ECN ERP Module

The Seradex Engineering Change Notice ECN module automates your product data and lifecycle processes. This module improves the management of all your product data. It empowers your employees, customers and suppliers to collaborate as you design, manufacture, and support your products.

Using the Seradex Engineering Change Module you can modernize and simplify your entire change process. This software will make sure all changes to item master or bills of materials are controlled and documented. It ensures engineering can manage all the parts, assembly and bill of material data, approval processes and change management while maintaining full audit trails.

Seradex provides engineers with instant access to current item information. It offers the freedom they need to create and include new items and bills of material.

This module automates the issuing and tracking of: Engineering Change Notice (ECN), Engineering Change Orders (ECO) and Engineering Change Requests (ECR)

It is more important than ever before to standardize your engineering change management process. Typically this process is time intensive, non-uniform and error prone. It can result in costly corrections in inventory, scrapped product and rework.

Often ECN's are accompanied by numerous documents that must be forwarded to all members of the approval board. Tracking who has what documents and the status requires numerous email or voicemails. This module puts the entire process online so you do not have to struggle with paper files.

The ECN Module creates, edits, and prints out ECN Reports. You will save time and money because your change process is streamlined and easy to use for you and everyone in your design chain. It will boost productivity of engineers as well as salespeople, production, inventory, and accounting staff members.

ECN - Stand alone or Integrated in ERP?

There are many vendors that offer stand alone ECN software. This category is also known as Product Lifecycle Management or PLM software. For a break down of the advantages of the Seradex integrated ERP PLM.

Your Business Challenges - ECN Module

Allow personnel to prepare ECN's quickly and accurately
Track detailed costing associated with each ECN
Provide visibility into problem identification, solution and reasons for change
Eliminate paperwork and put the engineering change process online
Track the impact of an ECN on the BOM as well as on open work and purchase orders
Provide secure access to CAD library objects
Improve reuse of common parts and assemblies

Our Solution - ECN Module

Secure sign in and authorization control
Completely integrated to ERP, Item Master, Bill of Materials and Inventory
Electronic ECNs and requests (ECR/ECNs)
Attach or link to any File, Drawing and CAD Documents
User-defined ECN approval boards
Email notification of any status change using Event Alert Module
User defined ECN approval process steps
Quickly respond to customer driven requests
Record the type of ECN - Item, Bill of Material or Documentation
Classify and report on the reason for the Engineering Change - Safety, Inaccurate Bill of Material, Cost Reduction, Customer Request etc.
ECN Electronic sign-off
ECN Sign-off status visibility and reminders
Enter the write off cost of the ECN before it is approved
ECN Effectivity by date or inventory quantity and run rate
Force Engineering to outline the inventory adjustment writeoff associated with the proposed Engineering Change
Report on items and assemblies affected by the Engineering Change
Permanent Audit Trail of all bill of material changes

Reports - ECN Module

Bill of Material Change Report
ECN Detail Report

With intuitive features that help ensure repeat business, the ECN module in the Seradex ERP gives your engineering department an cost effective tool that pays for itself very quickly.

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