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"Make to Stock" like if you are making for consumer market, and it takes a while to get the materials to make your products, and you need to have plenty on hand of what is popular, so you need to have good "Forecasting" application to see how much you need of everything.
"Make to Order" like if you are making for other manufacturers, and you may need to have a good "engineering" application, such as one that interfaces to "engineering drawing" application that extracts product structure data from that.
"Job Shop" is a particular kind of "Make to Order" where you making limited runs of speciality requirements for your manufacturing customers.
"Configuration" manufacturing can be needed in either "Make to Order" of "Make to Stock" but it is not applicable to all manufacturing.
Another big difference is if you are "Discrete Manufacturing" making some quantity of onsies, as opposed to being in "Process Manufacturing" where you make chemicals, food, drugs.
All ERP claim to be generic ... can do any of the above, and all of the related applications. In reality, some are much stronger in particular areas.
Many ERP have some ceiling on how many items customers orders etc. they support. For example BPCS security has its objects owned by s special security user, so a very large company could conceivably hit the 400 ceiling on how many objects can be owned by one user. A company needs an ERP whose structure is such that you not going to run out of item #s, customer #s, order #s, invoice #s, etc. so you get one which has scalability relative to your current and expected corporate size.
o.k. I need to correct myself...."Order Driven" is made to customer specs (I think). Anyway, Jobscope is well suited for thistype of manufacturing. Vance --- pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I'll second that. This is good software for a custom manufacturing > operation. I've got a client who has been running it for many years. > -- > > Paul Nelson > Arbor Solutions, Inc. > 708-670-6978 Cell > pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Vance Stanley <w_vance_stanley@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx > 06/02/2006 05:51 PM > Please respond to > Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To > Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > cc > > Subject > Re: AS400 ERP Software > > > > > > > > HI, > > I used to work in manufacturing and what you manufacture sometimes > effects the > software you choose. For instance you might manufacture a product that is > made to > customer specs or you might manufacture something that is always the same > (order driven). > Anyway,for "Job Shop/order driven" type manufacturing I have worked with > Jobscope and I remember > it as being pretty easy to work with. > > http://www.jobscopesoftware.com/index.html > > Vance > > > > > I have a friend running a manufacturing plant who is looking for an > > AS400 based ERP system. This manufacturing plant has approximately 100 > > users and may have about 10 thousand transactions per day in their > > facility. Need to have MRP and labor tracking capabilities so I would > > think a fully integrated ERP system is needed. Any recommendations on > > a good reliable system available today: > > I'm familiar with: > > BPCS > > Mapics > > JD Edwarrds > > Does anyone have good experience with CMS or any other AS400 packages. > > > > > > > > -- > > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > > list > > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > > > -- > > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing > list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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