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In order to create your company's high-level system requirements profile, please answer the following questions with a Yes or No. This list of questions will allow your team to focus on what are the key functional areas that will be required in your software and highlight the areas that require more analysis. The answers to the questions should reflect what you want and need for the future and not just replicate what you have now.

1	Will multiple divisions/companies/sites be supported? The enterprise system will support multiple divisions, sites or companies from a single executable copy of the software and data files.	Yes	No
2	Will multiple manufacturing plants be supported? A multiple plant or focus factory environment places special demands on a system. For example allowing the separation and/or consolidation of manufacturing and inventory information.	Yes	No
3	Will the multiple manufacturing plants be integrated? Integrated multiple plants may place demand on each other at various stages of the manufacturing process - either shared or dependent production. Items may be manufactured for another plant.	Yes	No
4	Are you a Distributor? A business that does not do manufacturing but purchases and resells products. Usually maintains a finished goods inventory.	Yes	No
5	Are you a Distributor with light manufacturing? Primary business is distribution of finished goods but with some light manufacturing operations. These may include: Painting, assembly, special packaging, etc. May require MPS, BOM, routing, and/or SFC requirements.	Yes	No
6	Do you sell and invoice in multiple currencies? Impacts requirements for purchasing and accounts payable.	Yes	No
7	Do you buy and pay in multiple currencies? Impacts requirements for purchasing and accounts payable.	Yes	No
8	Do you engineer-to-order (E-T-O)? Products where customer's specifications require unique engineering design or significant customization. Results in unique set of item numbers, BOM's, and routings.	Yes	No
9	Do you make-to-order (M-T-O)? Produce finished goods once the order has been received from the customer, as opposed to picking standard products off the shelf. The final product is usually a combination of standard items and items custom designed to meet the requirements of the customer.	Yes	No
10	Do you make-to-stock (M-T-S)? Product that is shipped from finished goods, "off the shelf", upon receipt of a Customer order. The master production schedule and final assembly schedule are at the finished goods level.	Yes	No
11	Do you configure-to-order (C-T-O/A-T-O)? Assemble customized products from predefined "features" and "options" through a final assembly process or manufacture per defined configuration table or rules to the customer's order requirements?	Yes	No
12	Do you manufacture in a job shop environment? An environment which uses shop orders, lots, batches, and routings to control production in which manufacturing resources are organized by functional work centers, such as drilling, forging, turning, etc. - intermittent production.	Yes	No
13	Are you a process manufacturer? A manufacturer that adds value by mixing, separating, forming and/or performing chemical reactions. Produces with minimal interruptions (continuous) in any one production run or between production runs (batch) of products which exhibit characteristics such as liquids, fibers, powders, or gasses.	Yes	No
14	Are you a repetitive manufacturer? A form of manufacturing where various items with similar routings are made across the same process whenever production occurs without shop orders. Products may be made in separate batches or continuously and is not a function of speed or volume.	Yes	No
15	Are you a food or pharmaceutical manufacturer/distributor? Lot control, product dating, or traceability of product or material usually a requirement for food and drug manufacturers.	Yes	No
16	Are you implementing Customer Order Processing? Includes taking and entering customer orders and providing order and customer status information.	Yes	No
17	Are you implementing Sales Forecasting?	Yes	No
18	Are you implementing Master Production Scheduling? The anticipated build schedule for those items assigned to a master scheduler that drives MRP.	Yes	No
19	Are you implementing Rough-Cut Capacity Planning? The process of converting the production plan and/or the MPS into capacity needs for key resources e.g. labor, machines, supplier's capacity, storage space, money, etc.	Yes	No
20	Are you implementing Capacity Requirements Planning? CRP is the function of establishing, measuring, and adjusting limits or levels of capacity.	Yes	No
21	Are you implementing Inventory Management? This includes the identification, tracking, and status of inventory.	Yes	No
