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FACTIVITY-RF allows the easy extension of the FACTIVITY system from touch screen kiosks to hand held devices. The extensions come in two flavors and include both:
- Technology Enhancements to the base FACTIVITY module for use of hand-held scanners.
- Business Function Enhancements with FACTIVITY-RF Modules for QAD inventory transactions.
FACTIVITY-RF can be used in a Web Browser on a standard PC or hand held device that runs a Mobile Windows operating system.
The FACTIVITY Web Extensions provide direct interface to the core system, with functions such as Material Tags for easy and accurate capture of actual material consumption.
This can be used for component issues at the line level to help minimize material variances and improve the control and tracking of specific component parts (lots, serial numbers, heats, etc.) through the WIP operations.
In addition, it identifies the where, when and how associated with material variances.
Another FACTIVITY enhancement that incorporates hand-held technology is also available to expand the use of templates. Using the template build function of the base FACTIVITY systems, Web templates allow the collection of important factory floor production and quality information on a mobile unit.FACTIVITY-RF also extends the core MES business functionality beyond the Work-in-Process factory floor modules and into the Inventory Control functions. This includes:
- Sales Order Shipping
- Purchase Order Receiving
- Warehouse Transactions
- Paperless Warehouse Dispatching
FACTIVITY-RF provides a way to improve inventory accuracy and saves time and money. QAD is updated from the hand held devices in real-time at the point-of-use, saving transacting time and eliminating guess work. Transactions update the QAD inventory screens immediately without the need of an intermediary data base. All the inventory screens are written in Progress, and run inside of the QAD database, and can be used on a terminal, PC or hand held device.
These modules allow a hand-held to display scanned information, such as verification of valid part numbers; verification of appropriate reference numbers used for containers, package, skid, lot, heat; identification as well as querying adequate on-hand inventory and performing necessary verification of lot/expiry data.
Generalized Codes within QAD allow users of FACTIVITY-RF to configure the system 
to match their own specific requirements. For Example, customers that need to concern themselves with product expiration dates FACTIVITY-RF uses Generalized Codes, to define “Product Expire Months”, which is used to reject inventory too old to be picked & shipped within expiry. Generalized Codes are also used to turn on/off functions specific to operator easy-of-use. For example, your company may want to make sure the RF operator has to verify the each screen with an extra touch or just bypass this verification field and assume the scan was correct.
to match their own specific requirements. For Example, customers that need to concern themselves with product expiration dates FACTIVITY-RF uses Generalized Codes, to define “Product Expire Months”, which is used to reject inventory too old to be picked & shipped within expiry. Generalized Codes are also used to turn on/off functions specific to operator easy-of-use. For example, your company may want to make sure the RF operator has to verify the each screen with an extra touch or just bypass this verification field and assume the scan was correct.Other examples are inclusion of optional fields such as Inventory lot “reference” numbers to be used as package, container, bundle or other sub-lot identifiers. Generalized Codes can be changed to define inventory location zones for multiple pickers to expedite the picking process by as much as 50% without any modifications to the FACTIVITY-RF progress based code.
FACTIVITY-RF helps QAD customers become LEAN by improving the picking of sales and material order with “Quick-Pick” functionality. “Quick Pick” refers to the inventory locations that are designated as the most efficient locations for picking of specific items of customer or work orders.
Beyond the ability to combine sales and material orders in a single prioritized list, FACTIVITY-RF is flexible enough to match your shipping process rules. The system can first check to see if there are any “ready-to-pick” customer orders.
“Ready to pick” refers to customer orders that meet the criteria for ready for picking (confirmed, allocated, picklist printed and all inventory in stock ) before selecting from the list in due date sequence.
FACTIVITY-RF also allows hot orders to immediately be picked with a manual override even if they are down further on the list (e.g. have later due dates).Operations Director for a medical company reported that “customer order shipping cycle time was 13 minutes before implementing our bar-coding Shipping program. After we implemented bar-coding, our order shipping cycle time is 5 minutes. We were looking for the assured accuracy from bar-coding, so the cycle time improvement was a happy surprise.”
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