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Table of Contents

Company Profile 4

Kitaron Flow Chart 5

Item Folder & Configuration Management 6

Material Resources Planning - MRP 7

Assembly Management 8

Finite Capacity Production Planning 9

Production Control Management 10

Standard Price Control 11

Machinery Control - M.E.S 12

Project Management 13

Quality Assurance 14

Customer and Suppliers Management (CRM) 15

Accounting Management 16

Management & Control System for Managers 17

System Reports 18

Why Kitaron ERP&MES is the solution? 19

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CEO

In today’s competitive world, decision makers need accurate and quick access to information in order to make

the right decisions.

Kitaron ERP&MES system gives the required information in real-time.

The experience we gained over the years in developing and implementing production management systems for

industry and manufacturing in particular, but also for any business in general, makes Kitaron ERP&MES one of

the leading software developers in Israel.

Kitaron ERP&MES systems produce combined information of ERP and MES as a fully integrated system that

also can combine all the needs of businesses and industry, and enables decisions in real-time.

In Kitaron ERP&MES system, information flows quickly and efficiently between managers and employees

and thus optimizes all logistic and operational processes. The Kitaron ERP&MES system implements these

processes seamlessly, quickly and efficiently, thus ensuring a significant improvement in the organizational

efficiency and profitability.

Our years of expertise in understanding the constant changes in the supply chain and manufacturing processes

resulted in our ERP/MES providing reduced implementation times and project costs on a scale that is unseen

in the ERP industry today.

This all makes Kitaron ERP&MES systems the natural choice for small to medium sized manufacturing businesses.

Company Profile

Geosoft Systems Ltd., established in 1998, develops managerial software for modern organizations. Geosoft

Systems Ltd. developed KITARON ERP&MES, a manufacturing management system, to answer the variable

and progressive needs of modern organizations, to enhance communications and reducing waste. KITARON

provides an on-demand solution that goes beyond the traditional categories of enterprise resource planning

(ERP) and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

The company was founded and built by software professionals with extensive experience in the industry. The

fact that the company’s products “grew” from the production floor and from modern management practices,

has enhanced our ability to develop quality ERP systems that are perfectly suited to many organization’s needs

around the world.

Geosoft’s products focus on the business needs to effectively manage customer relations, employee relations,

manufacturing processes, product quality, purchasing and finance. Additionally, Geosoft addresses the

managerial and workers needs for real time information, needed for making effective decisions and improving

the organizational processes.

Geosoft Systems Ltd. develops its ERP solutions using Microsoft development tools because of both their

advanced technology and long-term stability.

Geosoft’s ERP technology enables the support of hundreds of users simultaneously. The solution packages are

already translated into English, Chinese, Turkish, Spanish, Romanian, German and French and have a built-in

user friendly mechanism that enables easy translation into more languages.

ALL IN ONE SYSTEMCompany Profile

Sending Purchase Order

Supply

Acceptance Confirmation

Payment

Approval of Purchasing Demands

Sending a request for price quotation

Item Folder

Item Definition

RM Associate

Item Routing

Bill of Material

Customer

Price

Quotation

Customer

Order

BOM

Changing

CRM Customer Management

Production

EngineeringProduction

Process

MES

System

Customers

Pricelist

Management Reports

and Graphs

Human Resources

Production

Order

Production Planning

Internal Purchasing Demands

MRP

Purchasing

& Production

Recommend

BOM

Accounting System

Standard and

Actual Pricing

Customers

Quality

Assurance

Subcontractors Process

Management

Warehouses Stock

Management

Goods

Acceptance

Suppliers

Purchase Order

Suppliers

Evaluation

Quotation Request

Suppliers Pricelist

Warehouses

Machinery Manufacturing Collecting

Production

Report

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Item Folder & Configuration Management Material Resources Planning - MRP

Complete and accurate definition of the item (assembly) will bring the entire process to a clear, controlled and profitable state.

Control in material planning and scheduling - MRP is the key to reducing inventory and managing production lines up to a level of Just in Time. Effective management and in-depth knowledge will improve both the production efficiency and punctuality of customer order deliveries.

• Schedule items and materials as they are needed for the production without storage (Just in time)

• Actual Performance Planning• Procurement requirements planning for

supplementary equipment according to concentrated method plus order line

• Raw material requirements planning by minimum inventory and order line

• Manage raw materials supplied by the customer

• Material resources planning (MRP) and

recommendations for procurement and production

per order line, given the stock and production

floor, pulling stock, minimum stock, procurement

balance , etc.

• Recommendations for procurement and

production according to concentrated method.

