The Leader in Plastics-specific ERP Software Solutions

Inventory Control

With the DTR Plastics ERP inventory control features, you have complete control over the management of raw materials (including blends), assembled work-in-process (WIP) items, finished goods, and other items. In addition, you can manage multi-level pricing and maintain fixed and variable standards, averages, and last costs of all inventoried items.

Multiple units of measure are tied to each inventory item and available at purchasing and sales order entry. DTR Plastics ERP will calculate the conversion quantities and relieve inventory in the base unit of measure.

DTR Plastics ERP makes it easy for you to configure the period-end inventory close-out process to match the way you do business. DTR Plastics ERP provides complete audit trail traceability in inventory. The inventory control capabilities within DTR Plastics ERP include:

  • Multi-warehouse, multi-location, lot code management and serialized inventory.
  • Location, lot, serial number and revision tracking.
  • Quick inventory transfers and adjustments.
  • Min/max/reorder levels.
  • Costing to the fifth decimal place.
  • Vendor contract pricing tables and product price list reports.
  • Vendor and customer cross-referencing.
  • Standard reports: where used, cost variance and more!
  • Multi-plant inventory counts and costing supported.
  • Physical inventory counting, transfers and adjustments.
  • Comprehensive audit trails.
  • Inventory update by ticket.
  • Cycle counting.
  • Inventory reconciliation (records all transactions affecting an inventory item for period specified).

To learn more about DTR Plastics ERP inventory functionality, explore the links below:

Consignment Inventory

Now you can gain complete visibility into your customers inventory. The consignment inventory feature is offered as an enhancement to the standard inventory module within DTR Plastics ERP and is designed to support plastics manufacturers that warehouse their customers' inventory. With the DTR Plastics ERP consignment inventory feature, you will know what is on hand in your customers' inventory and have the ability to easily transfer the inventory to different locations. Consignment inventory is fully integrated into sales, shipping, accounting and scheduling functions within the DTR Plastics ERP product. You can:

  • Transfer consignment inventory from plant to plant and from floor location to location.
  • Include lot codes, revision and serial numbers on documentation.
  • Mass create transfer packing slips to accompany transfers.
  • View customers' inventory in query format—no need to print large reports.
  • Relieve the consignment inventory at invoicing.
  • Obtain separate consignment reporting for valuation purposes.

Shop Floor Data Collection (bar coding)

You can increase the accuracy of your inventory and reduce labor costs with real-time data collection. RF bar code solutions are integrated with DTR Plastics ERP for maximum efficiency.

Whether you are looking to more reliably track location, lot code, and revisions or simplify the creation of physical inventory tickets and packing lists, bar coding with DTR ERP can give you complete inventory control over all items entering and leaving your plant.

Benefits:

  • Manage location controlled inventory for increased accuracy and reduced man-hours locating inventory for shipping and production.
  • Automate picking and labeling of cartons of shipped product.
  • Validate picked inventory for reduced shipping errors.
  • Perform cycle counting of the finished goods warehouse.
  • Collect production data—eliminating handwritten run sheets and shift reports.

Projected Inventory Flow

DTR Plastics ERP can help you keep track of the future activity of items in purchasing, manufacturing, and shipping. A "can ship" date is calculated for each sales order, based on production scheduling and purchasing. You can quickly view in query or within standard reporting, activity on raw materials, finished goods or work-in-process. In addition, you can:

  • "Click a button" to display all BOMs using a specified material and view bill of manufacture structure in indented breakdown format.
  • Empower your customer service reps and plant managers to quickly view jobs from scheduling and advise customers if shipments will be on time.



Manufacturing

To learn more about the DTR Plastics ERP manufacturing features, explore the links below:

Production Scheduling

DTR Plastics ERP features a robust drag and drop scheduling control center. Your production scheduler can generate forward finite, queued, and just-in-time scheduling for all your workstations and secondary operations. In fact, it’s easy to schedule all your jobs, at all levels, on just one screen. Within the scheduling control center, you can instantly see where sub-component and assembly jobs are scheduled and identify late jobs, material shortages, and available stations and tools. Production schedules can be based on sales orders, forecasts, release orders (EDI), manual assignments, consolidations and/or reorder points. This helps to maximize machine utilization and efficiently determine production schedules.

If you choose to reschedule a job on a different date or move it to another workstation, the scheduling control center will automatically reschedule all associated lower level jobs to help you meet your shipping dates. In addition, scheduling helps you gain visibility into machine setup and tear down times, preventative maintenance, tooling, and raw material shortages.

