Characteristics of ERP system adapted to MTO production mode
Based on the accurate understanding of the business needs of order-to-order manufacturing enterprises and advanced management ideas at home and abroad, some software such as SAP abroad, Class 4 at home and Kingdee have mature ERP software solutions for order-to-order production.
These solutions usually have the following main features:
1. With the sales order as the demand source, during the whole process of order execution, such as planning, production, purchasing, etc., relevant documents can be easily tracked according to the order number. , and check the status of relevant documents to clarify the execution status of the order; And you can use Gantt chart and other methods for very intuitive display.
2. Provide price management of sales orders, support independent authorization of price fields (people without authority can't see the unit price and amount), and control customers' credit.
3. Support the processing flow of order change. When changing an order, all related production task orders and purchase orders can be found through the sales order number. According to this, the sales staff will inform the planner and the purchaser to change the contents of the relevant documents at the same time, and will negotiate with the customer to solve the influence of feedback (such as the sluggish inventory of special raw materials or semi-finished products caused by the reduction or cancellation of orders). Ensure that order changes can be thoroughly implemented.
4. Materials applied to order manufacturing enterprises are partly general materials unrelated to orders and partly special materials related to orders. This requires that the basic data of materials should be divided into different attributes; During the operation of MPS/MRP, the system adopts different planning strategies according to different properties of materials to generate correct planned orders. Therefore, the system supporting order-oriented production mode can not only correctly calculate the demand of * * * pieces like ordinary ERP software, but also correctly calculate the special material demand of each order according to the order.
5. When the planner arranges production, the system can display information such as the production task list, the available quantity of materials and the capacity/load of the work center in one interface, which is convenient for the planner to arrange production; You can even support visual scheduling. Improve the work efficiency of planners.
6. The system supports the workshop production supervisor to determine the work order of each work center according to the production scheduling priority mode set by the enterprise (such as first come first served priority mode, shortest remaining time priority mode, earliest completion priority mode, etc.). ). The purpose is to keep pace with each workshop, make the materials match and arrive at the next working procedure on time; Production can become stable.
7. There is a complete management process for the procurement, production and storage of special or special materials. Both production task orders and purchase orders have order tracking numbers (in many cases, order numbers are used) to facilitate internal communication and exchange, as well as order tracking.
8. It has the function of order cost accounting and analysis. You can forecast the order cost by simulating the quotation; Through the function of order cost accounting, the actual cost of each sales order is obtained, so as to calculate the profit of each sales order.
9. It has the functions of "Kanban management" and "visual scheduling" to meet the needs of improving the management level of enterprises and realizing lean manufacturing.
The above are the characteristics of ERP system oriented to order production compared with ordinary ERP system. Of course, the functions and characteristics of common ERP system, such as business financial integration, data integration, process-driven, business early warning, etc., also exist in this system.
Problems needing attention in system selection
When choosing ERP, order-based manufacturing enterprises need to consider the following main issues: ◇ the cost performance of alternative systems. ...