Increase visibility to your shop floor & deliver on time with the industry’s first ERP that considers unplanned variability on the shop floor. Built in Protected Flow Manufacturing (PFM) module helps manufacturers take control of their production schedules by constantly prioritizing jobs to minimize wait times and maximize on-time delivery. The PFM Enterprise (PFM/E) cloud-based manufacturing ERP will help you get up and running quickly, ensure you have inventory when you need it, decrease your on-going costs, and enable you to concentrate on what you do best – running your business.
"Turbo Charge” Your Shop Floor
Reduce manufacturing lead times, improve material flow, and deliver on time to your customers in less time with PFM/E’s integrated PFM module. Utilizing color coded “threat levels” on jobs, the PFM module ensures that you are working on the right job at the right time.
The Right Amount of Inventory – Always
Ensure you always have enough inventory – finished goods, subassemblies, and purchased items – but never too much with PFM/E’s integrated Demand Driven MRP.
Delivered From the Cloud
PFM/E’s cloud-delivered solutions eliminate costly in-house servers and bloated IT budgets. Your team can access critical data quickly and securely from anywhere via a laptop, tablet, or phone.
Scheduling That Actually Works
Scheduling is buffered from variability thanks to the embedded PFM module execution engine. An easy to read list of jobs organized by “threat level” priority and resource ensures the shop floor always knows what to work on.
Expedited Quote to Cash
Enjoy greater business efficiency, more accuracy, and better visibility from initial quote to final payment thanks to streamlined and automated Quote-to-Cash processes.
Eliminate Issues
Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence tell you what problems will be in future, so they can be addressed before they happen.
Dynamic Material Planning
Reduce the impact of shorter lead times and fragmented customer demand on operations by eliminating guesswork when it comes to safety stock levels and reducing wasted raw materials.
Quick Implementation
In just two months or less your business can be benefitting from PFM/E’s business enhancing capabilities.
Groundbreaking Innovation
With over 25 years of ERP development behind them, the PFM/E design team re-imagined what ERP is and how it should work.
In the beginning of January, we were over one hundred jobs overdue. At the end of January, we had just 40 jobs overdue. A month later, we were only 14 jobs behind and these jobs were only one or two days behind. We’re running jobs through the plant more efficiently.
We can now see the load against all resources going forward into the future and most importantly see which ones are likely to be bottlenecks and which orders are unlikely to be delivered on time. If we must add additional capacity, we’re confident that doing so will improve on-time delivery and throughput. Now we understand and see clearly what will happen to all deliveries by accepting that extra order.
late jobs in just three weeks
increased capacity
reduced overtime
Core Features & Benefits
Scheduling That Really Works
PFM Enterprise uses a revolutionary approach to shop floor resource management called Protected Flow Manufacturing (PFM). The PFM module anticipates and plans for the things that can happen on the shop floor such as missing material, personnel issues, machine problems and changing customer demand. This results in a believable and optimized shop “schedule” that people trust.
Cloud Based Access Anywhere & Anytime
Seeing what is happening in your business and making the changes needed to stay on track is as easy as opening up your browser. There is no need to deal with expensive infrastructure that can stop you from seeing your operations when you need to.
Two cutting-edge solutions in one ERP.
PFM Enterprise combines two new industry changing solutions in one ERP system. Protected Flow Manufacturing (PFM) prioritizes the shop floor operation by an innovative approach that uses protective buffering. Demand Driven Material Planning (DDMRP) then ensures that the right amount of inventory will be available to both production and customers by using calculations based on real-time consumption. PFM Enterprise is the only ERP on the market that delivers these two revolutionary approaches as part of their native ERP.
Aerospace & Defense
- Engineering with CAD integration
- Engineering change control
- Specifications and data "flow down" for ITAR, DFAR, etc.
- Actual job costing
- Project Management with Earned Value Management and milestone reporting
Automotive Manufacturing
- Configuration management
- Serial and lot control
- Design and engineering
- Capacity planning & scheduling (Lean, TOC, JIT)
- Actual costing
Electronics & High-Tech
- Alternate item on bill of materials (BOM)
- Item cross reference (supplier and manufacturer)
- Approved vendors and manufacturer lists
- Supply chain visibility with Web based portals
- Reference designators
Oil & Gas
- Strengthen Your Supply Chain
- Sophisticated Project Management
- Connect Service Efforts to Operations
- Localization & Financial Accounting Visibility
Field Service, Maintenance & Repair
- Improve Customer Satisfaction & First Time Fix Rate
- Reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Optimize Routing of Field Service Techs
- Support for Depot Repair, Break-Fix & More
- Offer Managed Service Contracts
Furniture & Fixtures
- Industry Expert Partners
- Increase Quote Win Rate
- Improve Planning & Scheduling
- Cut Operational Costs
- Shorten Product Development Lifecycles
Industrial Machinery & Equipment
- Win More Business
- Meet Customer Delivery Expectations
- Increase Velocity of Spare Part Sales
- Collaborate With Suppliers & Customers
- Leave Your Competitors Behind
Industrial Manufacturing
- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
Medical Device Manufacturing
- End-to-end customer relationship, sales, purchasing, performance, and financial management
- Estimating with multiple quantity breaks
- Integrated capacity planning (Lean, TOC, JIT) with unlimited "what-if" scenarios
- Material planning with real-time visibility of demand and supply
- Cost control (actual, average, standard)
Metal, Glass, & Plastic Fabrication
- Purpose-Built ERP
- Estimate with Confidence
- Improve Delivery Performance
- Paperless Real-Time Shop Floor Data Collection
- The Right Materials at the Right Time
Related Products and Services
- Seamless Integration
- Easy To Set Up. Easy to Maintain
- PFM Anticipates Issues
- See the Future Before it Happens
- Large & Small Jobs Are Optimized
- Looking directly at real time consumption rates of material rather than a static forecast
- Dynamically adjusting stock levels as demand changes
- Analyzing and suggesting stocking levels between manufacturing assemblies and sub-assemblies to optimize flow and eliminate stock-outs
- Managing procurement to align supply dynamically with changes in demand
- Improve Manufacturing Efficiency
- Reduce Production Waste
- Track & Analyze Downtime in Real-time
- Instant Notifications for Shop Floor Workers
- Improve Operator Engagement & Communication
- Achieve Business Goals
- Stay Within Scope & On Budget
- Universal Project Touchpoints
- Eliminate Risk
- Constant Project Monitoring
- Increase Inventory Accuracy
- > 40% Reduction in WIP
- Inventory Reduction
- On-Time Delivery Gains of > 25%
- Lead Time Reduction > 20%