers deliver.
Genius ERP is built to help manufacturers work faster and
smarter. We help you increase your throughput and become more efficient by
giving you complete visibility and oversight of your operation. You will be
more organized, more systematic, and deliver more stock on time and on budget
with Genius. “It’s more than just a computer system,” said Erin McClain,
Administrator at Raglan Industries, a custom trailer manufacturer based out of
Ontario, Canada, and a long-time customer of Genius ERP. “It’s an improvement
on our operational processes.”
Here are the top features that transportation manufacturers
love in Genius ERP.
1. Job Costing
Transportation manufacturers can struggle to identify which
jobs are profitable and exactly how much profit each job brings in. Variables
like the cost of raw materials and the general amount of labor required for a
project are easy enough to estimate, but to get a truly accurate number — and
to be clear, it’s only valuable if it is accurate — you need a solution that
can measure each aspect of the manufacturing process completely.
Genius ERP brings together real-time information from
inventory and purchasing, the engineering department, shop floor labor, machine
time, and shipping costs — and calculates a true cost you can rely on. This
allows you to monitor standard, average, and actual product costs, as well as
analyze profitability by job, project, or contract. These insights will help
you identify which jobs are making money and which are not, allowing you to
focus on the most profitable ones and increase your profits.
2. Product Configurator
Genius ERP has developed a robust and simple-to-use product
configurator tool that gives transportation manufacturers a distinct advantage
over their competition. Built directly into the software, our product
configurator can help you configure a custom build from start to finish, simply
by selecting and combining pre-existing elements.
The Product Configurator is a powerful tool that enables
you to reduce the time and expertise needed to create accurate quotes and sales
orders. With this tool, your sales team can access a list of configurable
products, options, and visuals to create a complete and accurate quote for a
client — and determine the right sales price to ensure a profit. If your
product is 100% configurable, no other engineering action is required to launch
production, and Genius will automatically create a fully-itemized BOM (Bill of
Materials) for you.
Without the product configurator, transportation
manufacturers would have to rely on spreadsheets to cobble together a draft
product and create a semi-accurate BOM. With Genius ERP, you can automate this
time-consuming process using our built-in tools that will automatically confirm
what raw goods and materials are already in inventory, plus what needs to be
purchased to complete the job. Then you can either have Genius purchase these
goods for you or send you alerts and reminders to tell your team what needs to
be bought to finish the job.
3. Complete Visibility and Oversight
There’s nothing more important to a transport manufacturer
than real-time information. Genius ERP provides a consistent, immediate picture
of the shop floor to continually track, control, and fine-tune your shop for
maximum efficiency. With Genius, transportation manufacturers can manage all
aspects of each job and juggle shifting priorities with a fully integrated and
connected system.
A complete overview of operations using real-time data, and
our helpful dashboards and reports, ensure that your team is working on the
right priorities to move your business forward. Real-time data enables you to
assess work center performance and availability, as well as system performance
as a whole, track task progress, monitor timesheets, and manage costs for each job
in your shop or on the job site. You will also be able to detect production
bottlenecks and catch issues early — before they get worse and cause delivery
deadlines to be missed.
4. Inventory Management
Transportation manufacturers can significantly reduce their
costs and save time by using Genius ERP's inventory management system. We
monitor inventory down to the serial number to give you an accurate inventory
count every second of the day.
With Genius ERP, you can track your inventory needs, control
your costs, and replenish stock based on actual on-the-job demand with our
streamlined and fully integrated system. To prevent production interruptions
and do away with unexpected material shortages, you will always know how many
of each item in your inventory is available, reserved for jobs, in production,
and on order.
Genius ERP also comes equipped with a recommended reorder
tool that tells you when to repurchase materials and parts — so that you never
have a material shortage again. The built-in reordering tool will identify
potential shortages based on actual current inventory, expected delivery times,
and the date the item is required according to your in-process production
orders. It will tell you when it’s time to order more items and allows you to
combine purchase lists from multiple orders to streamline the purchasing
process.
Request a demo of Genius ERP today to see all of these features and more — including how we can manage distributors for you. We will help you streamline your transportation manufacturing operations to lower costs and drive your business forward.