22	Are you implementing Material Requirements Planning? MRP is a set of techniques that uses bill of material, inventory data, and the MPS to calculate requirements for materials.	Yes	No
23	Are you implementing Purchasing and Receiving?	Yes	No
24	Are you implementing Shop Floor Control? A system for utilizing data from the shop floor to maintain and communicate status on shop orders and work centers.	Yes	No
25	Are you implementing Cost Accounting? Product costing.	Yes	No
26	Are you a Project or Contract driven manufacturing business? Generally a requirement for DOD prime contractor, capital equipment manufacturer (ETO), or field project/service business. Requires project management capability, including: project/job costing and accounting, budgeting, cost estimating, progress billing, ETC, task management, WBS, revenue by project, and resource tacking.	Yes	No
27	Are you implementing Bills of Material, Formulas, or Recipes?	Yes	No
28	Are you implementing Operations and Routings?	Yes	No
29	Are you implementing General Ledger and Budgeting?	Yes	No
30	Are you implementing Accounts Payable?	Yes	No
31	Are you implementing Accounts Receivable?	Yes	No
32	Are you implementing Payroll?	Yes	No
33	Are you implementing Human Resources?	Yes	No
34	Are you implementing Fixed Assets?	Yes	No
35	Do you use discrete shop orders? A discrete shop order is opened for the manufacture of a specific quantity, and then closed upon completion.	Yes	No
36	Do you repair your products after sale? Company has an after sale repair facility for shipped products, and its inventory is expected to be under the control of the enterprise system.	Yes	No
37	Do you support aftermarket sales of service/repair parts? Those modules, components, items and elements that are planned to be used without modification to replace an original part during the performance of maintenance.	Yes	No
38	Do you require lot number control and traceability? Assignment of unique numbers to each instance of receipt and carrying that number throughout subsequent manufacturing processes so that, in review of an end item, each lot has end item traceability to the raw materials utilized.	Yes	No
39	Do you require serial number control and traceability? A serial number is required on the product. This is used for either governmental reporting, or to track product warranty.	Yes	No
40	Do you require engineering change control? Engineering change control includes ECN creation, approval control, tracking, and history of BOM and operation changes.	Yes	No
41	Are you implementing a standard cost system? A cost system that uses cost units determined before production. Standards are compared to actual costs and variances are calculated.	Yes	No
42	Are you implementing an actual cost system? A cost system that collects actual costs as they are applied to production, and allocates indirect costs based upon their specific costs and achieved volume. This is not collecting actual vs. standard. No standard is used.	Yes	No
43	Are customer quotations created? Estimating and quotations developed for customer RFQ's.	Yes	No
44	Do you subcontract production? Whenever a production operation is performed outside of the control of the manufacturing system. This includes sending production work outside to another manufacturer.	Yes	No
45	Do you have co-products and by-products? Co-products are saleable products resulting from the manufacture of another product. By-products are an end item product as the result of a manufacturing process with minimal potential revenue (or a cost of disposal).	Yes	No
46	Do you use blanket orders for purchases? A term commitment to a supplier for certain goods or services over a specified term at predetermined prices against which short-term releases are generated to satisfy requirements.	Yes	No
47	Do you store, use, or sell items by potency or grade? Potency is the concentration of a material, e.g. 52% solution of HCL. Grade is the sub-labeling of items to identify its particular specification make up and separate this lot from others produced.	Yes	No
48	Are your materials or products shelf life sensitive? Material would have date code and require tracking/traceability.	Yes	No
49	Do you backflush inventory/resources? Backflushing is an approach where items and/or resources are consumed by relieving them at standard from on-hand or available inventory by exploding the BOM at a point in the manufacturing process.	Yes	No
50	Do you backflush direct labor? Relieving labor at standard.	Yes	No
51	Will you implement bar code technology? Bar codes may be on shop paper, shipping documents, inventory information, labels, etc.	Yes	No
52	Do you require a CAD/CAM system interface with the enterprise system?	Yes	No
53	Do you require a Warehouse Management system? Provide control over Warehouse operations: receipt, storage, work planning, inventory, replenishment, order picking, truck loading and shipping.	Yes	No

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