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Counting the whole warehouse once a year costs two days of production and buys a number that goes stale within a week. Cycle counting inventory replaces it with a rhythm. One location at a time, on a schedule that names an owner, works out its own next date, and chases itself when it falls behind.
On hand is not available. Qualis records component shortages on the manufacturing order at release, shows required, issued, reserved, available and short per component and per operation on a live Material Plan tab, and lets you raise a draft purchase order or a sub-assembly order from the short line, linked back with an audit entry.
How an engineering change order process inside your ERP takes a bill of material from a released revision to the next one: fork a draft, see the side-by-side diff, measure the impact on open orders and stock, decide what happens to stranded parts, approve, and apply on approval or on a scheduled date, while orders already on the floor keep the revision they started with.
Half of B2B invoice value is paid late, and manufacturers wait the longest. Here is how an AR aging report, a collections worklist and automated escalating payment reminders in Qualis ERP turn invoice chasing into a system that runs itself.
Your customer paid the invoice in full, so why does your reporting show three different numbers for the same deal? How a multi-currency ERP captures the exchange rate on the order, carries it to the invoice, and names the gap when the cash finally lands.
Your supplier quotes by the tonne, your shelf label says kilos and your bill of materials calls for grams. Here is how unit of measure conversion in Qualis keeps all three honest, from the purchase order to the stock ledger, without anyone doing the arithmetic by hand.
Paper travelers tell you what happened, days after it happened. Shop floor data collection captures labor time, good and scrap quantity, and material issue at the bench, as the work happens. Here is how the Qualis operator cockpit works: pick your work center once, one-tap start and pause on your own clock, mandatory scrap reasons, and a quality control point that caps what the next operation can report.
Sales needs an answer before the call ends, and "we're slammed" is not one. Work center capacity planning turns your shift patterns and routings into two numbers per work center per week: hours already booked, and hours you actually have. Here is how the Qualis load board builds them, why queue time and outside processing must not count against a cell, and how the market handles capacity today.
Calendar-based PM services the idle machine and misses the one that ran three shifts. Meter-based preventive maintenance fixes that, but only if you can get the run hours without a clipboard or a sensor retrofit. Here is how Qualis derives machine hours, cycles and shot counts straight from completed production operations.