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Ted:

I represent a product known as OTTO (for on time orders) that may fit your
requirements.  If you have files containing customer orders, bill of
materials, shop orders (even if they are for weekly, monthly or quarterly
quantities) and purchase orders, OTTO will help.

The software interfaces to BPCS, installs in less than 45 minutes, is
instantly operational, pinpoints the manufacturing and purchasing priorities
for either 10 days or weeks and normally results in service levels in excess
of 98%.

To get a better view of OTTO's capabilities, its adherence to Dave Turbide's
Reality-based Priority Management specifications and to learn about our free
evaluation offer please visit our web site at www.systemspluscorp.com.
We'll also be at the Las Vegas APICS Convention October 7 and 8 in booth
815.  Stop by and see us if you are in the area.


Roy Luce
Midwest Regional Manager

Main:   847-540-9635
Toll Free:      800-913-7587
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-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz @ San Pedro
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:17 PM
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Planning Improvements

Folks -

We use an old (4.0.03) version of BPCS, and currently have none of the
planning modules running.  Most of our planning is done using Excel, and
is relatively resource intensive.

Our products are very simple (~8 components, single level bills), our
sales order delivery times are short (typically same week), and our
purchasing lead times are long (typically 8-10 weeks).

We are (relatively) comfortable with our inventory levels and with our
service levels.  However, we want to improve . . .
1> the amount of effort necessary to plan the manufacturing and
procurement
2> the dependance on a few key people in the planning and procurement
process.
3> the transparency of the process - meaning the ability of other
departments (and eventually customers and suppliers) to know what is
happening when.

We are wary of the canned planning modules because . . .
- training is an issue due to our old BPCS, and we have no internal
knowledge
- the care and feeding of the system required to support standard
MRP/DRP seems onerous
- the effort required to implement

Can any of you suggest places (software, support) we might look to help
with this?

Thanks in advance . . .

Tom Jedrzejewicz
IS Manager, Contessa Food Products

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