Your ClassiX® System

ClassiX® provides a complete ERP II system to map all your company's business processes. The ClassiX® Information Center delivers detailed information.

As a high-performance framework, it can be - due to its simple interpreter language InstantView® - individually adjusted even by yourself. A comprehensive Tutorial is part of the ClassiX® System.

In case of problems with your modifications, ClassiX® will help you going. (support@classix.de)


Content


CD content

file / directory description
Starten.htm Transfer to help page.
Setup.exe ClassiX® Setup file.
Click here for detailed installation instructions.
After execution, you can immediately start ClassiX® and do your tests. This is all it takes.
Inst Further (just optional!) software (some costs extra) to optimize the display (graphic scheduling etc.)

 

Database information:
In case you want to initialize the provided database, you can execute the file replace.bat from the installed directory evaluate/projects. This file overwrites all of your modified databases (including the StartUp database!!!). Now you have "clean" test data again and an empty StartUp database (myDatabase). 

 

Installation

Before you will find our CD in your letterbox, you will receive an email with your individual license key. This key is usually attached to the mail in a compressed form (zip file). Please save this file in a temporary directory on your hard drive and unpack it. You will need the file during the setup process, so please remember where you did unpack it! After setup, you can delete this temporary file.

step description
1. execute ClassiX® Setup.exe Step one involves the unpacking. Double-clicking the file starts this process, which might take a little while, depending on the computer performance. A welcome message pops up, as soon as the process has been completed. After clicking "Continue", you will be asked to agree to the license clauses. The next step requires the installation type. The general 2 types are the following:
  • Single workstation installation: There is no separate server, used by various computers to access the ClassiX database. The PC becomes its own server. This option makes sense, whenever ClassiX is used on a single computer only.
  • Server installation: Part of the network is a server with the installed ClassiX database server. You will be asked for the network path later in the setup.

Please enter the right directory, where to install the ClassiX System and the ClassiX Documentation ("Information Center").

2. install optional components The CD sub-directory Inst contains installation files for further, optional applications, which can make data editing easier in several ways. These files do not necessarily need to be installed: (see paragraph 2.1 to 2.3)
2.1. install VarChart is charged separately

The installation instructions for Varchart on this CD describes the exact approach.

Since it is an optional tool, which involves extra costs, you can decide for yourself whether you want to use this graphic editing tool or not. The documentation provides a detailed licensing description. The tool enables  graphic scheduling of work orders as well as graphic display of the company organization chart. 

Installation and licensing is recommended.

2.2. install XMLEdt free

This CD also provides an installation instruction for XMLEdit.

XML Edit displays formulas, if required in color, and clearly arranged.

2.3. install WDDX free

This component queries the sales tax ID number.

There is also a documentation for the WDDX component

To install, start the file install.bat as an administrator. If any problems occur, read the documentation mentioned above.


Installed ClassiX® program folder

The installed ClassiX® program folder provides the following links:

  1. ClassiX® Evaluation: Evaluation System with sample data. You can upgrade the sample data or use it to try out all business processes, following the ClassiX® Video Clips. For the future, this system will be your reference system for your own database. After installing ClassiX®, you can start this evaluation system directly from the ClassiX® program folder.
  2. ClassiX® StartUp: StartUp System with all necessary print layouts, reports, business process definitions, transaction rules etc. This database  "MyDatabase.cxd" is your new ERP II System for an immediate start. The ClassiX® Information Center provides a Step by step guide to configure  your system and to load your master data. After installing ClassiX®, you can also start this system directly from the ClassiX® program folder.
  3. ClassiX® Information Center: The ClassiX® Information Center contains all documentation required. It can be accessed from the running program by pressing the F1 key any time.
  4. ClassiX® Quickstart: This documentation page.


First selected business processes in the ClassiX Evaluation System

Running through a few simple business processes in the ClassiX® Evaluation System helps becoming familiar with the system. We have listed a few samples below. They all refer to the ClassiX® Evaluation database:

operation description
system login Please enter cx as user and cx as password. The predefined client ClassiX Maschinenbaugesellschaft GmbH - a german machine manufacturing company-  holds the largest data volume. The other clients are also fully functional and part of a multi site scenario. After login you can change languages according to the symbols and
customer order request Please go to the menu Tasks/Sales and select the task Sales order. Alternatively, you can use our toolbar . Please enter the number 1 into the number field and confirm with enter. The order 000001 is looked up and displayed.
sales order structure In the sales order, please change to the window tab "Items". The order is displayed as a tree, which you can now extend, to view and edit the sales order structure. The order contains an order group (A Pumps) and below this group an order item for the part "PU - Pump".
sales department approval Please make the sales approval of this order item by opening it via double click and clicking the button "Sales dept. approval" in the item mask. After pressing this button and answering a confirmation question, the status of the order item changes into the disposition status "Stock reservation", since the part is stored in the warehouse by default. A message indicates that no Delivery/shipped date and Dispatch date has been entered, yet. It is now possible to catch up on this; enter a delivery and dispatch date in roughly two weeks from today.
availability check Now click on the toolbar the button ("show disposition allocations") to open the material forecast of this part. Here it is possible to view important disposition settings for the particular part, as well as scheduled in- and outflow. The bottom list shows the order items displaying a warehouse outflow of 10 pieces. The red box on the order item in the list indicates, that the calculated stored quantity at that point in time is too small.
avoiding bottleneck situations concerning material supply

 

Now, we have the option to order goods to fill up the warehouse and to provide the required amount of the ordered item.

