BURA overview

Modules: full specification

The overview page introduces six modules in one sentence each. Here, each module's content is detailed, along with the two platform-level capabilities (notifications and permissions, statistics and reports) and the six representative site types.

1. WMS: warehouse management
2. Production and MES
3. QMS: quality management
4. CMMS: maintenance
5. Fleet and equipment
6. Orders and inter-site movement
7. Notifications and permissions (platform-level capability)
8. Statistics and reports (platform-level capability)
9. Site types and their processes

WMS: warehouse management

WMS ties physical warehouse movement (receiving, put-away, dispatch) and scale data into one database, with slot-level accuracy.

Site, warehouse, containerConfigurable structure

Receiving and dispatchConfigurable workflow

LabelingPrinting and scanning

Put-awayAutomatic slotting

Scale integrationElicom, KERN, ScaleIT

Warehouse lockUnit-level lock

Contract storageCustody storage

Master dataMaintained centrally

ContractsManaged in the system

Weight lossScheduled reconciliation

Production and MES

The module manages the production process from planning to shift changeover, and pauses a job automatically on a sensor fault.

Production linesConfigurable

PlanningWeekly capacity planning

Production stepsConfigurable process steps

Production sheetsTemplate-based

RecipesManaged in the system

Auxiliary materialsRecorded

LOT handlingConfigurable

Continuous processingWith production cycles

Shift changeoverPause and resume

Sensor faultAutomatic pause

Material balanceProcess loss calculated

Weekly production-line capacity planning with drag-and-drop order scheduling — FIGURE 01 Weekly production-line capacity, with drag-and-drop order scheduling.

FIGURE 02 Job-level traceability: LOT number, contributors, pallet pattern and schedule within one job.

QMS: quality management

Every quality event carries a versioned parameter, a certificate and a release decision, from quarantine to rejection.

QA parametersVersioned

QA sheetsDigital

TraceabilityIFS, GGN

CertificatesManaged in the system

Supplier evaluationRecorded

Inspection jobsDedicated quality tasks

Sample gradingAt storage-unit level

QuarantineLock and release

RejectsRejection recorded

GenealogyForward and backward

Versioned quality acceptance thresholds with explicit rejection rules — FIGURE 03 Versioned acceptance thresholds, with explicit rejection rules.

Laboratory sample results attached to a quality job — FIGURE 04 Laboratory sample results attached directly to the quality job, not kept in a separate record.

CMMS: maintenance

The asset hierarchy stays synced with Navision master data, and maintenance tasks are generated from templates, complete with parts and resource booking.

Asset hierarchyManaged in the system

Navision syncAsset master

Task templatesReusable

PartsAssigned per task

MaintenancePreventive and corrective

Personal protective equipmentIssue recorded

SchedulingPlanned in the system

Preventive jobsGenerated automatically

Resource bookingLabor and equipment

Task timeStatus and elapsed time

A plant's asset hierarchy with maintenance tasks broken down by asset — FIGURE 05 A plant's asset hierarchy, with maintenance tasks broken down by asset.

Fleet and equipment

Every vehicle and piece of equipment lives in one record, from issue to return, with document-expiry tracking.

Vehicle and equipment recordCentral register

DocumentsWith expiry tracking

Usage logMileage and fuel

Issue and returnWith assignment history

Service historyRecorded

Equipment loanManaged in the system

ExportExcel

Orders and inter-site movement

A sales, production or purchase order automatically creates the matching dispatch and receiving job at the other site.

Order typesSales, production, purchase

Navision syncSales order and purchase order

Intercompany billingBetween sites

Outbound to InboundAutomatic job linking

Notifications and permissions

This is not a separate module but a platform-level capability: events from all six modules become real-time notifications, targeted by site and role.

Push notificationReal-time, SignalR

TargetingBy site and role

Stock alertShortage and overfill

Expiry alertAutomatic

Integration eventsAlerts on recipe processing too

AuthenticationAzure AD

Permission managementRole by site

Permission matrixConfigurable

Number of permissions50+

Statistics and reports

The other platform-level capability: reporting is generated in one place from the data of all six modules, including the statistics filed with regulators.

Warehouse stockCurrent state

Contract fulfillmentTracked

Receiving statisticsIn the system

Production statisticsIn the system

Dispatch statisticsIn the system

Regulatory reportingReport generated

Energy consumptionTracked

Site types and their processes

The same system runs with a different combination of modules, depending on what a given site produces, stores or dries.

Six representative site types, by input, processing, output and modules
Type	Input	Processing	Output	Modules
Potato warehouse, 3D-cell storage	Potatoes, weighed	3D-cell put-away and slotting	Dispatch	WMS
Flake factory	Potatoes	Processing into flake product	Finished product, packaged	WMS, Production and MES
French-fry factory	Raw potatoes	Continuous processing, OPC UA palletizing	Frozen french fries	WMS, Production and MES
Freeze-drying plant	Processed raw material	Freezing, tray loading, freeze-drying, packaging	Packaged product	Production and MES, QMS
Milk powder and infant-formula plant	Raw milk	Pasteurization, wet mixing, evaporation, spray drying	Milk powder, released from quarantine	WMS, Production and MES, QMS
Maintenance only	none (non-production site)	Preventive and corrective maintenance jobs, PPE issue, parts, resource booking	none	CMMS

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