This provides a collaboration functionality that allows you to work with buyers and suppliers on engineering designs and sharing vital data such as inventory levels, production line activities, bills of materials and engineering changes. All of this means shorter lead times, reduced cycle times from order to cash, reduced inventories and significant reduction in the number of costly errors, keeping you ahead of your competition and positioning you for world-class performance.

Support of multiple sales forecast and mulitple MRP and capacity simulations
MAPICS lets you handle multiple sales forecasts and unlimited iterations of MRP simulations and capacity simulations. Plan your people, machines and space requirements in accordance with your forecasts, ensuring efficient delivery of products to customers and partners. And when you require more advanced planning tools, MAPICS offers a complete Advanced Planning System that can fully integrate with your enterprise solution.

An expanded channel of communications with your customers as partners in the process
Customers can access you, your products and services 24/7, and in their preferred method of communication. We provide the tools that help you respond accurately to customer requests for quotes, pricing, availability and delivery commitments, giving you access to the information you need to keep current customers happy and loyal.

A scalable solution
With MAPICS, you can scale to your dynamically changing business needs. There is no limit to the number of affiliated businesses you can have on one single database, simplifying consolidation, financial reporting and interplant transfers. You can mix and match charts of accounts, accounting, bookings and manufacturing calendars, part-level data, part descriptions, product costing and routings.

Streamlined outsourcing
With MAPICS, outsourcing is simply another operation in the build process - but an important one that helps you maintain your competitive edge. Your enterprise can extend to virtual partners, improving profitability without sacrificing customer responsiveness.

Speed time-to-market
Control and leverage critical information such as Engineering Change Notifications (ECNs) and CAD drawings to ensure high quality, low costs, and rapid time-to-market. You are enabled to define an unlimited number of approval lists for electronic sign offs in which you define sequence and timing of approvals. There is a bills of materials flexibility that allows for different levels of control between your engineering environment and manufacturing environment which gives you the ability to adapt to deadline requirements.