Nexus MES / MRP

Introducing

Nexus

Your all-in-one solution to plant management.

Label Format Management

Versatile Label Formats

Nexus allows you to create and manage label formats for various items, such as Raw Materials, Batches, Products, Pallets, and Storage Locations, tailoring labels to your specific needs.

Variable Mappings

Manage label variables, mappings, files, types, and stocks with ease. Changes made to label formats are quickly propagated to the production floor, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Data-Backed Previews

Nexus offers data-backed label previews, allowing you to see exactly how labels for different items will appear when printed, minimizing errors and optimizing printing efficiency, crucial for manufacturing solutions.

Real-Time Updates

Changes to label formats are seamlessly synced with production operations, ensuring that any modifications are immediately reflected in the labeling process.

Quick Implementation

New label formats, including variable mappings and designs, can be utilized by label printers within seconds of upload, enabling rapid deployment of updated labels.

Flexible Label Customization

Nexus’s label mapping tool lets you flexibly add Nexus data to label variables, ensuring precise printing and data-backed labeling at any stage of the manufacturing process.

Products & Variants

Product Labeling

Manage your product weighing and labeling rules in one easy to use editor. Build label previews, adjust label variables, and print in one interface. Look no further for your manufacturing solutions.

Customer Based Product Variants

Perfect for weigh price labeling applications and any scenario where you need customer specific attributes, pricing, and/or labeling

Inventory Management

Keep track of your finished goods stock levels before and after labeling and box up. Great for production environments where working inventory is separate from palletized inventory.

Seamless Label Printing

Integrated with NiceLabel Designer. Easily add data backed, GS1 compliant, label printing at any stage of your process.

Packaging Management

Leverage packaging management to take advantage of accurate auto taring, automated production counters, inventory conversions, and reporting insights

Software Automation

Capable of handling real-time inventory input / output feeds, syncing to hundreds of Lynx devices, and integrating with your ERP.

Inventory Management

Multi-Perspective Inventory View

Nexus allows you to view product inventory from various perspectives, including cases, packs, pallets, categories, and locations, providing a comprehensive understanding of your stock.

Flexible Measurement Units

Manage inventory with a wide array of measurement units and conversions, ensuring accurate tracking and reducing human errors.

Reorder Point Monitoring

Nexus lets you monitor reorder points, quantities, and costs efficiently, enabling you to stay on top of inventory levels and prevent stockouts.

Overpack Reports

Generate overpack reports to gain insights into overstocked items, guiding your stock management efforts and ensuring efficient space utilization.

Hierarchical Storage Management

Nexus supports hierarchical storage locations, allowing for compartmentalized storage management and optimized organization within your warehouse.

Real-Time Reporting

Through Nexus’s reporting capabilities, you can generate inventory reports that encompass inventory totals, breakdowns, costing, and other relevant metrics, facilitating informed decision-making. Managing your manufacturing solutions has never been easier.

Orders

Plant-Level Order Management

Nexus enables seamless creation and management of orders at the plant level, providing flexibility and adaptability for your manufacturing solutions.

Customer-Based Product Variants

Nexus supports customer-based product variants, allowing you to cater products to specific customer preferences, enhancing customer satisfaction and personalization.

Efficient Order Fulfillment

Nexus provides live progress bars and per-order efficiency ratings, giving you real-time insights into order fulfillment and streamlining your operational efficiency.

Per-Truck Progress Tracking

Monitor truck and order fulfillment with per-truck progress tracking, ensuring smooth logistics and enhancing the visibility of shipments.

Pallet Creation and Management

Create, print, and manage pallets and their contents effortlessly. Nexus’s Android-based scan gun applications simplify pallet building and shipping, enhancing operator productivity.

Seamless Integration with ERPs

Nexus’s integration with ERPs ensures that all order, customer, shipment, and pallet data remains synchronized, minimizing manual data entry and errors.

Raw Materials

Efficient Raw Material Management

Nexus enables comprehensive management of raw materials, including measurement types, label formats, prices, categories, and custom attributes.

Structured Supplier Management

Easily manage raw material suppliers, supply lists, costs, and contact information, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient sourcing.

Data Templates for Custom Attributes

Create data templates to store custom attributes and characteristics for raw materials, enhancing data organization and tracking.

Dynamic Batch Recipe Creation

Nexus allows the creation of batch recipes associating raw materials, quantities, and processes, offering visibility into product lifecycles and ingredient use.

Partial Batch Processes

Nexus supports partial batch processes, granting operators the flexibility to adjust batch sizes and process proportions while maintaining efficiency.

Scheduling and Equipment Tracking

Schedule batch process jobs with Nexus, while tracking equipment and operator involvement, ensuring streamlined and efficient processing

Scheduling

Efficient Batch Process Scheduling

Nexus enables you to schedule batch process jobs with ease, optimizing resource allocation and equipment utilization.

Real-time Production Monitoring

Monitor production progress and equipment utilization in real time, allowing you to make data-driven decisions and adjustments on the fly.

Partial Batch Process Support

Nexus supports partial batch processes, providing the flexibility to adjust batch sizes while maintaining efficiency.

Lynx Equipment Integration

Use Nexus with Lynx equipment for weighing, labeling, and scanning activities, ensuring a seamless connection between scheduling and operations.

Streamlined Process Execution

Nexus helps streamline process execution by associating specific equipment with processes, enhancing production scheduling and resource planning.

Enhanced Decision-Making

The real-time insights provided by Nexus’s scheduling capabilities empower you to optimize production efficiency, reduce downtime, and respond effectively to changing demands.

Reporting

Comprehensive Data Analysis

Nexus provides a wide range of customizable reports, enabling in-depth analysis of various aspects of your manufacturing operations.

Inventory Insights

Generate inventory reports that offer detailed breakdowns of products, pallets, WIPs, and raw materials, helping you make informed inventory-related decisions.

Labeling Efficiency Monitoring

Nexus offers reports that monitor labeling efficiency, changeover times, and uptime, providing insights into labeling process performance.

Production Progress Tracking

Monitor daily calculated requirements for order fulfillment, track live production pack counting, and gain insights into your production progress.

User and Data Tracking

Nexus’s user tracking feature provides a transparent view of actions performed by users, offering accountability and visibility into data changes.

Custom Reporting Options

Tailor reports to your specific requirements with customizable reporting options, ensuring that you receive the insights you need to drive your manufacturing operations.

ERP Integration

Seamlessly Integrates

Nexus seamlessly integrates with various ERP systems, including Dynamics365, SAP, and more, creating a harmonious data flow between your manufacturing processes and your ERP environment.

Smooth Data Synchronization

Nexus ensures smooth and real-time data synchronization between the software and your ERP, preventing discrepancies and maintaining accuracy across systems.

Centralized Management

Manage raw materials, products, orders, inventory, and more from a centralized platform, making it easier to track and control manufacturing operations alongside your ERP functions.

Custom Integration Options

Nexus offers custom integration options, allowing you to tailor the integration process to your specific requirements and align it with your business processes.

Nexus REST API

Leverage Nexus’s flexible REST API to manage your own integration or let Nexus manage the integration for you, providing you with a versatile solution that suits your needs.

Enhanced Agility

With Nexus ERP Integration, you gain the agility to respond promptly to market demands, streamline operations, and make informed decisions by accessing synchronized data between your systems.