Sage 50 Manufacturing Controller is a powerful planning engine designed to help the business manage labour, material and machine costs in a busy manufacturing environment. Suited to manufacturing and assembly businesses, it provides the added functionality required to control production, process orders, sub-contract finishing, and track materials, automating your shop floor in the process.

Manufacturing controller provides powerful  MRP (Materials Resource Planning) functionality. In simple terms the system will help you efficiently manage your finished goods and component raw material stock. It does this by considering the factory demand and by looking at current and planned stock movements to help you produce to your product plan.

Combining the capabilities of Sage Batch Controller, Job Controller and Sage 50 Bill of Materials with a powerful Graphical Planner powered by Preactor International, Sage 50 Manufacturing provides you with all the tools required to enter ‘make for stock’ items, issue stock against work orders, manage your stock holding levels, and automatically updates your Sage 50 Accounts as you work.

Efficient and accurate, the Graphical Planner incorporated in Sage Manufacturing Controller enables you to calculate and run several different production plans with the same set of demands. You can run ‘what if’ scenarios to give you greater visibility on how to optimise production, and assess the impact on your resources before committing to a project. Once you plan is complete, Sage Manufacturing controller will automatically sequence the production for your finished item.

Sage Manufacturing Controller enables you to save time and organise your resources and sub-assemblies by sequencing your production to run ‘forwards’ from the start date, or ‘backwards’ from the due delivery date, whichever suits your plan most.  

Sage Shop Floor Data Collection

Combine Sage Shop Floor Data Collection with your Sage Manufacturing controller as an optional module, and capture data directly from the shop floor.  Compatible with manual data entry and barcode scanners, this will allow your shop floor production staff to book time to works orders so efficiently capturing costs and manufacturing time.

Please Note:

Sage 50 Accounts Professional is required to run Sage 50 Manufacturing Controller. If you are using a version of Sage 50 Accounts Professional issued prior to 2007, you may need to upgrade, please contact us to check compatibility.

Key Features

An integrated solution, Sage 50 Manufacturing controller combines the functionality of Sage 50 Bill of Materials, Sage 50 Job Controller and Sage 50 Batch Controller, giving you the possibility to:

• Control material, labour and machine costs in a mixed-mode manufacturing environment.
• Plan production, works order processing and resource management, with full traceability for materials tracking.
• Use the market-leading graphical planner powered by ‘Preactor’, to help you plan and schedule new projects.
• Run ‘what if’ scenarios to assess the impact of your plans on resources such as overtime and extra shifts.
• Produce and calculate resource plans for all demands, saving different sets of plans for the same set of demands.
• Automatically sequence the production of every finished plan.
• You can schedule your production to run ‘forwards’ from the start date, or ‘backwards’ from the due delivery date, whichever suits your plan most.
• Analyse your plans to identify resource bottlenecks, and make changes before production starts.
• View and manage complete jobs by individual resource schedules or by operation.
• Collect data on your shop floor through manual data entry or barcode scanners with the optional module – Sage shop floor data collection.

System Requirements