Manufacturing Management Features and Functions
Kanban is a method of Just-in-Time production that uses standard containers or lot sizes with a single card attached to each. It is a pull system in which work centers signal with a card or other device that they wish to withdraw parts from feeding operations or suppliers. The Japanese word kanban, loosely translated, means card, billboard, or sign, but other signaling devices such as colored golf balls have also been used. The term is often used synonymously for the specific scheduling system developed and used by the Toyota Corporation in Japan. Point-of-use storage/floor stock—keeping inventory in specified locations on a plant floor near the operation where it is to be used.
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Product Costing
Product costing analyzes product costs related to overhead, labor, material, and manufacturing costs. It provides a variety of costing approaches such as standard, actual, and average.
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Shop Floor Control
Shop floor control is a system for using data from the shop floor to maintain and communicate status information on manufacturing orders and on work centers. Shop floor control can use order control or flow control to monitor material movement through the manufacturing facility.
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Field Service and Repairs
Field service and repairs administers installed-base service agreements and checks contracts and warranties when customers call for help.
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Production Planning
Production planning performs capacity planning and creates a daily/weekly/monthly production schedule for a company’s manufacturing plants. It involves forecasting, production scheduling, and material planning.
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Product Data Management (PDM)
Product data management (PDM) provides the ability to integrate at the engineering level to ensure accurate updated product information. It involves bills of materials and routings creation, and engineering change management. It also provides a consolidated view of the product.
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Product/Item Configurator
Planning bill of materials (BOM) applies more to family BOMs (for example, what perecentage of PCs with 20 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB drives will we make?). This is important during sales and operations planning, and forecasting phases. A software tool that simplifies order entry by asking which options the customer needs, then applies predefined rules to correctly configure the end products. The configurator populates the attributes of the newly configured item, tests for conflicts, and generates the appropriate BOM, routing, and price based on rules and calculations.
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ERP for Manufacturing (SMB) Features and Functions
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