Aeion SCM for Manufacturing & Procurement
A production run that needs a part should check real stock, not a stale ERP export. Aeion SCM ties work orders, bills of material, and routing directly to the same live inventory the warehouse floor sees — and the procurement side that keeps the line fed runs in the same system: a full purchase-order lifecycle with automatic numbering, receiving that updates inventory on arrival, and vendor scoring computed from your actual receiving history. One platform; one database; no integration tax between what you make and what you buy.
Production and Purchasing on One Inventory
Manufacturers usually run production in one system and purchasing in another, then spend the week reconciling what the line consumed against what actually arrived. Aeion SCM collapses that into a single loop over one shared inventory:
Work Orders, BOMs, and Routing
The manufacturing side of Aeion SCM covers the shop-floor essentials, wired to the same stock model as everything else:
The Purchase-Order Lifecycle
Keeping a line fed is a purchasing discipline. Aeion SCM manages the full PO lifecycle so the raw-material side runs without a parallel spreadsheet:
Vendors Graded by Your Own Receiving History
For a manufacturer, a component vendor's reliability is a production risk. Aeion SCM tracks it automatically — every receipt updates the score, and the score steers the next reorder's recommendation:
Forecasting Component Demand
Finished-goods demand drives component demand. The same forecasting engine that predicts sell-through predicts what the line will need to consume:
FAQ
It ships work orders, bills of material, production scheduling with Gantt views, and routing across work centers with quality-control checkpoints. For deep MES-grade shop-floor control, tell us your specific routing and BOM structure and we'll walk through what the module covers versus what would need an integration.
Material requirements read the same live inventory the warehouse maintains — on-hand, reserved, and available per product per warehouse — so a scheduled run reflects real stock, not a stale export. Components below reorder point surface in the reorder analysis ranked by urgency.
Yes. Aeion SCM can mirror an ERP like NetSuite, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics read-only for the forecasting and purchasing workflows while writes stay in the legacy system, or take full ownership with bidirectional sync. Aeion Singularity handles the data migration when you flip ownership.
For each vendor, planned vs actual delivery time is compared across their full PO history to produce an average lead time, a variance score, and an on-time percentage. Z-score safety stock uses that lead-time variance directly, so unreliable suppliers automatically get a larger component buffer.
Yes — quality-control checkpoints are built into the routing, and a batch can't move to the next station without passing the checks you define.
It depends heavily on your BOM complexity, component lead times, and how much manual reconciliation between production and purchasing you're replacing. The levers are fewer line stoppages from earlier component-shortage visibility, tighter safety stock from lead-time-aware math, and eliminated order-vs-receipt reconciliation — but we don't have aggregated customer ROI figures to quote. Talk to us and we'll model it for your operation.
What you make and what you buy, on one inventory.
Work orders, BOM consumption, routing with quality gates, and a full PO lifecycle with automatic vendor scoring — in one system.