With the graphical scheduling application, your employees can analyze raw materials, for each job, at each plant location. Based on color codes, it's easy to display all demand, identify shortages, and classify jobs with no material problems. Your scheduler can click on any job to view item breakdowns including raw materials and work in process required for each job, availability of materials by plant location, sales orders/jobs and jobs created from minimum/maximum levels. Production has additional visibility into outstanding purchase orders and can determine if orders will be on time or late while plant managers can quickly see which materials to pull to the shop floor by shift. The DTR Plastics ERP scheduling application can help you:

  • Schedule all your jobs, at all levels, on just one screen.
  • Identify potential late jobs, raw material shortages, and available stations and tools.
  • Identify where raw material are used in production.
  • Reschedule a job and DTR Plastics ERP will automatically reschedule all associated lower level jobs to help you meet your shipping dates.
  • Save and recall multiple scenarios.
  • Schedule by multiple plant locations, departments and multi-tool stations.
  • Plan for tool setups, family molds and tool conflict resolution.
  • Consider set-up and tear-down times as well as preventative maintenance.
  • Share data with Forecasting and MRP.

Product Quotes

Increase the productivity and accuracy of your estimators and engineers by giving them the ability to make quick and accurate price quotes and/or pricing revisions. With DTR Plastics ERP, you can:

  • Generate unlimited quotes per customer.
  • Customize automatic quote letters and quote reports.
  • Create items in inventory and bill of manufacture-reducing data entry.
  • Run extensive what-if quoting scenarios.
  • Store and regenerate quotes to quickly develop other quotations with "same as except" capabilities.

DTR Plastics ERP makes it easy for your team to quickly re-quote your BOMs when receiving additional orders for the same product. The end result is faster turnaround on quotes and accurate data for managing and comparing cost performance. Your employees will have the power to:

  • Selectively update quote prices within the quotation system or use DTR Plastics mass update programs.
  • Base re-quotes on material price changes, changes in overhead, labor, or machine rates.
  • Recalculate all quotes with a substitute raw material, running on a particular press, etc.
  • Re-quote with actual or standard costs.
  • Manage materials price pass through.

Bills of Manufacture

The DTR Plastics ERP bill of manufacture (BOM) drastically reduces data entry by integrating directly into quoting. Using the BOM feature, you can accurately establish production standards and project item costs (for each plant location). Cost calculations take into account materials, purge, labor, overhead, stations, packaging, setup, tooling, sub-contracting, and warehousing. The plastics-specific capabilities of the DTR Plastics ERP BOM application will help you:

  • Account for regrind, scrap and purge and return of regrind to inventory within your costing model.
  • Track different costing at individual plant locations using multiple BOMs.
  • Perform alternate routings.
  • Generate up to five product configurations (quantity, run rate, scraps percentages, etc.) per BOM.
  • Manage family and multi-cavity tools.
  • Link process notes, Q.C. notes, and system notes.
  • Route sheets and process setup sheets.
  • Designate machine assignments for scheduling.
  • Create quantity price break tables with margins automatically from the BOM.
  • Attach documents and drawings.
  • Graph costs.
  • View all BOM components in tree format.
  • Manage BOMs easily with utility programs. You can mass copy multi-level BOMs, perform cost-rollups, where used, search and replace, and materials price pass-through.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

The MRP application within DTR Plastics ERP, allows you to project the requirements for all materials based on scheduled production, sales orders, and back orders. MRP helps you to reduce the cost of on-hand inventory while ensuring critical materials are in stock to meet production schedules. You have the capability to report on inventoried and non-inventoried items, backorders, vendor lead times and blanket purchase order information. In addition, it's easy to display quantity on-hand, demands for production or sales, outstanding purchase orders and vendor information using the MRP query feature.

Forecasting

The Forecasting module within DTR Plastics ERP, automatically selects the most accurate forecasting method so you can easily calculate quantities for rough cut capacity planning and scheduling. You can generate forecasts by the week, month, quarter and year. Plus, forecast data can be scanned from current sales orders or can be manually entered. Your forecasters can:

  • Adjust data to smooth the "highs and lows".
  • Use batch utility programs to automate the task of collecting large amounts of data.
  • Have multiple forecasting tools available such as manual, side-by-side and statistical methods (moving average, double moving average, exponential smoothing, and linear regression).
  • Reference unlimited future and historical periods.
  • Display sales history and allow for sales history adjustments.
  • Perform multiple forecasts on each (or any combination of) item code, plant location, salesperson, territory, customer, and shipping location.
  • Forecast a new item with no sales orders.

