Re: RPM

I have implemented this software and found it to be of tremendous value. It
is an early warning system for potential customer order delays. It is a tool
that can even be used if you do not have MRP or if your MRP is inefficient.
OTTO interrogates the status of shop order operations and purchase order
detail lines, therefore it is truly at reality-based priority management
tool. It can also be used as a constraint management tool for those
companies whose constraints are always moving. OTTO is to the execution
cycle what MRP is to the planning cycle. I know of companies who have
received their ROI on this product in less than 2 months.

This niche product will have a tremendous impact on the efficient monitoring
of the production execution cycle.


Ron Smith
Office    704/864-2499
Fax        704/866-0488
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Luce" <lwl@ix.netcom.com>
To: <bpcs-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: RPM


> You may find the following press release to be of interest:
>
> Systems Plus Announces Release of the latest BPCS Interface for OTTO
On-Time
> Orders software for Reality-based Priority Management (RPM)
>
> Companies use OTTO to improve on-time delivery by presenting useful,
> pro-active information from existing ERP systems.
>
> Greensboro, NC, August 1, 2002.  Systems Plus, the world's leading
developer
> of software for Reality-based Priority Management (RPM), today announced
> version 5.0 of the BPCS interface for their OTTO On-Time Orders system is
> now complete and ready for implementation.  The OTTO system is an
> inexpensive add-on software application that provides reports and
inquiries,
> using the host BPCS system's data and utilizing the innovative RPM
> methodology for giving operational managers a clear view of priorities and
> helping prevent delays, improving on-time shipment performance.
>
> "OTTO is the world's leading implementation of innovative RPM
methodology,"
> according to company president Jim Rittenmeyer.  "We have spent years
> developing the required algorithms.  We then use standard data warehousing
> techniques, to extract data from the existing ERP system's database and
> transform that data to support a series of data mining queries and
reports,
> without affecting the normal operation of the system.  The queries and
> reports provide reality-based priorities and truly practical and useful
> information for production managers, purchasing, and operations
management.
> Knowledge workers can now see the importance of each and every ongoing
> activity and planned order, and make intelligent decisions about what they
> have to do today to insure on-time shipments tomorrow, the next day, and
> next week."
>
> RPM methodology has evolved over the last eight years as the key to
> achieving the return on investment that manufacturing companies
anticipated
> when they first implemented their systems.  Most have not been able to
> translate plans effectively into actions because MRP, as a planning tool,
> tends to bury the link between today's activities and the specific
customer
> orders that they support.  "MRP develops plans item-by-item," says
> well-known consultant and author Dave Turbide, "and develops planned
orders
> and exception messages based on net requirements.  While good planning is
a
> requirement, a production manager looking at a planned or on-going work
> order has no easy way to find out if this component order supports a
> customer order that's due to ship tomorrow, will end up in a product that
> won't be shipping for several weeks, or maybe it's even going to end up on
> the shelf as replenishment inventory or safety stock.  Sometimes, the
parts
> from one production order will end up in all of these places.  The
> production manager can't tell that by looking at the MRP recommendation."
> As one plant manager said: "I know you need it all but which is needed
> first?"
>
> OTTO's implementation of the RPM methodology presents materials management
> personnel with easy-to-understand detailed information identifying exactly
> where each and every part is going - which customer order requires each
> individual part.  Then it becomes easy to sequence work, adjust lot sizes,
> work the tradeoffs, and keep the important work moving.  The result is
> dramatic improvements in on-time shipments and significant reductions in
> lead-time, inventory, and expediting costs.
>
>
> Systems Plus Systems Plus, Inc.  has been developing and installing
> RPM-compliant add-on software systems since 1994.  As the world's leading
> provider of RPM software, Systems Plus is proud to offer OTTO (On-Time
> Orders), an inexpensive, non-invasive add-on that self-installs in less
than
> an hour, implements in 4 hours and delivers on the promises of MRP / ERP
> that have thus-far been elusive for so many firms in less than 30 days.
>
> For more information, visit our web site at www.systemspluscorp.com or
call
> Systems Plus at (336) 446-7189
>
> #       #
>
> OTTO is a trademark of Systems Plus Corporation.  All other trademarks are
> the property of their respective owners.
>
> Roy Luce
>
>
>
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