• Recommendations to cancel / introduce / reject

production order / purchase order

• Accumulated Stock Planning

• EQM for the balance of the accumulated stock

• Review weekly or monthly availability of stock

for assembly

• Display balance of accumulated stock for a given

date, taking into account stock movements

• Graphical view of stock management taking into account

the minimum and future inventory movements

• Warehouse and inventory management, including reserved

order row and quarantine warehouses

• Option to schedule items outside of the MRP

• Set and manage warehouses that do not participate in MRP

• Track issues to customers and customer warehouses

• Produce relevant reports per item: inventory, production, quality assurance

• Route Card: operations, machinery and external processes

• Cost settings for each operation in route card• Manage supplementary equipment by

various categories• Supplementary equipment price list

• Manage Item folder in detail

• Set lead time / production time per item

• Manage preferred warehouse in PUT / TAKE stock

• Set safety / alarm stock per item

• Link images to the item

• Associating raw material / supplementary

equipment per Item

• Define raw material by geometric shape

• Calculate cost of required raw material per unit

• View raw material procurement price

• Calculate moving average price of raw

materials in stock

• Item configuration management

• Save date of modified versions per item

• Follow up after version expiration dates

• Item status history

• Define a list of drawings and link them to items

• Link each Item to several drawings

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Assembly Management Finite capacity production planning

• Finite capacity production planning: four algorithms to calculate optimal factory resource planning for production

• Possible production planning regardless of machine capacity (production planning infinite capacity)

• Global planning to a maximum efficiency and minimum delay

• Plan by delivery dates to minimize inventory on the production floor

• Plan according to order priority and minimum inventory

• Collision Detection in planning taking into consideration the planned completion date and delivery date

• Right time production scheduling to satisfy customer demand

• Production planning considering the intervals between stations, set up, weekends and holidays

• Division of work between alternative stations• Exception alerts If there is deadlines at not achieved

• Graphical display of the production planning in real time

• Machinery production planning report, production planning for the employees, task management in Gantt

• Highlight stations that are “bottlenecks” in the production process

• Saving previous runs of production planning with the possibility of recovery

• Automatically run production planning report at night by a predefined schedule

• Production planning indices: estimating the quality of production planning by meeting delivery dates and production orders

• Production Planning vs. Performance: Controlling the actual production performance against planned performance in terms of quantity and cost

• Efficiency of production planning: wide dashboard of the results of production planning

• Production planning verse actual efficiency of machines: daily, weekly, monthly

• Replace a sub item in all BOM

• List of assemblies (per item)

• Automatic B.O.M withdrawal (from warehouse)

for production order, automatic insertion to end of

production warehouse

• Create BOM in infinite different levels and configurations

• Change BOM to order line• Set optional / alternative items, manage item’s

configurations, replacing items in the BOM• Graphical display of the BOM and the picture

of main item • BOM can be stopped and thus prevent the

opening of a production order

• Manage missing items per assembly

• Track issued child items for production order of

an assembly item

• Track issued items by surplus or shortage

• Option to complete missing child items while

updating stock

• Manage production process and sales of items (parent and child) by serial numbers

• Build product tree by serial number or by batch number

• Manage batch numbers for production runs• Management and follow-up serial numbers and

batch numbers• Track batch numbers of raw materials usage• Track raw materials usage according to

production orders• Inventory management by batch number

The ultimate tool for improving productivity and compliance in OTD. Leads to better profitability of the plant by planning the most effective utilization of existing resources rather than increasing the plant’s resources.

Managing complex assemblies without appropriate solutions for control and management is the number one cause of inflated inventory, which in turn damages the company’s cash flow, causing high financial losses.

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• Compare costs of all items in the system

• Display costing in different currencies

• Fast item pricing ONLINE

• Automatic item pricing and / or manually by different

pricing categories

• Display the cost of production and set up in the price

quotation by selected item

• BOM Costing: Display production costs, processes, raw material, hardware

• Calculate item price whilst considering the portion and setup costs

• Estimate the item standard price including mark up percent

• Follow historical costing of the item

• Calculate the value of “Cost so Far” in the Item routing

• Display value of “Cost so Far” in the MRP report• Automatic updates of standard costs, by routing

data, last purchase and last invoice

• BOM Costing in real time for each order item according to production cost, processes, raw material, hardware, etc.

• GP calculation per order line• Standard costing with actual costing of

production order • Control of the actual production order costs against

standard costs according to each of the various production costs

• Gross profit calculation according to standard and actual data

Production Control Management Standard Price Control

• Compare standard vs. actual production time• Calculate production time per unit, excluding

employees and stations breaks• Repair Standard Time, with standard deviation

according to reported data• Control of Actual Stations Effectiveness• Control of employees efficiency and departmental

effectiveness• Control of Employees reported hours• Employees attendance data together with production

reporting data

• Report production time, setup and malfunctions

• Collect production time report by Barcode

• Report on the quantity of Accepted / Rejected

items at the end of each operation

• Receive measurement data from XYZ machine

• Monitor and control the production floor rejections

• Setting status which to be used as a milestone in the process

• Progress rate setting in the process by milestone• Display the current percentage of completion per

order, per item• Track performance control from start date until end of

the operation• Display production station status according to work

schedule set in the production planning

• Information about quantity of items in the production order according to the production time report

• Information about production stations while viewing jobs set to produce in real time

• Status follow up and actual overload stations• Display works according to production planning

by stations• Monitor and control the production process

in real-time

Costing, Costing, Costing – this is the keyword to a company’s survival in a very competitive market. Manager’s dream – to understand and retrieve the exact costing of his products.