Rough Cut Planning

DTR Plastics ERP uses the data from forecasting and bills of manufacture to produce detailed manufacturing information that you can use to create your annual operating plans. You will have the data you need to answer critical planning questions. Your team can turn to the rough cut planning application for:

  • Projections on raw material expenditures each month based on sales forecast.
  • Reports to see if press capacity will be exceeded.
  • Projecting labor requirements by month for each product line.

Production and Process Monitoring

Minimize your data collection chores with real-time production monitoring. You can automate the recording of correct production quantities for each shift and eliminate manual data entry errors.

You can automate the collection of such shop floor information (in real-time) as good items, rejects (and cause of rejects), production hours, efficiencies and downtime by reason. With DTR Plastics software, it's easy for you to:

  • Find out why machines were down or items were rejected in summary or drill-down to details per shift.
  • Identify machine status using a color coded display system.
  • Quickly find yield, cycle time or production problems for the whole floor or for one particular machine.
  • Gain visibility over tool conflicts and impending setups.
  • Generate standard reports or design your own.
  • Create summary reports at the end of each shift.



Job Costing

Product Costing

With the DTR Plastics ERP ToolMaker, you can simply click on any job to view data input, calculated costs, sales value or margins for each level of operation. Whats more, ToolMaker is fully integrated with DTR Plastics ERP accounting, sales, purchasing and payroll applications so you can automatically create purchase orders. Your employees can use the project costing Gantt chart to:

  • Track the operations that are included in each job.
  • Perform detailed costing (standards and actual) at all levels.
  • Monitor employee cost and hours per job.
  • View the beginning and ending date of any job.

Project Costing

The DTR Plastics ERP cost matrix is available to help you generate simple or more detailed quotes.With accurate project costing critical to your success, the system supports detailed cost management and automatically distributes costs across all related job operations. Your staff can:

  • Track multiple labor classes/rates.
  • Apply detailed cost management and automatically distribute costs.
  • Automatically create purchase orders from project costing.
  • Create payroll timecards-interface to DTR Plastics ERP payroll.
  • View time card entries on your screen for editing.
  • Automatically create journal entries.
  • Store past job history information.
  • Allocate 'late' vendor invoices to one or more jobs.
  • Manage sub-contracted jobs.

Variance Reporting

DTR Plastics ERP contains many standard reports that you can access at a moments notice—making it quick and easy to get project costing data out of your system. Some standard reports available to you include:

  • Percentage of completion reports.
  • Standard to actual costing (in graphical format).
  • Cost overrun projections (in graphical format).
  • Actual vs. estimate (hours and dollars).
  • Quote vs. estimate vs. actual.
  • By job or project.
  • Material costed to jobs, materials received and unallocated, time card activity and tooling revisions.

Bag and Film Quoter

The DTR Plastics ERP Bag and Film Quoter is specially designed for film extruders, flexographic printers, gravure printers, extrusion laminators, adhesive laminators, coaters, metalizers, slitters, bag and pouch makers and other similar processes. As a Bag and Film processor, you can use the quoting application to:

  • Quote from our market price table.
  • Build quotes by process (extrusion, printing, slitting, etc.).
  • Capture the costs by process.
  • Incorporate mill, width, length, side trim, header, lip and side/end gussets and more into their quotes.
  • Convert rolls to bags.
  • Ensure the correct selling price by using 'high/low' order margins.
  • See an instant view of calculations of weight and area, based on your specifications.
  • Make selections for artwork, terms on the order...and more.
  • Improve customer service with quick and accurate quoting.
  • Easily retrieve quotes for multiple items, by customer, or sales representative.
  • Create Sales Orders, Inventory and Customer records.



Customer Profiles

COARC - See how COARC, a non-profit advocate for people with disabilities, uses DTR Plastics ERP to operate its full-service injection molding facility resulting in better scheduling decisions, increased customer satisfaction and complete control over inventory management processes.

Dreco Incorporated - Learn how Dreco Incorporated, a manufacturer of injection molded plastic parts for the vacuum cleaner industry, utilized DTR Plastics ERP to speed time to market, minimize waste, reduce on-hand inventory, gain operational efficiencies and boost the bottom line.

Engineered Plastics Corporation (EPC) - Find out how Engineered Plastics Corporation (EPC), a custom injection molder of thermoplastic polymers, achieved a 75 percent reduction in labor costs and shortened production cycle times. Using DTR Plastics ERP, EPC is positioned to grow by 30 percent in the next year without making additional capital or labor investments.

