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Microsoft Great Plains - Manufacturing Series
Manufacturing provides a comprehensive suite of applications designed for the make-to-stock, make-to-order, assemble-to-order and hybrid manufacturing environments, providing a comprehensive solution for managing production and resource planning that is both powerful and easy to use. For each item you manufacture you can maintain an active Manufacturing Bill to track the components you currently use and manage those bills that you have in production. The Engineering Bill allows you to see the effect of changes to your products on the cost of the item. You can use the Super Bill to manage all of the options available on the configurable products that you produce and set up Configured Bills for a customer’s unique requirements. In addition, you can maintain an unlimited number of archived bills, tracking outdated assemblies; this flexibility allows you both to plan for the future and to maintain historical information you may need to refer to again. Finally, you can create Phantom Bills to track subassemblies whose components are critical to track but never exist as a final assembly. Manufacturing Order Processing The Manufacturing Orders module acts as the nerve center for production. Production requests from sales orders, material requirements planning, the master production schedule and manually entered orders all can be used to initiate production, making Manufacturing Orders a powerful tool for shops using make-to-order, make-to-stock and assemble-to-order manufacturing processes. With just a few entries your order is scheduled and a picklist has been created for you. Not all manufacturing orders are ready to move to production when you create them; you can designate each order as a quote/estimate, planned, firmed, hold or cancel. Resources and costs for labor, machines and material are calculated immediately as the order is processed; this information can be compared to actual resources used and cost incurred at the end of the production process to identify inefficiencies in production. Starting and ending quantity information can be tracked for materials, making it easier to account for shrinkage during the production cycle. Even firms that don’t consider themselves job shops often have special projects that may last several months and involve multiple manufacturing orders. Job Costing gives production managers the ability to closely monitor the overall profitability of any job, along with the detailed cost components for each job. Analysis tools help managers to spot variances and unreasonable cost contributors before they become unmanageable. Streamlined data entry makes it easy for data entry personnel to assign transactions to jobs when the transactions are first entered in the system, eliminating redundant, error-prone duplicate entries. With the Sales Configurator, you can set up a single bill of materials that includes all the options available for each product you manufacture—there’s no need to maintain a separate bill of materials for every possible combination of options you offer to customers. Salespeople work with a single bill of materials for the item they’re selling and then choose the options that meet the customers’ requirements, rather than trying to work with thousands of bills of materials and SKUs. Sales promotions can be configured for component items, and sale prices will be displayed when you create quotes using the Sales Configurator, making it easier to stay on top of promotions and to use them as you close sales. As you add and remove options from the configured bill of materials, the Sales Configurator will recalculate the finished goods’ cost and provide you with an estimated manufacturing completion date. Using Quality Assurance, you can track raw material quality issues and take the necessary steps to ensure suppliers are providing the grade of goods you’ve requested. You can define QA procedures, including step-by-step processes, acceptable quality level tables and disposition codes. Sampling procedures are flexible, allowing testing of a single item used in several tests, one test used on several items, or any combination of the two. Quality Assurance integrates with Receivables Management, ensuring that only high-quality raw materials are being brought into your plant. Forms for non-standard reports and supplier corrective action requests are online, as well, further streamlining the quality assurance process. Using Engineering Change Management, you can manage customers’ changing needs while keeping those changes from disrupting your production efforts. Engineering Change Management provides an easy method for collecting, reviewing and authorizing proposed changes to products and production methods. Engineering Change Requests are used to log all proposed changes, automatically assigning these documents to authorized individuals for review before implementation, which allows you to avoid making changes to your production process before the implications have been considered. Once accepted, Engineering Change Requests are converted to Engineering change orders, which are used to document and control the process of updating inventory records, bills of material, routings—even current manufacturing orders. Capacity Requirements Planning Capacity Requirements Planning effectively addresses your capacity monitoring and planning needs, displaying capacity used and available, and load percentage information for all work centers in a single, concise, easy-to-read view. Capacity Requirements Planning provides the summary information you need to spot situations where capacity is short or long, making it easier for you to shift production and manage your resources efficiently, and detailed information is a single click away. You can view capacity information by day, week or month, as far into the future as necessary. With Sales Forecasting, sales managers can review prior years’ sales and quickly revise projections based on their knowledge of customer needs. Forecasts can be easily changed, reflecting an upward or downward sales trend, and they can be tweaked to account for seasonal influences or promotional activities. From these forecasts, a Master Production Schedule (MPS) can be easily created and reviewed by the manufacturing managers, eliminating any tedious rekeying of information. From this MPS, Manufacturing Orders are easily created, again without rekeying information. Master Production Scheduling provides a flexible solution for managing high-level production requirements. Master Production Scheduling can be used to draw information from sales forecasts, netting them together to form a single, comprehensive production schedule. Sales forecasts can be refined in Master Production Scheduling and Manufacturing Orders automatically created to meet the expected need. Simply review the Manufacturing Orders and you’re ready to begin production. The make-to-stock features offered by Master Production Scheduling dovetail with the sales order driven make-to-order functionality of other Manufacturing modules to provide a broad-based solution for a wide range of production environments. Materials Requirements Planning Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) brings this traditional tool to entirely new heights through the use of the graphical user interface. MRP is now a virtually paperless activity when using the spreadsheet-like view to analyze your inventory levels at any point in time. Creating the information in MRP can be done in either a “net change” manner that only recalculates requirements for any item that has new transactions, or by a “full regeneration” that recalculates all demands for all items. You can view MRP information in the way that best meets your needs—by days, weeks or months, or in a bucketless format which shows your materials requirements regardless of the timeframe. There is no need to dig through piles of papers or separate order files to find out more about the resource requirements. MRP Quantity Pegging allows you to drill down on any of the MRP quantities to review the source of the demand.
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