RE: duplicate work centers and finite forward scheduling -- BPCS-L

Thanks Nancy.  Although you have an interesting method there it is not one I
think we can use.  Some of our facilities produce over 1,000 SKUs with any
200 being scheduled at a time, thus it is almost impossible to know which
items can be grouped together on a work center until after finite forward
scheduling is run.  Any other ideas?

Mitch Damon, CPIM
Planning Systems Manager
Agrilink Foods, Rochester NY
(716) 383-1070

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From:   NAdamson@mother-parkers.com [SMTP:NAdamson@mother-parkers.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:22 PM
To:     BPCS-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: duplicate work centers and finite forward scheduling


Mitch,

We also ran into this problem (version 6.0.02) and aside from using
alternate routing methods (which we didn't want to do because we have
trouble enough keeping track of one routing per item, but you may want to
explore this) our work around is to change the original routing operation
to the alternate work center before we pull the planned orders into Finite
Forward Scheduling.  This sounds painful but we find it easier than
changing the shop order after it has been created, and also allows us to
capacity load each work center correctly using FFS.

In our organization our routings are single level (products don't flow from
work center to work center) so they only have one active operation in each
routing.  For products that can run in multiple work centers we create
additional operations (pointing to the other work center, and with
different run times if needed) and then leave them inactive until we decide
to run the product in the alternate work center.  To move a product to a
different work center we just inactivate one operation and active the
other.  The product is moved to the alternate work center the next time we
pull planned orders into FFS.

Hope this helps - if you need a better explanation give me a call

Nancy Adamson
System Analyst - Supply Chain
Mother Parker's Tea & Coffee
Mississauga, Ontario
(905) 683-5081 ext 214





"Damon, Mitch" <MDamon@agrilinkfoods.com>@midrange.com on 05/02/2001
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On ver 6.0.04
Does anyone have experience using finite forward scheduling in a situation
where there are multiple work centers in the same warehouse that can
produce
the same item.  The problem is that the routes assign each item to a
particular work center which may or may not be the one we will run the item
on.  But in finite forward scheduling the item will only show up and can
only be scheduled on the line the routing indicates, unless each shop order
is edited.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Mitch Damon, CPIM
Planning Systems Manager
Agrilink Foods, Rochester NY
(716) 383-1070
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