As a production manager, do you have the strategic insight of a chess grandmaster?
Do you have the most optimal planning for your plant every day? Do you always know how to use the sequence of people and materials as efficiently as possible? Do you recognize bottlenecks in advance, and do you know how to organize these bottlenecks so that they cause the least possible disruption? And can you do this without working with an ERP solution? Then your brain works like that of a chess master.
Every day you strategically consider the deployment of various production jobs. But what if more complexity arises from changes in customer demand and flexibility of product variations? How then do you navigate this chess game within your manufacturing organization? Because in practice, manufacturing is constantly evolving.
Are you ever considering a powerful ERP solution as your next strategic move? This will allow you to work efficiently and remain agile. In addition, it will always guarantee the continuity of your organization. Even if you are on vacation or something unexpected happens.
Choose business automation as the next move within your production strategy
A good, solid ERP solution helps you produce as efficiently as possible. It allows you to always see the status of your production process, analyze delivery times as well as view current stock levels.
With an ERP solution, you make decisions based on real-time data. Changes in planning, stock changes, a broken machine or extra rush orders, you always have the correct and most recent information.
Product variation and bills of materials
A correct Bill of Materials (BOM) forms the basis for your finished products. This BOM forms the basis for the production process. By setting it up properly and completely, with the right materials and resources, advantages arise in terms of inventory management, production planning, work preparation and progress recording. It also allows you to easily do pre- and post-calculations.
Organizations arrive at a BOM in a variety of ways. This varies from the design in a drawing program, a possibility of configuration on a website as well as through a PIM. By sending this data, from the method you use, automatically to your ERP solution, you can create bills of materials that you can then use to control processes digitally.
The most efficient use of man & machine
Next, you want to use your employees and machines as efficiently as possible. But what is the most efficient way when additional operations are needed? Do you have visibility of all orders? Do you still have sufficient capacity available to handle them? Painful delays are something you want to avoid.
Planning production orders is incredibly important. It includes variables that the planning takes into account so that promises to customers are kept. Probably not all employees are allowed to operate all machines. Some of these machines are required for various production processes or have set-up times. How do you schedule all these processes as efficiently as possible?
Did you know, that in your ERP solution you can also record ‘route stages’; the sequence of operations? These blocks can always be rescheduled if a rush order comes in or a machine fails.
MRP and excellent inventory management
Your ERP automatically calculates purchasing and production needs through Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for you. In no time, you’ll know what materials you need and when for your production process and what you need to produce.
These insights are the starting point for your colleagues to perform work. Missing parts and raw materials are purchased and employees and machines are scheduled per production order.
This ensures that you have the required parts in stock in a timely manner. Depending on what you need, you will always have the “right” stock. Not too little, but certainly not too much, so that parts or raw materials do not take up unnecessary shelf space.
Shopfloor control
Adjusting the production process? This requires insight into progress on the shop floor. Shopfloor control helps you with this. Production employees see what they need to do, including the corresponding instructions, and are easily digitally guided through the process.
This creates real-time insight on the production floor and you always have control information!
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