Module: Production I

CREATION OF PRODUCTION ORDERS

Manual creation of production orders

Create production orders through planned production orders in Master planning

Create production orders directly from a sales order line

Production orders

Production groups – provide categorization for posting to the general ledger

Production pools – allow production orders to be grouped for scheduling

Quick overview of the status of the production order

Tracking actual production costs against estimated

A production order can be divided into two or more orders

Subcontracting

Purchase of services from subcontractors

Link sub-contractor purchase orders to the production order

Production Bill of Materials

Standard BOM is copied to Production order, from where it can be modified, if needed

Supports Measurement formulas to calculate consumption

Supports negative quantity on BOM lines to handle by-products of production

BOM line type

Each item within a BOM can be controlled by a line-type. A given item can be handled as:

·          Sub-production

·          Phantom BOM

·          Subcontract

·          Normal item

Scheduling

Production scheduling can be done forward or backward with different dates as starting points based on lead time of raw material

Finite or infinite material and capacity scheduling

Production status

A production order goes through the following steps:

·          Created

·          Estimated

·          Scheduled

·          Released

·          Started

·          Report as finished

·          Costed

Production status control

The production order can be rolled back and deleted if required until the costed stage

Financial integration

On-line updating of WIP (items in process) and actual cost to the general ledger when updated in Production

Production consumption

All consumption is reported through journals. Journals can be automatically generated and/or posted. Supports backward flushing of items.

Scrap can be handled either as a constant or a variable

Module: Production II

Key Features

Description

Multiple route VERSIONS

Can allocate more than one route attached to a particular item

Approval procedure of routes

Default route

Routes controlled by date range

Route complexity

Simple route (sequential)

Complex route (route network)

Simultaneous operations in route network

Use of primary and secondary operation in a route

Multiple work centers attached to the same operation

Allocate a work center as a subcontractor

Route simplicity

Share route information between items belonging to same item group

Scheduling

Forwards and backwards from various dates

Finite or infinite scheduling

Rough cut capacity planning

Production release

Status between scheduled and started

Control print of  route card and route jobs

Ledger integration

Online update of WIP (items in process and work centers in process) in the general ledger when posting transactions or cost updating the production

Operation  components

·          Queue time before operation

·          Set-up time

·          Run time

·          Transit time

·          Queue time after operation

·          Overlap quantity

·          Cost categories

·          Control multiple resources

·          Capacity load per operation

Scrap CALCULATIONS

Calculate expected waste per operation as a percentage

SHOP FLOOR Print outs

Route card

Job card

Print job list per work center

Cost tracking

Detailed tracking of cost related to resources and throughput

Include work center costs in production cost estimation

Ability to use automatic work center consumption when starting or finishing productions

Module: Production III

Gantt chart

Graphical presentation of a production schedule

Enables rescheduling by dragging and dropping

Task group

Use of alternative work centers for an operation in case of  scheduling overloads

Basic rules for which alternative work centers can be used

Bottleneck scheduling

Rescheduling can be centered on a known bottleneck

Job monitoring

Ability to track the setup job or the process job per operation

Report resource consumption based on job number

Scheduling properties

Schedule operations that require the same work center setup concurrently.