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new ERP software: price-break tables, which list discounts based on volume sales and purchases.
“When performing purchasing functions, the old system did not allow us to include price-break tables for parts we were purchasing, or tables for subcontracting services,” recalls Dalsin. “This made it very difficult for our purchasing department to do its job. We can add these tables with the new system.”
Tracks 1000-Plus Jobs per Month
Adding or changing some 1100 jobs per month, Dalsin Industries relies on its ERP software across the board, from material orders to schedules to deliv- eries. As soon as an order is finalized, the system provides the purchasing department with items for ordering and the acceptable minimum and max- imum quantities. Based on the accept- ed quote and other inputs, the software creates a bill of materials, and a job can be scheduled with start and due
dates as well as due dates for each operation.
Multiple resource views and online scheduling tools such as the change- impact informer offer a manufacturer’s master scheduler and manager the ability to visually locate overload prob- lems and slack conditions, then per- form cost and throughput analysis on schedule changes before they are firmly committed, according to an Epicor description of the ERP system’s sched- uling capabilities. The system’s sched- uling engine uses several factors that affect production quantity, setup time, production time, capacity and priority as well as others to calculate how long it will take each job to complete. It then displays the schedule through the Job Scheduling Board, the Resource Sched- uling Board and the Multi-Resource Scheduling Board.
In addition, jobs can be scheduled in a what-if mode, analyzing potential bottlenecks before finalizing the actual schedule.
“So you know right out of the gate
Adding or changing about 1100 jobs per month, Dalsin Industries relies on its ERP sys- tem across the board, from material orders to schedules to deliveries. When an order finalizes, the system provides the purchasing department with items for ordering as acceptable minimum and maximum quantities. Then the system creates a bill of materi- als and a job can be scheduled, with start and due dates as well as due dates for each operation. Dashboards inform workcells and various operations on job status.
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