Management and control tools that lead to improved order and discipline in meeting goals, will always also lead to greater success and profitability.

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Mechanical control - M.E.S Project Management

• Manage several customer orders in one project

• Define project routing

• Automatic calculation of the starting and ending date

for routing operations

• Project Management by BOM layout

• Production follow up according to the project’s BOM

• Associate employees to a project

• Total costing of a project and budget control

• Real-time tracking after standard budget

defined in project

• Actual project costs vs. standard cost according

to different types of expenditure

• Report project operations by Barcode

• Project times collection for project billing

• Display Gantt according to routing

project scheduling

• Display Gantt in different colors: number of

project, operation, customer, operation name

or project name

• Display project progress on operations

in the Gantt

• Send and receive data between Kitaron

ERP and OPC Server

• Send a file by machine parameters when an

event is defined

• Send commands to the machine by moving

the OPC server tags

• Display History of the commands sent to

the OPC server

• Production Management MES - Command and control systems on the production floor processes

• Track in real time production data by receiving updated data from robots, machines and employees

• Collect production data in a central database received directly from the machines

• Connect Kitaron ERP system to the machine controllers

• Manage a list of connecting means to the machine (PLCs)

• Set HMI machine parameters, such as employee

number, batch number, quantity, production order and

item number

• Set Events to create an HMI parameters (signature on

production order, reporting on the beginning of work)

• Update stock by identifying RFID, including monitoring

RFID stock movements

• Display updated information about all HMI stations

defined by parameters

• Link NC program to operation in item routing

• Link to directory that contains several NC programs

• DNC - Send programs to machine

• Analyze data entered in the NC program header

• Manage database that contains all the events

collected from the machines

• Manage Minutes of Meeting for a project

• Assign topics and sub-topics for completion

• Send minutes of meeting, tasks and decisions

taken by mail

• Monitor assigned tasks

Production machinery is a very valuable resource having a dominant effect on a company’s profitability and longevity. M.E.S provides management and control systems that increase the utilization of machinery in percentage terms and in doing so improve the company’s profitability.

Project management is a tool that enables the control of all tasks that are not necessarily production related such as new product development, moving premises, marketing campaign planning. In addition, can also be used to merge and monitor separate orders.

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Quality Assurance Customer Management (CRM) and suppliers

• Define dimensions for production inspection and acceptance inspection

• Create a default template of measurements list• Calculation of acceptance sampling, including

structured AQL tables• Acceptance Inspection Report for Items,

raw materials, tools, etc.• Production Inspection Report according to

production operation• Document Inspection Report result for the serial

number of the item• Final Inspection Report for portion• Display exceptions measurements on the Inspection reports

• Service calls / technician management, technician scheduling according to service calls

• Follow after items at customer site, including serial number warranty

• Manage items by serial numbers by the technicians• Manage and follow up on installations at customer site• Manage customer price lists

• Documentation and processes control and quality assurance results

• Manage and monitor regulation lists• Setting and certification specifications• Manage Seals holders list• Contract review in customer order

and price quotation• FAI – Inspection Report for the production

of the first item• Certificate of Compliance COC, including

details specifications

• CRM - customers and potential customers follow up

• Manage customer e-mail (Display e-mails from

Outlook in Kitaron), link customer e-mails to

document folder

• Send e-mails automatically to all customers

• SPC statistical process control, control chart, process capability indices (Cp, Cpk)

• Variability Graph of dimension• Manage and follow up the rejections reports and

rejection causes report• Manage correspondence with customer through

“question - answer“ form• Manage service calls / customer complaints

including calculating working times and costs• Replace items mechanism following complaint

from a customer

• Information about the stages of production of an order

• Shipments to customers report• Price quotation follow up• Customer orders, frame orders and forecast orders• Manage items supplied by the customer• Link to index and currency, including the option to

calculate the price in the invoice• Manage returned customer goods

• Manage supplier complaints

• MRB report –treatment of unusable items, including

calculating repair costs

• Manage calibration processes of measuring tools,

including a purchase order for calibration

• Issue grade to supplier by specific criteria

• Engineering change orders (ECO)

• Link between ECO to items, follow up after

item version change

• Manage external agents, agents – customer connections follow up

• Suppliers / subcontractors management, including inventory management

• Procurement planning according to planned delivery dates by MRP calculations

• Follow up after purchasing quotations and purchase orders

• Acceptance (maybe should be Accept) procurements from suppliers

• Scheduling external processes by suppliers• Follow up after delays in supply• Suppliers price list, import file including borrowing costs

High product quality is the key to building satisfied long term customers. Product quality with stability processes improve the plant profitability through reducing customer complaints, goods returns, etc.

