RE: Planning Improvements

My company, Software & Solutions Associates has several associates with over
10 years implementing BPCS and assisting companies like your to be more
effective in using the BPCS modules. We are especially adept in the planning
and inventory control areas of BPCS. Our expertise also extends to the
execution cycle, with specific expertise in shop floor, JIT/Repetitive,
Purchasing and data collections.

We also have a product that monitors the execution cycle to give you early
alerts of potential customer order shipment delays. OTTO is a system that
allows you to see all the material and processing situations that may cause
delays in shipments. It is designed to supplement the planning systems, but
can also work in companies who do not have a formal planning system
installed. It actually parses large shop orders and purchase orders to
determine what quantity is required on a specific date to satisfy the
production requirements for a specific customer order.

Feel free to contact me off-line if you desire any additional information.

Best regards,



Ron Smith
704/864-2499 (home office)
704/616-1842 (mobile)
413/215-5037 (efax)
rsmith17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz @ San Pedro
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:17 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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