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Manage your warehouse with capabilities for light manufacturing or product transformation

The Generix Manufacturing Execution System (MES) manages both warehouse management and processes for light manufacturing.

It works for recipes and other processes such as assembly, kitting, customization, personalization, or other forms of transformation. The system is effective for either process or discrete manufacturing.

Used in conjunction with the Generix WMS, it enables process control, quality management, and regulatory compliance. It does so through powerful real-time traceability. It also enables real-time inventory tracking and control.

The Generix MES is likely to be a good fit for companies in these industries:

Life sciences

Automotive aftermarket

Industrial manufacturing

Food and beverage manufacturing, processing, or transformation

3PLs that offer value-added services such as kitting, customization, personalization, and others

It is not likely to be a good fit for companies that…

Do no manufacturing, assembly, transformation, customization, or personalization.
Don’t run or don’t plan to run the Generix Group WMS.

Enjoy the benefits of a WMS and MES that are “more than integrated”

The Generix Group MES is a component of the WMS. It’s built on the same platform and uses the same database.

The two systems are beyond integrated. They’re different functional capabilities of the same body of code.

Ensure product quality and consistency with tight process controls

Embed quality control in your warehousing and production processes. Used in conjunction with the Generix WMS, the MES makes quality management an integrated part of your operation.
Configure quality-control checklists on mobile devices. The checklists enable operators to assign quality attributes and status to each instance of inventory.

Ensure that your operators use ingredients or components at the right time. The MES and WMS together help you manage inventory shelf life and expiry dates.
Prevent accidental contamination or other process failures. For food production, the MES helps avoid accidental contamination with undeclared allergens or other problematic ingredients.

Alert operators when quality-related issues arise

Send automatic validations or email alerts. The system tells operators to take specific actions at critical moments.

Quickly put questionable inventory on QA hold. Keep it on hold until the Quality Department completes an assessment or investigation.

Limit business risk with detailed, real-time traceability

Track and trace the flow of materials. See their status and movement from the time you receive them to the time your customers receive them.

Enable and ensure compliance in the food industry.

Maintain detailed traceability throughout production or transformation processes. Trace the history of ingredients or components through every touch point, event, or process. Track granular detail for lots, batches, or serial numbers in products, assemblies, mixtures, components, or subcomponents.

Run convenient standard reports that show the path of questionable inventory. Quickly identify customer locations to which you’ve shipped such inventory. Automate the process of sending emails. Notify customers fast when the need arises.

Create your own reports and analytics. Supplement the standard reports that come with the system.

Increase productivity, throughput, and efficiency

Maximize up time for production processes. Ensure that the right ingredients are available to process at the right time. Reduce production-line shut downs that occur because materials are out of stock.

Guide employees in picking or transferring inventory to support the production process. Also guide them in managing the output or receipt of inventory. Optimized workflows guide employees through their daily functions with maximum efficiency and speed. z

Improve sequencing of material movement. Synchronize material handling with activities on the production floor.

Reduce production cost and improve yield. Control and monitor the consumption of material.

Synchronize production tasks on the shop floor. Send replenishment signals from the shop floor to trigger just-in-time material movement.

Control and manage inventory in real time

Achieve both visibility and tight control over inventory. Track it at every step, event or touch in the warehouse. Achieve high accuracy with real-time bar code data capture and validation.
Track multiple items in the same container (pallet, ocean container, tote, box, or bin). Monitor stock levels in the smallest of containers.
Use license-plate numbers to identify stock and containers at the work order, sales order, or purchase order level.

Track work-in-progress inventory throughout manufacturing or transformation processes. Then consume inventory used in production.
Continue tracking stock through order fulfillment and shipping.
Monitor operations and inventory in transit or at multiple sites.

Maintain flexibility in operations

Adjust processes as your needs change. Configure mobile processes on mobile devices.

Configure replenishment signals.

Easily define and redefine inventory-location trees (storage locations, work centers, assembly lines, production cells, and so on).

Generate custom reports to share information with customers or regulators.

Visualize the smooth process flow and traceability from receiving to shipping

Here’s a sample process flow to help you see how the Generix WMS and MES work together to provide powerful traceability:

1. Your ERP system generates a work order or a sales order.

2. Your WMS/MES system receives the sales order or a purchase order.

3. A materials handler pulls the right inventory from raw materials storage. Rules in the WMS ensure proper attention to expiry dates or other restrictions built into the system.

4. At this stage or any other in your process, you can define work order checklists to capture quality-assurance information. You can generate reports such as Certificates of Analysis (CofA). You can also maintain audit trails.

5. The materials handling team delivers the raw materials or semifinished goods to a work center.

6. The work center blends, cooks, combines, assembles, kits, or otherwise transforms the raw materials or semifinished goods. The system tracks which raw materials went into which products, batches, or lots. It tracks by product batch, lot, serial numbers. Maintains all the detail about all the ingredients or components that go into each finaished or semi-finished good.

7. The system consumes the inventory. It offers two modes for consuming inventory. It can automatically backflush, based on ingredients or components used in a recipe or bill of materials (BOM). Or you can identify serial numbers of components used in production.

8. The system directs the finished or semi-finished goods to go to a staging area for shipment or to return to inventory for storage.

9. The system traces which products, items, ingredients, or components you deliver to each customer location and when you’ve delivered them.

If the need arises, you can quickly generate reports.

The reports can…

Trace an ingredient or a component forward to the products, lots, or batches in which it was consumed.
Trace forward to the customer locations where the products or components were shipped.
Trace backward from a customer location to products or components.
Trace further backward to all the ingredients, subcomponents, that went into the products or components. You can do so by lot or batch number, production date, serial number, supplier, etc.
can generate all this information in a few minutes and with little effort.