FW: Multi-Plant Setup

[Darrell Watercott <DWATERCOTT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We (Gold'n Plump Poultry) have been using multi-plant in 3.5.1 to do our
planning for the past year or so. We are only using the MPS portion since
multi-plant was not available for MRP at 3.5.1.  We started up in
multi-plant - not converting from single plant so we don't have any
documentation of converting from single plant to multi-plant. We have
several in-house mods in the JBA code to resolve bugs in the 3.5.1 code. We
have been testing 3.5.2 SP3 and plan on implementing this version in
September. The 3.5.2 version is much better but we still found a few bugs
which we have fixed ourselves. We have reported some of these but could not
wait for GEAC to get us the revisions before we moved on.

At Gold'n Plump Poultry, we can produce the same product at more than one
plant so multi-plant comes in handy. The 3.5.2 version is better at
recognizing inventory at the other plants when netting against independent
demand. We do have a few products that are scheduled at multiple plants so
we put to use the sourcing rules and critical resources for this. Most of
our products, however, are specified as having a primary plant. We may have
another route set up for an item and the schedulers can decide to confirm an
order to a different plant/route if necessary. Another area that we use
extensively is co-products (both primary and concurrent). We had quite a few
problems with the concurrent co-product processing in 3.5.1 and were forced
to use primary co-products. These issues seems to be resolved in 3.5.2 also.

We had a JBA consultant come in and help us set up our environment initially
and that was a tremendous help. We plan on using a central model and have
each of our plants set up as a plant model. We only run 1 MPS each night -
the central model which collectively plans all the plants. The production
details identifies which route should be used as the primary route and that
is the one that is planned by MPS.  In 3.5.2 we will have a sales forecast
at the central model and we use the stock forecast to plan for inventory
builds and maintain our safety stock.

After the upgrade to 3.5.2 we would like to implement MRP and Production
Control. This will be a big task though since we will need to evaluate data
collection equipment, etc to ease the data entry required with Production
Control. Any advice on tackling this process would be helpful!

Hope this info helps!

Darrell Watercott
Gold'n Plump Poultry


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> From:         Prill, Steve[SMTP:sprill@rexairinc.com]
> Reply To:     JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
> Sent:         Monday, August 21, 2000 11:53 AM
> To:   'JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Multi-Plant Setup
> 
> We are in the process of moving from System 21 Version 3.5.0 to 3.5.2
> Service Pack 3.  It has been highly recommended by Geac that we implement
> Multi-Plant in conjunction with this move even though we don't plan on
> utilizing it (at least initially).  We have 3.5.2 Service Pack 3 setup in
> our test environment.
> 
> We would be interested in information and documentation on how you went
> about setting up multi-plant and/or how you are utilizing it.  We have
> some
> documentation (MOP's) from Geac on multi-plant but these do not contain
> enough information on exactly what changes are required, such as parameter
> and profile modifications,  in each application to have Multi-Plant
> properly
> setup. 
> 
> We want to make sure that we don't miss anything.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Steve Prill
> I.S. Project Manager
> Rexair, Inc.
> 3221 W. Big Beaver Rd.
> Suite 200
> Troy, MI  48084
> Phone 248-816-8686 Ext. 166
> Fax      248-614-0335
> mailto:sprill@RexairInc.com
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