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Abel’s Inventory Management – Consignment Stock
Abel’s Inventory Management includes features that are especially for managing consignment stock. Consignment stock is stock held at a customer location awaiting sale or consumption. Abel’s consignment stock sits within standard Abel workflows but with a special consignment line type… Read more »
...September 7th, 2023 / BY
Sales Forecasts with Abel
Abel captures Sales Forecasts by Customer to help Planners meet forecast Customer demand. You can upload Sales Forecasts into Abel per inventory item, per Customer. Abel maintains the forecasts in a sub-ledger. This example shows: Postings by month to the… Read more »
...August 24th, 2023 / BY
Manufacturing – Material Requirements Planning
Abel software includes Material Requirements Planning (MRP) within its manufacturing feature set. MRP is an internationally recognized technique for calculating the materials and components needed to manufacture or supply a product. MRP Budgets Abel’s Material Requirements Planning uses budgets to… Read more »
...August 17th, 2023 / BY
Bills of Materials in Abel
Abel’s Bills of Materials (BOMs) contain lists of Materials and also Work Centers, Operator Instructions, Options, Sub-BOMs and some scheduling settings (parallel, queue points etc.) There are two main types of BOM in Abel, Static BOMs and Designer BOMs: This… Read more »
...August 7th, 2023 / BY
Abel’s MPI ED Compliance Features
Abel helps businesses automate their MPI compliance obligations. The New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has particular requirements for the traceability of animal products through MPI jurisdictions (locations). This affects New Zealand businesses Export animal products or have multiple… Read more »
...August 1st, 2023 / BY
Abel’s Export Container Management
Abel’s Export Container Management is for customer orders that you despatch in shipping containers. You can record container bookings, cross-reference customer orders with containers and produce despatches for whole containers. You can also generate electronic documents for MPI (Ministry for… Read more »
...July 13th, 2023 / BY
Country of Eligibility for Batch Tracked Stock in Abel…
Abel’s Country of Eligibility feature is for exporters of goods that are subject to strict quality standards, like pharmaceuticals, dairy, honey, and meat products. It’s an area that can be set up to suit most requirements. Here we’ll focus on… Read more »
...July 11th, 2023 / BY
Tracking Test Results by Batch in Abel
A problem many food manufacturers face is tracking multiple test results per batch for products that require exacting standards. Many rely on spreadsheets for this task, with all the attendant problems: manual maintenance; risk of errors and lack of integration… Read more »
...July 6th, 2023 / BY
Allocating Batches Early helps Planners Stay Ahead with Abel
Manufacturing planners often face challenges with raw materials that can vary in composition from one batch to the next. Especially if they are producing finished goods to exacting standards, such as baby formula. Natural ingredients such as milk powder often… Read more »
...June 27th, 2023 / BY