Very well said!
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Robert Brown <robertb_versa@...> wrote:
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> You can do an ATP check from sales entry - but we find it uselessly lacking for our business.
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> We simply do a Material status check for each job and drill down through BOM levels & come up with a schedule plan as we initiallly review & schedule each order/line/release (and linked job as we are 99% make-direct). Seems old fashioned and time consuming but we process 4000 order line release a month, have 99% on-time shipment & ship 70% of our entered order line releases in less than 3 days from date/time of order entry (in an industry where the standard is 2-13 weeks).
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> We also have multi-line ship complete orders to contend with and a significant number of customers (typically internationals) that want consolidated shipments on specific dates.
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> Skilled, trained people (executing a well thought out and support processes that add value to your business) make better decisions than any ATP or CTP paradigms based upon inherently enough flawed capacity models (and the acknowledgement that NO ONE has 100% inventory accuracy, perfect quality of supplied materials or equipment that NEVER fails - nor are complex production methods 100% accurate as to set up and cycle times... There is always a variance from the routing standards re: human operator to operator that perform the work (and even for the same operators - job run to job run.)
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> The trick with ERP/MRP systems is to minimize the 'bells and whistles' junk that sells the system to non-users (typically top management) and maximizes the critical decision support tools that truly aid PEOPLE in making reliable, good decisions and order fulfillment plans.
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> From: Thomas <lee@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:30:01 PM
> Subject: [Vantage] BAQ For Job Shortages
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> We have a situation where a customer orders 5 of part ABC123. We show 4 in stock but the customer requires all lines ship complete. the WIP Qty for this part is 10 units. Part ABC123 is made up of 50 parts of XXXX. We show stock of 300 units for XXXX. So, technically we can make 3 units of ABC123 if needed and satisfy this line to ship. Is there a report that is built or can be built where we can look at all open items and see that we have stock of the sub-part so we can make a few units to satisfy a customer order even though we dont have enough to make the the WIP Qty. I'm guessing something that shows base number and the BOM with qty's but I'm not sure where to start.
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