Nypro Ireland - Learn how Nypro Ireland, a leading global provider of precision injection molding and related manufacturing so'lutions, leveraged DTR Plastics ERP to achieve a 67 percent reduction in collection time for accounts receivable, reconfigure accounting systems to process multi-currency transactions and more accurately track the companys financial performance.

Ven-Tel Corporation - Discover how Ven-Tel Corporation, a precision injection molder of thermoplastic and thermoset products, used DTR Plastics ERP to increase profitability through improved reporting and detailed cost accounting, expand operations by achieving continuous process improvements and increase and/or relieve inventory at key production points.

Wisconsin Film Bag - See how Wisconsin Film Bag, a leading producer of plain and printed custom polyethylene bags and film products, made use of DTR Plastics ERP to centralize customer accounts, enhance customer relationships and reduce sales lead times.

WM Plastics, Inc. - Find out how WM Plastics, Inc., a provider of a broad array of value-added injection molding services, leveraged DTR Plastics ERP to eliminate material over-orders, reduce inventory carrying costs, achieve accurate forecasts for required materials and sub-components and shortened production cycle times via enhanced scheduling.




Finance
Accounts Payable

DTR Plastics ERP’s accounts payable feature is fully integrated into the general ledger to support centralized cash management for multi-plant environments. Accounts payable uses vendor file information to ensure that your checks are processed accurately. You can create checks for open invoices by date or vendor range, process check runs for a specific class (e.g. employee reimbursements, raw materials), calculate 1099s, generate aging and cash requirements reports, and hold payments to prevent inadvertent processing.

Benefits:
- Determine your costs.
- Identify suppliers you owe and pay them at just the right time.
- See your cash requirements.

Accounts Receivable

You can create customer invoices with little effort using DTR Plastics ERP’s batch invoicing program. You have the flexibility to perform routine invoicing by referencing sales orders, packing lists, the customer summary and/or non-inventoried items. Additional functionality of interest within the accounts receivable application includes current aging information within collection notes, check reconciliation features, ability to verify credit limits, discounting, and identifying outstanding invoices for application of payments.

Benefits:
- Configure invoice documents by customer and/or plant location.
- Access up-to-the-minute aging information.
- Reconcile checks.
- Quickly view outstanding invoices and apply payments.
- Post partial payments.
- Email documents and reports.

Cash Disbursement and Check Printing

Automatically select and remit your invoices in DTR Plastics ERP. You can generate checks for all open invoices by a specified due date or by a vendor range for a single plant location or all locations. You have the flexibility to automatically process check runs for specific classes. For example, print checks just for raw material purchases, commissions, or employee reimbursements. If your staff needs to respond to a last-minute request after the automatic check selection has been processed, users can easily select other invoices to include in the check run. It’s never been easier to provide immediate answers and quick responses to inquiries. While on the phone, your employees can quickly obtain information as to when a particular check was issued, identify the check number, and determine which invoices were paid.

Benefits:
- Quickly generate checks based on your specific criteria (due date, vendor, employee, etc).
- Provide immediate answers to employee inquiries.

Cost Centers

Cost centers within DTR Plastics ERP can be used in the income statement to assist your management team in analyzing and managing costs. Your staff can take advantage of cost centers to establish budgets by department, auto-split expenses by account/cost center, and print income statements for individual cost centers or a group of costs. You also can cross reference cost centers, comparing and contrasting expenses, to combine several centers across multiple branches and/or departments for financial reporting.

Benefits:
- Analyze and manage costs across your organization.
- Save time on data entry as general ledger accounts/cost centers flow through the entire system.

General Ledger

The general ledger contains the comprehensive information you need to exercise full control over your financial operations. Information from customer invoices, cash receipts, vendor invoices, cash disbursements, unrecorded liabilities, and payroll posting feeds right into the DTR Plastics ERP general ledger for further analysis. The integrated flow of information provides enhanced visibility and reduces time spent on manual journal entries into the system. With detailed financial data conveniently summarized in one location, your accounting staff can quickly validate and/or update information within the general ledger, bring forward the final balances, and close out the accounting period. Once the month-end closing is performed, authorized users may go back into the system and re-open the period.

Benefits:
- Easily keep your accounts up to date and close periods.
- Quickly review, update, and validate balances.
- Continue making transactions while a prior period or year is open.
- Determine cash requirements needed to meet payables this week, next week, next month, and beyond.

