What is DELMIAWorks (formally IQMS)? Everything you need to know

DELMIAWorks (formally IQMS) helps manufacturing companies manage their manufacturing operations from the first client interaction to the shipping dock. This integrated software suite provides real-time visibility and business intelligence throughout the entire manufacturing business, making your company more agile while driving better quality and higher profitability.

DELMIAWorks could be the right solution if you want to streamline your manufacturing processes and increase your efficiency. With DELMIAWorks, you can manage your entire business from a single platform, saving time and reducing the risk of errors. It offers many features and capabilities to take your business to the next level.

Capabilities of DELMIAWorks include:

  • Estimating
  • Order Entry
  • Scheduling
  • Inventory Control
  • Manufacturing Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Warehouse Management
  • Purchasing
  • Quality Control
  • Finance
  • MES

Estimating With DELMIAWorks (IQMS)

With the estimating module, businesses can create accurate cost estimates for their products and services, considering the cost of materials, labor, and overheads. The solution also allows companies to perform what-if scenarios to help identify the most cost-effective solutions. Estimating module features:

  • Managing the Bill of Manufacturing and product structures
  • Maintain and update products cost information easily
  • Track cost changes over time
  • Manage quotes and proposals

Order Entry with DELMIAWorks

With the order entry module, businesses can manage customer orders from start to finish, from receiving the order to shipping the product. The solution allows enterprises to create orders, manage order status, and track order history quickly and easily. Order Entry module features:

  • Manage pricing and discounts
  • Provide customers with accurate pricing and apply discounts and promotions as needed
  • Gain real-time visibility into inventory levels
  • Manage customer information and communication
  • Generate customer reports

Scheduling with DELMIAWorks

Scheduling is a critical component of any successful business, and DELMIAWorks offers a range of features that will streamline your process and improve the accuracy of your schedules. Scheduling module features:

  • Create and manage production schedules
  • Generate plans in real time with lead times, setup times, and run times in mind
  • Optimize schedules based on specific performance metrics
  • Manage schedules for multiple locations from a single platform

Inventory Control with DELMIAWorks

Inventory Control is one the most critical factors for Shop Floor accuracy efficiency for part material accuracy. From tracking inventory progress to outsourcing parts from the manufacturing process and reducing the inventory time or casting necessary materials to meet the demands, manufacturing inventory software modules from DELMIAWorks helps solve your supply chain challenges. Inventory Control module features:

  • Automatically generate purchases or production orders to replenish stock as needed
  • Manage production procurement, including material requirement planning and capacity
    planning

MFG BOM with DELMIAWorks

DELMIAWorks offers many capabilities to manage your manufacturing Bill of Manufacturing. A significant component of manufacturing your products is your Bill of Manufacturing. MFG BOM module features:

  • Accurately address inventory requirements
  • Calculate the total cost of production
  • Accurately determine each product’s selling price

Warehouse Management with DELMIAWorks

DELMIAWorks provides end-to-end visibility and control over your warehouse operations, enabling you to streamline your processes, increase efficiency, and improve overall performance. Warehouse Management module features:

  • Manage the entire lifecycle of a product within a warehouse, from receiving to storage,
    picking, packing, and shipping.
  • Gain real-time time tracking and visibility for inventory levels and product requirements, and
    information
  • Monitor and manage warehouse operations
  • Support multiple storage types, such as bulk storage, shelving, and pallet racking, with ease
  • Generate reports that provide insights for KPIs such as inventory levels, picking times, and
    order fulfillment rates

Purchasing with DELMIAWorks

As a comprehensive digital solution, DELMIAWorks offers advanced purchasing functionality that enables you to streamline your procurement processes, increase efficiency, and drive cost savings. Purchasing module features:

  • Manage the entire procurement process, from identifying the need for a product or service
    to receiving and paying for the goods
  • Track suppliers and make an informed decision about which suppliers to use
  • Gain real-time visibility into the status of purchase orders
  • Generate reports on procurement activities

Quality with DELMIAWorks

With the quality management module, businesses can create and manage quality control plans, define inspection points, conduct inspections, and track the results of these inspections. Quality module features:

  • Gain real-time visibility into quality control activities
  • Track and manage issues during production as well as root causes to prevent similar
    problems

Finance with DELMIAWorks

The IQMS financial module includes features for managing financial transactions, such as accounts payable and accounts receivable. Financial module features:

  • Automate processing of invoices and payments
  • Generate financial reports and analytics to track KPIs
  • Manage budgeting, forecasting, and cost accounting

MES Real Time Data Collection

MES real-time data in DELMIAWorks / IQMS is used to monitor and control various aspects of the manufacturing process, including production line performance, machine utilization, resource allocation, and product quality. It provides manufacturers with the ability to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and increase the speed and accuracy of decision-making.

In Summary

DELMIAWorks (IQMS) delivers solutions that enable businesses to be lean, agile, and competitive without needing expensive third-party software interfaces. The processes are streamlined across discrete, repetitive, and batch-process manufacturing environments, built-to-order or build-to-stock supply chain models. Because all modules are designed, developed, and supported by DELMIAWorks, they operate as a powerful and cohesive solution capable of handling all your extended ERP needs with a single database – locally on the cloud.

Request a DELMIAWorks Demo with TriMech

Are you interested in learning more about DELMIAWorks and how it can help your business? Request a demo with one of our experts to see the platform in action, learn about its user-friendly interface, and discover its range of features that will benefit your business. We will also answer any questions you may have during a Q&A session at the end of the demo.

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