Re: EDI 830 Planning Schedule

For the past 5 or 6 years we've seen the same challenge in the consumer
products industry.  A massive volume of orders - an EDI wave - is received
whose impact on the materials plan, capacity and existing order backlog must
be evaluated by schedulers quickly.  With the retailers imposing a 72 hour
shipment deadline, any time spent evaluating the wave's impact is time taken
away from production and purchasing to meet the new demands.

One sock manufacturer typically took a day to complete its evaluation of the
EDI wave's impact, leaving them barely 2 days to meet the shipment deadline.
The net result was fully 10 - 12% of the EDI orders were shipped as
partials; with the remainder being cancelled.

Today, this same sock manufacturer ships 99+% of all orders early or
on-time.

To accomplish this feat they installed a MRP "bolt-on" which analyzes the
EDI wave's impact on the materials plan, plant capacity and vendors.  Every
morning the schedulers have a report waiting for them detailing what it will
take to meet all customers' requirements under their individual control.
Data mining has been eliminated and the manual analysis replaced by an
automated function.  Implementing the report's recommendation remains the
schedulers' responsibility.

BTW, the transition from canceling the backlog on 10 - 12% of their orders
to shipping 99+% of all orders early or on-time took less than 30 days and
required no change in their MRP system or their business processes.


Roy Luce

Systems Plus - Midwest

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-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roof, Doug
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:45 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: [MAPICS-L] EDI 830 Planning Schedule

Steve
We have been working on this for about a year.
Inovis receives the 830's and EC puts the schedule in as demand.
It places the qtys and due dates exactly as the customer has requested.
The most difficult part has been working with our inside sales group and
the production schedulers.
They have had to change their process to enable the 830's to go into the
system without intervention.
We are still learning!  


Doug Roof
Haldex Hydraulics
2222 15th Street
Rockford Il  61104
815-387-4478
doug.roof@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shurge, Stephen
(MTL)
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:41 AM
To: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [MAPICS-L] EDI 830 Planning Schedule

Has anyone automated the process of receiving EDI 830 Planning
Schedules? We are at Release 7 PTF 5132 and use Inovis Trusted Link, EC,
MRP, and AVP (no MPSP) modules and would like to automate the updating
of customer planning schedules (830 EDI transactions) so we do not have
to manually enter them. How successful has the automation been and how
long did it take? Thanks for any suggestions or recommendations on how
to automate the 830's I receive from my customers.

 

Steve Shurge

Systems Manager

Recochem Inc.

514 341 3550 ext. 2655

sshurge@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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