A shorter and more direct way is to order the material either directly for the customer order item or - if possible - to produce it.

flexible disposition We now exit the so-called disposition account (material supply forecast) and we come back to the order item.

Since we don't want to withdraw the item from the warehouse, we have to contact the technical department and/or the purchasing or production department. For this, we click in the toolbar the  button (Technical approvement). A small window opens - the so-called Release order item technically window. The window displays information on the item and its supply. It provides the opportunity, to start the item supply over any arbitrary way. 

technical release, disposition start

Now, we generate a production BOM with the menu "Edit-->Bill of material of order-->Resolve" in the Release order item technically window. With this, we define the supply of this order item: It is going to be produced.

Resolving the production BOM, all sub-items valid for the preset object parameter(LEISTUNG_MOTOR (motor power)=3.3KW) are selected in Conditioned BOM items. Read more about the subject production BOM in the Information Center.

Now pushing the button "Release" near the bottom exits the window and the changed status "Bill of material created" appears as one of the order item status, causing due-process production. (For further information, see row "item disposition" in this table).

In case the item is supposed to be purchased and not produced, please select "Edit-->Purchase Order Requisition-->Create" in the Release order item technically window main menu. When released, the order item status is set to "Purchase Order Requisition" and the purchasing department will receive the Purchase Order Requisition.  

Read more in the business process description for component parts.

item disposition After resolving this order item BOM and after technical release, the production department will find the order item in the released order item list. The procedure is the following:

"Tasks-->Production-->Item disposition" in the main menu opens a window, which shows a list of scheduled order items - item disposition. It has to be considered, that all order items that are shown together in the list, will be produced in one production order altogether. If several different order items contain the same sub-component(s), the total amount increases and there will be only one production order for the required total amount of one sub-component.

To select the orders, click on the order button above the list. A search list will pop up, finding all order items with the status "Bill of material created".

Start the query by simply leaving 000000 in the number field and pressing the enter key in this field.

The released order item appears. It is highlighted and can either be dragged into the disposition list with the mouse, or be transferred to the list by clicking the OK button.

Please note: Drag&Drop (dragging objects with the mouse) is supported throughout the entire ClassiX® System.

view/modify resolved BOMs

 

When the order item is now displayed in the item disposition window, we can view the resolved BOM for this order item. We highlight the order item and click in the toolbar the button (transaction history).

A small window displays the order. The order shows the order item disposition "transaction chain" so far processed. In the top it shows, that this order has started with a quotation. We can open this quotation via double-click. Further on, we can open the sales order with the little "+", to see the resolved BOM. The resolved BOM can also be opened via double-click. The resolved BOM shows us exactly, which components form the pump, and how many parts are needed for the pump and its sub items.

From here, it is also possible to get to the engineering and disposition BOM view. For further information, please read the "Engineering Component" documentation.   
build item demand  (gozintograph)

We exit the resolved BOM window and get back to the item disposition.

Now, the item demand (gozintograph) can be generated. This makes it possible to supply all required parts of the resolved BOM in various ways and with various dates. We can use the menu entry "Edit-->Gozintograph-->Build". The item demand is created and automatically scheduled.

Attention:
In case you haven't licensed and installed the additional software VarChart and XGantt, please adjust the scheduling tool "automatic (non graphically)" in the item disposition option menu under "scheduling" before creating the gozintograph! This can become a default option, in case you decide against this additional tool. 

graphic scheduling In case you have selected graphic scheduling, a gantt diagramm with all component parts appears. Adopt the dates via menu "Edit-->Update project". The scheduling window is closed and the created, scheduled item demand appears.
item demand

Now, all required parts and their default disposition types and respond time can be viewed in the item demand.

The calculated supply dates are proposals, based on provision date and single respond times. Bottleneck situations and holidays in single work stations are considered.

If all parts are supposed to be disposed by default, the complete item demand can now be released altogether (Menu "Edit-->Further processing-->Release item disposition"). With this, production orders, warehouse bookings and purchase order requisitions are generated. All requirements of all parts can now be seen in the according material supply forecasts, by selecting a specific line and pushing the button. The production order and the purchase order requisition can now be seen in the material forecast as a material supply, covering the requirements exactly.

For further information, please read the business process documentation for component parts.

scheduling Even after further processing, production schedules and the entire item demand can be rescheduled with the automatic item demand scheduling. This provides various setting possibilities, such as automatic avoiding of bottleneck situations (which can be viewed via capacity load utilization (Main menu: Reports-->Production-->Work Load)) according to selectable rules.

The samples listed above are only some parts of the entire process. For further information, please go to the business process descriptions.

Interesting links to the ClassiX documentation