Problems and Solutions

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1 · Your industry

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The survey starts when you click a card. The questions match that industry, and the request uses the same MFGMAX product. You can change the industry before you send.

  1. 1Click your industry
  2. 2Mark the problems from this week
  3. 3See what MFGMAX does

Manufacturing

Other industries

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Solutions

What MFGMAX brings to each industry

Manufacturing stays with the lot, the job, and the cost of making something. The other industries have their own products. Pick one to open it, or start the questions above.

Manufacturing

MFGMAX Nutra ERP

MFGMAX Nutra ERP

The formula, the batch, the lots, quality status, and the cost stay on one record while the batch is still open.

  • Hand over the batch that shipped: the formula that was used, the checks, and who did the work
  • Keep quarantine, hold, and released stock as different quantities
  • Trace a raw lot to the finished lots, and a finished lot back to what was used
  • Put actual cost and yield on the batch so the next quote is not the last guess

This does not replace your quality system, a validation, or an FDA approval.

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Manufacturing

MFGMAX Pharma

MFGMAX Pharma

Materials, the running batch, in-process checks, lot genealogy, and batch cost are the same record.

  • Write the batch record while the batch is running, not after it is closed
  • See which material lot is eligible before the batch is started
  • Trace from a component lot to the finished batches, and from a finished lot back to shipment
  • Compare actual batch cost with the standard, including yield loss and rework

This does not replace your quality system, a validation, or an FDA approval.

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Manufacturing

MFGMAX Beverage and Food

MFGMAX Beverage and Food

The quote and the batch read the same formula. Ingredient lots, yield, and the shipment stay with that run.

  • Price a batch from the recipe, today’s ingredient cost, and the yield the plant actually gets
  • See the step, the lots consumed, and the yield before the batch record closes
  • Put expiration and the customer shelf-life rule on the lot before it is issued
  • Keep allergen and ingredient identity with the lot that was actually used

This does not replace your food-safety program, your specifications, or a required approval.

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Manufacturing

MFGMAX Furniture

MFGMAX Furniture

The estimate, the materials, the hours, and what the job earned stay on the same job.

  • Build the estimate from materials, labor, and overhead, then compare it with what was recorded
  • See where materials are, and which job used them
  • Follow the job as planned, in progress, on hold, or complete
  • See labor hours and job margin while the job is still open
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Manufacturing

MFGMAX Heavy Metals

MFGMAX Heavy Metals

The heat, the certificate, the work order, the scrap, and the job cost stay together.

  • Tie grade, heat, lot, and the mill certificate to the metal that was received
  • Tell a remnant that can fill the next job from metal that is already promised
  • Follow cutting, forming, finish, labor, and outside processing on the work order
  • Count good parts and scrap before the job is invoiced, and price the next job from that result

This does not replace a required material test, a weld procedure, or an environmental permit.

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Manufacturing

MFGMAX Cosmetics

MFGMAX Cosmetics

The formula, the bulk, the components, the fill, and the finished lot stay on one batch.

  • Price the batch from bulk, components, and the yield the line actually fills
  • Record the bulk lot, the bottle or jar, the cap, and the label that went into the finished lot
  • See fill yield, overfill, and in-process checks before the batch is closed
  • Keep QC status and the shipments of that finished lot on the same record

This does not replace your safety assessment, your specifications, or a required approval.

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Other industries

MFGMAX Aviation

MFGMAX Aviation

The work order carries the parts trace, the technician hours, the inspection, and the return to service.

  • See a repair as received, in work, waiting on parts, in inspection, or ready to return
  • Keep certified parts, serial and lot identity, and where each part was removed or installed
  • Record hours against the work order while the job is still open
  • Hold the traveler, inspection status, and return-to-service notes with the repair

This supports the repair station manual you already use. It does not replace your FAA certificate or an approval.

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Other industries

MFGMAX Distributors

MFGMAX Distributors

What can ship, what should be bought, and what each order earned stay on the same picture.

  • See on-hand, committed, and incoming stock before a promise is made
  • Buy against open orders, reorder points, and vendor lead time
  • Follow allocations, backorders, and shipments so a short order is visible
  • Keep item cost, sell price, and customer margin with the order
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Other industries

MFGMAX Construction

MFGMAX Construction

The bid, the change orders, the purchases, the crew, and the job result stay on one job.

  • Keep the original estimate attached so later costs have something to compare against
  • Record added scope, the revised price, and the cost that comes with a change order
  • See what was ordered, received, and used, including purchases that were not in the estimate
  • Review margin while the job is open, from the contract, the changes, and the recorded cost
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Other industries

MFGMAX Financing

MFGMAX Financing

Underwriting, the advance or loan, collections, and the investor share stay on the deal.

  • Keep the application, the documents, and the decision with the deal
  • Follow cash advances, loans, factoring, and discounts through the open balance
  • See what has been advanced, collected, reserved, and still outstanding
  • Show each investor their share from the deals already recorded

Your accountant still closes the books. This is the deal history, not an audit opinion.

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Other industries

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Most of these companies share the same gaps: the cost of the job, cash that does not match the profit, hours that were available, and one person who can change a quantity or a price.

  • Manufacturing products follow the lot, the job, and the cost of making something
  • Distribution, aviation, construction, and financing each have their own MFGMAX product
  • The survey below changes the questions once you pick the closest industry
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Marketing and sales

Marketing and Sales Simulation

Choose the customers, the list price, the discount, the sales force, customer communications, market research, product investment, and the channel. Each industry has its own planning band. This is an MFGMAX exercise, not a forecast.

Customers to go after

How you reach them

What the effort is for

Revenue in this exercise

$5,474,700

Gross margin

28.3%

Left after the spend

$1,142,844

What these choices do

The price customers keep is close to the usual alternative. The effort is aimed at custom residential and commercial and hospitality. A mixed channel adds some reach and gives up part of the margin. Market research is inside or above its band, so the other spend is aimed with more information.

The quote is the price. It has to survive the materials and the hours on that job.

With price at the usual alternative, a 5% large-account discount, two customer groups, a mixed channel, and every spend at the middle of its band, the amount left would be $1,117,182. These settings are $25,662 higher.

  • Customer communications

    $109,494 · 2% of exercise revenue · band 1%–3% · inside the band

  • Sales force

    $164,241 · 3% of exercise revenue · band 2%–5% · inside the band

  • Market research

    $21,899 · 0.4% of exercise revenue · band 0.2%–0.6% · inside the band

  • Product and capability

    $109,494 · 2% of exercise revenue · band 1%–3% · inside the band

Mark the week behind these numbers

The bands are planning ranges for this conversation. They are not a promise of your results, and they are not a substitute for your cost, your quotes, or your accountant.