ManEx has several standard and optional features designed to streamline the kitting process.  This provides unmatched visibility and control.  Additionally, planned upgrades to increase visibility, documentation, and ease-of-use are close to completion.

• Kitting Schedule - ManEx provides a list of kits to pull with due dates, and quantities.  This allows kitting to know what needs immediate action and when it is due.  It also provides the number of components in each kit to help determine time required to pull a kit and better plan kitting activities.
• Kitting by Work Center - Instead of pulling all parts for all work centers, ManEx allows kitting by Work Center.  This enables kitting to better manage all kitting activities and pull only what is currently needed for any given work center.
• Kitting Assemblies with No Components - For proto-type, small quick-turn, or one-time consigned production builds, ManEx allows production to process assemblies with no components and record shortages.  This enables a faster turn and eliminates the work of loading and processing a Bill of Material that may not be needed after the current run.  If the assembly is later converted to turnkey or becomes a regular order, users can load components as needed.
• AVL Control - ManEx provides full visibility and control of internal and customer AVLs.  This allows purchasing to consolidate purchases to increase buying power, and production to produce according to customer specifications.  It also makes it easy for kitting to know what is approved for a given kit and pull only approved parts.
• Consigned Inventory Tracking - ManEx allows users to create and manage assemblies with both turnkey and consigned components.  The fully integrated consigned inventory management will allow users to track and use consigned parts as needed.
• IPS Module - The optional In-Plant Store module offers several key benefits to the kitting process.  In addition to facilitating management and control of vendor owned inventory, many use it to track customer provided inventory.  This provides complete visibility for customer records and allows and seamless transition from consignment to turnkey once the consigned parts are consumed.  Unless a component is exclusively and permanently consignment, the IPS module may be the best way to manage it in ManEx.

In Process Upgrades 

• IPKey Tracking - As part of the Bar-code module, ManEx is finishing an upgrade to add capabilities for complete and detailed tracking of inventory at the package level.  In addition to benefits in other areas, IPKey will significantly simplify kitting.  Scanning the bar-code will allow users to check AVL, record lot/date code and serial number information, issue package quantities, and print kit labels all in one step.  This also adds the potential of tracking actual material costs for each Work Order.
• Production Machine Interface- Another benefit of the IPKey upgrades is the ability to interface with third party interfaces with production machines.  This will allow ManEx to feed kit information to the machines and for the machines to feed usage information back to ManEx.