Hi everyone and welcome to today's webinar thank you for joining me today today we're going to be
talking about using Unleashed to manage your manufacturing process and so we're going to be
talking about how using cloud software can benefit your manufacturing business so what are the pros
of switching to a cloud-based solution and i'm then going to show you exactly how Unleashed works
so how you would use it um in a short demo and within your manufacturing process specifically
and i want to talk a bit about integrations and how having different cloud-based software's
linked up and can save you lots and lots of time so we're going to talk about that
and then i'm going to give you sort of directions to where to go if you want to speak to one of the
team and get some more information about uh managing your manufacturing with Unleashed
i am amber i am one of the sales consultants here at Unleashed
um if you don't know Unleashed we are a global software business and we're headquartered in
New Zealand but we do have other offices in australia and the uk where i currently am
we're in inventory management software and we work with businesses that make manage and
move products and so we help businesses to track everything from purchasing production um Unleashed
sales so all of those processes you can use Unleashed for and we're fully in the cloud
and we also integrate with other software so we can provide an end-to-end solution and so yeah
like i said i'm amber and it's my role to speak to businesses manufacturers that are having problems
with um inventory stock manufacturing and find out essentially if Unleashed could work for them
and show them exactly how it works how can using cloud software benefit my manufacturing business
and so this is something that i speak about on a day-to-day basis
with loads of manufacturing businesses that might be using an old historic system desktop based
and that's quite clunky can't do much with it without getting someone in and it can be quite
costly to then do updates and things like that because you've got to get someone to come and
do that for you um so yeah before i jump into how Unleashed works specifically i just wanted
to talk about why manufacturing businesses benefit from using a cloud-based software
so firstly you can access Unleashed or cloud-based softwares anywhere
anytime as long as you have a device and an internet connection this is ideal for when your
staff are working remotely and means that you can give them more flexibility but also means
that you can keep your finger on the pulse of your business at any time as well you don't need to be
in the office to check on on how things are doing you can do it wherever with a cloud-based solution
it also means that you get real-time updates and data insights wherever you are so this in turn
gives you better visibility over your processes up and down stream of manufacturing you'll be
able to have clarity over when you need to reorder components what stock is currently
within the manufacturing process so what might be allocated so i know it's there but i can't use it
as well as accurate sales data so what cells are coming in how is that affecting my stock what do i
need to get get manufactured and so you can do all of that and see all of that all from one system or
within the cloud so next i'm going to jump into a short demo of of how Unleashed works so how can i
i use Unleashed to manage my manufacturing process so let me get my demo account up
this is my manufacturing business that i've got set up within Unleashed and i don't actually
manufacture a jam but it's a pretend business that i've got set up so i manufacture jam
and sell jam related items and so straight away when i sign into Unleashed we go to my dashboard
and i can see straight away exactly how i'm getting on within the business
you can see my sales revenue is up this month because i'm looking at my month
today i put on a new customer i've got my stock in hand value
but also with this transactions tab i can see exactly what i need to do for the day so
i've got some late sales 14 open sales and four of these are late so
i might want to um go and see what's going on why are these late why haven't we fulfilled them
i've got seven open assemblies which uh is Unleashed term for
production run and so seven open assemblies that i need to go and look at and and get completed
i've got some low stock alerts as well um so what i've done within this business is set up
low stock alert so Unleashed will actually alert me when i'm running out of components
so that i've always got those in stock to then finish my production
imagine if you have um components that you use regularly this could be packaging or screws
something that you use a lot of that it's vital that you have especially if you have a long lead
time on these items we want to make sure that we always have them in stock so setting up things
like low stock alerts gives me the opportunity to never run out i'm not going to talk about this
too much but if you batch track or a serial track we do have that functionality as well and so you
can manage that and and trace back warranties or and if there's a product recall we can use
our batch tracking and batch reports to pull that back so something to bear in mind as well
so let's jump into my products then so before we actually talk about manufacturing just wanted to
give you an idea of what products look like and how we set them up so that we can manufacture
so here i have all of my products and you can see straight away sort of my allocated and quantity
on hand i've got different types of products and that's really important when we come to
look at the manufacturing process so if we look at my apricot jam as an example in my apricots
we can see that they're different so my apricot jam i make i manufacture
and therefore i've got a labelled hair as an assembled product anything that you're making
you need to have it marked correctly as an assembled product
