Catalyst Manufacturing® was designed to meet the planning, scheduling, and inventory needs of the small manufacturer in make-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock, and engineer-to-order environments. Catalyst contains many of the features found in higher-end MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, but without the complexity and at a price the small manufacturer can afford. In many ways, however, Catalyst Manufacturing is much better, providing features and functionality that can truly “accelerate the way you do business^SM” including:

·       Finite capacity scheduling
·       Gantt-chart production schedule board
·       Dynamic lead times
·       Streamlined shop order creation and release
·       Purchase order consolidation
·       Graphical views of route and bill-of-material product configurations
·       Graphical shop order views with linked sub-assemblies
·       Indented BOM/Route Reports
·       Multi-level Lot Tracking Reports
·       Shop Order Variance Reports
·       Quote configuration build tool
·       Parametric modeling
·       Dimensional inventory
·       Material and labor backflush with backflush confirmation
·       Cycle count process tools
·       Physical inventory tools
·       Event notification

Catalyst organizes foundation data (customers, vendors, items, product configurations, etc.) and processes transaction data to support typical business processes used by the small manufacturer. Accounting features are supplemented through interfaces to Peachtree Accounting® and QuickBooks® to perform payment processing for customers and vendors, general ledger journal entries, and extended financial reporting.