BellHawk^® Project Management Capabilities

As well as having the capability of tracking production and inventory for make-to-order manufacturers, BellHawk provides a set of tools for project management. These tools enable the management of complex projects that can encompass many purchase orders, work orders, pick orders, and ship orders as well as inventory specifically purchased for a project and work-in-process for each project.

These tools include:

• Tracking the overall status of projects in real-time to give project managers and materials managers the real-time business intelligence they need to ensure that releases against customer contracts are made and delivered on-time to customers.
• Real-time scheduling of work through multiple work centers, such as to ensure that the most important projects are given the highest priority in allocation of resources to get the products shipped by the due date while, at the same time optimizing use of available resources.
• Tracking available inventory, taking account materials already on order or scheduled to be made as well as materials scheduled to be consumed or shipped. This includes tracking materials purchased as common stock as well materials purchased specifically for a customer project.
• Ability to automatically generate purchase orders and work orders as ship orders are released for production and shipment to customer site.
• Ability to incrementally capture project cost, including design and production labor, materials and equipment/machine time consumed. This includes allocating labor, materials, and machine time cost when production runs are shared between multiple projects.
• Automatic monitoring of the status of production and materials and the generation of Email or text message alerts for managers, supervisors, and customer service people when critical events occur, or don't occur when they should.

Many of these tools are based on BellHawk Systems' in-depth background in the application of decision support rules to real-time planning and scheduling in dynamic resource-limited environments. By automating many routine management tasks, BellHawk frees up managers to have time to do critical longer-range management tasks rather than spending all their time trying to make sure that customer orders get out of the door on time.

These project management tools extend the capabilities of the BellHawk production and inventory tracking software to enable BellHawk to be used to manage the operational aspects of large complex make-to-order and engineer-to-order projects.

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