Re: MI - multiple issue to shop order

Rob:

What follows comes from a vendor's viewpoint.

Over my career I've been in many plants where the shop order paper is
nothing short of a blizzard.
Often reminded me of the FedEx commercial where a tsunami of paper is
rushing down a office hallway.

These plants often faced the same challenge you are working on - how to make
partial material releases easier.
But why are shop orders with components shortages being created/released in
the first place.
Typically the reason is to identify specific material shortages and to
provide stockroom personnel and supervisors, as expediters, the information
necessary to monitor component availability.

Over the years I and colleagues have spent substantial hours trying to
figure out how to make ERP software perform the component monitoring.
Initially as employees of ERP vendors, then as independent business
consultants our objective was to reduce expediting to as near zero as
possible.
To us expediting is a non-value add function with several associated but
un-necessary costs that directly impact the bottom line.

About 20 years ago we concluded material monitoring to the levels we
envisioned can't be done with ERP databases. Those databases aren't setup
to handle several issues critical to the monitoring process. Primary is the
missing linkages from demand (customer, forecast, safety stock, etc.) to
shop orders to components to vendors. It is this absence that prevents ERP
systems from providing the monitoring.

When we reached the "can't do it" conclusion we created OTTO.

OTTO, from Systems Plus, is "load and go" software. It "bolts" to any
iSeries ERP system and creates a database of the missing linkages for that
ERP system. With the demand linkages in place an OTTO user can tell what
component parts are missing from which vendors for which shop orders for
which demands - all from a _single_ inquiry!

I've installed OTTO in several accounts with dramatic results.
OTTO's impact on one plant summarizes the benefits:
+ the number of shop orders on the floor was reduced to the number that
can be worked on by the first work center in 1 to 2 days.
+ only shop orders with a full compliment of components were released
+ shop supervisors no longer spent any time monitoring component
availability (saved each supervisor about 3 hours a day of their time)
+ the stockroom was able to pull all materials for every released shop
order on the day of release.
+ on time shipments exceeded 98% within 44 days.
+ Work in process inventory dropped by over $700,000 in those same 44
days

Want to talk, even try out a few of your ideas, give me a call.
I've been at the business of manufacturing systems for several years and may
be able help.
My contact info is below.

Roy Luce

Direct: 847-540-9635
800-913-PLUS (7587)
Cell: 847-910-0884
Fax: 847-737-7635
Email: lwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:25 PM
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Subject: [BPCS-L] MI - multiple issue to shop order

BPCS version 6.1.02. Does anybody use the MI(multiple issue) transaction
when issuing material to shop orders? We create shop orders in advance
before all material is in stock and then go back into the shop order to
issue the remaining materials when all material comes in. In this scenario
we MI 20 of 30 items to the shop order upon creation. The remaining 10
items are received the next day and we must SI all remaining items because
the shop order doesn't allow MI after it has been created. SI'ing 200 shop
orders a week is very time consuming. Anyone have a solution?

Thanks,

Rob