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Jonar Systems Apparel

JAS - ERP For The Apparel Trade by The Apparel Trade

For longer than the term ERP has existed, Jonar Systems has delivered business solutions software to the apparel, footwear and hard goods industries. Our customers' needs drive the evolution of our feature list. Consignment, just-in-time scheduling to multiple production lines, and sample product cost estimating for pre-sale pricing are just some of the examples of functions our customers wanted and that we developed to meet their requirements. We are proud of our accomplishments and never hesitate to share our ideas and experience with our customers. However, we believe it is their needs that should guide the features we create.

Consultants and marketing teams are fond of creating new acronyms for the everyday features that people in the business have been using for years. When we were asked many years ago to create graphical reporting tools to help one of our customers create long term strategic plans we had no idea that it would be later termed "BI". Over the years, we have added hundreds of major features and thousands of minor ones, so our feature set is extensive and adaptable. If you would like someone to contact you to discuss how our functionality can benefit your company, call us at 514-335-5525 or click here.

As an homage to all the great acronym inventors of our time, below is a list of some of the more commonly used ones that Jonar offers. In some cases, we have been offering the feature before the acronym came into use. You can click on any of them to get specific information on how Jonar delivers that functionality.

Receiving, Sorting and Shipping Out

WMS Warehouse Management

An integrated set of system functions designed to manage the locating, putaway, movement, picking and cycle count/inventory verification activities of a warehouse or distribution center. It normally receives purchase, sales and interplant order data from a base ERP system that serve as the authorization to initiate activities. Our WMS gives customers the flexibility of using barcodes or even RFID scanning.

BOM Bill of Materials

This is a list of all the materials, tools, work instructions and labour that goes into the fabrication of any item being produced. A degree of difficulty exists when you need multiple BOMs for a single item. This occurs when there are multiple sizes or colours of a single product. JAS handles this seamlessly.

MRP Materials Requirements Planning

A set of techniques that uses bill of material data, inventory data, and master production schedule to calculate requirements for materials. It makes recommendations to release replenishment orders for materials.

SIT Shipment in Transit

An integration of shipping information from your transport company into the ERP system allowing you to track a shipment from the time it leaves the supplier until it arrives at the client’s warehouse. It is used to calculate Actual Costs per unit and to group multiple PO’s together because they are being shipped on the same transport (boat, plane, etc.). When a SIT is received, all corresponding PO’s are also received and every unit from all PO’s are automatically placed in stock.

Unified Interface

EAI Enterprise Application Integration - Single Interface For All Functions

There is a whole host of enterprise level systems that generate all kinds of business data. That business data could be financial data, logistical data, inventory data, employee information, etc... EAI is a way of bringing all of that data together so that it can be used in conjunction rather than having it segregated. JAS is particularly good at this, allowing customers to do cross department functions and analysis.

Accounting

AP Accounts Payable

The money you owe based on unpaid invoices that you have received from vendors.

AR Accounts Receivable

The amount of money Customers owe you based on unpaid invoices for your products or services.

GL General Ledger

The line-by-line formal record of all debits and credits a company incurs, as well as payments made and received.

PO Purchase Orders

Used to authorize purchases from a vendor while establishing payment terms and methods.

DDP Direct Deposit Payroll

Automatically deposits pay into employees' bank accounts which eliminates the need for printing and distributing cheques. Jonar automates this proceedure this along with standard payroll saving our customers' time and money.

Manufacturing

MES Manufacturing Execution System

A communication and information system operating on the factory floor to direct resources to the correct jobs, track the status of activities, quality control, product component tracking and basically organizes with reporting on the manufacturing function.

Asset Management

EAM Enterprise Asset Management - Machine Usage

Keeps track of the usage of capital equipment and can even be used to allocate costs of equipment maintenance and depreciation to an individual finished good unit cost.

Scheduling

MPS Master Production Schedule

A set of planning statistics that drives material requirements planning (MRP).

Work in Process

WIP Work In Process

Term describing partially completed work. While the goods in WIP may not be immediately available, they will usually be accompanied by an expected date so that their use can be planned for in filling orders or other applications.

