Plastics Technology Industry Expertise
abas ERP in the rubber and plastics industry
Producing increasingly small batch sizes as quickly as possible, with the highest possible quality, and in the most favorable way: Rubber and plastics manufacturers are caught between the conflicting priorities of speed, quality, and price. At the same time, international competitors are flooding the market. Digital transformation is changing traditional manufacturing processes and established supply chains through innovative production technologies. In order to be well prepared for these challenges, abas ERP is a valuable tool.
- Efficient material requirements planning and scheduling
- Flexible management of single piece and repetitive production
- Reliable order processing
Whitepaper
Selecting a Manufacturing ERP System in 7 Easy Steps
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- Organizing and prioritizing your requirements
- Compiling internal documents
- Preparing a company presentation
- And much more!

abas Customers in the Plastics Industry
Customer story GEHR GmbH & Co. KG

From its headquarters in Mannheim, Germany, and many locations and offices worldwide, GEHR produces and sells innovative plastics solutions and filaments for the expanding 3D printer market while fully relying on abas ERP.
Function Highlight
Important ERP features for the plastics industry
abas ERP offers a wide range of functions for midsized companies in the plastics processing industry. The ERP system fully meets the industry-specific requirements such as lots and serial number management, capacity planning as well as blanket orders and delivery schedules.


The Heart: Scheduling
Secure planning
The material requirements planning and scheduling of abas ERP helps you meet delivery dates, ensures inventory optimization, and coordinates procurements, requirements, and capacities. An alarm system alerts you if a critical situation occurs. Rolling sales planning is also integrated.
Production mastered to perfection
Flexible production
abas ERP has everything you need to flexibly manage your production. The ERP system covers one-off as well as repetitive production – an important criteria for plastics processing companies that build their tools themselves. The production center or production dashboard provides all information at a glance.




Simplified processes
Efficient order processing
Customer satisfaction is dependent on an efficient organization of order processing. Missed delivery deadlines, mistaken deliveries, insufficient information for the customer or payment defaults are often related to process deficiencies in order management. abas ERP plans processes ahead and simplifies them. Tasks are completed with only a few clicks and information is available quickly.
Abas ERP functions
A comprehensive solution with over 20 powerful functional areas
Abas ERP delivers continuous support in all business processes - from purchasing, sales and scheduling to production, warehouse, service and financial accounting. Learn more about some of the most important functional areas and how they can help you master your daily tasks.
Scheduling – The Abas brain
Your company has to monitor and control an enormous number of parallel processes on a daily basis. Abas ERP scheduling makes this complexity manageable. Fully automated, it permanently updates your material requirements and planning.
Production – Abas' strength
Production is the linchpin of Abas ERP. Our ERP solution helps you successfully tackle all challenges in the production environment - from production planning and execution to production control.
Financial accounting – Integrated
Benefit from the complete integration of finance in Abas ERP: From financial and fixed asset accounting, controlling, costing, and valuation to material costs posting and reporting. Always stay on top of you costs.
Customization
Thanks to our high adaptability with simultaneous upgrade compatibility, you can rely on standard software and still remain unique. Quickly and easily map your individual business processes and secure competitive advantages.
Sales – Your customer in focus
Abas ERP supports you throughout the entire sales process - starting with the sales opportunity, the efficient preparation of quotes, and order management and continuing through recording packing slips and invoices to mobile features for your external sales force.
Purchasing – Greater deadline adherence
With Abas ERP Purchasing, you can efficiently control all purchasing processes - from requests and order suggestions to incoming goods with quality control and invoice verification. With the help of the scheduling integration, you can ensure quantities and deadlines are met.
Connectivity – Made easy
Networking and interfaces are more important than ever before. Abas ERP contains powerful standard connectors (DMS, MS SQL and PDM) and, thanks to its integration tool, enables the easy connection of third-party systems without any programming effort.
Mobile applications – Anytime
Our mobile applications are intuitive to use and focus your employees on the essentials: They support your production and warehouse in real time and are also available offline for your external sales force and customer service teams.
Warehouse – Manage in Abas ERP
With the help of Abas ERP Warehouse Management, you can manage all processes relating to your material movements directly in the ERP system - from withdrawals and receipts to transfers - and easily keep an eye on stocks and delivery availability.