Re: Cycle Time

Good morning, Dan
The first thing to determine is what are you trying to measure
and do you have accurate data.
We compared PO receipt date of a specific Lot# to first shop order issue of 
that lot  to measure how "early" the material was arriving.
We do not report actual labor data for every operation, but we do post to 
"critical" workcenters / operation.So we compare shop order release date to 
first critical operation actual FLT date.Then we compare that 1st op FLT  date 
to the next critical op FLT date etc etc. Then you can see, for example, that 
it takes 4 days
to get thru 1st op and 7 days thru 2nd  op and 1 day to finish.
We started with a series of queries with output to a file and then export to 
excell
where the local excell guru did the date math. If you have a good RPGLE 
programmer available, it is not too difficult to skip the excell piece. 

Peace
Jim Barry
Belchertown

---- Rony Mayer <rony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Dan,
> 
> I was talking about cycle time (i.e - Lead time of production). I guess that
> since this is not my primary area of expertise, I didn't use the right
> words. The explanation about cycle counts was useful tough, since I'll talk
> to our inventory guys and check out how they are doing this.
> 
> Do you have any ideas about calculating lead time of production ?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Rony
> 
> 
> On 3/29/06, Dan Sweeney <dsweeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Rony,
> >
> > As a rule whenever an item goes negative for any reason it is
> > automatically selected for cycle count the next time that you generate
> > the cycle count sheets.
> >
> > I have found that a good rule of thumb for cycle count frequency is to
> > use ABC analysis for the timing.
> >
> > For example if 80% of the inventory value are classified as A, B and/or
> > C item then they should be counted more frequently as that is where the
> > inventory and usage value resides in your inventory system.
> >
> > Once you have calculated each category of an item then it is up to you
> > and your users as to the frequency for counting the items.
> >
> > Hope that this helps!
> >
> > Dan Sweeney
> >
> > Senior Technical Consultant
> >
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> >
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> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bpcs-l-bounces+dsweeney=phoenixbcinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces+dsweeney=phoenixbcinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Rony Mayer
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:00 PM
> > To: SSA's BPCS ERP System
> > Subject: [BPCS-L] Cycle Time
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > We're having a bit of a problem trying to calculate cycle times for some
> > of
> > our product lines, since our team does not know if BPCS offer a
> > standard,
> > easy-to-use way to do that. They are trying to calculate it through some
> > queries and manipulate the info in access, but from what I've seen, the
> > information is not going to be very trustworthy. Do you guys know a
> > standard
> > way to get this ? I can't believe BPCS does not offer this, as I've been
> > told.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Rony
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