Plant Loading

PLA Plant Loading Application

Plant loading is the process by which orders are translated into manufacturing jobs and then assigned to production lines.

Product Development

PDM Product Development Management

A system, which controls all product-related data and associated workflow processes within an enterprise. Product data management systems replace paper-based processes and information storage with a single, centralized data repository that enables authorized users throughout a company to access and update current product information, while ensuring they follow specific procedures.

Sales Force Management

SFA Sales Force Automation

Technology used to streamline a sales force including management of their commissions and product information control and communication.

Corporate Planning

Decisions are best made based on facts. Getting an executive the right facts at the right time in a quickly understandable form can make the difference between a banner year and bankruptcy.CPM Corporate Performance Management

Benchmarks, metrics and milestones, all of these can be identified and displayed in a "Dashboard" for quick status updates.

BI Business Intelligence Graphical data analysis tools

This term refers to any tool that will take data and use it in a chart, spreadsheet or graph format. There are a number of products on the market. Our goal is to allow you to use any of them that follow certain basic standards.

Electronic Commerce

EDI Electronic Data Interchange

The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Although interactive access may be a part of it, EDI implies direct computer-to-computer transactions into vendors' databases and ordering systems. Companies, mostly large retailers will often demand that their vendors use this type of communication. Jonar's EDI was one of the first in the industry more than 15 years ago. It is by far one of the most robust in the sector with a very large feature set and an extremely competitive price.

Inventory

ETO Engineer to Order

Designing something specifically to a customer order requires its own BOM, inventory instructions, part numbers and routings.

JIT Just In Time

Manufacturing based on continuous improvement of productivity and elimination of all waste. It is the goal of perfect supply chain management so that there is never any idleness in the system.

PTS Purchase To Stock

Buying goods to be resold or raw materials to be used in advance of having orders in order to have inventory available when an order comes in.

PTO Purchase To Order

Only buying goods for resale or raw materials to fill an already received order.

POQ Period Order Quantity

Ordering goods for resale or raw materials based on an expected volume of orders in a period.

RP Reorder Point

When your inventory of goods or materials falls below a certain point you will be prompted to repurchase regardless of outstanding orders.

Fulfilling Orders

SCM Supply Chain Management

The design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities in order to increase efficiency and capacity by building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand, and measuring performance globally.

SCE Supply Chain Execution

Execution-oriented software applications for effective procurement and supply of goods and services across a supply chain. It includes manufacturing, warehouse, and transportation execution systems, and systems providing visibility across the supply chain.

APS Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Ways to analyze and plan logistics and manufacturing over the short, intermediate, and long-term time periods. It describes any computer program that uses advanced mathematical algorithms or logic to perform optimization or simulation on finite capacity scheduling, sourcing, capital planning, resource planning, forecasting, demand management, and others. These techniques simultaneously consider a range of constraints and business rules to provide real-time planning and scheduling, decision support, available-to-promise, and capable-to-promise capabilities. APS often generates and evaluates multiple scenarios. Management then selects one scenario to use as the "official plan." The five main components of APS systems are demand planning, production planning, production scheduling, distribution planning, and transportation planning.

ATP Available To Promise Sell

The uncommitted portion of a company’s inventory and planned production, maintained in the master schedule to support customer order promising.

CTP Capable to Promise

The process of committing orders against available capacity as well as inventory. This process may involve multiple manufacturing or distribution sites. Capable-to-promise is used to determine when a new or unscheduled customer order can be delivered.

CRP Capacity Requirements Planning

The function of establishing, measuring, and adjusting limits or levels of capacity. The term CRP in this context refers to the process of determining in detail the amount of labor and machine resources required to accomplish the tasks of production.

Product Lifecycle

PLM Product Lifecycle Management

A process for guiding products from idea through retirement to deliver the most business value to an enterprise and its trading partners. The applications that support the business activities enabled through PLM includes product ideation, design, engineering, manufacturing process management, product data management, and product portfolio management.
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