TMerit offers two modules that can help increase performance with simplified, graphical capabilities for planning and production. Designed for customers using Microsoft Dynamics GP manufacturing, Merit Solutions' Quick Planner and Production Workbench modules provide enhancements on top of that core solution, complementing its functionality.

Merit Solutions Quick Planner — Quick Planner provides users with a fast way to access production while avoiding what can be cumbersome, multiple MRP inquiry screens. The tool enables a production planner to rapidly identify items that need to be manufactured and allows the planner to release those items quickly. The tool also identifies items that need to be purchased, so as to not jeopardize the manufacturing process.

The intuitive Quick Planner tool enables users to:

• View supply and demand events in a single view.
• Act on changes across Microsoft Dynamics GP from within the Quick Planner central view.
• Identify areas that need attention quickly with color-coded icons.
• View item Available-To-Promise (ATP) conditions by site, across sites or company-wide.
• Centrally view item site quantity and item resource planning information.
• Quickly focus on items with expected negative future stock status.

Merit Solutions Production Workbench—Production Workbench provides users with a single, intuitive, information-rich location to manage their entire production process. The graphical interface provides a linear calendar of scheduled orders, giving a high-level view of what products are being made when, and in which work centers.

With only a few clicks of the mouse, users can view all the work orders in process and quickly drill down on those orders. Production Workbench can be used to manage a manufacturing order throughout its process. The tool allows users to quickly toggle between activities without opening individual manufacturing orders.

Distinguishing features of Production Workbench include: Graphical calendar shows all orders, in all work centers, for any period of time. Using the restriction criteria, users can zoom in on just the information they need. After selecting a manufacturing order, users have one-click access to nearly every window in the manufacturing system with the relevant information already loaded

Simply put, Quick Planner and Production Workbench provide rapid ways for users to increase performance and save costs. For more details, contact info@meritsolutions.com.