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…
From my experience in various MTO environments such as the Aerospace and Communications industries the Sales and Marketing departments have a reluctance to forecast business activity. There are three main reasons for this: They feel that it is difficult or impossible to estimate what a…
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…
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…