Re: Sequencing in Automotive Supply Industry

BPCS does support some sequencing but only through modification.

We are not Automotive Industry, in which products go into truck in reverse 
sequence so that they will come out of truck in the sequence that our 
customer needs them.

Rather, we had a case of a customer for which we were supplying many separate 
sub-components for each of several of their manufactured parts & they wanted 
us to supply what we made, so that cartons of each of our output was grouped 
adjacent to cartons for the same part they making.  We found a field in item 
master not used for anything else (blank) with no harm if populated & we 
called it a "group code" containing designation of customer part grouping 
that our parts eventually went into at the customer site.  We adjusted 
several reports to print this "group code" and added some over-ride logicals 
in a few cases to include this in sequencing of processes.

Alister William Macintyre 


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