Tricorn

Simple Production Control Software to Help Your Business Grow

• Quotations to Invoicing
• Designed for Manufacturing
• ​Rapid Deployment: Go live in days, not weeks or months

All aspects of the implementation processes were excellent. The installation period was very well managed and delivered to an extremely high standard. The training of our team was very professional and excellent in all ways. The "Go-Live" process was eased by the incredibly helpful and supportive approach from the Tricorn team who were always there to guide us and answer any questions that we had, no matter how small.  Chris Pearce, Metspin Ltd   
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Production Control & Job Processing Software

Designed for Manufacturers

Fitfactory’s Tricorn MRP Solution is a UK based manufacturing production control system specifically designed for SME manufacturing productions. Built from the ground to serve the backbone of UK manufacturing operations, Tricorn pulls from the combined experience of hundreds of factories across the country to deliver the all-in-one production control system. We have designed and continually develop our Job processing software to be user-friendly, easy to learn, and to give the flexibility needed to manage operations from quotations through to invoicing, enabling you to meet quality, cost, efficiency and delivery targets.
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Powerful & Intuitive

​​Integrated modules provide both management and operational tools and are especially suited to sub-contract, KOP, Kan-Ban, made-for-stock products and "make to order" manufacturing, including assemblies. 

​The comprehensive report generation and search capabilities enable you to continually evaluate performance and improve the efficiency of the total manufacturing process through variance analysis and improved control of lead times, inventory and work in progress.

An Intuitive Process to Manage Production

Features

Estimates and Quotes

Estimates and Quotes

Single or multiple quotes - prepare accurate and professionally presented quotes to meet the needs of both you and your customers. Quotes can cover single or multiple items, multiple quantities of the same item, assemblies, KOP and Kan Ban in any combination.

Generate Supplier RFQ – Get the latest material and subcon prices for your quote

Minimum quote value – set up MQV warnings

Copy quotes - can be used to copy previous quotes, including those that you may have set up as templates. The new quotes can then be modified as required.

Printing of quotes - print single or multiple copies of your quotations or, if you prefer, email it to your customer. Quote prints can contain single or multiple items.

Conversion to works orders - following acceptance by the customer, convert single or multiple quotes to works orders, adding key order information in one easy dialogue.

Quote history - use to get reports covering, for example, a history of quoting for a customer, a product, outstanding quotes, accepted or rejected quotes in any combination. If the comprehensive reports do not cover your specific needs, bespoke reports can be written.

Key Benefits of Tricorn Production Control Software:

• Create quotes from detailed cost breakdown or 'best guess'
• Copy from previous quotations
• Convert to work orders with 'One Click'
• Email direct from MS:Outlook including associated drawings

Work Orders

Work Orders

Order Creation - build works orders to meet your requirements, either directly or from a template, previous works order or conversion from quotations.

Alerts and warnings – get warnings to avoid delays such as parts being older than raised WO, quality issues etc.

Batches - control varying customer delivery requirements, overproduction to stock, open order and build for stock. Release approved batches for delivery / invoicing. Produce labels to accompany the deliveries. Split batches into multiple drops (weekly or monthly etc)

Order Control - work with the components of a works order qualifying the build, material, parts, subcontract and tooling requirements, allocation of stock (manual and automatic) and free issue.

Shopfloor Documentation - produce comprehensive shop floor documentation including job cards with planning sheets, either for single items or assembly work.

Time Recording - get times back from the shop floor either by manual data input or automatically via the optional bar code process or touch screens.The times can be used for estimate/actual comparison and to communicate with the scheduling system if installed.

Batches - control varying customer delivery requirements, overproduction to stock, open order and build for stock. Release approved batches for delivery / invoicing. Produce labels to accompany the deliveries.

Production Control - use the comprehensive reports to monitor and control the sales order book, order acknowledgements, work in progress, assemblies, job history, profitability analysis, work centre loading and scheduling requirements.

Job Costing

Job Costing

TRICORN:Production provides accurate and timely costing information that enables you to make informed decisions about production, pricing, process efficiency and more.

The system tracks all costs of a manufactured item including raw materials, bought-in parts, labour, machining, outsourced operations (SubCon) and other resources that are directly required to produce that item. Detailed analysis and reporting tools allow you to identify the true costs and profit margins of your operation.

Data created or entered in other functional areas of the system is reflected in real-time (via the TRICORN:Dashboard) to allow you to track and report on costs and variances as they occur. Drill down to transaction details to view supporting data from purchasing, inventory, work orders and more.

Operation times can be recorded in three ways: Manually by entering the time details from the job card/router; via a Barcode scanner connected to the TRICORN:TriTime module or via a Touchscreen/Tablet using TRICORN:SFDC-e.

The Cost Summary tab on the Works Order screen shows the Estimated Cost and builds up the Actual Costs as the job passes through WIP. Projected and Actual Profit is shown and colour-coded to readily identify jobs that are profitable or those that have lost money.

Assemblies

Assemblies

TRICORN allows for enhanced assembly processing for manufactured components and bought-in parts.

