The concept of backflushing is simple and has been put in place as a means of more quickly processing material through the shop floor, i.e. Work in Progress (WIP). The concept is that, rather than issuing material from inventory to the work order (job, batch…
Not getting the return on investment for your ERP/MRP application? Most organizations have a certain degree of optimism when starting an implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning application. They have been assured by the vendor that after an implementation period of 3 to 4 months…
Most people in the Supply Chain profession understand the concept of cycle counting: the use of Pareto analysis to concentrate activities on those items that are, for cost or other reasons, strategically important to the organization. Most people also understand the classification of items into…
One of the reoccurring issues in planning when using a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system concerns expiration dates of material in inventory. For example, if today is January 1st, there is a requirement for 50 of part A on February 15th, and there are 60…