Proper management of customers and suppliers increases the organizational efficiency and prevents the unnecessary investment of time in casual communication within the customer - factory – supplier chain.

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Accounting Management Management and Control for Managers

Helps large and small manufacturers to raise the level of control on the Finance issues in complex business environments with regulatory compliance and industry requirements.

Managing a factory without effective monitoring and control systems is like trying to produce items without raw material.

• A multi-year and multi-currency system

• Create customized financial statement

• Generate Financial Statement in Two Currencies

• Detailed Journal Entry

• Exporting Accounting data to other programs

• Issuing files in a uniform structure

• EIS graphic system for data analysis

• Watchdog – Create queries, receive an alert when

conditions exists

• Full permissions user system

• OLAP-BI - Analysis and Control by the system data

on all modules with multi-dimensional system

• Personal shortcuts menu leading to

selected documents

• Send information by e-mail directly from Kitaron

ERP system

• Internal mail system

• Link e-mails to Kitaron ERP, per user

• Link documents from the outlook to Kitaron ERP

• Export organization phone book to Outlook

• Send mass e-mails to all contacts

• Payments to suppliers including printing checks• Bank transfers via ACH• Update Percentage of Deduction at Source Report• Internal Reconciliations, Internal Reconciliations

including reconciliations transfer• Bank reconciliation, including accepting automatically

bank statements from a file• Collection Report, Aging of customer/supplier

debit report

• Issuing Invoices while attaching relevant data from

shipping voucher/customer order

• Proforma invoice, including automatic invoice generation

• Receive purchase invoice and purchase credit invoice,

Self-billing Invoice, etc.

• Create receipts, Customer payments follow up,

Fund report

• Cash deposits, checks and postdated checks

• Kitaron ERP Top Control - Flowchart of

organizing and presenting information according

to user-defined alerts

• To Do List - Task management tool

• System Alerts - Set alerts per object

• Set fields conditions - painting field conditions

• Organization document management, reports

numbers management

• System search tool , advanced sorting and filtering

• Minutes of Meeting and follow up

• Electronic signatures tree structure

• Currency rates auto update

• Reports Generator: allows the organization to

develop own reports using Access app

• Built-in barcode system plus printing

documents and labels

• Monthly Turnover Report, profit and loss report and trial balance

• Online Reporting Interface of VAT Report and Deduction at Source

• Cash Flow Statement• Exchange rates automatically adjust• Fixed assets management, depreciation automatic

calculation by different calculation methods• Financial inventory value • Budgets Management including Budget

utilization follow up

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System Reports Why Kitaron ERP&MES is the solution?

Before purchasing an ERP system the following question should be asked:

“Where is the big money in the organization?“

It is no secret that in a manufacturing plant the money is on the production floor. Therefore, it is critical to select a system specializing in managing manufacturing plants in general and

in managing the production floor in particular.The combination of Kitaron ERP system + MES system allows for direct control of

production processes and machinery, improved performance, reduced cycle times, and ensures the supply of better quality products on a timely basis!

All In One Kitaron ERP&MES

Specialization:Specializes in managing various manufacturing plants, by understanding the complex processes on the production floor.Simplicity:Simple and convenient user interface, allows users to keep pace with the fast-moving changes within the organization.Efficiency:Enables maximum efficiency and effectiveness in decision making.Flexibility:Suitable as an off the shelf product for various kinds of manufacturing plants.Compatibility:Suitable to the unique needs of various manufacturing plants.Implementation Cost and Time:Kitaron ERP&MES system can be implemented in a very short time and, therefore, at low costs.Control tools:Offers a high management standard for monitoring and supervising organizational information.Customer Service:Company support 24/7 to give customers fast, quality and professional service.Knowledge and experience in the industry:Leading in production management in Israel! The company has over 3000 users in IsraelLeading technology:Kitaron ERP&MES is developed using the latest Microsoft technologies.User-friendly: Kitaron ERP&MES allows you to use Microsoft Office tools.Flexible System:Kitaron ERP&MES gives the customer full control over the processes and the system settings.

Kitaron ERP&MESStreamlining and improving the production processes

Tel: 972-4-8813130

Fax: 972-4-8491560

E-Mail: geosoft@geosoft-sys.com

P.O.B 229 Kiryat Mozkin 26114. Israel www.geosoft-sys.com

ALL IN ONE KITARON ERP&MES