The top level of the assembly is defined as "Level 0" and all components and sub-assemblies are linked to the top level. Ratios of components are held in the assembly structure.

Job cards for all manufactured components can be printed together. TRICORN works in conjunction with the TRICORN:Scheduler to enable manufacture of components in a planned schedule to achieve completion of the assembly.

TRICORN also enables the reservation of manufactured components to other works orders. This is critical in manufacturing businesses where common components are used in multiple finished parts.

Request for Quote

Request for Quote

SupplierRFQs can be generated from various points in the system:

• When creating a quote
• When creating a works order
• When looking to buy something using the Purchasing Assistant
• Via the Supplier RFQ form

For example, when raising a quote if you’re unsure of the cost of a material and/or a suitable supplier you can generate a Supplier RFQ from the material edit dialog.

The Request for Quote can be emailed to multiple suppliers by selecting a supplier from your Supplier Database. Multiple materials and parts can be added to the request. Responses from suppliers can be recorded - even if you decide not to place the order with them. Perhaps a supplier has a lower unit cost but their lead time is too long this time.

Purchase Orders can be raised directly from the chosen supplier's response.

Purchase Orders

Purchase Orders

For works orders - pick specific requirements for the purchase of materials, parts, subcontract and tooling directly from the works orders. Record deliveries against purchase orders with full materials traceability being recorded and print delivery labels. PO authorisation – set up restrictions and requirements for PO creation

PO Delivery charges – set up automatic delivery charges which are applied to PO and WO job costings.



For stock - order materials and parts to replenish stock levels, using the delivery process to record the materials traceability for subsequent use.

Ad hoc - order sundries and other non-stock items as required.

History - use the history process to analyse your purchases by, for example, supplier or products and outstanding purchases.

From RFQ - Purchase Orders can be raised directly from accepted Request for Quotations (RFQs)

Stock Control

Stock Control

Raw materials - record the materials used, together with costs, specifications, locations, quantities in stock and quarantined. Facilities exist to search by material description, specification, and batch number, and to see the usage of materials by specific works orders. Control and monitor stock levels.

Stock locations – allow stock locations to be pre-defined and set default locations for your stock.

Part History – view part version history and up-issue as well as rework old stock to new revisions. Applicable to part/material/subcon usage history.

Finished parts - as for materials plus the recording of the ‘owning customer’, when items are stocked that are specific to them. Produce ‘stock lists’ that show the quantities of held parts. When parts recorded are, for example, the result of overproduction, hold the detailed materials traceability of the part build plus print stock labels.

Stock history - produce stock reports showing key information such as the value of stock, locations, reorder levels and material batch usage.

Delivery Documentation

Delivery Documentation

Specify content - create delivery notes for single or multiple items, selecting the batches for inclusion from approved works order batches.

Certificates of conformity – automatically produces certificates showing the ‘build’ of items, if necessary down to the individual items of material, parts, subcontract and tooling that were used. All materials traceability and treatments traceability can be recorded.

Document printing - produce quality documentation detailing the items being delivered/certified. Include your own free text notes into these documents.

Deliveries to invoice - automatic invoice creation mirroring content of delivery notes for single delivery notes, all delivery notes for one customer or all customers.

Monitoring deliveries - reporting facilities monitor can be used to highlight, for example, order delivered and not invoiced, overdue deliveries.

Email direct - delivery notes and Certificates of Conformity in PDF format can be emailed directly from within the system to the customer.

Invoicing

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Invoicing

Invoice creation - build invoices from approved works order batches. Invoices can cover single, multiple items, ad hoc items, specify delivery charges with different VAT, analysis codes and multi currency.

Credit notes - produce credit notes as required.

Document printing - produce quality documentation to your requirements including pre-printed stationery. Invoices can be configured to include the value in euros at specified conversion rates.

Invoice summaries - produce reports showing values of invoices produced by customer.

Email invoices - invoices and credit notes in PDF format can be emailed directly from the system to your customer.

Interfaces:
Interface capabilities with Sage, QuickBooks, Xero and other accounting packages.

Live lookup with Sage 50 – look up credit limit and account balance data from sage and combine with data in Tricorn (un-invoiced WO batched)

File Attachments

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File Attachments

TRICORN:Production provides the capability to attach a link to any file in any format to any module within the system.

WO Files – files can be tagged as job pack so they’re available to view via SFDC on the shop floor, rather than printing.

This means that drawings can be attached to parts records and by inheritance they are linked to any quote or works order for that part.

Certifications of Conformity of materials or treatments can be attached to the material batch or subcontract activity which are then automatically linked to the relevant WO and follow the WO batch and on to the delivery & CoC

Files can also be linked to operations on works orders providing the ability to attach Job Pack files and display on terminals on the factory floor - rather then printing.

Reports

Reports

Tricorn has extensive built-in reports, in addition to a stand-alone end user reporting process, which allows you to write reports to meet specific requirements.

Some examples of Tricorn reports are:

• quotation history and status
• assembly breakdown
• works order work in progress
• works order history
• sales order book
• time reports
• purchase order history
• work centre loading
• stock
• works order delivered not invoiced

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