Re: Shop Floor Control in BPCS

[Mand <getkish123@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi 

 That's true that we lost some data accuracy but we
just want to know the impact of this on the other
modules like customer order collection and
forecasting.

Thanks 
Mand,.

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> <Mand wrote>
> Al Mac ,
>   Thank u for the details.I could not find any
> detail
> archieve on this topic.The ver of BPCS is 6.1 and
> its
> an engineering industry which requires the accuracy
> at
> the inventory levels, forecasting and customer order
> handling.But the users can not enter the details at
> sho floor level so planning to skip it with some
> trade
> off in the accuracy.
> 
>  Mand.
> 
> Hi Mand,
> 
> Just a word of caution, strictly my opinion: The
> kinds of things that SFC
> keeps track of are important. There is a significant
> probability that
> without SFC implemented, clever users with PC's will
> begin to devise their
> own substitutes with Excel and maybe Access.
> 
> Give it a couple of years and some turnover, and you
> can have partial
> solutions supporting critical processes. That's a
> real problem to support
> from an IT perspective. (Lot Control can be a
> particular area of concern)
> 
> I suggest that the idea that the users cannot enter
> the data might be a very
> profitable idea to challenge as you implement. Users
> WILL track the data
> they need. Doing it within BPCS can give you the
> discipline to wind up with
> usable infromation.
> 
> Again, this is strictly my opinion, based upon my
> own experiance and
> mistakes.
> 
> Peace,
> Wally
> 
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