anything you're using within an assembly must be labeled as a component product so anything that
your um using to go into your finished product has to be labeled as a component product
we do also have another diminishing product so if i look at labor as an example
so anything that needs to go into the product that isn't an actual stock item we can incorporate that
as well so a labor cost for example if you wanted to track time going into that product
and we can add that as well so that's never diminishing because we don't hold stock for it
but also a component product because i'm using it within the stock process
we can go sort of one further as well and have an item that's a component and a assembled product
so if i find an example my blueberry jam
assembled and component so i make it i make my blueberry jam but then i also use my blueberry jam
to make something else so if you do multi-packs or if you just have if you have lots of like
sub bombs to make a finished product we can account for that as long as i've got this all
set up correctly i can then manage this within Unleashed so each of my finished products will
have its own bill of materials against it so let's use my blueberry jam as an example
i've got it set up as um a bill of materials and it's got all of my components underneath
so my packaging my component stock but also there's never diminishing costs as well so
i'm incorporating them in to the cost of my finished products and you can see it gives
me a total cost so based on the components i've got in stock this is how much it will cost me
and so we've got a sort of really accurate margin as well because it's incorporating
all of that all of that additional costs within my bum and like i said we can do sub bombs so
you can have a bill of materials within a bill of materials and we can account for some quite
complex manufacturing models so if you have lots of bonds within bombs within bombs within bombs
we can definitely help you with that so my below materials is me saying okay this is what's going
into my finished product we're not doing anything here we're just saying this is the recipe or this
is the the production that we think is going to happen when we start doing the production runs
when we actually create a product we need to add an assembly
so to do that we go here on this screen i can do a number of different things that
will really help me with my visibility so one we can change the source and destination warehouse
so if you have a free pl manufacturer or if once you've finished the stock it goes to a different
warehouse we can account for that straight away so in this example let's make some blueberry jam
when i finish my blueberry jam it's going to go straight to my brighton warehouse now Unleashed
will also tell me what i can assemble based on the components that i have in stock so it's telling me
i can make 299.7 uh pots of jam based on the stock that i have available within my bristol warehouse
now it can be quite clever in the sense that if i actually got an order and i want to make 400
it will tell me what i then need to go and order and that would turn into a low stock alert that i
talked about earlier but straight away i can see that i need to make more base jelly
before i can make my 400 parts so for this example i can actually create a sub assembly and then go
and make that um but i'm going to keep it nice and simple for ease and just make 200 because we
have that in stock so if i make 200 and here if you do batch or serial track we can account for
that like i said so i'm just going to select the oldest batch to use so you can trace the
components as well as the finished goods and then we can add a batch number here as well
and then nothing actually happens with this stock it allocates it to the assembly
but until i hit the complete button only then does it transfer the components into finished products
into the warehouses that we've specified so i hit the complete button
and it won't let me because i've got stuff on a purchase order that i haven't received
in yet and but as soon as i hit that complete button that is when the stock then turns into
blueberry jam and my components are out of stock from the warehouse specified
so that's how you manage your manufacturing process with Unleashed and i will
sort of at the end point you in the right direction if you need some more information
next i'm going to talk a bit about our integrations
so integrations then using a cloud-based setup means you can have flexibility to integrate with
other cloud-based solutions um so if you're using an old system you might have your b2c
and then you might have to put orders from that platform into your system then you might have to
get that out of that system and put into another system so it can get quite time consuming with
a setup like Unleashed in some other apps it means you can get the flexibility to integrate
and so let's as an example think that you're using shopify for your e-commerce
and maybe some amazon as well um and then xero as the accounting platform and the
orders will come direct from those platforms into Unleashed you don't have to manually add them
with that integration they'll flow through and then that will all flow through to the accounting
package like zero so the invoices push through automatically so this saves loads of time um
rather than having to import it into separate systems it just means that you can do it
and wait for those orders to come in and you're not manually putting loads of time um
and having someone waste their time doing admin it happens automatically so
for more information and you can get in touch with our sales team so if you have specific questions
about Unleashed or you just like to learn more about how our software helps manufacturers
then you can click at the link at the end of this video and book a call in with one of our team and
we can help you sort of decide if Unleashed is the right solution for you thanks for your time