Engineering Change Notices

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If your current (non-Vantage) ECN/ECO process solution is working (and not creating integration issues) - keep it.

Then take the time to compare your current process with the forced workflows of Vantage to see if they would really work with your people & processes.

(I wish someone had given me this advice prior to going live with the DMR process.)

Rob

--- On Mon, 4/6/09, sarathornton <sara.blair@...> wrote:
From: sarathornton <sara.blair@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Engineering Change Notices
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 1:38 PM












We are trying to nail down the process for ECN/ECO in Vantage but we are not seeing what we are used to using in an MRP system. In the past our Engineers issued an ECN # and at that point all transactions are stopped that affect that part; then the changes are investiaged with priority level & person assigned; finally all involved parties are required to check off on acknowledging the ECN (engineering, quality control, purchasing, scheduling, customer reps, manufacturing, etc.) Is there something in Vantage that would help facilitate this or do you use an outside system to track ECN/ECO?
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We are trying to nail down the process for ECN/ECO in Vantage but we are not seeing what we are used to using in an MRP system. In the past our Engineers issued an ECN # and at that point all transactions are stopped that affect that part; then the changes are investiaged with priority level & person assigned; finally all involved parties are required to check off on acknowledging the ECN (engineering, quality control, purchasing, scheduling, customer reps, manufacturing, etc.) Is there something in Vantage that would help facilitate this or do you use an outside system to track ECN/ECO?
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If you mean a workflow, that you use a combination of Task Sets and Tasks assigned to workflow groups to set these up. These workflow groups can be assigned when you are in engineering workbench and the tasks involved can be assigned with owners and start/due dates. You can also set up alerts on Tasks to email others in the group when tasks are created and/or completed.

--- On Mon, 4/6/09, sarathornton <sara.blair@...> wrote:

From: sarathornton <sara.blair@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Engineering Change Notices
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 1:38 PM






We are trying to nail down the process for ECN/ECO in Vantage but we are not seeing what we are used to using in an MRP system. In the past our Engineers issued an ECN # and at that point all transactions are stopped that affect that part; then the changes are investiaged with priority level & person assigned; finally all involved parties are required to check off on acknowledging the ECN (engineering, quality control, purchasing, scheduling, customer reps, manufacturing, etc.) Is there something in Vantage that would help facilitate this or do you use an outside system to track ECN/ECO?



















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