Subsidiary Journals

DTR Plastics ERP subsidiary journals such as the customer invoice, cash receipts, vendor invoice, and cash disbursements have a consistent look and function in the same way within the application. The journals can be viewed in an edit/preliminary format. Your accounting team can then easily review each entry and make corrections as necessary prior to posting items in the general ledger. Postings (summary or detail) may be made daily, weekly or monthly based on your accounting procedures. What’s more, you can monitor the recording of invoices by employee and track edits made on the entries.

Benefits:
- Schedule recurring journal entries for a period of time you specify.
- Post transactions in summary or detail and drill down into the supporting data.



Business Analytics
With DTR Plastics ERP, your executives can mine the enterprise data to analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and quickly access a snapshot of your company’s financial position. Our business analytics tool presents information in an easy-to-comprehend summary and allows users to drill down into the underlying transaction level details. What’s more, your executives do not require specific knowledge of DTR Plastics ERP to retrieve the information needed to make more informed, sound business decisions.

Benefits:
- Analyze key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Quickly access a snapshot of your company’s financial position.
- Retrieve information fast—without having to rely on staff to generate reports for you.
- Spot trends and manage by exception.



Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Increase customer satisfaction and capitalize on more sales opportunities with the DTR customer relationship management (CRM) module. Unlike many CRM solutions on the market today, our DTR CRM module is fully integrated into the comprehensive DTR Plastics ERP application so management and all departments, including marketing, sales, and support, can access critical information in a snap. In addition, DTR CRM is easy to use and can be implemented quickly so you can better leverage the data within your DTR Plastics ERP application.

DTR CRM provides a central point of access to complete customer information for all departments within your organization. Your team can maintain a complete history of activities for your customers, perform a quick “health check” to view the financial standing, current on-hand inventory, and order/shipment status and history for customers and prospects. With easy access to sales and credit information within DTR Plastics ERP, your sales people can increase revenue opportunities by cross selling and up selling other products and services.

Benefits:
- Obtain a complete picture of your customer and prospect relationships.
- Increase the efficiency of your sales representatives by automating standard tasks.
- Sort and display customer or prospect data by sales rep, territory, type, class, and more.
- Generate a quick “health check” by customer or prospect to review their financial standing, on-hand inventory, order and shipment status and history, open/closed sales orders, packing lists, bills of lading, and more.
- Assign tasks to remind users to follow up on important matters and create alerts for issues requiring immediate action.
- Quickly retrieve records, including sales and credit information, with a simple search by company or contact.
- Maintain a complete history of your interactions with prospects and customers.



Sales
Commissions

DTR Plastics ERP integrates information from sales orders, invoicing, and cash receipts into the commissions module so your team can save time on data entry.

Your staff has many options for calculating and paying commissions. Commissions may be calculated on open sales orders, orders entered on packing lists, shipped orders, or invoiced orders. Whether you pay commissions upon cash receipt or at invoice, DTR plastics ERP can streamline your processes. Additional capabilities include paying commissions on sales prices, margin, quantity, territory and plant location.

In addition, you can perform split commissions by pre-assigning sales staff (eligible for commission) and their commission rates. DTR Plastics ERP will automatically calculate split commissions for multiple sales persons on a single order, thereby reducing administrative work and payroll errors. Other benefits include:

- Customize DTR Plastics ERP to your specific commission processes.
- Quickly calculate and pay commissions, including split commissions to multiple sales representatives.

Sales Order Entry

Easily capture sales order information and jumpstart the entire order fulfillment process with DTR Plastics ERP. Your staff can quickly verify customer credit limits and instantly view the “can ship” screen to determine the earliest feasible day for shipping your product. Your customer service team can execute blanket orders, apply discounts, and factor in quantity breaks using DTR Plastics ERP’s price tables. With the sales order by release feature, it’s easy to manage customers that frequently order the same items. Once a sales order has been entered, it’s easy to attach documents and images to your customer’s order confirmation. Benefits include:

- Quickly verify customer credit limits.
- Determine the earliest feasible day for shipping your product.
- Execute blanket orders, apply discounts, and factor in quantity breaks.
- Provide enhanced customer service by quickly accessing information on the status of orders, shipments, inventory and more.



DTR Partners
Bar Code Collection

Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Inc. (IMS) - specializes in designing and delivering turnkey bar code and automatic data collection systems. These systems aid manufacturing companies in collecting high quality data. IMS is experienced in automating all aspects of a manufacturing environment.

Business Analytics

CorVu - is the innovative thought leader in performance management software. For more than ten years, CorVu has demonstrated leadership worldwide with next generation performance management software, dramatic customer results, and large scale deployments. CorVu business intelligence tools provide graphical analysis, report writing, executive alerts and balanced score card services.

Quality Control - Document Management

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