Manufacturing & Quality
From bill of material to finished goods, with the quality checks and the real cost.
Every factory can tell you what it sold. Far fewer can tell you what it cost to make, because the answer is assembled from materials issued at one moment, labour and machine time at another, scrap discovered later, and a rework nobody wrote down. Nama derives manufactured cost from the production order itself: what was issued to it, what came off it, and what was consumed proving it was good. That single change is what makes the difference between pricing a product on a margin you assumed and pricing it on a margin you measured.
What Manufacturing & Quality covers
4 modules, licensed together or separately.
- Production Management — What It Cost, Not What It Should Have Bills of material, routings, work orders and the real cost of what you produced.
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP) Demand netted against stock and supply to say what to buy and what to make.
- Quality Control — The Gate Between Received and Available Checklists that gate goods into stock, and the process checks behind them.
- Carton Manufacturing — the cut planned, not guessed Cutting-plan optimisation for corrugated boxes — least trim from every paper roll.
How it works together
Manufacturing is where an ERP either earns its cost or becomes an expensive data-entry exercise. The difference is whether the plan, the floor and the ledger are the same records.
- Define. The bill of material says what a product is made of; the routing says what has to happen to it, in what order, on what resource.
- Plan. MRP nets demand against stock, open purchase orders and open production orders, and proposes what to buy and what to make.
- Release. A production order is raised with its own material requirement and its own expected output, and it becomes the thing everything else is charged to.
- Execute. Material is issued against the order and production is confirmed as stages complete, so work in progress is a balance rather than an estimate.
- Inspect. Quality checks sit at the handover points — incoming goods, between stages, and before release — and results are recorded against the batch, not against the day.
- Cost. Materials, labour, machine time and scrap settle onto the order, and the finished goods enter stock carrying what they actually cost.
Built for how the region actually works
Regional manufacturing is rarely a single clean process. A plant here is often also an importer, a distributor and sometimes a contractor, and the same install has to carry all of that: import letters of credit landing customs and freight onto raw-material cost, multi-warehouse stock across plants and branches, and a finished-goods flow that ends at either a distributor or the company’s own retail counters. Nama runs those on one database rather than three integrated systems. And where the output is packaging rather than discrete units, the carton manufacturing sub-suite handles specification-driven orders and their material planning directly.
Every screen, field and setting is documented in full.
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Does it handle multi-level bills of material?
Yes — a component of one product can itself be a manufactured item with its own bill of material and its own production order, and the cost rolls up through the levels rather than being entered at the top.
What does MRP actually plan against?
Demand, current stock, quantities already on order and quantities already committed to other work. The output is what to buy and what to make, by when — not a reorder point somebody set years ago.
Where does quality fit?
At the points where goods change hands: on receipt from a supplier, between production stages, and before finished goods are released. Inspection results are recorded against the batch, so a later problem traces back to a specific test on a specific lot.
Do you support carton and packaging manufacturing?
Yes — there is a dedicated sub-suite for it, covering specifications, orders, material planning and material issue for carton production, which is a materially different calculation from discrete assembly.
Industries that lean on this
Companies already running Nama ERP
I have never dealt with other local systems — I have only worked with international ones. Namasoft genuinely stands out for its very high flexibility in meeting our requirements quickly, whether modifying screens or delivering the enhancements we need, and that is what matters most to us. This would have cost more time and more money with the other international packages.
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